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EventHastings Banda, former president of Malawi, is born.
… Hasting Kamuzu Banda was the leader of Nyasaland which became Malawi in in 1964, with … president. Banda was born in Kasungu and went to study in the US and…
EventSophiatown residents are forcefully moved to Soweto
… It was in the early hours on 9 February 1955 when around 2 000 … armed with guns, knobkerries and rifles, forcefully moved the families of Sophiatown to…
EventAnna Tempo is born
… slave mother and father who were kidnapped as children off the coast of Mozambique. She was born in the late 1870s and grew up in Worcester. One day in 1884,…
EventDarrell Roodt was born on this day
… Darrell Roodt was born in Johannesburg. Growing up during the height of Apartheid South Africa, he always used the art of film to condemn the racially…
Establishment of Food Committee
… In the 1940s, as a result of the Second World War , the South African economy was very weak.Unemployment and food …
PlaceMandela House
… The Mandela House Museum in Soweto is housed in what was once the home of Nelson Mandela , the World's most famous political prisoner and South Africa's ……
EventBlacks are making bonfires of their “passes” in Johannesburg
… of their reference books in Johannesburg. Their action was the latest gesture of defiance against the pass laws. During the weekend, the suspension of pass…
EventPolitician and Community leader Horatio Mbelle dies
… politician, dies in Pretoria. He was widely regarded as the best court interpreter of his day and was a talented rugby and cricket player who took the lead…
EventFormer NP member Roelf Meyer is born
… former politician and National Party (NP) negotiator at the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA) is born. Together with Cyril Ramaphosa, Roelf…
EventSA Prime Minister H. F. Verwoerd stabbed to death
… attempt on his life since becoming Prime Minister was on the 9 April 1961, at the Rand Easter Show, where he was shot twice in the face. Verwoed was sitting…
EventNuclear Reactor At Pelindaba Goes Critical
… On this date the nuclear reactor Safari, located in Pelindaba, near Pretoria, went critical and South Africa entered the nuclear age. The US firm Allis…
EventWinnie Mandela is elected ANCWL president
… Born Nomzamo Winfreda Zanyiwe Madikizela in the Eastern Cape, President Mandela’s former wife and politician was elected President of the African National…
EventSouth Africa is invited to rejoin Commonwealth of Nations
… On 25 October 1993, South Africa was invited to rejoin the Commonwealth of Nations with effect from January 1994. The move came after prolonged promising…
EventBafana Bafana play 2-2 draw with Cameroon
… After being readmitted into the international fold, the newly formed South African soccer team, Bafana Bafana, came up against one of the African soccer…
EventANC’s economic plans
… to abandon its long-held policy of nationalisation if the business community could provide an alternative which would redress the economic imbalances in the…
EventDulcie September is assassinated in Paris
… On 29 March 1988, Dulcie September, the African National Congress (ANC) representative in France, … was asassinated in Paris. She was shot five times in the…
EventWinnie Mandela attacked by a group of people
… Winnie Mandela, at the time wife of imprisoned African National Congress (ANC) … was pelted with eggs and cool drink cans while leaving the Supreme Court in…
EventNational Housing Department introduces new plan
… Minister, Lindiwe Sisulu, introduced a new housing plan to the media. The plan had been endorsed by the cabinet and entailed the government's intention to …
EventUS invades Afghanistan
… The United States invasion of Afghanistan, codenamed Operation Enduring Freedom, took place after the destruction of the Twin Towers on 11 September 2001 in…
EventFirst flight in an airplane is undertaken
… On the morning of 17 December 1903, brothers, Wilbur and Orville Wright succeeded in the world's first powered flight in a heavier-than-air machine under…
EventPLAN launches armed struggle against South Africa
… On 26 August 1966, the People’s Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN), the armed wing of SWAPO, fought in a battle against South … in northern Namibia. In 1973 a…
EventMuntu Myeza, SA anti-apartheid activist, is born.
… Muntu Myeza was Secretary General of the Azanian People’s Organisation (AZAPO), an affiliate of the Black Consciousness Movement. At the age of 22 , he…
PlaceCottam Grove Hotel, 303-309 Florida Road, Durban.
… impressive verandah houses were erected in about 1903 on the instruction of mining magnate Sir Abe Bailey. After WWII the properties were joined and the…
ArchiveFrank Talk
… Frank Talk, first published in March 1984, as the official publication of the Natal Region of AZAPO, the Azanian Peoples Organisation, was later published by…
Izwi lase Township, 1982 - 1984
… Though mainly concerned with Alexandra, since that was the home location of Ditshwantsho, it held that Alexandra was but a part of South Africa and shared in…
ArchiveSPRO-CAS Occasional Publication Number 3: Directions of change in South African politics
… Report of the Political Commission of The Study Project on Christianity in Apartheid Society regarding the political and social trends in apartheid South…
EventNotices served on Solly Sachs
… The then Minister of Justice, C.R. Swart, served two notices on Solly Sachs, an official of the Garment Workers' Union of South Africa (GWU). The first…
EventFirst ANC Conference in SA in three decades
… The African National Congress (ANC) held its first … years from 14-16 December 1990. It was considered by the ANC as ranking in importance with such historic…
EventNew ANC National Working Committee is elected
… The African National Congress (ANC) announced the names of members of a new National Working Committee (NWC) that was to be responsible for the day-to-day…
Inner-Party Bulletin
… Bulletin of the Central Committee of the SACP for the eyes of Party members only. Issue covers the augmented …