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EventPresent UN headquarters is opened
… The international peace keeping body, the United Nations (UN), which had replaced the League of Nations in 1945, opened its headquaters two … The Star, 09 th…
ArchiveInner Party Bulletin
… Bulletin produced by the Central Committee of the SACP for internal distribution only. Issue covers the extended Political Bureau meeting, the Party Congress…
ArchivePopulation Registration Act, Act No 30 of 1950
… The Act was to make provision for the compilation of a Register of the Population of the Union; for the issue of Identity cards …
ArchiveCommissions presented at 5th General Students
… The memorandum contains commissions to assess, among others, the theory of the struggle pertaining to the Black culture, the feasibility …
EventJoyce Mashamba passed away
… Happy Joyce Mashamba passed away at the age of 67 after battling with a long illness, the details of which have not yet been disclosed to the public. [i]…
ArchiveNUSAS Press Release No. 5, 1967
… Press release by the NUSAS President and Vice-President of the National Union of South African Students stating the opposition of the Union to the Terrorism…
EventShaun Thomson*, world surfing title winner, is born in Durban
… School and Carmel College, and began surfing at the age of ten. In 1973, after serving 18 months in the army, Thomson began studying for a business degree in…
EventFirst Egyptian woman to file for divorce under new law
… In 2000, a 32 year old Egyptian housewife became the first woman to file for a divorce without having to prove … she begged him to grant her a divorce and he…
ArchiveInterview with Amabutho members
… "young lions." Mainly active in urban areas, especially in the eastern Cape, most were unemployed school-leavers who supported the United Democratic Front…
EventLadysmith Black Mambazo, male choral group, win a Grammy Award
… on 13 February 2005 for their album Wenyukela. A hybrid of the album was released in the United States and went platinum, helping the group win the award…
EventMac Maharaj is born
… political activist and first SA Minister of Transport in the democratically elected government in 1994, was born in … As minister he formulated a new policy…
EventPrime Minister opens SA’s first atomic reactor
… at Pelindaba, about thirty km West of Pretoria. The installation was not intended for the production of nuclear energy on a commercial scale, but was…
EventDick King returns home after securing help for Port Natal
… Dick King (Richard Philip) returned to Port Natal on board the Conch after his heroic rescue operation. King, … off on a ten-days' horse-ride of 960km to…
EventAhmed Helmy, Egyptian actor, is born
… was impressed by his comic skills. Arafa cast Helmy for the leading role in the comedy film Aboud ala el hedoud in 1999. The role would make Helmy a…
![Freddie Mercury [Bulsara], singer and songwriter, is born in Zanzibar, Africa.](/sites/default/files/styles/saho_medium/public/event_pics/Freddie%20Mercury.jpg?itok=Vuq6ADKe)
EventFreddie Mercury [Bulsara], singer and songwriter, is born in Zanzibar, Africa.
… was sent to boarding school in India and grew up there. At the age of seventeen he and his family left Zanzibar and settled in Britain. In 1970, he formed…
Afra Newsletter
… Afra Newsletter, Report and Factsheet, all published by the Association for Rural Advancement, present case studies of families personally affected by the…
EventJoint call for June 16 Stay away
… The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), United … to issue a call for a one day work stay-away on June 16. The call was issued to all South…
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.6 No.1 Oct-Dec 1961
… a Valediction Forbidding Mourning, Ronald Segal. Cartoon. The Great Smear: Communism and Congress in South Africa, Duma Nokwe. Out of the Strike, Nelson…
EventRiots erupt in East London, Eastern Cape
… London, Eastern Cape after strike meetings were banned by the government. 17 protesters were killed, as well as an Irish Nun who was stoned to death by the…
EventSA artist, Daniel Sefundi Rakgoathe is born
… (D an) Sefundi Rakgoathe was born in Randfontein in the then Transvaal province. Rakgoathe went on to be the first full-time student in the fine arts…
EventSanctions are applied on Libya over Lockerbie bombing
… Governments across the world applied United Nations (UN) sanctions against Libya because of its alleged involvement in the destruction of a Pan Am airliner…
EventMthunzi Njakazi, ANC member, is killed in shooting after returning from exile
… an African National Congress (ANC) member was shot in the legs and chest at Warwick Junction taxi rank near the Berea police station, Durban . This was…
EventSouth Africa sends troops to Ciskei
… On 4 March 1990 Brigadier Oupa Gqozo of the Ciskei Defence Force (CDF), and a former member of the South African Defence Force (SADF), leads a coup in the…
EventWorld Leprosy Day is celebrated in SA
… in South Africa from 30 January to 3 February for the African Leprosy Congress. The convention was coordinated by Wits University to discuss … Leprosy' is a…
EventControversial Catholic Archbishop Milingo agrees to renounce marriage
… married Maria Sung on 27 May in a ceremony performed by the Unification Church Revered Sun Myung Moon. After his marriage, the archbishop asked the church to…
EventBrian Duddy dies
… manager at Standard Bank Home Loans and second victim of the Planet Hollywood bomb blast, Brian Duddy, died at the City Park Hospital. Duddy, together with…
EventDr. Jan Bouws, Dutch composer, is born
… born in Purmerend, Holland. He trained in Musicology at the University of Amsterdam and on completion of his studies became a lecturer at the…
EventCommunity leader James Sofasonke Mpanza is born
… meaning We shall all die), community leader, founder of the Sofasonke Party and a champion for better housing for … born in Georgedale, today part of Cato…
EventChief Mqikela dies
… The Paramount Chief Mqikela, eldest son of Chief Faku and … Mqikela took over from his father as paramount chief of the Pondos in 1868, but because he…
EventA fire in a boarding school in Kenya kills fifty-eight boys and seriously injures twenty-eight others
… caught fire in a secondary school near Nairobi, Kenya. The raging fire is reported to have spread quickly burning the victims beyond recognition. The boys…