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EventRoman Catholic Bishop Augustin Misago, cleared of genocide charges
… on 14 April 1999 and charged with helping orchestrate the 1994 Rwandan genocide that left more than 800 000 Tutsi and …
EventMzwakhe Mbuli is sentenced to 13 years in jail
… former President Nelson Mandela at his inauguration in 1994. It has been suggested that Mbuli's life came under …
EventSouth Africa completes destroying its stockpile of anti-personnel mines
… its policy on the use of landmines. For instance, in 1994 the former South African government announced a …
PlaceGoshen
… Mafeking to serve as Bophuthatswana's capital. After the 1994 elections the two towns were merged under the name …
EventWorld Teachers Day - “Build the future: invest in teachers now!”
… at the International Conference on Education in Geneva in 1994, with the primary intention to focus public attention on …
EventPallo Jordan opens the Mbuzini Samora Machel Public Library
… first democratic elections were held in South Africa in 1994, an investigation by the Truth and Reconciliation …
EventJoe Slovo dies
… During his months as a Cabinet Minister in the post 1994 government, Slovo was charged to deliver on one of …
EventMalawi voters take part in the first multiparty election in three decades
… officials, held a massive rally in January 1993. On 16 May 1994, the National Assembly adopted a provisional …
EventFirst celebration of International Women’s Day
… Women's Day is not celebrated in South Africa. Since 1994, Women's Day is celebrated with a public holiday on the …
Says no to xenophobia, 19 April 2015
… shall be held as follows: Date: Monday 20 April 2015 Time: 10:00 Venue: Chief Albert Luthuli House, 54 Sauer Street, …
EventBirth of Paul Kruger
… On 10 October 1825 Paul Kruger (Stephanus Johannes Paulus … ], [Accessed: 10 February 2017].|Siyabona Africa. A biographical history of … ],[ Accessed: 10…
PlaceRiversdale Division, Western Cape
… figures are available for the division: 1865 census: 10,665 residents, of whom 3,517 were literate 1875 census: …
EventFirst sextuplets in the world to survive their infancy are born in Cape Town
… South Africa. Their total birth weight was 24 lb 1 oz (10.9 kg), with individual birth weights ranging from 2 lb 6 …
EventThe SA Cricket team is re-admitted to international cricket
… On 10 November 1991, the South African cricket team, now better …
EventFormer Tennis player, Kevin Curren, is born in Durban
… In 1976, a year after passing matric (now Grade 10), Kevin Curren accepted a scholarship from the University …
PlaceCottam Grove Hotel, 303-309 Florida Road, Durban.
… declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 10 February 1989. Cottam Grove is next to Essenwood and is …
EventAfrikaner women march to the union buildings in protest of SA’s involvement in WW2
… About 10 000 Afrikaner women, led by Mrs H.C. Steyn, wife of former …
ArticleTimeline of the German and Herero, Nama War and Genocide
… the Herero have violent intentions towards the Germans. 10 January, Late at night the trader Alex Niet arrives in … to 'collect' Herero from the desert is…
ArticleHistory of Women in Prisons during Apartheid
… a quarter of the mat is full of blood ’ (Mandela 2013; 10). The prisoners of solitary confinement kept calendars … women inflicting so much punishment’ …
ArticleLearning about history through people: oral history
… was right opposite the Star bioscope. There were about 10 stalls in a row and the fish market was open every day and … from Great Leaders Below is a list of…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in exile
… as out of the 34 members of the Legislative Council, only 10 were Batswana. Around this period, the short-lived FP was … Africa , Volume II, Solidarity and…
ArticleChieftaincy and Kingship in South Africa
… leadership under the New Constitution Under the post-1994 South African democratic constitution, issues of … of the then Council of Traditional Leaders Act,…
Colonial history of Rustenburg
… and in line with current standards, capable of processing 10 000lbs of tobacco a day. …
EventMilton Obote (81), Uganda's former dictator, dies in a South African hospital
… was granted political asylum in Zambia following the coup. 10 years later Obote was rushed from Zambia to a hospital in … South Africa, where he died of…
The National Arts Festival
In 1974, an inaugural festival titled the 1820 Settlers National Monument was opened as a memorial to the British immigrants in South Africa. They established…
ArticleThe Bambatha Rebellion begins
… was captured and killed during the battle at Mome Gorge on 10 June, while Sigananda and his men surrendered. Bambatha …
ArticleSS Mendi
… that the South African Native Labour Contingent provide 10 000 men to work behind the front lines in France. The …
Further information on services for the late Adelaide Tambo, 07 February 2007
… Community Hall, Benoni 18h00 FUNERAL SERVICE Saturday, 10 February 2007 Wattville Stadium, Benoni 09h00 The burial …
EventProposal made to stop sending Black troops to assist in WW1
… the SA government agreed to recruit more men, after the 10 000 troops that had already been sent overseas. …
EventZola Skweyiya is born
… for the poor and children. Under his leadership nearly 10 million South Africans are receiving state grants. …