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EventSA artist, Bongiwe Dhlomo, is born
… Certificate at Inanda Seminary. After working two years in the personnel department at the Tongaat Sugar Company, she studied printmaking at the Evangelical…
EventPolitical activist Molly Blackburn is born
… In 1981 she started her political career by winning the Provincial Council seat of Walmer, Port Elizabeth, for the Progressive Federal Party (PFP). A year…
EventP.W. Botha and Kenneth Kaunda in a historic meeting
… President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia met the Prime Minister, P.W. Botha, in a mobile home that had been set down in the middle of the African bush across South…
EventA Whites-only referendum in SWA gives a support on Black majority.
… overwhelming support for plans for Black majority rule in the country. Out of the total White population of 99,000, fifty-two thousand of them voted yes on…
EventKhotso House is bombed
… The South African Council of Churches (SACC) headquarters, … at Congress of South African Trade Union (COSATU) House. The Khotso House blast, which resulted…
EventBishop Tutu receives Martin Luther King Award
… Bishop Desmond Tutu received the Martin Luther King Jr Award for Non-Violence for his commitment and role during the struggle against apartheid in 1986…
PlaceAliwal Shoal, a Rocky Reef Off; Kwa-Zulu Natal Coast Coast
… The Aliwal Shoal is a rocky Reef which is the remains of an ancient sand dune, approximately 5 kilometres off the Coast of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The…
EventDiplomatic ties are established between SA and Saudi Arabia
… On 29 May 1994 the South African government signed an agreement establishing diplomatic relations with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The diplomatic relations…
PlaceBakone Malapa Northern Sotho Open-Air Museum, in Polokwane
… Experience the warm hospitality and rich Culture of the Basotho people in the 'Bakone Malapa Museum'. The Bakone, a sub-group of the … https://www.sa-venues…
EventPoqo members arrested
… Armed Poqo members were intercepted by the police while on their way to assassinate Chief Kaiser Matanzima. An armed clash between the police and Poqo…
EventPrime Minister P.W. Botha announces Ciskei will become independent on 4 December 1981
… The homeland known as Ciskei, between the Fish and the Kei River, was created between 1961 and 1982 by the then …
EventWorld Health Organization publishes indictment of apartheid
… The system of Apartheid was not only detrimental to the cultural, economic and emotional wellbeing of those on whom it was imposed , but also on the physical…
EventCODESA’s starting date set
… after preparatory talks in Johannesburg on a date for the start of substantive negotiations on South Africa's … in Johannesburg was going to be on December…
EventBritish troops establish their camp at Isandlwana
… On 19 and 20 January the British forces under Lord Chelmsford, who had invaded Zululand during the second week of January, established their camp on the…
EventSA jazz singer, Letta Mbulu is born in Soweto
… born in Soweto on 23 August 1942. As a teenager she joined the cast of the play King Kong and toured the US with other artists like Miriam Makeba and Hugh …
Descom Bulletin
… Neil Aggett, a Trade Unionist and Medical Doctor became the first white political prisoner to die in the detention under the custody of the security police…
EventOldest part of Johannesburg, Marshalltown, is planned
… up a plan for a new residential area for Johannesburg. The plan was laid out in October 1886. Among the street names were Commissioner, Troye, Ferreira,…
ANC NDC moves hearing venue to another location, 6 September 2011
… The African National Congress (ANC) National Disciplinary Committee (NDC) following the disruption last week of businesses situated around ANC … Chief…
EventArmed Policemen appeared at Langa funeral service
… On 8 June 1986 chaos erupted during the funeral service of Mr Thamsanqa, an activist who died of natural causes inside the Methodist Church in Langa. The…
Searchlight South Africa: a Marxist journal of South African Studies
… him in collaboration with other exiles and comrades from the revolutionary socialist movement. He was certainly, the moving force behind this privately…
EventMK operatives, Jerry Mosolodi, Terry Mogoerane and Thabo Motaung are executed
… for their part in a hit on Wonderboom police station. The ANC declared the execution a crime against humanity and defended the attack on the police station…
EventNelson Mandela is acquitted of high treason
… Nelson Mandela, leader of the Transvaal branch of the African National Congress (ANC), was acquitted of treason … charges after a four year long trial…
EventVaal Triangle erupts in violence
… Evaton, Sebokeng and Sharpeville, five Black townships in the area known as the Vaal Triangle exploded into what some have described as a 'smouldering human…
EventPresident FW de Klerk tells Parliament that South Africa had constructed six nuclear fission devices
… 1993; South African President F.W. de Klerk announced the existence of a South African nuclear programme as well as the fact that the Apartheid regime had…
EventGoldstone report on police shootings in Sebokeng is released
… The report of the inquiry, led by Justice Richard Goldstone, into the shooting by the police of anti-Apartheid protesters in the township of …
EventRamaphosa and Motlatsi are arrested
… First general secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), Cyril Ramaphosa, and … James Motlatsi, were arrested in Newcastle, Natal. The two men and…
EventDurban mass meeting endorses Smuts and Gandhi agreement
… An Indian mass meeting in Durban unanimously endorsed the agreement between General J.C. Smuts and Mahatma Gandhi … tax, recognition of Indian marriages and…
EventWorld No Tobacco Day is observed
… World Tobacco day was declared by the World Health Organization in 1987. The day is observed by abstaining from tobacco for a period of 24 hours around the…
ArchiveGroup conflicts and race prejudice
… This lecture is the third in the series Hoernle Memorial Lecture in which there is discussion on the topic of race prejudices in South Africa and the impact …
EventSA signs Nuclear Non
… South Africa was one of the countries that signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to curb the spread of nuclear weapons. Other countries that signed …