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Rally to commemorate Joseph Sithole’s funeral
… On 23 September 1984 the apartheid regime banned the funeral of the late Joseph Sithole. Nonetheless, activists in the …
EventSelassie returns to Ethiopia after attempted coup
… a short successful coup launched on 13 December 1960 by the Imperial Bodyguard, the police chief and some radical intellectuals. Selassie was in Brazil on a…
EventDefence minister Mosioua Lekota born
… The second Black minister of defence, Mosiuoa Gerard Patrick Lekota is born in Kroonstad, Free State (the former Orange Free State). Lekota is commonly known…
EventUS Senator Edward Kennedy visits SA
… In January, Senator Edward Kennedy of the United States visited South Africa to show his anti-apartheid support to the South African people. He was hosted by…
EventSiamese twins are separated in Cape Town
… Siamese twins have successfully been separated in the Red Cross Children's Hospital in Cape Town. The operation, which was conducted by surgeon Syd Cywes,…
EventBritish troopship wrecked – 372 drown
… The British troopship Arniston was wrecked on the rocks at what is now called Arniston in Marcus Bay, about twenty-five kilometres from Cape Agulhas. Of the…
9 Ships run ashore in Table Bay
… and 208 lives lost in Table Bay during a severe gale at the Cape, proving again that the Cape was quite aptly called 'Cape of Storms' (Cabo das Tormentas) by…
EventFormer IFP chairman Jiyane register Nadeco with IEC
… chairman, Ziba Jiyane, registerd a new political party, the National Democratic Convention (Nadeco), with the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC). His…
EventPresident Paul Kruger in an appeasement move
… In an effort to solve the 'Uitlander' grievances regarding voting rights, President Paul Kruger of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR) (South African … for…
Place'Angra das Vaccas', Mossel Bay
… Inlet on the Coast of the Indian Ocean, South-West of Mossel Bay. Old name for … Caerden. Portuguese for 'bay of cows', thus named after the cows the…
EventAcclaimed South African poet Sheila Cussons dies
… was born on 9 August 1922 in Moravia, near Piketberg in the Cape Province. Cussons matriculated at the HoÁƒÂƒÂ«r Meisieskool Pretoria before going on to…
PlaceAddington, Township of Durban
… Township in Durban, North of the Point and West of the Beachfront. It was laid out by the Natal Government and gives its name to the renowned, … Township in…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church and Parsonage, Three Anchor Bay
… The church building was officially opened by Dr Andrew Murray … on 9 July 1879. Eight months later, on 10 March 1880, the congregation seceded from the…
PlaceWestoe, Westoe Road, Mowbray
… The property was originally granted to Francois Pieter de Necker in 1785 and formed part of the Farm Coornhoop. The House, Built in a Cape Dutch style and…
New Khoisan name for Cape Town, 25 June 2012
… will probably have difficulty getting their tongue around the Mother City’s new name: //Hui !Gaeb. This Khoisan word means “where the clouds gather”,…
EventWalter Sisulu’s appeal is dismissed
… The Transvaal section of the Supreme Court dismissed an appeal by the African National Congress (ANC) Secretary-General Walter … 37/1963 and charged with…
EventGraça Machel is born
… reconciliation in her country she became Chairperson of the National Organization of Children of Mozambique. The organization placed orphans in village homes…
EventFour Indian leaders are sentenced under Terrorism Act
… At the end of a lengthy trial in the Supreme Court in Pretoria, four Indian leaders are convicted of conspiracy under the Terrorism Act and sentenced to a…
EventMinister of Defence, PW Botha discloses that South Africa’s northern borders are protected by a radar early warning system
… complex constituting an early warning system, and that the entire coastline was to be covered by the Decca navigational system costing $8.4m The statement by…
EventNelson Mandela says general strike will go ahead
… that next week's general strike will go ahead. He says the aim of the mass protest was not an insurrection, but the peaceful removal of President F W De…
EventSASOL plant explodes again
… The SASOL petrol plant in Secunda, Mpumalanga Province, went … or sabotage but rather from a gas leak which ignited. The explosion claimed the lives of six…
PlaceCoerney, Port Elizabeth
… and Railway station 64 km North of Port Elizabeth, on the route to Rosmead, situated in the Sundays River Valley in Sarah Bartman District Municipality and…
PlaceCyphergat Station
… The village of Cyphergat was the headquarters of the Cyphergat Coal Mining Co (Ltd). The railway line linking Sterkstroom to Stormberg Junction …
EventWorld Press Freedom Day
… Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation), the objective of World Press Freedom Day is “to evaluate press freedom around the world, to defend the…
EventBoer negotiators travelled from Vereeniging to Pretoria to present their proposals
… They were still asking for a continued independence of the Boer republics. This happened towards the end of the Anglo-Boer War II which broke out in October…
EventInternational Day of Families.
… The International Day of Families was proclaimed by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in 1993, as a day to … day is celebrated on 15 May every year.It…
EventOrlando Pirates captain and goalkeeper, Senzo Meyiwa dies
… and captain was shot dead by two armed men who entered the house in Vosloorus township, near Johannesburg,where he was at the time of the tragedy. Meyiwa was…
Coloured by History, Shaped by Place - New perspectives on Coloured Identities in Cape Town
… This book examines-and plays with the boundaries of-the disconcerting, discomfiting meanings that have grown … while refusing to erase their complexity and…
EventANC revolutionary propaganda leaflets exploded in Cape Town, Johannesburg, and Durban
… revolutionary propaganda leaflets was found by a member of the public. At the Grand Parade, Cape Town, an explosion sent hundreds of ANC pamphlets into the…
Foreword, By Nelson Mandela
… speeches of Dr Monty Naicker is an invaluable chapter in the history of our struggle for liberation. Monty, as we all … man with sufficient political…