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EventUN names four experts to investigate apartheid in South Africa
… On 13 January 1964, the United Nations Secretary-General named a team of four … Myrdal from Sweden. This followed a resolution taken by the UN Security…
EventNon military national service for objectors
… who oppose military service on religious grounds. The offer is not extended to objectors motivated by political values. The number of conscientious objectors…
EventFourteen are killed in Phola Park violence
… hostel dwellers and Phola Park residents located in the Thokoza Township on the East Rand, near Johannesburg. Tension between hostel … Inkatha Freedom Party…
EventHelen Suzman is born
… Africa. During her 36 years in Parliament she defended the right to freedom of expression for all South Africans; … legislation. She entered politics when…
EventSir John Robinson forms Natal’s first ministry as Prime Minister
… journalist and political leader, and was joint founder and the first editor of The Natal Mercury, together with his father, George Robinson. He became the…
EventFormer Springboks player, Naas Botha is born
… Hendrik Egnatius Botha was born on the 27 of February 1958 in Breyten, in the Eastern Transvaal (now Mpumalanga). He schooled in … tennis, athletics and…
South Africans commemorated Nelson Mandela with a day of prayer
… where a national day of prayer took place to honour the memory of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela and pray for the future of South Africa following the death of…
South Africans commemorated Nelson Mandela with a day of prayer
… where a national day of prayer took place to honour the memory of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela and pray for the future of South Africa following the death of…
South Africans commemorated Nelson Mandela with a day of prayer
… where a national day of prayer took place to honour the memory of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela and pray for the future of South Africa following the death of…
South Africans commemorated Nelson Mandela with a day of prayer
… where a national day of prayer took place to honour the memory of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela and pray for the future of South Africa following the death of…
South Africans commemorated Nelson Mandela with a day of prayer
… where a national day of prayer took place to honour the memory of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela and pray for the future of South Africa following the death of…
South Africans commemorated Nelson Mandela with a day of prayer
… where a national day of prayer took place to honour the memory of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela and pray for the future of South Africa following the death of…
EventSouth Africans commemorated Nelson Mandela with a day of prayer
… where a national day of prayer took place to honour the memory of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela and pray for the future of South Africa following the death of…
EventSoldiers die from gas leak at Naval base in Durban
… six people were killed and more than a dozen injured at the Salisbury Island Naval base in Durban. Three of the six people involved were South African…
PlaceCarnarvon District, Karoo
… The district of Carnarvon was proclaimed on 1 January 1880, incorporating within its boundaries portions of the divisions of Fraserburg and Victoria West. It…
EventDeath of Anton Muziwakhe Lembede
… in South Africa, died unexpectedly in Johannesburg at the age of 33. In 1944 Lembede became the first president of the African National Congress Youth League…
EventBotha appoints Hendrikse and Rajbansi into his Cabinet
… The leader of the Labour Party, the Reverend H. J. Allan Hendrickse and Amichand Rajbansi of the National People's Party (NPP) are appointed to the … 12…
EventDeputy Minister of Bantu Education,Treurnicht is warned about deteriorating conditions in Soweto
… Rene de Villiers, member of parliament for Parktown, drew the attention of deputy minister of Bantu education, Dr Andries P. Treurnicht, to the fact that an…
EventWaddington report on Boipatong is released
… Waddington of Reading University, who had been invited by the Goldstone Commission to make an independent inquiry into the Boipatong massacre on 17 June 1992…
EventHundreds of White-owned farms are seized by homeless people and pro-Mugabe war veterans in a violent campaign in Zimbabwe
… 2000, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe spearheaded the Fast-Track Resettlement Program. The campaign meant that White owned farms would be acquired by the…
ArchiveGuaranteeing fundamental freedoms in a new South Africa
… The 35th lecture in the Alfred and Winifred Hoernle Memorial Lecture series … M M Corbett in Johannesburg on 7 May 1990, in celebrating the Diamond Jubilee…
EventA coalmine explosion in Rhodesia kills over four hundred workers
… in Rhodesia’s (now Zimbabwe) worst mine disaster ever. The disaster stunned the whole country and the world. Over a third of those who perished were citizens…
PlaceAnniskop, Hill in Karoo-Namibia
… Hill some 13 km North-West of the confluence of the Annis River with the Orange River. Near the hill is the joining of the Orange …
EventMbongeni Ngema was born on this day
… screenwriter and librettist. He is best known for writing the internationally acclaimed and award-winning musical, … was nominated for five Tony Awards and…
Message by Albert Luthuli to people of Western Areas, 7 February 1955, Johannesburg
… were held in South Africa in February 1955 denouncing the government`s use of force to remove African people from the Western Areas. Chief Lutuli sent this…
EventDefiance campaign leadership meets with SAIC
… Defiance Campaign Executive members meet with the leadership of South African Indian Congress (SAIC) to … defiance campaign to their respective annual…
EventNational Party wins national elections
… Barry Munnik (JBM) Hertzog's National Party (NP) wins the South African general election with an outright majority. Race plays a critical role for the first…
EventBlack People Convention is formed
… Twelve years after the banning of the African National Congress (ANC) and Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), a new political movement, the Black People…
EventA strike by White mineworkers turns into open rebellion
… police stations, railway installations and mines on the Witwatersrand. They also attacked Johannesburg's main … that, in a few hours, turned into open…
EventDr Joosub Ebrahim is born
… Dr Joosub Hajee Suliman Ebrahim, recipient of the Order for Meritorious Service Class 1: Gold from the state president in 1992, for his contribution as … a…