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PlacePhoenix Settlement and Gandhi Trail
… The Phoenix Settlement comprised of 100 acres of land and was … in Durban South Africa in 1903 and in 1904 he moved the entire press to Phoenix Settlement…
EventFive American nuns are shot to death in Liberia
… Liberia was 'founded' by the American Colonisation Society (ACS) in 1822 and was to serve as the home of freed slaves from the United States. Although…
PlaceAlicedale a Village in Albany District
… A Village in the Albany District, some 42 km West of Grahamstown. Named after Alice Slessor, wife of the engineer who constructed the railway. Its Xhosa…
EventAn American Jet is shot down in Ethiopia
… Aircraft was shot to ground by Ethiopian military forces. The incident claimed the life of the two occupants of the Jet. The plane was en route from …
PlaceBertrams, Johannesburg
… Robertson Fuller Bertram, a property Developer who bought the area in 1889; the Suburb is the Oldest in Johannesburg. Bertrams characterises the …
Giyani, Polokwane
… 550 kilometres north east of Johannesburg you will find the little happening town of Giyani, a popular town in the heart of Bushveld country in the western…
EventNavanethem (Navi) Pillay is born
… Navanethem (Navi) Pillay, the United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights … on 23 September 1941 in Clairwood, Durban . She went to the University…
EventImperial German Forces forced to unconditional surrender by Union of South Africa Forces during World War I
… On 9 July 1915 the Imperial German Forces officially surrendered to General Louis Botha’s troops at the Khorab Memorial. This followed the outbreak of the…
EventAn international measure is adopted in Antwerp to block rebel groups from trading conflict diamonds
… The sale of diamonds in some African countries has been linked to the funding of African rebel groups, which have in turn … most vicious civil wars. These…
EventRenewal of land acquisition programme in Zimbabwe
… acquisition programme in Zimbabwe. Through this programme the government was not going to compensate the predominantly White commercial farmers for the land…
EventBambatha Rebellion
… The Bambatha Rebellion took place near Greytown in KwaZulu-Natal. The first signs of discontent started at the end of 1905, when government introduced a new …
PlaceSteve Biko Bridge, East London
… Bridge across the Second Creek, East London, West of Buffalo Harbour. Named … John Vorster, 1915-1983. Former Prime Minister of the Republic of South Africa,…
EventAPLA burns down farm house in Fouriesburg
… The Pan Africanist Congress 's military wing, the Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA) burnt down the farm house of Edmund Middleton of Fouriesburg on 10 …
EventCODESA 1 convenes in Johannesburg
… Twenty years ago, one of the most significant events in the history of South Africa, described by many as tension-driven and known as the Convention for a…
EventInkatha becomes a political party
… The Inkatha National Cultural Liberation Movement, founded on 21 March 1975, was transformed into the multi-racial Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) at a special…
EventA consumer boycott is called in Boksburg
… The town councils of Vosloorus and Reiger Park staged a consumer boycott in Boksburg on the East Rand (now Ekurhuleni municipality, Gauteng). The boycott, by…
EventNatal Law society apologises to Gandhi
… The Natal Law Society has apologised posthumously to passive … Gandhi, 105 years after a racist decision barred the young lawyer from practising. In 1894…
EventMagnus Malan’s trial ends
… The seven-month trial of former Minister of Defence Magnus … other officials were cleared of all charges relating to the murder of thirteen people in…
EventAngolan government signs peace treaty with UNITA
… The Angolan government under President Jose Eduardo dos Santos and the rebel organisation, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola …
International Council for Traditional Music
… Call for Proposals: 2nd Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on African Musics (Updated on 29 June 2017) The International Council for Traditional Music Study…
Nomzamo Winnie Madikizela-Mandela on Fatima Meer
… Every time I land at Durban Airport, I am haunted by the memory of Fatima Meer – my dearest friend, sister and … No words seem eloquent enough to describe…
EventBarend Strydom kills 8 People in Pretoria
… and stopped by Simon Mukondoleli, a taxi driver working in the legislative capital. Strydom claimed to be the head of a white supremacist group called the …
EventUmkhonto we Sizwe bombs Church Street, Pretoria
… Street, Pretoria, in 1983, when Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of the African National Congress, detonated a large mortar bomb outside the Nedbank…
ArchiveInterview with Lybon Tiyani Mabasa
… Interview with Lybon Tiyani Mabasa, a leader in the Azanian People's Organisation (AZAPO) at the time of this interview, was born in 1952 and graduated ……
EventVanessa Brereton, former human rights lawyer, admits that she was an Apartheid spy
… lawyer in South Africa, taking on high profile cases under the Apartheid regime. When the African National Congress (ANC) was unbanned in 1990, she was…
EventNelson Rolihlahla Mandela passed away
… The 5th of December marks the anniversary of the death of revolutionary anti-Apartheid liberation leader, … on 18 July 1918, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela is…
PlaceAlbasini Dam, Limpopo
… Dam at the foot of the Soutpansberg Mountain Range. Named after Joao Albasini who lived from 1813 to 1885. He was the first European Settler in the Lowveld…
EventUN Secretary-General Hammerskjöld arrives in Congo
… Dag Hammerskjöld, secretary-general of the United Nations (UN), arrived in the Congo to try to end the civil war. Hammerskjöld became involved in attempts to…
EventAbolition of Racially Based Land Measures Act is adopted
… The South African parliament under President F.W. de Klerk adopted the Abolition of Racially Based Land Measures Act 108 of 1991, which scrapped the…
EventFrance tests an atomic bomb in Algeria
… its first nuclear bomb test at Reganne, Algeria , in the Sahara desert. At the time, Algeria was under French control. The test, code named Gerboise Bleue,…