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EventElectrically powered units replaced Johannesburg's horse-drawn trams
… The rapid expansion of Johannesburg after the end of the Second Anglo Boer War increased to over twice it's the …
EventQueen Victoria of Britain approves Charter for Rhodes
… On this date the British Colonial Secretary addressed a dispatch that Queen Victoria has approved a Royal Charter creating the British South Africa Company …
EventEmily Hobhouse is born
… British government policy in South Africa, and visited the country after founding the South African Women and Children Distress Fund to collect money for…
EventFormer SANNC President Sefako Mapogo Makgatho dies
… Sefako Mapogo Makgatho was born at GaMphahlele, in the Pietersburg district in Transvaal (now Limpopo province) in 1861. He was the son of Chief Kgorutlhe…
EventPassbook laws relaxed
… State of Emergency having been declared in June of the same year. To counter the escalating international condemnation that was taking place, the government…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at a Luncheon hosted by Prime Minister Tomichi Murayama Tokyo, 5 July 1995
… in your beautiful country, we have been treated with the kind of hospitality which makes us feel exceptionally … deeply grateful. What must strike any…
Interview with Dr Vanitha Chetty by Ms Rajes Pillay,University of Durban Westville,13 June 2002
… welcome. VC: Thank you. RP: She is the daughter of the late Dr K Goonam, who is a well-known activist in Durban. She was also one the…
ArchiveBirth of a reggae superstar 3 August 1964 by Sam Mathe
… In the mid-80s a strange pop phenomenon swept through the shebeens and music festivals of South Africa. Based on the artist's name and song title, everybody…
Education for Service
… We, the duly authorised representatives of political parties, political organisations, administrations and the South African Government, coming together at…
UCT defends stance on artistic freedom after Goldblatt pulls out by Paul Herman (News24), 4 March 2017
… Cape Town - The University of Cape Town has defended its protection of freedom of artistic expression, after the David Goldblatt Collection chose to move its…
PlaceCypress Tea Gardens, Hermanus
… Mystery and romance surround the original building. In those days it consisted of two stone and clay fisherman's cottages built in 1875 in the vernacular…
PlaceGanesha Temple, Mt Edgecombe
… old NMC legislation on 18 February 1977. Believed to be the oldest surviving ‘solid’ temple in Africa and one of the finest examples of temple architecture…
EventThree Zimbabwean intelligence officers stand trial for a bomb attack on an ANC house
… Conjwayo were arrested in Zimbabwe in connection with the bombing that killed the driver of the car transporting the bomb and injured several ANC … Africa…
EventOne-fifth of SA’s military infected with HIV virus, so HIV positive people are no longer accepted into their ranks
… one-fifth of South Africa's military was infected with the HIV virus that causes AIDS. Therefore on 7 October 2003 the Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota stated…
EventBoutros Boutros Ghali, former UN Secretary General, is born
… and was appointed as a Professor in both these fields at the University of Cairo. With an impressive academic career … basis, Ghali started his political…
PlaceMilnerton
… The Cape Town suburb of Milnerton was established in 1902 on the site of the old farm: 'Janbiesjeskraal', and was named in honour of … The Cape Town suburb…
PlaceSahlumbe
… Sahlumbe, a Settlement along the Tugela River, about 23km from Weenen and on the edge of Msinga which was a District, established in the former Homeland of;…
Banishment
… From the book: My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and … I would be less trouble in a place which I don't know and the people don't know me. So they…
EventNational Party unveils its policy plan focusing on anti-poverty strategies
… Following the National Party (NP)'s first federal congress since its withdrawal from the Government of National Unity (GNU), its policy plan was … unveiled…
EventJournalist and anti-apartheid activist M.P. Naicker dies
… anti-apartheid activist, and Director of Publicity of the African National Congress (ANC) External Mission, Marimuthu Pragalathan Naicker (M.P.) died at the…
EventInkatha Freedom Party is formed
… The Inkatha National Cultural Liberation Movement was founded … in Northern KwaZulu. Inkatha emerged, along with the Black Consciousness Movement, to fill…
EventAdam Tas is arrested
… Magistrate Starrenburg arrested Adam Tas because of the role he played in drawing up a petition for the Cape burghers against the incumbent Governor W. A…
Event5,580 Egyptian prisoners of war are exchanged for four Israelis held by Egyptian troops
… for four Israelis held by Egyptian troops following the Tripartite Invasion (Israel, Britain and France). The invasion of Egypt by the three aforementioned…
PlaceAlbertskroon, Suburb of Johannesburg
… Greymont and Montgomery Park. Established about 1896 on the Farm Waterval, it was named after the Alberts family, who owned it. The Afrikaans term 'kroon',…
Zweli Mkhize denies Redi Tlhabi’s book allegations, says he hasn’t read it, 18 - September - 2017
… The presidential contender says he saw Jacob Zuma as an older … in which he denied any involvement in trying to make the woman who had accused Jacob Zuma of…
Place'Agoada de Saldanha', Saldanha
… of Admiral Antonio da Saldanha who was wounded there by the Khoikhoi , whilst taking water. In 1601 the name was applied to the present Saldanha Bay by the…
PlaceEastern Fort/Battery and Blockhouse, Chapman’s Peak, overlooking Hout Bay, Cape Town
… Dutch and British administrations also perceived that the Bay offered a possible landing place to an invading military force. Consequently, towards the end…
EventPaarl Riots report submitted
… H. Snyman submitted to parliament a final report on the 1962 Paarl Riots. The report analysed the main causes of the riots, and included information on ……
EventAmy Biehl is murdered in Cape Town
… Biehl was driving three co-workers to their homes in the township, when some young men started throwing stones at her car and eventually surrounded the…
EventA meeting titled “Conference for Concerned South Africans” is held, bringing together homeland leaders and conservative Afrikaner parties.
… Treurnicht of Conservative Party and Andries Beyers of the Afrikaner Volksunie. The key issue under discussion was the way they were being treated at the…