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PlaceMill House and Water Mill, farm Naauwpoort, District of Marico
… Click on image to enlarge The mill was probably erected during the early 20th century. Its water wheel and cast-iron … machinery drove a set of millstones,…
EventAbram Fischer fails to arrive in court
… Abram Fischer, Q.C., standing trial under the Suppression of Communism Act, fails to arrive in court, … for conspiring to commit sabotage and being a member…
EventWalter Sisulu convicted of inciting protest
… Former secretary-general of the African National Congress (ANC), Walter Sisulu, was … incited a stay-at-home of African workers in protest of the Republic of…
EventWalter Sisulu acts against Sophiatown forced removals
… member Walter Sisulu acted as speaker at a meeting of the organisation held in Sophiatown, Johannesburg. This was in defiance of the forced removal of Blacks…
EventCedric Mayson is charged with treason
… in 1977 and detained on 27 November 1981, appeared before the Pretoria Supreme Court on charges including treason and being a member or an active supporter…
EventVorster appoints a Commission of Inquiry
… Inquiry under chairmanship of Justice H. J. Potgieter of The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court to investigate South Africa's security … to its security…
EventMedicines Control Council threatens to de-register Nevirapine
… The Medicines Control Council (MCC) threatens to de-register … and appropriate documentation can show its efficacy in the prevention of mother to child…
EventCOSATU withdraws from parliamentary session on budget
… The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) walked out of a parliamentary budget session on the grounds that its view was being ignored. COSATU had ……
EventMobutu Sese Seko dies
… cancer while in Rabat, Morocco, three months after the end of his nearly 32-year reign. Sese Seko was exiled to … was ousted from power by Laurent Kabila's…
EventPrime Minister of Transkei George Matanzima is born
… younger brother of Kaiser Matanzima and prime minister of the Transkei in 1979 and 1987, was born in Qamata, Transkei. The government of the Transkei…
EventFirst Black-owned newspaper is published
… The first Black South African newspaper, Imvo Zabantsundu (Opinion of the People), was published by Thanda Press in King William's … was Tengo Jabavu, well…
EventBaden Powell is born in London, England
… Lord Robert Stephenson Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scout movement in 1908 and British hero at the siege of Mafeking, is born in Paddington, London. ……
EventBotswana gains independence from Britain
… independence from Britain on 30 September 1966 under the leadership of Seretse Khama. Khama was elected president by the National Assembly in 1966 and then…
Part 3: Ahmed Kathrada and Arun Gandhi - Gandhi Satyagraha Tour SA
… and edit by Lynnea Bylund . Recorded on 9 June 2014 at the Nelson Mandela Foundation, Johannesburg, during the inaugural Gandhi Satyagraha Tour of South…
EventOlive Schreiner, noted SA author, dies in Wynberg, Cape Town
… though written over a century ago, seem to have predicted the modern day South Africa. Her first book about the story of an African farm became a sensation…
ArchiveInterview with Potlako Kitchener Leballo
… in Nairoi, with P. K. Leballo (1924-1986) a leader in the Africanist movement and later in the Pan Africanist Congress, serving as its secretary general ……
ArchiveBolt Number 12 July 1975
… Whither Now and other pieces, Mothobi Mutloatse; Winter, the Women and the Man, Jeremy Gordin; kaiser’s bus, Shabbir Banoobhai; Sigameko (an extract from the…
PlaceHillside House, 14 Bird Street, Port Elizabeth
… The property was originally granted to George Daniel Diesel in 1824. The building was presumably erected after that date and is … Port Elizabeth citizens,…
PlaceGold Reef City
… Gold Reef City is a re-creation of turn-of-the-century Johannesburg, which was flooded by prospectors after the discovery of gold in 1886. With its Victorian…
EventIt is announced in Rawalpindi that Pakistan has decided to cut ties with South Africa
… It was announced in Rawalpindi, Pakistan that the government of Pakistan has decided to ban all exports … been refused to South African aircraft in Pakistan…
EventArtist Allina Ndebele is born
… spin, dye and weave, was born at Ekuhlengeni mission on the Swart Mfolozi near Vryheid, Natal. On 27 September 2005, president Thabo Mbeki bestowed the Order…
EventPik Botha is appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs
… Pik Botha, South African ambassador in the United States of America (USA), returns to South Africa … as Minister of Foreign Affairs. Botha entered into the…
EventProminent leaders are arrested in Uganda
… The Most Reverend Janani Luwum, Anglican archbishop of … together with two government ministers, were arrested on the charge of an alleged plot to overthrow…
EventPik Botha visits Soviet Union
… South African foreign minister, Pik Botha, visits the Soviet Union, where he re-established consular relations which had been severed in 1956. Though the…
EventMinister Kobie Coetsee on meeting between Botha and Mandela
… support for peaceful development in South Africa. However, the document which Mandela gave to Botha prior to the meeting suggested otherwise, hence he…
EventFirst Black US ambassador is sent to South Africa
… Former Director of the Office of West African Affairs and Ambassador to Liberia, Edward Perkins, was appointed as the first black American ambassador to…
EventNoby Ngombane is murdered
… Noby Ngombane, 38, head of the Free State government's policy monitoring and evaluation unit in the premier's office, was shot dead at his house in…
EventBishop Zulu is born
… Zululand and Swaziland was born in Nquthu, Natal. He was the only son of Johannes and Miriam Kolo Zulu and was a member of the Zulu Royal Dynasty. In the…
EventEsther Franks, physician and first woman ophthalmic surgeon to practise in SA, is born in Zurich
… came to SA shortly after her birth. She was a pioneer in the fight against blindness. In 1971 she was adjudged Woman of the Year by the readers of The Star…
EventChoirmaster, educator and singer Mary Eveline Fincken is born
… Africa in 1908 for health reasons. Fincken was one of the first staff members at the South African College of Music in Cape Town. On her death in 1955 she…