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EventANC President Oliver Tambo meets with Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow
… The African National Congress (ANC) leader, Oliver Tambo met Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU)’s Central…
PlaceLanglaagte Deep Residential Village, Johannesburg
… Cecil Rhodes’s behalf, was guided from Ferreira’s Camp to the main group of gold reefs by a son of the widow Petronella Oosthuizen, the owner of a farm at…
EventMinister promises relaxation of apartheid rules and elimination of racial segregation in sports
… The Minister of Sport, Piet Koornhof, announced a relaxation of apartheid rules for sport and declared that the government is working towards eliminating…
EventHosni Mubarak, President of Egypt is born
… in Kafr-El-Meslha. Upon completing high school, he joined the Egyptian Military Academy, where he received a bachelor's degree in Military Science. He later…
EventPrime Minister Vorster holds talks with Dr. Kissinger
… Minister Balthazar Johannes (B.J) Vorster held talks with the United States Secretary of State, Dr. Henry Kissinger, on 23 and 24 June in West Germany to…
EventViolence erupts in Bophuthatswana Townships and Kathlehong
… from GaRankuwa, Mabopane, Soshanguve and areas in the Odi district presented a petition listing political and civic grievances at the Odi magistrate's court…
EventMandela visits Zambia
… meetings and interviews. His first foreign destination was the headquarters of the African National Congress (ANC) in Lusaka, Zambia, where he met with the…
EventDe Klerk resigns as NP leader
… former South African president announced his retirement as the leader of the National Party (NP) and from public life. It was under … his leadership where…
EventNkosi Sikelel’iAfrica composer, Enoch Sontonga dies
… Enoch Mankayi Sontonga, writer and composer of the National Anthem Nkosi Sikelel' IAfrica (God Bless Africa) died at the age of thirty-two. He wrote Nkosi…
EventEmily Hobhouse travels to South Africa
… in concentration camps for Boer women and children during the Second South African War/ Anglo Boer War 2, set sail for South Africa. During the first five…
EventDennis Brutus is born
… and settled in Port Elizabeth. He studied law at both the University of the Witwatersrand and the University of Fort Hare. Brutus, who is of African, …
EventA Second Plenary session of Multi Party negotiations for a transition to democracy in South Africa reconvene
… The second plenary session of the Congress for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA II) was convened in Johannesburg. Unlike the first session CODESA II ended…
EventPortuguese explorer Bartholomew Dias anchors at Walvis Bay
… Bay. Dias was on an expedition to discover a sea route to the East round Africa. He gave the area the name Golfo de Santa Maria da Conceiçao. Dias reached…
EventEdgar D. Ngoyi, South African ANC leader who spent seventeen years on Robben Island, is born.
… Edgar Dumile Ngoyi was born on 26 December 1926 in the Eastern Cape. Ngoyi became politically active in the African National Congress (ANC) as a member of…
ANC WL deeply saddened at death of Cde Nokuhamba Nyawo, 7 March 2012
… The ANC Womens League is deeply saddened to hear that … true cde and a truly inspiring women. She did not fit into the stereotype often associated with…
Open Textbooks for Africa Summit
… You have been invited to the first Open Textbook Summit: physics & astronomy Textbooks prices have skyrocketed globally, but as the rand takes a hit so does…
EventRobert Sobukwe is sentenced to three years’ imprisonment
… Founding member and president of the Pan Africanist Congress , Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe , was … three years' imprisonment for incitement of Blacks to urge…
EventTafari Makonnen proclaimed Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia
… or Haile Selassie, as he was later known, was born the son of Ras Makonnen Wolde Michael, the Governor of the region of Harrar. He is credited for…
EventSouth Africa and Mozambique sign a non-aggression pact
… and Prime Minister PW Botha of South Africa signed the Nkomati Accord, a non-aggression, and good-neighbourliness pact, on the border between the two…
EventThree ANC members are sentenced to death
… Motaung, were sentenced to death for separate attacks at the Moroka and Orlando Police stations in Soweto and the Wonderboom Police station in Pretoria in…
EventSWAPO attacks SAP
… The South African Police Force (SAP) stationed in the Caprivi Strip, bordering Zambia, suffered casualties in … Organisation (SWAPO) guerrillas staged a…
EventPAC leader Robert Sobukwe is born
… Cape Province (now known as Eastern Cape). He was the youngest of five boys and one girl. Sobukwe was exposed … but he was not given a teaching post. On 21…
EventMichael “Muis” Roberts, South Africa’s best jockey is born
… to his petite physique when he registered as a member of the South African Jockey Academy in Shongweni, Pinetown, … boy who stood a mere 1,32 metres tall…
EventPeter Lindenberg, South Africa’s powerboat champion
… Peter Lindeberg won the European Barefoot Water-Skiing title in 1977.[i] Peter … powerboat racing title, as well as set a world record in the ramp jump in…
PlaceMartello Tower, Simonstown
… The circular tower was erected in 1796 on the orders of James Craig to improve the defence system of Simonstown. It has been claimed that …
EventDr Ernst Gideon Malherbe, SA educationist, is born in Luckhoff, OFS.
… was born on 8 November 1895 at Luckhoff. He studied at the Stellenbosch University and the University of Columbia and was a founding member of the National…
EventMinister of Bantu Administration and Development, MC Botha announces that he will not stand for re-election.
… and will resign as Minister in November 1977. At the time Botha was at the centre of the land dispute between the apartheid government and the … 27 September…
EventTunisia gains independence from France
… from France after two years of negotiations between the French and the Neo-Destour (“New Constitution”) party, which was backed by the trade unions. Tunisia,…
EventHarry Gwala is awarded Isitwalandwe/Seaparakoe
… On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the African National Congress (ANC) on 8 January 1992, Harry Gwala was awarded the Isitwalandwe/Seaparankoe, the…
EventSifiso Nkabinde is shot dead by assassins
… Sifiso Nkabinde, former Secretary General of the African National Congress (ANC) in the Natal Midlands and at the time of his death secretary-general of the…