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EventSouth Africa abolishes financial Rand
… The financial Rand, used as a parallel currency to the commercial Rand, was abolished on 10 March 1995. The currency was introduced in the 1960’s and only…
EventFormer African Springbok captain, Welile Nkohla dies
… 2017, Welile James Nkohla, also known as ‘Bomza’, died at the age of 71 years of age in Livingstone Hospital in Port … 22 February 1946. He started playing…
EventProfessor John Fleming “Jack” Brok dies
… died – he was a scientist, physician and a professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Cape Town. Fleming was born on 27 March 1905 in Port…
EventIndependent African States resolve to impose sanctions against South Africa
… During the Second Conference of Independent African States held in … calling for sanctions against South Africa was passed. The Conference called upon its…
EventNelson Mandela is sentenced to five years for “incitement and leaving South Africa illegally”
… Nelson Mandela was identified as the "mouthpiece and mastermind" behind a call for a national strike and the formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear of the…
PlaceDonkin Heritage Trail, Port Elizabeth
… Victorian and Georgian features was erected shortly after the turn of the 20th Century. It consists of five dwellings in Donkin Street, facing on to the…
EventSouth African Journalist, Zwelakhe Sisulu is abducted.
… Zwelakhe Sisulu was a prominent journalist in the apartheid era who fought for justice and freedom. Sisulu was the founder and editor of the New Nation…
EventSouth Africa holds a referendum to decide if SA should become a republic
… The South African government led by National Party (NP) held … decided whether South Africa should remain a member of the British Commonwealth of Nations or…
EventVuyisile Mini, Trade unionist and uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) activist is hanged
… uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) activist was hanged for his role in the MK and anti-apartheid resistance. As a member of the South African Congress of Trade Unions …
EventItalo-Ethiopian Treaty of 1928 is signed
… of friendship with Abyssinia (now known as Ethiopia). In the treaty, which was called the Italo-Ethiopian Treaty of 1928, also known as the Italo-Ethiopian…
EventChief Mangosuthu Buthelezi calls for National Convention
… The leader of the Zulu Territorial Authority, Chief Mangosuthu Gatsha … of all races in South Africa to make a decision on the country's future political…
EventFifty killed over three days during Inkatha
… Front (UDF) supporters in Natal, South Africa, following the release of Mandela on 11 February 1990. One of the reasons advanced for this violence is that…
EventSamora Machel, president of Mozambique, dies in a plane crash
… On 19 October 1986, the Mozambique President, Samora Machel and thirty-three … passengers, died when their Tupolev 134 plane crashed into the Lebombo…
EventCleric and anti-apartheid activist, Mpilo Desmond Tutu is ordained as Archbishop of Cape Town
… On 7 September 1986, former Secretary-General of the South African Council of Churches and Nobel Peace Prize … Desmond Tutu, was ordained as an Archbishop of…
EventConstructors make mass grave finding in Namibia
… in northern Namibia. Construction workers discovered the first mass grave containing human bones and ammunition 400 metres from the former military base on 9…
EventSA President Nelson Mandela to step down
… a television broadcast President Nelson Mandela confirmed the rumours that he would not stand for re-election in 1999. … to what he had initially said when…
EventPixley Seme, lawyer, journalist and co-founder of SANNC is born
… On 1 October 1881, Pixley ka Isaka Seme was born at the Inanda mission station in Natal (now kwaZulu Natal). Seme was a founding member of the South African…
EventBritain imposes an embargo on Rhodesian trade
… Britain imposed an embargo on Rhodesian trade. The ban came just two months after Southern Rhodesia (now … as Zimbabwe) Prime Minister, Ian Douglas Smith,…
Freedom Part to Host Ken Oosterbroek Legacy Exhibition
… Many South Africans have heard of the ‘Bang Bang Club,’ a nickname given to four South African photographers who captured the dying years of apartheid…
ArchiveStatement announcing retirement, Nelson Mandela, 1 June 2004
… Friends and colleagues and especially my good friends from the media. Thank you very much to all of you for taking time … to see what an old man looks like…
ArchiveBlack Community Programmes
… This document contains suggestions for action for the Sprocas Black Community Programmes which were presented for discussion at the Sprocas Co-ordinating…
ArchiveLand and national oppression
… This paper clearly describes the land rights of the natives in the Cape Colony from the Ordinance and up until the Ten Point …
EventClarence Makwetu Passes Away
… At the age of 88, Clarence Makwetu passed away in Queenstown … at 13:30 after a long illness. Makwetu was born on the 6th of December 1928 in the Transkei,…
PlaceAha Hills, Northern Cape Border With Namibia and Botswana
… Due to the almost total absence of water, there are few animals or birds and only a few insects. The main attraction of these Hills is their solitude and…
ArchiveNew Deal? South Africa 1983
… On 20th August 1983, the United Democratic Front was launched at the Rockland Civic Centre in Cape Town. It was a broad … coalition of anti apartheid…
PlaceWeskoppies Psychiatric Hospital, Main building, Ketjen Street, Pretoria
… In 1892 the first Psychiatric Institution in the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, the Krankzinnige Gesticht, was established in 1892. Later …
EventFEDSAW Western Cape Region launched
… The Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) was one of the women’s rights organisations that emerged in the 1950s and conducted a massive campaign against…
EventNames of 303 banned people are published
… A government notice published on 6 November 1964 gave the names of 303 persons on whom banning notices under the General Laws Amendment Act of 1963 (the so…
EventFietas, site of forced removal in Johannesburg, is renamed Pageview
… officially re-named Pageview in honour of Mr. J.J. Page, the Mayor of Johannesburg at the time. Up until this point, the area was popularly known as Fietas…
EventItaly invades Ethiopia
… empire and to avenge Italy's defeat in 1896 at Adwa by the Eritreans invades Eritrea. A border clash at Wewel (also referred to as Ualual) in Southern…