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EventPresident John Vorster resigns
… after twelve years in office, B.J. Voster was elected to the unprecedented honorary position of State President. However, his spell in the new office was…
EventNUSAS President Ian Robertson is banned
… The President of the National Union of South Africa Students (NUSAS), Ian Robertson, receives a banning order under the Suppression of Communism Act of 1950…
EventFormer anti-apartheid activist, Allan Boesak accuses ANC
… Dr Allan Boesak, former anti-apartheid activist, leader of the World Alliance of Churches and patron of the now disbanded United Democratic Front (UDF), was…
EventUnited Nations World Summit starts
… United Nations World Summit starts The United Nations World Summit started at the United Nations (UN) headquarters in New York. The Millennium Summit was the…
EventPresidential Job Summit is held
… and other community and development organisations meet at the Presidential Job Summit to discuss ways to create jobs in the country. The Summit proposed the…
EventGeneral Sir Redvers Henry Buller’s troops relieve British forces at Ladysmith
… British forces at Ladysmith near Durban, KwaZulu Natal. The British forces had been under siege by the Boers since 2 November 1899. They were besieged…
EventAfrikaner patriot Danie Theron is killed
… Danie Theron, an Afrikaner patriot believing in the just and divine right of the Boer to stand against British interference, died during the Second Anglo…
EventDr JT van der Kemp, controversial missionary and physician, dies
… Dutch missionary Johannes Theodorus van der Kemp was the first missionary to work among the Xhosa. He became involved with the Khoi Khoi of the Cape Colony…
EventBritain and Egypt agree on independence for Sudan.
… independence for Sudan following years of colonial rule. The tale of these two countries’ rule over Sudan dates back the 19th century. In 1823, Egyptians…
PlaceNational Women’s Monument
… The monument created by Anton van Wouw , was put up in 1913 in remembrance of the 26 370 Boer women and children who died in prison camps during the South…
EventMethane gas explosion kills 68 mine workers
… were killed after an underground methane gas explosion at the Hlobane coal mine near Vryheid in Kwazulu-Natal . The gas explosion was caused by poor safety…
EventGovernment’s final consolidation of ‘homelands’
… The Nationalist party government announced its intention to consolidate the total number of separate 'homeland' areas from 113 to 36. The homelands were…
EventStudent Wages Commission meet
… The first meeting of the Student Wages Commission was held at the Bolton Hall, Durban. Beforehand, thousands of pamphlets …
EventConstant Viljoen announces his resignation from AVF
… The former leader of the Afrikaner Volksunie (AV) and Freedom Front (FF), General Constant Viljoen, announced his resignation from the Afrikaner National…
EventMandela and de Klerk agree to restart talks
… they would go back to constitutional negotiations, after the ANC had suspended talks after accusing the government of complicity in the violence sweeping the…
EventFirst World Haemophilia Day
… in 1989 to increase awareness of haemophilia and to bring the needs of those affected by the disorder to the attention of the wider public. The day is…
EventBritain proclaims Natal a British colonial territory
… Natal and proclaimed it a British Colony. A year later the colony was put under the Cape Colony administration. However, it was not until the end of 1845…
PlaceStasiegebou, Sannaspos
… Station Building of sandstone was completed shortly before the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902). It is one, of only a few Station Buildings erected during the…
EventIraq boycott SA government’s apartheid policies
… Jawad, announced that his country will not recognise the government of South Africa because of its apartheid policies. The announcement came after the…
Solitary confinement
… From the book: My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and … Really, it is a terrible thing. You sit and think. Walk to the window. The window was right up…
EventAndries Hendrik Potgieter is born
… Andries Hendrik Potgieter, the leader of a Voortrekker group which he led during the battle of Vegkop when attacked by the Matabele (Ndebele), was born in…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at a banquet in honour of President Henrique Cardoso of Brazil Pretoria, 26 November 1996
… I got work there as a domestic worker only. I stayed with the relative of a friend of mine, Ariah Bookholane. I had … because I could not have them with me…
EventKarel Schoeman, well known Afrikaans author, is born
… in Trompsburg, Orange Free State. He matriculated from the HoÁƒÂƒÂ«r Jongenskool in Paarl in 1956, obtained a BA in languages at the University of the…
EventDr Robert Broom is born
… Though Broom was educated as a doctor, specializing in the field of midwifery, he was fascinated by the origin of mammals and used his medical profession to…
On Post Colonial African Liberation Movements
… On the 25th of May 2017 the Economic Freedom Fighters Student Command will be hosting … Mbuyiseni Ndlozi. This event will take place at the University of…
PlaceMarabastad Market Stalls, Pretoria
… Historic Marabastad is where you’ll experience the colours and hustle and bustle of Africa. This area has a … mix of ‘muti’ shops, spazas, a mosque, a Hindu…
EventSA writer, Nadine Gordimer, wins Nobel Prize for Literature
… South African writer Nadine Gordimer won the 1991 Nobel Prize for Literature. She was the first woman in 25 years to be awarded the honour and the seventh…
EventA police mob attacks big SWAPO rally
… armed mob and riot police disrupted a rally organised by the South West African Political Organisation (SWAPO). The meeting was held in Katatura, Windhoek…
EventAllan Boesak guilty on charges of fraud
… Allan Boesak, liberation theologian, chairman of the Western Cape region of the African National Congress (ANC) and director of the Foundation for Peace and…
EventProtests against Afrikaans language in Black schools
… deeply unpopular since Afrikaans was regarded by some as the language of the oppressor. It was against this background that on 30 … School in Soweto went on…