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PlaceConstitution Street House 14, Port Elizabeth
… It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 23 December 1983. Donkin Street …
EventGeneral De Wet is defeated by British forces
… after President Steyn appointed De Wet as field-general under General PA Cronje on the western front. De Wet died on …
EventSA artist Mizream Maseko is born
… a calendar in 1972. He exhibited frequently with Artists under the Sun. Maseko was a deacon of the Zion Christian …
EventANC leader, James Arthur Calata, dies
… In 1960, Calata was given a six months suspended sentence under the Suppression of Communism Act. He continued serving …
EventJohannesburg municipal workers strike
… the strike was centered around the migrant labour system under apartheid. In addition to restricting the freedom of …
EventFather Smangaliso Mkhatshwa served with restriction order
… to become deputy Minister of Education from 1996 to 1999 under the democratic government. He became Executive Mayor of …
EventTranskei gains complete independence
… gained complete independence as an autonomous republic under the policy of separate development. At its opening …
EventThe Chinese Community in South Africa is granted ‘White’ status
… Indians and others who were subject to discrimination under apartheid. As a result of this ruling, ethnically …
EventAmerican Troops pull out of Somalia
… Somalia following a series of gun battles Somali militias under the Command of General Mohammed Farrah Aidid. American …
EventJacob Matlala, SA flyweight, wins the World Boxing Organisation world champion title
… young age by his father, and turned professional in 1979. Under the guidance of Theo Mthembu, Matlala won his first …
EventThe NNP joins the ANC
… localities. The NNP would in future contest elections under the banner of the ANC. Officials would retain their …
EventMining agreement on wages and working conditions is signed
… to restructuring miners' provident funds and training. Under the agreement, parity between White and Black workers …
EventSouth African Police announce arrest of serial killer
… He was wounded during his arrest and was kept in hospital under police guard. His crimes came to light after the …
EventDinuzulu refuses British instructions to take up arms against Boers
… was after receiving a warning from Colonel Bottomley that under the current martial law he may be banished for such a …
EventAnnexation of the Orange Free State is announced
… At the begging of May 1900, the British Army, under Field Marshal Lord Roberts, launched an attack on the …
EventFirst recorded discovery of diamonds in the colonial period of South Africa
… to the establishment of De Beers Consolidated Mines under the leadership of Cecil John Rhodes. This was soon …
EventDavid Frost wins the South African Open golf championship in Stellenbosch
… at the Stellenbosch Golf Club in Cape Town. He shot a 3-under 68 in the final round and claimed the $1 million prize. …
EventANC President, Oliver Tambo, denies that the ANC is in secret negotiations with the South African government
… for South Africa (Idasa) in Dakar, Senegal in July, 1987 under strong opposition by the apartheid government. In an …
EventSouth Africa and Lesotho establish a consultative committee to resolve border disputes
… was fraught with friction. This was the case particularly under government of Basutoland National party (BNP) led by …
EventAn inquest into the death of Ernest Dipale finds no-one criminally liable for his death
… criminally liable for his death. Dipale was arrested under the new Internal Security Act and charged with …
EventThe 41st annual conference of the ANC in Queenstown gets underway
… the first campaign undertaken jointly by all racial groups under the leadership of the ANC and the South African Indian …
EventThe Groote Kerk pulpit, sculpted by Anton Anreith, is inaugurated in Cape Town
… on 31 January 1841. It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 28 September 1962. Beside the …
EventTryna du Toit, Afrikaans novelist, is born in De Aar, Karoo
… writing books at the age of thirty and chose to write under the pseudonym, Tryna du Toit. Throughout her writing …
PlaceLesotho
… farmers , some of whom were granted land for settlement under baSotho customary law, infiltrated the country. In 1836 … for thousands of Basotho workers in…
PlacePhilip Irrigation Tunnel and Missionary Station, Hankey
… all members of his congregation set to work day and night under the guidance of this man, who was at one and the same … One can only imagine what it must…
Document 7 - ‘White South Africa.’ Two Voices.” The International, 27 January 1922
… is eliminated or not. He will do it because he is a worker under capitalism, and good luck to him! The white workers are under a very real and proper fear of…
Baleka Mbete: In The Centre Of The Maelstrom by Greg Nicolson (Daily Maverick), 17 February 2015, South Africa
… a rise in opposition rhetoric, and a president and ANC under fire have all coalesced in the National Assembly. … for another four, briefly served as Deputy…
PlaceMhlathuze River
… Zululand , at the turn of the Nineteenth Century. Under the leadership of King Zwide , the Ndwandwe Nation destroyed the Mthethwa under their king Dingiswayo…
Public dialogue: Cultural Erasure & Memory Reclamation
… for the first Intergenerational Dialogue under Threads to Remembrance: Building an Inclusive and …
PlaceSt George’s Grammar School, 1 Queen Victoria Street, Cape Town
… established in 1858. It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 27 June 1986. Huguenot Memorial … Pretoria for burial. It was declared…