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EventVoortrekker leader Andries Pretorius dies
… Former Commander-General of the Boers in Natal and later Republican statesman, Andries Wilhemus Jacobus Pretorius, died on his farm in the Magaliesberg area…
EventTranskei announces it is re-establishing diplomatic relations with South Africa
… Pretoria’s undertaking to negotiate over disputed land. The break of diplomatic relations between South Africa and … ties. This included a unilateral…
EventO. R. Tambo leaves South Africa for exile
… Oliver Reginald Tambo left South Africa shortly after the Sharpeville massacre , on the instruction of the African National Congress (ANC). The international…
EventDie Huisgenoot, oldest still existing Afrikaans magazine, appears ten months after Die Burger
… is a weekly Afrikaans-language general interest magazine. The name Huisgenoot is Afrikaans for House Companion. The magazine was founded in 1916 as the de…
PlaceBill Ainslie Studios, Johannesburg
… The Bill Ainslie Studios was established in 1964 by Bill … Way, Saxonwold, Johannesburg in a house rented from the Johannesburg City Council at the time. By…
EventJacob Thabo Lengane is murdered in Soweto
… On 21 October 1986 Jacob Thabo Lengane, the father of Jefferson Lengane and Kabelo Lengane, who were … kidnapped from his Soweto home by a group of armed…
PlaceGroot Drakenstein Prison
… The village of Groot Drakenstein was probably established in the late 1850s. Following the acquisition of a number of fruit farms in the valley by …
EventJan Christoffel Greyling Kemp, general during South African War, is born
… 10 June 1872 Jan Christoffel Greyling Kemp, general during the South African War (the Second Anglo-Boer War), Member of Parliament and SA minister of…
EventSA Prime Minister, P.W. Botha calls for unity against Marxism
… At a National Party (NP) Congress in Bloemfontein, the South African Prime Minister, P.W. Botha said that the NP has to draw together as many people as…
EventMargaret Rheeder is hung in Pretoria
… her husband, Benjamin Fredenman, was hung in Pretoria. On the morning of 27 April 1957 Rheeder went to a pharmacy in … to buy a bottle of Antexit ant-killer…
EventSharpeville Deputy Mayor killed
… The Deputy Mayor of Sharpeville, Sam Dlamini was hacked to … by a group of youths, and doused in petrol and burned. The riots were in protest against rent…
EventNational Day of Prayer is observed peacefully
… forces in Soweto and other major townships. Called by the National Initiative for Reconciliation (NIR) as a way to foster peace, the National Day of Prayer…
EventBarney Pityana is elected Chairman of Human Rights Commission
… The Human Rights Commission (HRC), a statutory body provided for under the Interim Constitution, on its inaugural meeting on 2 … Barney Pityana as its…
EventHelen Nontando Jabavu, author and periodical editor in London, is born in Middeldrift, SA
… Helen Nontando (Noni) Jabavu was born in 1919 in the Eastern Cape into a literary family. From the age of thirteen, she was schooled in England, and … to…
EventA booby-trapped TV kills Tsitsi Chiliza, wife of an ANC official in Harare, Zimbabwe
… in a bomb hidden inside a TV set. It is believed that the bomb was meant for Jacob Zuma. Zimbabwe was an important area of operation for the ANC. This led…
PlaceBloemfontein City Hall
… The Bloemfontein City Hall was built in 1935 and has a … style interior with an attractive sandstone exterior. The Bloemfontein City Hall Is a large stately…
EventTwo prisoners sentenced to death for sodomy
… perpetrated sodomy’ according to trial records from the Cape Council of Justice in August 1735. Jacobsz was a sailor from Rotterdam who worked for the Dutch…
EventGideon Scheepers executed
… Gideon Scheepers, Boer scout and commanding officer during the Second Anglo-Boer War (South African War) was executed by a firing squad beside an open grave…
EventA plan designed to fight Italian forces, Operation ‘Agreement’ is executed in Libya
… to stop Italian forces from reaching Tobruk and Benghazi. The operation was mounted during the Second World War which started in the early hours of 1…
ArchiveConformity and conflict: Afrikaner nationalist politics in South Africa
… Thesis sumitted to the Faculty of Social Studies, for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the Oxford University. This thesis includes chapters on the …
Negotiations: a strategic perspective
… Statement by the African National Congress on negotiations as adopted by the National Executive Committee on 25 November 1992. Covers shifts in the balance…
PlaceRiebeek West
… The village of Riebeek West, in the Riebeek Valley together with its sister town Riebeek East. was established in 1858 as a kerkplaats of the Dutch Reformed…
EventCommission on Native Education is appointed
… The government appointed the Eiselen Commission whose terms of reference were to … into and to report on all aspects of native education. The recommendations…
ArchiveCircular from Neville Curtis, President, NUSAS, to SRC Presidents and others
… General circular from the President of the National Union of South African Students containing the text of the Commission appointed by the South African …
ArchiveDead in one's own lifetime
… This book contains a collection of papers presented at the NUSAS Art and Liberation Week, held at UCT, 1-4 May 1979. The six papers are entitled "Dead in one…
Land Reform and Traditional Leadership in South Africa
… Africa What does King Goodwill Zwelithini’s new claim on the land of KwaZulu-Natal portend for land reform in South … politics and public debate. But rural…
EventMalan introduces Asiatic Bill
… Daniel F. Malan, the then minister of the Interior, announced the introduction of the Areas Reservation and Immigration and …
EventJustice Coetzee refuses to lift banishment on four Black newspapers
… In the Rand Supreme Court, Justice Coetzee, refused to lift the banning order on four Black newspapers, the Post Transvaal, Saturday Post, Sunday Post and…
ArchiveFinal Schlebusch report on NUSAS
… General circular from the president of the National Union of South African Students, speculating on the final report of the Schlebusch Commission of Enquiry…