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EventFormer SA Cricket Captain, Hansie Cronje, dies
… On 1 June 2002 the former South African Cricket Captain, Hansie Cronje, died … in a Hawker Siddeley 748 - 372 aircraft which crashed into the Outeniqua…
EventLucas Ntuba Radebe, SA soccer hero, is born in Diepkloof, Soweto
… celebrated soccer legend was born in Diepkloof, Soweto. At the age of 15 his parents sent him to live in Bophuthatswana so could be safe from the political…
ArchiveReport of a meeting with Prof. Willem Kleynhans
… Handwritten report of a meeting between representatives of the African National Congress and Professor Willem Kleynhans of the University of South Africa to…
ArchivePretoria Minute
… Minutes of discussions between the South African Government and the African National Congress in Pretoria, 6 August, 1990. Re-committing themselves to the…
ArchiveWorld Vision International: what is it up to
… in which Jeffrey Marishane raises concerns regarding the real motives of the World Vision's presence in Southern Africa, in its history there are activities…
ArchiveImperialist conspiracy in Africa
… contains a collection of selected articles by I B Tabata, the president of the Unity Movement of South Africa. The articles range over a number of political…
EventSA musician Todd Matshikiza dies
… composer and writer, Todd Tozama Matshikiza, died at the age of 47 in Lusaka, Zambia after a sudden illness. He composed the music and wrote some of the…
ArchivePosition paper: Action on education
… Position paper presented at the 56th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, held at the University of Cape Town, 24th - 30th…
ArchiveLong bitter struggle at Frame has ended
… The longest recognition struggle in South African labour … Nearly 2 000 National Union of Textile Worker members at the giant Frametex mill, the heart of the…
ArchiveEmergency convocation of churches in South Africa: package of preparation material
… on and develop effective non-violent actions to pressure the government to the negotiation table and for the church to refuse to collaborate with the unjust…
ArchiveRace, culture and personality
… The fifteenth Heornle Memorial Lecture delivered by Dr. Simon Biesheuvel who was concerned with the social and political importance of race problems and more…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Weyers Street, Durbanville-Bergsig
… In the year 1824 a number of farm owners, living on the outskirts of Cape Town. Petitioned Lord Somerset, the Governor of Cape, for a church to be built for…
EventMusic teacher Dorothy Boxall dies
… writer and organiser of orchestral activities for the youth, died in Johannesburg. Following Boxall's death, the Children's Music Festival Society, the…
EventManne Dipico resigns from parliament
… Mbeki's parliamentary advisor, Manne Dipico, resigned from the National Assembly to concentrate his effort on the upcoming local elections scheduled for 1…
ArchiveExtension of University Education Act, Act No 45 of 1959
… The Act was to provide for the establishment, maintenance, management and control of unoiversity colleges for non-white persons; for the admission of…
18. Narayanan searches for his wife and child
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans … who worked for a Port Shepstone sugar mill, wrote to the Protector on 7 September 1907…
ArchiveA survey of race relations in South Africa: 1954-1955
… and 1955 and includes chapters on: Policies and attitudes; The role of the SA Institute of Race Relations; Joint Councils and study … and powers of…
EventGeneral Gamal Abdel Nasser is officially elected President of Egypt
… was officially elected President of Egypt. He had been the effective leader of Egypt since 14 November 1954 as the Chairman of the Revolutionary Command…
EventSouth African man sets record for world’s deepest dive
… South African engineer, Nuno Gomes, entered the Guinness Book of Records for mankind’s deepest dive ever on 13 June 2005. Gomes’318.25m plunge beat the…
EventANC activists bribe warder and escape from prison
… detainees, Harold Wolpe, a listed Communist arrested on the Bechuanaland border, Arthur Goldreich, caught in the Rivonia raid, Moosa Moolla, accused in the…
EventBruce Fordyce is born
… Bruce Fordyce, legendary South African winner of the Comrades Marathon, was born in Hong Kong, then a city under English administration on the eastern side…
EventSouth African poet Vincent Oliphant is born
… in 1954 in Alicedale, a small town near Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape. His first book of poems, Bloed vloei in … in 1981, and comprised personal poems…
EventDe Klerk announces a referendum to test his political reforms
… de Klerk announced a referendum for 17 March to establish the opinion of White voters towards his political reforms. He … support for multiparty negotiations…
EventArchbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested
… Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a central figure in the fight against apartheid, was arrested outside parliament … while leading a protest march (one of many)…
Simon van der Stel is succeeded by his eldest son
… Simon van der Stel , who became commander of the Cape on 12 October 1679 and was promoted to governor in … van der Stel. Upon his retirement, Simon was one…
EventFormer Cabinet Minister Dullah Omar dies
… up in District Six. After matriculation he enrolled at the University of Cape Town for a BA LLB degree and later … became a lawyer, taking on political…
EventLocal elections receive go
… with legislation that was passed in September by the Constitutional Court, necessitating the holding of elections before December, 1995. The Election Task…
EventCellist and music teacher Betty Pack is born
… youth orchestras, was born in Nylstroom, Transvaal. At the age of 16, she gave her first public performance of the Dvorak cello concert. A year later she was…
EventDynamite explosion in Braamfontein
… One of the worst explosions in the history of South Africa occurred at Braamfontein station, … 3½ days in searing heat, was struck by a shunting train. The…
EventOmar Bongo, former president of Gabon is born
… he was president of Gabon for 41 years, making him one of the longest serving non-monarch rulers in the world. In 1990, under intense pressure from its…