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EventKoeberg becomes operational
… The nuclear power station at Koeberg, the only commercial nuclear power station in Africa, became operational on this date. On 21 August 1984, the French…
EventControl of communication bureau is placed under Foreign Affairs
… After rumours of mismanagement of funds by the Department of Information, Prime Minister B.J. Vorster … would remain Minister of Plural Relations and…
EventLanguage crisis in schools resolved
… The minister of Bantu Education, M.C. Botha, announced that the South African Government had annulled the regulation that Black secondary school pupils be …
EventHomeland leader Qqozo stands trial
… military leader of Ciskei homeland, went on trial in the Ciskei Supreme Court. He faced charges of murder or incitement to murder, relating to the killing of…
EventFurther chaos in Liberian civil war
… President Samuel Kanyon Doe became virtually a prisoner in the presidential mansion as rebels besieged Monrovia and … of Liberians and caused over 700,000…
EventSalman Rushdie’s visit is still on
… outcry against Salman Rushdie's public lecture from the Islamic Council of Southern Africa, the Weekly Mail (now Mail and Guardian) announces that the public…
EventMoses Mabhida dies in Maputo
… Umkhonto weSizwe commander and Secretary-General of the SA Communist Party, died of a heart attack in Maputo, … Mabhida's remains were transferred to South…
EventWinnie Mandela is dismissed from government
… Following weeks of speculations on the fate of Winnie Mandela in the government, president Nelson Mandela eventually expelled her from the position of deputy…
EventMonty Naicker dies
… was born in Durban. Naicker played a crucial role in the history of South Africa and his name is well documented amongst the political icons of the…
EventProfessor Lydia van Niekerk is born
… of Dutch Literature and first woman to be appointed to the chair at the University of Stellenbosch, was born on the farm Diepkloof, district Uitenhage. Van…
EventGovernment withdraws ten police officers from service
… Following an interim report of the Goldstone Commission, which probed allegations of a Third … that a further ten unnamed officers implicated in the report…
EventFierce fighting erupts between pro-Patrice Lumumba troops and UN forces
… Lumumba troops and United Nations (UN) forces in Congo. The fight came almost a year after parliamentary elections in May 1960, where the National Congolese…
ArticleFunders
… National Heritage Council Presidential Employment Stimulus The DG Murray Trust (DGMT) HCI Foundation Inqaba Biotechnical Industries (Pty) Ltd National…
EventFrance’s war in Morocco ends with Treaty of Tangier.
… 1844 French forces under General Thomas Bugeaud defeated the Moroccan army in the battle of Isly. The battle was a result of the French government’s pursuit…
PlaceBloemfontein Technical College, Douglas Street, Bloemfontein
… Also known as the Old Grey College building. The structure was designed by Architect WH Stucke and was … stone was laid on 16 May 1894 by President Reitz and…
Contact
… Contact, the official publication of the Liberal Party, was published monthly, in Pietermaritzburg, during the period January 1954 to December 1957. With…
EventA fire breaks out on Table Mountain after a British tourist allegedly tossed a lit cigarette out of a car window
… On 26 January 2006, a massive fire swept along the lower slopes of Table Mountain, threatening the nearby suburbs and cutting off several hiking … butt. It…
Harry Hart, a South African athletics champion is born
… Free State on 2 September 1905. [i] He attended the University of the Free State. [ii] Hart won six medals at the 1930 and 1934 Commonwealth Games, of which…
EventWillie Smith, South Africa’s bantamweight champion boxer is born
… was South Africa’s second Olympic champion when he won the bantamweight title at the 1924 Olympic Games held in Paris.[iii] Smith turned … continued boxing…
11. A Brahman seeks work in Natal
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans … Protector of Labour and Indian Immigration, wrote to the Protector in Natal on 7 November…
ArchiveNUSAS bannings condemned
… Articles in the Cape Times reporting on the condemnation by several leading figures of the banning of eight office bearers of the National Union of …
EventHattie McDaniels Wins An Academy Award
… McDaniels Wins An Academy Award Hattie McDaniels becomes the first African American woman to win an Academy Award for her best supporting actress in the…
EventGandhi supports APO’s Day of Mourning
… Mahatma Gandhi supported the resolution of the African People's Organisation (APO) to declare the day of arrival of the Prince of Wales in Cape Town as a …
ArchiveLetter from Jen Curtis, Secretary-General, NUSWEL, to Wages and Economics Commission Chairmen
… Confidential circular letter from Jen Curtis of the National Union of Students Welfare and Social Activities Department about the aims and goals of the Wages…
ArchiveColoured Persons Communal Reserves Act, Act No 3 of 1961
… The Act was to apply the Mission Stations and Communal Reserves Act 1909, of the Cape of Good Hope, to coloured persons settlement areas within the meaning…
EventMacassar Gas Disaster (AECI stockpile catches fire)
… The Coloured residential area of Macassar, Western Cape, was … after a 15 000 ton sulphur dioxide stockpile belonging to the local African Explosives and…
EventMazizi Maqekeza, ANC member, is shot dead whilst in hospital in Maseru, Lesotho
… Mazizi Maqekeza and Mbulelo Ngona were among the many South Africans who fled across the border to join the African National Congress (ANC) in their armed…
EventSipho Gumede, South African jazz legend, dies
… Born in the predominantly Indian community of Cato Manor near Durban, … music on a homemade guitar. He joined his first band at the age of 16 and soon became…
Mandela and Fidel A film by Estela Bravo
… have spotlighted events throghout Latin America, Africa, the Caribbean and the U.S Retrospectives of her films have been mounted in … others have not has…
EventEugéne Nielen Marais, S.A. poet, writer, lawyer and naturalist, is born
… Eugene Nielen Marais began writing at a very young age. By the age of 12, he was a published writer. Marais became … and early education were in English. He…