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PlaceMLR-cannon, Middle North Battery, Simonstown
… The gun was designed in 1865 as a broadside gun for ironclad … and harbour seafront defence. A total of 190 were made. The gun was last fired in 1903.. This…
EventProf. Hudson Ntsanwisi, former Chief Minister of Gazankulu, dies in Johannesburg
… Mission Station in Tzaneen on 11 July 1920. He was the eldest of three children of Mlungisi and Evelyn … Trichardt. He later obtained a Master of Arts Degree…
EventWorld Health Day
… On 7 April each year, the World Health Organisation (WHO) celebrates World Health Day. This date commemorates the formation of the WHO in 1945. The WHO's…
Conference: African Indigenous Knowledge Systems
… The conference will cover the following topics: v Towards the Commercialization of Traditional Knowledge and … Indigenous Systems of Governance and Post…
EventA Pilot Cellular phone project is launched
… The basic concept of cellular phones began in 1947, when … of service area) with frequency reuse they could increase the traffic capacity of mobile phones…
EventAnton Hammerl, South African photographer, is killed in Libya
… Anton Hammerl was killed, allegedly by Libyan forces on the Brega frontline. According to eyewitnesses, Hammerl’s … without medical attention. Consequently,…
ANC media statement on comrade Carl Niehaus, 10 July 2009
… The African National Congress (ANC) has noted a public … for forgiveness. Comrade Carl is highly regarded for the role that he has played in the struggle for…
Comrade Keith Khoza`s father being buried on Saturday, 3 February 2011
… The African National Congress (ANC) sends its condolences to … its communications manager Keith Khoza and his family for the loss of his father – Mr Wakheni…
My Spirit Is Not Banned - Resources by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… From the book: My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner The Federation of South African Women's Papers, University of the Witwatersrand…
EventDr Frederik van Zyl Slabbert resigns from parliament
… of 'separate development' (Apartheid) and leader of the opposition Progressive Federal Party (PFP), resigned as leader of the PFP and as a MP. In his…
PlaceRiversdale Division, Western Cape
… The Division of Riversdale was originally located on the Eastern boundary of the District of Swellendam, which had been proclaimed in …
EventBishop Ambrose Reeves returns to South Africa
… cleric, Dr Richard Ambrose Reeves, Anglican (Church of the Province of South Africa) Bishop of Johannesburg, … leave spent in England. Reeves was not…
EventKuruman missionary Robert Moffat is born
… Robert Moffat, missionary of the London Missionary Society at Kuruman and father-in-law of … as a gardener and worked at High Leah, near Liverpool. At the…
EventBartolomeu Dias reaches present Mossel Bay
… Bartolomeu Dias discovered that he had sailed past the southern-most point of Africa. A strong wind had driven … that he did not see it and had to sail…
EventPharmaceutical companies drop a lawsuit against South Africa ending an international battle over patent rights and profit
… In 1998 the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America and … pharmaceutical companies brought a lawsuit against the South African government for…
EventCape Colony Prime Minister opposes War
… William Philip Screhreiner, prime minister in the Cape Colony at the start of Anglo-Boer War 2 (South African War), summarised the pssure his government has…
EventActress and teacher Wilhelmina Freund is born
… in 1912, she was appointed as teacher of elocution at the South African College of Music in Cape Town, the first person in South Africa with the requisite…
EventSeven impalas are trapped in a camp and viciously beaten to death at Skukuza, Kruger National Park
… for meat in Skukuza, Kruger National Park. Witnesses saw the four men lock the bucks in a camp before beating them to death with sticks and pipes after which…
EventSouth African Foreign Minister, ‘Pik’ Botha denies South African support for RENAMO
… denied South African support for RENAMO, claiming that the country is committed to the Nkomati Accord of 1984. The Nkomati Accord was signed by South Africa…
EventFormer Tennis player, Kevin Curren, is born in Durban
… (now Grade 10), Kevin Curren accepted a scholarship from the University of Texas, United States of America. He obtained a BCom degree in sports management at…
EventStephen Appiah, retired Ghanaian footballer is born
… Appiah is a retired Ghanaian footballer who once captained the Ghanaian national team. Appiah was born in Achimota, … Accra on 24 December 1980. He began his…
EventWhite sympathisers join evicted Black squatters in a protest
… joined evicted Black squatters in a protest against the demolition of shanty dwellings outside Cape Town. This was the third day of an operation aimed…
EventThree South African provinces are renamed
… After the first South African democratic election, the country was demarcated into nine provinces. Some of these … like Northern Transvaal and Eastern…
EventFormer National Minister of Arts and Culture, Pallo Jordan, is born
… Zweledinga Pallo Jordan, who became the National Minister of Arts and Culture under President … born in B Location, Kroonstad, Orange Free State. He is the…
EventCouncil of Unions of South Africa (CUSA) is formed
… The Council of Unions of South Africa (CUSA) was formed, with 9 affiliates. CUSA originated from the Urban Training Project and the Consultative Committee of…
EventChief Albert Luthuli is banned for a further five years
… Chief Albert Luthuli, President General of the African National Congress (ANC), led the Defiance Campaign in 1952, a non- violent protest against the pass…
EventDr Kenneth Kaunda, former president of Zambia, is born
… Kenneth Kaunda was born in Chinsali, the Northern Province of Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia). … 1951, he left teaching to become Organising Secretary of the…
EventNaguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer and Nobel laureate, is born
… age that he wanted to be a writer. He began writing at the age of eleven and at 17 he published his first article. … entitled Old Egypt. Mafhouz’s most…
EventANC’s Walter Sisulu and Duma Nokwe rally support against Urban Bantu Councils Act
… rallying support amongst community members against the government's Bantu Urban Councils Act. The Bantu Urban Councils Act, Act No 79 of 1961 created black ……
EventItalian Troops raid Addis Ababa
… with raids into Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia. After the capture of Addis Ababa by the Italian troops, Benito Mussolini, the Fascist President of Italy…