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EventRamzi Yousef, alleged mastermind of World Trade centre bombing goes on trial
… Pakistani descent. Yousef was later suspected to be one of the planners of the 1993 World Trade Centre bombing. He was later arrested by Pakistani Inter…
EventSA artist, Dumisani Mabaso is born
… From childhood until 1974 he received art education at the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) in Dube, and also for 2 years studied art at the Mofolo…
EventRobert Sobukwe, first PAC president, dies
… Founder and first president of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) , Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe (54), passed away in the Kimberley General Hospital between…
EventBantu Holomisa is dismissed
… Environment and Tourism Minister after revealing that the African National Congress (ANC), received a sum of R2 million from former Prime Minister of the…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.3 No.1 Feb 1980
… Contributors To Kill a Man's Pride by Mtutuzeli Matshoba, The Poet in Love by Nape 'a Motana, The Slumbering Spirit by Jayapraga Reddy, Two Dimensional by ……
EventGerard Bhengu SA artist, is born in Natal
… wide attention from a largely white patronage. Despite the support of some of these patrons, he was ultimately … was a virtual outcast in terms of his own…
EventNelson Mandela’s son, Thembekile is killed in a car accident
… Thembekile “Thembi” Mandela, the eldest son of Nelson Mandela and Evelyn Mase was killed … inmates was filled with anguish at not being allowed by the…
EventSouth African Press Association is established
… The South African Press Association (SAPA) was established as … in 1938 by South Africa's major newspapers to facilitate the sharing of news, both national…
EventLesotho and Swaziland threatened with sanctions
… The government of South Africa threatened Lesotho and … and international trade security. Although in support of the banned liberation movement, they could…
EventPrime Minister Botha visits Soweto
… Premier P.W. Botha became the first South African prime minister to visit Soweto. His visit included talks with the Soweto Community Council during which he…
EventAfrikaans Writer Breytenbach is sentenced
… to nine years imprisonment for high treason under the Terrorism Act by the Pretoria Supreme Court. He had pleaded guilty for … group fighting apartheid in…
EventSA is blamed for Harare bombing
… countries, Zimbabwe had had a longer relationship with the African National Congress (ANC) military wing. South … African covert forces were suspected of…
EventFirst Black Test cricket captain in SA is announced
… as South Africa's first Black Test cricket captain to lead the Protea team in Sri Lanka. This announcement was made by … South Africa (CSA) after Graeme…
EventOlivia Forsyth takes refuge in British embassy in Luanda
… Olivia Forsyth escaped from her guards and took refuge in the British embassy in Luanda. She was a self-confessed SA spy of the security police in the…
EventRiaan Cruywagen was born on this day
… a journalist in 1965 when he started working part time at the SABC in Cape Town. He is best known for his role as a news Anchor for the SABC Afrikaans news…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.6 No.3 1986
… Contents and Contributors Stories: The Masquerade Ball by Temba Makunga; Weak of Faith by J.V. Pillay; Coffee for the Road by Alex La Guma; Hide Them Under…
50 years of forced removals under apartheid
… & to bring banners with their communities' names on them. The programme will end with speeches, performances and music. The aim of this occasion is to create…
PlaceDe Beers Building, 88 St Georges Street, Simonstown
… owned by Cecil Rhodes. From 1903 to 1921 it was used by the company's successor, the Imperial Cold Storage & Supply Co., who then sold it to the Standard…
EventEmperor Menelik II, emperor of Ethiopia dies
… 1913. Menelik gained great fame and respect for defeating the Italian colonizers. He was also the first black African King to engage in slavery of white ……
EventUN committee is barred to enter SA
… of eight, with instructions to investigate conditions in the Mandated Territory of South Africa, was refused … permission to enter South-West Africa (now…
EventNigeria imposes sanctions on South Africa, and implements a total trade boycott
… ban all imports from South Africa, and was reportedly in the process of refusing facilities for South African … Trade sanctions and boycotts aimed to put…
EventUN Special Envoy visits SA
… Following the unanimous adoption of resolution 765 by the UN Security Council, Cyrus Vance was dispatched to South Africa as Special Representative of the UN…
EventUpington 14 are sentenced
… down death sentences on fourteen Blacks (Upington 14) for the murder of Lucas Tshenolo Sethwala, a Black police … attacking his home with stones on 13…
EventEgyptian women files divorce under new law
… Thirty-two year old Egyptian women, Waffa Mossaad Gabr, was the first to file for divorce under a new and highly opposed … require women to prove physical or…
EventFerdi Barnard is found guilty of killing Webster
… On 1 June 1998, Ferdi Bernard was convicted for the murder of anti-Apartheid activist, David Webster. Bernard … 1989, in front his home. Bernard was also…
EventLegal action against election results
… The Minister of Local Government in Kwazulu-Natal applied to the Supreme Court to have voting in four rural areas declared … about administrative chaos and…
EventAlgerian terrorist, Abdelhamid Abou Zeid dies
… in Algeria. He was an Islamist militant who became one of the top three military commanders of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), a Mali-based militant…
EventSA Artist, Andries Johannes Botha, is born in Durban
… on 22 September 1952 in Durban. He studied Fine Arts at the University Of KwaZulu-Natal and later went on to teach the subject at Techinkon Natal. He…
EventJohannes Kerkorrel, Afrikaans singer and songwriter, is born in Johannesburg
… in Johannesburg, on 27 March 1960. He started singing in the late 1980s while working for the conservative Afrikaner newspaper Rapport. He was later fired…
EventGuinea-Bissau is granted independence
… Guine Portuguesa, was granted independence by Portugal. The country became independent eight months after the death of the leader of, Portuguese for African…