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ArchiveTowards racial justice: will there be a change of heart?
… This is the 31st lecture delivered by Alan Paton at the 50th Anniversary Conference of the South African Institute of Race Relations on July 3, 1979 …
African Statistics Day
… The African Statistics Day (ASD) is celebrated every year on the 18th of November. This event was initiated in 1990 by the Subsidiary Body of the United…
EventYouth has been burnt to death in Mahwelereng Township
… was stabbed and burnt to death by a group of youth in the Mahwelereng Township in Limpopo province. He was accused of being a man who was pointing out the…
ArchiveNational Indian Council another trap
… At the outset, APDUSA mentions how it warned its people of the dangers of accepting the formation of police reserves and that this warning was …
PlaceWandel and Barnet Streets, Gardens
… The five properties involved are part of a larger complex of Georgian terrace Houses, The original portions of this House reputedly served as an out-building…
EventTsotsi wins Academy Award
… On 6 March 2006, the South African film Tsotsi, starring young actors Presley … and Terry Pheto and directed by Gavin Woods, received the Oscar for the best…
EventTshwane Metro’s 5th anniversary celebrations held at Church Square
… Held in Church Square in Pretoria's city centre, the celebrations began with marches through the streets. Later, several prominent Afro music groups and…
EventCosatu celebrates its 18 th anniversary
… The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) celebrated its 18th anniversary by becoming the first trade union in the world to sponsor a CD. The…
PlaceBelvidere, Knysna
… Captain Thomas Henry Duthie emigrated to the Cape in 1826. In 1830 he visited Knysna, where he was the guest of George Rex, whose daughter Caroline he ……
EventPretoria’s first Black mayor
… Lebone Slo Ramokhoase was born in 1951 in Eesterus before the residents were moved to Mamelodi. He was the headmaster of Mamelodi High School and chairman of…
Constitution Hill - Free tours for pensioners during October and November
… To celebrate the International Day of the Older People on October 01st, Constitution Hill is offering complimentary tours of the site during the Month of…
Circular from Barney Pityana to SRC Presidents and other organisations
… The circular outlines the historical background of the formation of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) as well as the …
EventANC founder John Dube’s daughter passed away
… The youngest daughter of the former African National Congress leader John Langalibalele Dube died in Durban at the age of 84 years. Lulu Joan Dube passed…
EventProposal made to stop sending Black troops to assist in WW1
… South Africa to Europe for any service in connection with the war or otherwise.” This motion was against the backdrop of the South African government…
PlaceDutch Reformed Mission Institute, Cape Town
… The South African Missionary Society, established a ministry … to settler farmers. In 1820 they were succeeded by the Dutch Reformed congregation of Paarl…
PlaceGrand Parade, Cape Town
… The Parade is inseparably associated with the Castle and was used by its garrison as a training ground. … a grassy meadow dissected by meandering streams. In…
EventUnion leader, Moses Mayekiso is reported to be under arrest on his return from Sweden.
… Moses Mayekiso was the General Secretary of the Metal and Allied Workers Union (MAWU) and became a member of the South African Communist Party (SACP)…
EventHezekiel Sepeng is born
… The athlete Hezekiel Sepeng is born in Potchefstroom, North West (then Western Transvaal). The ‘Potchefstroom Express’, as he was known, was scouted in ……
EventDr. Albert Hertzog is attacked by Ben Schoeman
… in 1969, Dr. Albert Hertzog was scornfully attacked by the Minister of Transport Ben Schoeman in the House of Assembly. This was not the first major clash…
EventNP Secretary-General Stoffel Van der Merwe resigns
… of Education and professor of political science at the Rand Afrikaans University, Stoffel van der Merwe (52), who left the cabinet at the request of…
EventDictator Siad Barre flees Somalia ending his 22 year rule
… Siad Barre shared the fate of many post liberation leaders in Africa. Having started out as policemen in the Italian governed part of Somalia prior to World…
EventFormer Student Representative Council (SRC) Vice-President shot by Police
… Student Representative Council (SRC) Vice-president at the University of Transkei and staunch opponent of Transkei … government, Batandwa Ndondo, was shot by…
EventSouth African author and feminist Olive Schreiner is born
… Schreiner. During her youth she lived in Cradock in the Eastern Cape. She died in Wynberg, Cape Town, on 10 December 1920. The Department of Tourism in the…
EventTwenty die in an armed assault in a mosque in Khartoum, Sudan
… three other men with him that night. Abbas belonged to the Islamic fundamentalist group Al-Takfir wa al-Hijran which had a long standing grudge against the…
EventAlbertina Sisulu’s banning order is renewed
… On 31 July 1969 Albertina Sisulu, the wife of Walter Sisulu who was serving a life sentence … had her banning order renewed for another five years after the…
EventMiss Namibia, Michelle Mclean, model and masseuse, is crowned Miss Universe in Bangkok, Thailand
… miss Universe in Bangkok, Thailand in 1992. Mclean had won the 1991 Miss Namibia pageant as well as making it to the top 5 of Miss World in the same year…
ANC welcomes Cde Mac Maharaj appointment as President Zuma`s spokesperson, 7 July 2011
… The African National Congress welcomes the appointment of Cde Mac Maharaj, a veteran and stalwart of … into his new responsibility. He played a leading role…
EventF.W. de Klerk, former state president of South Africa, is born in Johannesburg.
… (now Gauteng). In 1975 he became information officer of the Transvaal National Party. He held several ministerial positions in the Cabinet of President P.W…
EventEdgar Whitehead succeeds Garfield Todd as premier of South Rhodesia.
… till 1958. As a leader of a White minority regime during the period, he was considered a bit of an aberration as many of the initiatives he proposed and…
EventCruel murder of Dora Bloch
… Dora Bloch, one of the elderly British hostages of hijacked Flight 139 (an Air … She was left behind in Mulago National Hospital when the Israeli commandos…