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EventIvorian Footballer Didier Zokora is born in Abidjan, Ivory Coast
… moving to Turkish side, Trabzonspor. He has been part of the Ivorian national team for the past twelve years. Zokora is therefore part of the Ivorian team…
EventNigerian political campaigner, women’s rights activist and traditional aristocrat, Funmilayo Ransome Kuti is born
… members that comprised of literate and illiterate women. The organisation was thrust into the public eye when it organised a rally of women against price…
EventMark Thatcher arrested
… Mark Thatcher, the son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher … attempt in Equatorial Guinea. He was released later in the day on R2 million bail…
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…
Africa in Today’s World by Max Coleman - Book Launch
… This book by the distinguished Anti Apartheid activist Max Coleman is about the Cycle of Life: From birth, survival to development in Africa to-day against…
PlaceMea Vota, Rissik Street, Sunnyside, Pretoria
… Westenberg and C van der Made, both engineers employed by the Netherelands-South Africa Railway Co, for their own occupation. It is one of the last remaining…
PlaceSettler Houses, 10-12 Castle Hill, Port Elizabeth
… The two buildings, originally owned by Police Constable Sterley, date from about 1840, and together with the adjacent house at 7 Castle Hill, are typical…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Jeppetown, Johannesburg
… The foundation stone of this building was laid on 5 May 1906 by General Koos de la Rey, and the church was officially consecrated on 26 January 1907. It is…
EventKwame Nkrumah orders release of political prisoners
… Coast), a leading exponent of Pan-Africanism , ordered the release of the last of his political prisoners, detained under the Preventive Detention Act of…
EventA Cape Passive Resistance Council is formed
… The Cape Passive Resistance Council was formed at a mass meeting in Cape Town, attended by 1 500 people. Among the first people to volunteer were African…
EventSouth African artist Michael Zondi is born
… Msinga in Greytown , Natal. He was trained in woodwork at the Swedish Lutheran Mission Trade School, and obtained … in building construction and design. He…
EventState Security Council Approves Cross
… The State Security Council (SSC) approves guidelines for the conducting of military operations against liberation movements in foreign countries. The…
EventSouth Africa signs CITES treaty on international trade in endangered species of wild flora and fauna
… South Africa was a founding member of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species in Wild Fauna and Flora, known as the CITES Treaty. This…
EventCOMSA calls on SA to move towards election
… In a first-phase report, the Commonwealth Observer Mission to South Africa (COMSA), … that based on its homicide rate, this country was one of the most…
EventMerenstejin Sinks
… The Merenstejin, (or Merenstein as it is now spelled) a Dutch … passenger capacity of 315, is wrecked off Jutten Island on the West Cape coast. It sunk with…
EventJoyce Kgoali dies
… The Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces (NCOP), Joyce Kgoali, … was also a National Executive Committee (NEC) member of the African National…