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EventOlympic games end in Athens
… The International Olympic games, which were held in Athens, … came to an end with a spectacular closing ceremony. The evening was started off with Greek…
EventPresident Thabo Mbeki is inaugurated at Union Buildings
… After the African National Congress (ANC) registered a landslide victory in the 1999 general elections, Thabo Mbeki, who had replaced Nelson Mandela as the…
EventTwo ANC members gunned down in Swaziland.
… in Swaziland. They had both formerly been students at the Swaziland University and were Mbabane hospital employees. … that a well informed policeman from…
EventLucas Mangope leaves Mmabatho due to uprising
… President Lucas Mangope, the leader of the apartheid homeland Bophuthatswana, retreated from the capital, Mmabatho, in the face of a popular uprising …
EventANC and IFP to meet over violence
… The African National Congress (ANC) and Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) announced that they would hold a meeting of the two parties in Durban, in an attempt to…
EventMalebane Metsing stages a coup in Bophuthatswana
… A dissatisfied faction of the Bophuthatswana Defence Force and some members of the National Executive Committee of the People's Progressive Party, led by…
EventMozambique and Soviet Union reject Margo Commission’s finding
… Mozambique and the Soviet Union rejected the findings of the Margo Commission, led by Justice Cecil Margo. The …
EventANC, COSATU and SACTU issues a joint statement in Lusaka
… The South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU), the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and the African National Congress (ANC) issued a…
EventANC claim responsibility for a land mine explosion which kills six
… and three seriously injured in a landmine explosion on the fenced-in Chatsworth game farm 25 kilometres to the west of Messina (now Musina), Northern…
EventNP demands apology from TRC
… In a letter to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), lawyers for the National Party (NP) demand an unconditional apology from chairman Archbishop…
EventAdriaan Vlok applies for amnesty
… era Minister of Law and Order, Adriaan Vlok, applied to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) for amnesty for his role in the bombing of a trade…
EventNatal Football Union founded
… The Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 and the subsequent war with the South African Republics brought a new influx of Whites to …
EventMakapane’s Cave is under siege
… The nearly month-long siege of Makapane's Cave took place after warriors of the Ndebele chief Makapan (Makapane) massacred … at Moorddrift in northern…
Event270 workers charged with Marikana Massacre
… 2012, two hundred and seventy workers were charged with the murder of their collegues. The charges were connected with the fateful event that took place on…
Photography David Goldblatt by Sean Jacobs, 1 September 2009
… communications at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and a new media consultant to news and photo organizations) reviews the exhibition …
Citizenship and Justice: rethinking Political Theory and Political Philosophy
… A project of the Centre for Humanities Research, the Dept. of Political Studies and the Dept. of Philosophy, UWC invites you to a Reading Group …
EventThemba Sono is expelled from SASO
… Themba Sono was forced to resign as president of the South African Student Organisation (SASO) before he was expelled from the organisation during the second…
EventNotorious role of Ferdi Barnard is disclosed
… After the Goldstone Commission's first disclosure of the complicity of elements of the South African Defence Force (SADF) in violence in South …
EventMohandas K. Gandhi is arrested as he leads a march of Indian miners in South Africa
… in 1893, Mohandas Gandhi had first -hand experience of the discrimination faced by people of colour. His response to this was the establishment of the Natal…
EventHaile Selassie, deposed Ethiopian emperor, dies
… Haile Selassie was born Lij Tafari Makonnen, in the village of Ejersa Gor, in the Harar Province of Ethiopia. Heir to a 13th century dynasty, he ascended to…
PlaceGazebo, Civic Square
… The elegant gazebo in the Civic Square was built in 1924. It was the home of a coach magnate, Doel Zeederberg, who established the first passenger stage…
Imijondolo
… Published in 1985, Imijondolo, (the isi Zulu word for a shack or informal housing), is Omar … book documents how radically different life in the settlement…
EventA car bomb explodes at Ellis Park Rugby Stadium
… remote control outside Ellis Park Stadium in Johannesburg. The detonation occurred directly after a Free State - Transvaal rugby game. Two spectators were…
ANC`s urgent court application in view of DA march, 12 February 2014
… The African National Congress will submit its protection … application to afford its staff, members, its assets and the public at large protection against a…
EventSouth African historian Charles van Onselen is born.
… Charles van Onselen was born on 14 August 1944, in the South African town of Boksburg, Gauteng (then Transvaal).[i] van Onselen has become one of the most…
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.3 No.1 Oct-Dec 1958
… The Pattern of Betrayal. Cartoon, David Marias. An Open Letter to the United Nations, Paramount Chief of the Hereros. South West Africa and the United…
PlaceGeorge Division
… The district of George was originally part of the district of Swellendam, and was proclaimed a separate district on 23 April 1811. Over the next 66 years…
PlaceGeorge Harrison Park
… George Harrison and the history of Johannesburg are closely bound together: it … first found gold in 1886, a discovery that gave rise to the largest and most…
EventPrime Minister opens SA's first atomic reactor
… The former Prime Minister of South Africa and apartheid … at Pelindaba, about thirty kilometres West of Pretoria. The installation was not intended for the…
EventCurnick Ndlovu, Trade Unionist, is arrested.
… Curnick Ndlovu was the secretary of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) and a member of the African National Congress (ANC). He was a leader…