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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…
EventRailway line between Cape Town and Beira in Mozambique is completed
… On 6 October 1902 the 3200km long railway line between Cape Town, South Africa and Beira in Mozambique was completed. The construction of the Beira Railway…
EventAngolan government signs peace treaty with UNITA
… The Angolan government under President Jose Eduardo dos Santos and the rebel organisation, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola …
South African Tragedy: Jail Part Lovers by Joseph Lelyveld (New York Times), 5 January 1983
… She and Neil Aggett had been a couple for the better part of a decade. In that time, they both became … that they were apart even when they were together…
Artscape: Legacy Exhibition
… inspiration is spurred by his many years as a pastor to the exiled and destitute in the inner-city of Pretoria. It was during this time, that he became…
!U’S STORY - Photographs 16 - 19
… and no one has no relative whatsoever with whom to live. The territory to which a person belongs may be that of his … his family is settled in will be his n…
EventTravis Logie, South Africa’s world champion surfer is born
… was born in Durban on 11 May 1979.[i] Logie was crowned the International Surfing Association’s Open World champion in 2002, at the World Surfing Games held…
EventUmkhonto we Sizwe bombs Church Street, Pretoria
… Street, Pretoria, in 1983, when Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of the African National Congress, detonated a large mortar bomb outside the Nedbank…
ArchiveInterview with Lybon Tiyani Mabasa
… Interview with Lybon Tiyani Mabasa, a leader in the Azanian People's Organisation (AZAPO) at the time of this interview, was born in 1952 and graduated ……
EventHaitian leader General Raoul Cedras resigns in favour of exiled President Jean
… Haiti's recorded history began with the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492. The island was named Hispaniola and became the territory of the Spanish…
EventNelson Rolihlahla Mandela passed away
… The 5th of December marks the anniversary of the death of revolutionary anti-Apartheid liberation leader, … on 18 July 1918, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela is…
PlaceAlbasini Dam, Limpopo
… Dam at the foot of the Soutpansberg Mountain Range. Named after Joao Albasini who lived from 1813 to 1885. He was the first European Settler in the Lowveld…
EventUN Secretary-General Hammerskjöld arrives in Congo
… Dag Hammerskjöld, secretary-general of the United Nations (UN), arrived in the Congo to try to end the civil war. Hammerskjöld became involved in attempts to…
EventAbolition of Racially Based Land Measures Act is adopted
… The South African parliament under President F.W. de Klerk adopted the Abolition of Racially Based Land Measures Act 108 of 1991, which scrapped the…
EventFrance tests an atomic bomb in Algeria
… its first nuclear bomb test at Reganne, Algeria , in the Sahara desert. At the time, Algeria was under French control. The test, code named Gerboise Bleue,…
ANC to convene Provincial Memorial Services in honour of Madiba, 8 December 2013
… The African National Congress, South Africans and the world at large continues to mourn the passing the Isithwalandwe/Seaparankoe Comrade Nelson …
Zola Skweyiya, former Social Development Minister, to work at ANC Headquarters, 7 May 2009
… parliamentary politics, has been redeployed to work at the ANC`s headquarters, Chief Albert Luthuli House. "Comrade Zola Skweyiya will now be located in the…
PlaceMcgregor Museum, Kimberley
… Paleontology ; Ethnography & Zoology collections . The McGregor Museum was originally located in Chapel Street, but was moved in the early 1970s to a larger…
EventFormer ANC President, Oliver ‘OR’ Tambo, is born
… at Bizana, Transkei (now known as Eastern Cape). During the 1940s, he enrolled at the University of Fort Hare where he became active in politics. Tambo was…
EventGen. Jannie Geldenhuys announces that CCB will be disbanded
… investigate into alleged hit-squads. On 11 February 1990, the SA Defence Force (SADF) admitted to the existence of a secret unit called the Civil Cooperation…
EventMagnus Malan and Constand Viljoen deny knowledge of mass graves
… Malan and General Constand Viljoen, former commander of the South African Defence Force (SADF), denied accusations on two mass graves brought against them by…
EventCyril Ramaphosa is born
… union activist was born in Johannesburg. He was one of the chief negotiators at the Codesa talks that opened the path for the first democratic elections on…
PlaceOld General Post Office, Grand Central, Cape Town
… Overlooking the Western side of the Parade is the lofty General Post Office building. It was completed in …