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PlaceEbenezer, Limpopo
… Ebenezer was established in 1831 as a station of the Rhenish Missionary Society . The 1875 census indicated that the Village had a population of 291. It was…
ArchiveCircular from Oliver Schreiner, Deputy Vice-President, NUSAS, to University Principals and others
… General circular from the Deputy Vice-President of the National Union of South African Students. The circular discusses the structure of the National Union …
EventNational Party wins general election
… The National Party under Dr H.F. Verwoerd claimed majority of … before his assassination in office six months later. Of the 166 seats representing the White…
EventSA troops withdraw from Angola
… The South African government withdrew its military forces from Angola that have been fighting on the side of Jonas Savimbi led guerrilla forces UNITA. The…
EventKaunda calls for Thatcher’s exclusion from talks on South African sanctions
… In protest of the system of apartheid, economic sanctions against South Africa had been advocated from the 1960s onwards. However, it was only in the 1980s…
EventAsiatic Law Amendment Act is passed in Transvaal parliament leading to increased Indian protest under MK Gandhi
… In 1906, the Transvaal government promulgated a new Act which enforced registration of the colony's Indian population. At a mass protest meeting … Gandhi…
EventSouth African Defence Force (SADF) attacks a Namibian refugee camp in Cassinga, Angola
… On 4 May 1978, the South African air force flew over Cassinga, allegedly a Namibian refugee camp in Southern Angola. It was the South African Defence Force’s…
PlaceWanderers Cricket Stadium, Johannesburg
… The Wanderers Cricket Stadium was formerly known as Kent … Teams both use it as their Home Grounds. Fondly known as the 'Bullring' because of its…
ArchiveSPRO-CAS Occasional Publication Number 10: So
… Report of the Political Commission of the Study Project on Christianity in Apartheid Society. Content include: The ethical framework; The basic ethical…
EventIvory Coast’s new prime minister, Daniel Kablan Duncan, takes office
… following French colonization, Ivory Coast came under the leadership of Félix Houphouët-Boigny. Known as the father of independence, he had formed the first…
EventKitchener succeeds Roberts as Commander-in-Chief
… 1900 Lord Kitchener succeeded him as Commander-in-Chief of the British forces during the second Anglo Boer War (1989-1902). He received the local rank of…
EventDavid Livingstone “discovers” Lake Nyasa
… most remembered for his exploits as an explorer. In 1858 the British government appointed him British consul at … east and central Africa. He then led an…
PlaceAalwynkop Peak, Mpumalanga
… km West of Balfour and 20 km South-East of Heidelberg, in the Gauteng Province of South Africa . The name is of Afrikaans origin and means 'aloe hillock'…
EventSouth Africa completes destroying its stockpile of anti-personnel mines
… while 18 000 were retained for training purposes. 5 000 of the mines left were live mines and 13 000 were retained to be … to injure personnel or people…
EventRain Queen Makobo Modjadji VI, dies after a sudden illness
… Rain Queen Modjadji VI is a direct descendent of one of the royal houses of Monomotapa, which ruled over the Zimbabwean people in the 15th and 16th century…
EventLaw and Order Minister, Adriaan Vlok implicates De Klerk at TRC
… Adriaan Vlok testifies under oath that while in office, the former president of South Africa, Mr F. W. de Klerk knew of illegal operations by the security…
EventPolice head admits to Khotso House bombing
… Appearing before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission(TRC), General Johan … National Commissioner (1990-1995), admitted that he gave the order in 1988 for…
EventElectrically powered units replaced Johannesburg's horse-drawn trams
… The rapid expansion of Johannesburg after the end of the Second Anglo Boer War increased to over twice it's the …
EventQueen Victoria of Britain approves Charter for Rhodes
… On this date the British Colonial Secretary addressed a dispatch that Queen Victoria has approved a Royal Charter creating the British South Africa Company …
EventEmily Hobhouse is born
… British government policy in South Africa, and visited the country after founding the South African Women and Children Distress Fund to collect money for…
EventFormer SANNC President Sefako Mapogo Makgatho dies
… Sefako Mapogo Makgatho was born at GaMphahlele, in the Pietersburg district in Transvaal (now Limpopo province) in 1861. He was the son of Chief Kgorutlhe…
EventPassbook laws relaxed
… State of Emergency having been declared in June of the same year. To counter the escalating international condemnation that was taking place, the government…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at a Luncheon hosted by Prime Minister Tomichi Murayama Tokyo, 5 July 1995
… in your beautiful country, we have been treated with the kind of hospitality which makes us feel exceptionally … deeply grateful. What must strike any…
PlaceCypress Tea Gardens, Hermanus
… Mystery and romance surround the original building. In those days it consisted of two stone and clay fisherman's cottages built in 1875 in the vernacular…
PlaceGanesha Temple, Mt Edgecombe
… old NMC legislation on 18 February 1977. Believed to be the oldest surviving ‘solid’ temple in Africa and one of the finest examples of temple architecture…
EventThree Zimbabwean intelligence officers stand trial for a bomb attack on an ANC house
… Conjwayo were arrested in Zimbabwe in connection with the bombing that killed the driver of the car transporting the bomb and injured several ANC … Africa…
EventOne-fifth of SA’s military infected with HIV virus, so HIV positive people are no longer accepted into their ranks
… one-fifth of South Africa's military was infected with the HIV virus that causes AIDS. Therefore on 7 October 2003 the Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota stated…
EventBoutros Boutros Ghali, former UN Secretary General, is born
… and was appointed as a Professor in both these fields at the University of Cairo. With an impressive academic career … basis, Ghali started his political…
EventNational Party unveils its policy plan focusing on anti-poverty strategies
… Following the National Party (NP)'s first federal congress since its withdrawal from the Government of National Unity (GNU), its policy plan was … unveiled…
EventJournalist and anti-apartheid activist M.P. Naicker dies
… anti-apartheid activist, and Director of Publicity of the African National Congress (ANC) External Mission, Marimuthu Pragalathan Naicker (M.P.) died at the…