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PlaceBakone Malapa Northern Sotho Open-Air Museum, in Polokwane
… Experience the warm hospitality and rich Culture of the Basotho people in the 'Bakone Malapa Museum'. The Bakone, a sub-group of the … https://www.sa-venues…
EventPoqo members arrested
… Armed Poqo members were intercepted by the police while on their way to assassinate Chief Kaiser Matanzima. An armed clash between the police and Poqo…
EventPrime Minister P.W. Botha announces Ciskei will become independent on 4 December 1981
… The homeland known as Ciskei, between the Fish and the Kei River, was created between 1961 and 1982 by the then …
EventWorld Health Organization publishes indictment of apartheid
… The system of Apartheid was not only detrimental to the cultural, economic and emotional wellbeing of those on whom it was imposed , but also on the physical…
EventCODESA’s starting date set
… after preparatory talks in Johannesburg on a date for the start of substantive negotiations on South Africa's … in Johannesburg was going to be on December…
EventBritish troops establish their camp at Isandlwana
… On 19 and 20 January the British forces under Lord Chelmsford, who had invaded Zululand during the second week of January, established their camp on the…
EventSA jazz singer, Letta Mbulu is born in Soweto
… born in Soweto on 23 August 1942. As a teenager she joined the cast of the play King Kong and toured the US with other artists like Miriam Makeba and Hugh …
EventThree cases of Buboinic plague are reported in Cape Town
… Bubonic plague were reported in Cape Town, South Africa. The first cases of Bubonic plague in Cape Town emerged on 1 February 1901. The disease then spread…
Descom Bulletin
… Neil Aggett, a Trade Unionist and Medical Doctor became the first white political prisoner to die in the detention under the custody of the security police…
EventOldest part of Johannesburg, Marshalltown, is planned
… up a plan for a new residential area for Johannesburg. The plan was laid out in October 1886. Among the street names were Commissioner, Troye, Ferreira,…
ANC NDC moves hearing venue to another location, 6 September 2011
… The African National Congress (ANC) National Disciplinary Committee (NDC) following the disruption last week of businesses situated around ANC … Chief…
EventArmed Policemen appeared at Langa funeral service
… On 8 June 1986 chaos erupted during the funeral service of Mr Thamsanqa, an activist who died of natural causes inside the Methodist Church in Langa. The…
Searchlight South Africa: a Marxist journal of South African Studies
… him in collaboration with other exiles and comrades from the revolutionary socialist movement. He was certainly, the moving force behind this privately…
PlaceBergvliet Farmstead, Bergvliet
… a ring wall and outbuildings which were erected towards the mid-19th Century. The land originally formed part of the farm Constantia , once owned by Simon…
EventMK operatives, Jerry Mosolodi, Terry Mogoerane and Thabo Motaung are executed
… for their part in a hit on Wonderboom police station. The ANC declared the execution a crime against humanity and defended the attack on the police station…
EventCyclone Favio, a powerful tropical storm, strikes Mozambique
… 22 February 2007, a category 4 cyclone named Favio struck the central province of Inhambane in Mozambique. Although the cyclone was concentrated in Inhambane…
EventNelson Mandela is acquitted of high treason
… Nelson Mandela, leader of the Transvaal branch of the African National Congress (ANC), was acquitted of treason … charges after a four year long trial…
EventVaal Triangle erupts in violence
… Evaton, Sebokeng and Sharpeville, five Black townships in the area known as the Vaal Triangle exploded into what some have described as a 'smouldering human…
EventJohannesburg municipal workers strike
… The biggest strike by the migrant municipal workers took place in Johannesburg, the largest and most industrialised city in South Africa. The … at www.south…
EventPresident FW de Klerk tells Parliament that South Africa had constructed six nuclear fission devices
… 1993; South African President F.W. de Klerk announced the existence of a South African nuclear programme as well as the fact that the Apartheid regime had…
EventGoldstone report on police shootings in Sebokeng is released
… The report of the inquiry, led by Justice Richard Goldstone, into the shooting by the police of anti-Apartheid protesters in the township of …
EventRamaphosa and Motlatsi are arrested
… First general secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), Cyril Ramaphosa, and … James Motlatsi, were arrested in Newcastle, Natal. The two men and…
EventDurban mass meeting endorses Smuts and Gandhi agreement
… An Indian mass meeting in Durban unanimously endorsed the agreement between General J.C. Smuts and Mahatma Gandhi … tax, recognition of Indian marriages and…
EventWorld No Tobacco Day is observed
… World Tobacco day was declared by the World Health Organization in 1987. The day is observed by abstaining from tobacco for a period of 24 hours around the…
ArchiveGroup conflicts and race prejudice
… This lecture is the third in the series Hoernle Memorial Lecture in which there is discussion on the topic of race prejudices in South Africa and the impact …
EventSA signs Nuclear Non
… South Africa was one of the countries that signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to curb the spread of nuclear weapons. Other countries that signed …
EventMafeking is established
… The Barolong settlement Mahikeng was renamed Mafeking by Sir … Charles Warren , leader of a military expedition, after the annexation of Bechuanaland by the…
EventErmelo is founded
… Ermelo, the educational, industrial and commercial centre of a … in Mpumalanga Province of South Africa was founded by the Reverend Frans Lion Cachet of the…
ArchiveMajority rule: some notes
… a collection of articles which formed part of a series in The Educational Journal. The series of articles has dissected the concept Majority Rule and…
Nelson Mandela Sending Photographs
… photographs and comments on them, and he marvels at the growth of grandchildren. They come with their mothers as … to fetch me before then. 15 April 1976 TO…