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EventAuthor and playwright Ronald Harwood is born in Cape Town
… Academy of Dramatic Art. He changed his name to Harwood under the advice of an English master, who felt that the name …
EventPaul Michael Sibisi, SA artist and teacher involved in setting up cultural art workshops in Natal, is born.
… He studied art at the Ndaleni Educational Training School under Lorna Peirson . After completing his studies, he went …
EventAfrican delegates urge U Thant to enter Nelson Mandela fray
… condemned the arrest of Mandela and noted that he was held under the Sabotage Act, which carried a possible death …
EventBruce Fordyce is born
… the Comrades Marathon, was born in Hong Kong, then a city under English administration on the eastern side of Pearl …
EventPolitician and Community leader Horatio Mbelle dies
… was also instrumental in the anti-pass campaign of 1919, under the banner of the South African Native National …
EventFormer NP member Roelf Meyer is born
… of Constitutional Development, a post he previous held under the apartheid regime. In 1997, Meyer and Bantu Holomisa …
EventMemorandum on housing conditions in Fietas, Johannesburg
… one of the first 'locations' (non-white areas) established under the government of Paul Kruger in 1893. In its heyday …
EventEzrom Kgobokanyo Sebata Legae is born
… at the Polly Street Art Center and Jubilee Art Centre under Cecil Skotnes and Sydney Kumalo. When Kumalo retired in …
EventZANU-PF wins the first free elections in Zimbabwe
… the ceremonial post of president, but declined. PF-ZAPU under Nkomo retained a stronghold in the province of …
EventTrial of nine BPC and SASO leaders ends
… (SASO) ended on this date. They were found guilty under the Terrorism Act and sentenced to periods of …
EventSouth Africa is invited to rejoin Commonwealth of Nations
… Commonwealth in 1961 after it declared itself a Republic under the leadership of Prime Minister H.F Verwoerd. The …
EventANC’s economic plans
… would be free to take their profits out of the country under an ANC government …
EventFive prominent anti-apartheid activists released
… in Cape Town after being detained for up to two years under the Internal Security Act. The five are Trevor Manuel, …
EventTutu and Mkhatshwa join solidarity fast
… strike to support the hunger strike of prisoners held under the emergency regulations at the Johannesburg prison. …
EventSouth Africa observes Armistice Day
… in World War I. The day is observed world-wide, though under various names. In Malta it is also called Poppy Day. In …
EventHerero people defeat German Forces
… German forces under Major Von Glasenapp are defeated by Herero people near …
EventAlfred Milner becomes High Commissioner and Governor of the Cape Province
… a policy of reconstruction dubbed "reconstruction under arms". …
EventThe BSAC flag is hoisted in Bulawayo
… been obtained from Chief Lobengula in 1888 and the BSAC, under Cecil John Rhodes, succeeded in founding and colonising …
EventJustin Alexander (Alex) La Guma, SA novelist, short story writer and political activist, is born in Cape Town
… books, most of them depicting the plight of black people under apartheid. He was arrested several times as an …
EventNatal becomes part of the Union of South Africa
… on 12 May 1843, became a district of the Cape Colony under a lieutenant-governor. It was proclaimed a British …
EventFirst flight in an airplane is undertaken
… world's first powered flight in a heavier-than-air machine under complete control of the pilot. The brothers took turns …
EventThirteen residents are gunned down in Mamelodi by South African police
… political violence – more than half killed by the police. Under the provisions of the Emergency, organisations could be …
EventChris Katongo, Zambian football player, is born
… He is currently captain of the Zambian national team. Under his leadership, this team won the Africa Cup of Nations …
EventFormer National Minister of Arts and Culture, Pallo Jordan, is born
… who became the National Minister of Arts and Culture under President Thabo Mbeki’s administration, was born in B …
EventUranium enrichment programme gets a boost from B.J. Vorster
… nuclear research and development project was initiated under the auspices of the Atomic Energy Board (AEB). In 1990 …
EventZAR’s last Cruesot ‘Long Tom’ is dynamited
… known as Transvaal Republic), was dynamited by its crew under Lieutenant H Du Toit before falling into British hands …
EventDr. Neville Alexander and four others are found guilty of sabotage
… Alexander was released from prison, but banned and placed under house arrest for five years. …
EventThe Security Council begins deliberations on the situation in South Africa
… began deliberations on the situation in South Africa, under an agenda item entitled: "The situation arising out of …
EventSol Kerzner admits to the Harms Commission, that he has paid R2m for the personal benefit of Chief George Matanzima
… African billionaire Hotelier Solomon Kerznerfound himself under investigation for corruption in a case that began in …
EventWiseman Khuzwayo, reporter for the Durban Daily News hands himself over to the police
… of the Sunday Express. They were charged with protesting (under the Riotous Assemblies Act) and were released the next …