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EventF.W. de Klerk clamps down on KwaZulu
… of emergency in KwaZulu-Natal, coinciding with a report by the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) that it had recorded 266 political killings in…
PlaceXanadu Nature Estate, Hartebeespoort
… The beautiful Xanadu Nature Estate , in Hartbeespoort, is set on 240 Hectares and overlooks the majestic Magaliesberg Mountain Range. A natural Wetland runs…
EventFormer South African Prime Minister and State President John Vorster is born
… Balthazar John Vorster was born in in Uitenhage in the Eastern Cape on 13 December 1915. Vorster began his … career as a lawyer after completing his studies…
EventFive American nuns are shot to death in Liberia
… Liberia was 'founded' by the American Colonisation Society (ACS) in 1822 and was to serve as the home of freed slaves from the United States. Although…
Call for Participants: Academy for African Urban Diversity
… DEADLINE: 14 MAY 2017 The African continent is rapidly urbanizing. If this point is … consensus about what this process will mean for Africans. The Academy…
PlaceHistorical core of Wynberg Village
… The old village of Wynberg was developed during the mid-19th Century when it became the preferred place of retirement for British civil servants … The old…
Document 16 - Letter from Clements Kadalie to E. R. Roux, 10 October 1928
… original letter you wrote to him with regard to myself and the I.C.U. Your letter is libelous as well as deceitful when … as you are made to understand by…
PlaceObservatory
… suburb of Cape Town , and derived its name from the Royal Observatory, which was established there in 1821. It's an arty district locally known as ' Obs '…
PlaceAlicedale a Village in Albany District
… A Village in the Albany District, some 42 km West of Grahamstown. Named after Alice Slessor, wife of the engineer who constructed the railway. Its Xhosa…
EventAn American Jet is shot down in Ethiopia
… Aircraft was shot to ground by Ethiopian military forces. The incident claimed the life of the two occupants of the Jet. The plane was en route from …
PlaceClarkebury, Eastern Cape
… The Village of Clarkebury was established in 1830 as a station of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society. James Backhouse visited it in March 1839 and…
PlaceSarah Baartman Centre for Women and Children, Manenberg
… who was transported in 1810 from South Africa to Europe. The Saartjie Baartman Centre for Women and Children (SBCWC) was opened in 1999 in response to the…
Names of Slaves and Free Blacks
… The following list is taken from Frank R. Bradlow and Margaret Cairns, The Early Cape Muslims, appendix II. A note by the authors says that the list of names…
PlaceBertrams, Johannesburg
… Robertson Fuller Bertram, a property Developer who bought the area in 1889; the Suburb is the Oldest in Johannesburg. Bertrams characterises the …
Giyani, Polokwane
… 550 kilometres north east of Johannesburg you will find the little happening town of Giyani, a popular town in the heart of Bushveld country in the western…
EventNavanethem (Navi) Pillay is born
… Navanethem (Navi) Pillay, the United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights … on 23 September 1941 in Clairwood, Durban . She went to the University…
PlaceOns Huisie, Bloubergstrand, Cape Town
… The cottage was, for many years, the property of the Stadler family, and is a typical example of the type of …
EventImperial German Forces forced to unconditional surrender by Union of South Africa Forces during World War I
… On 9 July 1915 the Imperial German Forces officially surrendered to General Louis Botha’s troops at the Khorab Memorial. This followed the outbreak of the…
EventAn international measure is adopted in Antwerp to block rebel groups from trading conflict diamonds
… The sale of diamonds in some African countries has been linked to the funding of African rebel groups, which have in turn … most vicious civil wars. These…
EventRenewal of land acquisition programme in Zimbabwe
… acquisition programme in Zimbabwe. Through this programme the government was not going to compensate the predominantly White commercial farmers for the land…
EventBambatha Rebellion
… The Bambatha Rebellion took place near Greytown in KwaZulu-Natal. The first signs of discontent started at the end of 1905, when government introduced a new …
Year of women of South Africa by E.S. Reddy
… I was born in 1925 and grew up near Hermitage Street, on the hill in Paarl. We were four brothers and four sisters. My … Henry Josephs, worked at a butcher…
PlaceSteve Biko Bridge, East London
… Bridge across the Second Creek, East London, West of Buffalo Harbour. Named … John Vorster, 1915-1983. Former Prime Minister of the Republic of South Africa,…
PlaceOld Arts Building, University of Pretoria
… The University of Pretoria Museums are celebrating another milestone, as the Old Arts Building was declared a museum in June 1982. The foundation stone for…
EventWell-known political activist and academic, Dr. Neville Alexander is born
… complete three university degrees in History and German at the University of Cape Town. In 1962 he founded the Yu Chi Chan Club (YCCC) along with Dulcie…
EventAPLA burns down farm house in Fouriesburg
… The Pan Africanist Congress 's military wing, the Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA) burnt down the farm house of Edmund Middleton of Fouriesburg on 10 …
EventCODESA 1 convenes in Johannesburg
… Twenty years ago, one of the most significant events in the history of South Africa, described by many as tension-driven and known as the Convention for a…
EventInkatha becomes a political party
… The Inkatha National Cultural Liberation Movement, founded on 21 March 1975, was transformed into the multi-racial Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) at a special…
EventA consumer boycott is called in Boksburg
… The town councils of Vosloorus and Reiger Park staged a consumer boycott in Boksburg on the East Rand (now Ekurhuleni municipality, Gauteng). The boycott, by…
EventNatal Law society apologises to Gandhi
… The Natal Law Society has apologised posthumously to passive … Gandhi, 105 years after a racist decision barred the young lawyer from practising. In 1894…