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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…
PlaceBeestekraal, North West
… Station and Post Office, North of Brits. It was given the name in 1837 by the Voortrekkers under Andries Potgieter because here they came upon a number of …
ArchiveDokumente van belang
… List of documents found by the South African Police at Plot No 9, Travallyn, in the district of Krugersdorp on 8 July 1963 and on "Liliiesleaf" Farm in…
PlaceGlenara, Burg Street, Rondebosch
… impressive Victorian double-storeyed house was designed by the architect AW Ackerman, and built by one Mannix for Louis Antony Vintsent in 1882-3. The…
PlaceHorse Memorial, junction of Cape and Russell Roads, Port Elizabeth
… The memorial, designed by Joseph Whitehead and cast in bronze by the Thames Dillon Works, in Surrey, was unveiled on 11 February 1905 by the mayor of Port…
PlaceRheingold Building, Market Street, Polokwane
… The building was erected in about 1910 by H Moschke to house … with a number of Victorian architectural details and is the only building of its kind in the…
EventA full scale police search, headed by a specially trained anti-terrorist unit is launched
… west of Louis Trichardt, Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo). The shoot-out happened at the height of the struggle against apartheid, with political…
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…
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…
EventThami Mnyele, SA artist and member of MK, is killed in Gaborone
… becoming exiled in Botswana. He became very active in the African National Congress’ (ANC) military wing Umkhonto … outside his home in Gaborone. He was due…
Steve Biko National Conference 2014
… in One Azania a Myth? Prof Saths Cooper President of the IUPsyS and VP of the International Social Sciences Council The need for a humane and ethical guiding…
Eventold Indian flower seller is fined for trading in a racially restricted area
… seller was fined R24 or 60 days in prison for breaking the municipal by-laws. The young man was charged on 29 counts for resisting moving … area in Rosebank…
EventSA artist Anthony Nkotsi is born
… Anthony Molebatsi Nkotsi, South African artist and the head of the Printmaking Department in 1988 at the Johannesburg Art Foundation, was born in…
EventGeneral Motors fails to leave RSA quietly
… General Motors (GM), the American owned automobile industry in South Africa, pulled out of the country amidst a series of disputes and strikes from workers…
EventSA TV Producer reported killed in Air crash
… producer, was reported killed in a plane crash in Nigeria the previous night while on assignment for Africa Report. The twin-engine Boeing 737 left Murtala…
EventEvidence found at Barberton confirms theory of life on earth as early as about 3.4 billion years ago
… and Professor Donald R. Lowe of Stanford University in the United States, assisted locally by South African … sedimentary rock at Barberton, Mpumalanga. The…
EventGlaxoSmithKline to reduce AIDS drugs price
… Britain's GlaxoSmithKline PLC, the world's largest producer of AIDS drugs, announced it would reduce the price of its popular AIDS medication. Combivir, a…
EventLouis Hayward, South African–American Actor dies.
… started landing leading roles. He starred in films such as The man in the iron mask and The Son of Monte Cristo. Sadly, his career started to decline …