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Demonstrations against Proclamation of Republic: Answers to Questions by May 1961
… leaders for answers to three questions concerning the planned demonstrations. The following are answers of Dr. Naicker.] Question: Do you advocate peaceful…
EventGriffiths Mxenge is murdered
… throat and cut off his ears. They ripped open his stomach. The magistrate at the inquest into his death found that his death was caused by the act of some…
EventSA signs diplomatic relations with Vietnam
… With the processes of the dismantling of the apartheid system and preparations for democratic rule under way, the Republic of South Africa opened itself to…
EventHome Affairs Minister Mapisa
… passports discovered during anti-terror operations. The meetings, expected to continue until the end of the week, also concerned improving cooperation…
EventMore than 100 miners are crushed to death near Orkney
… The mining industry in South Africa remains one of the most hazardous professions, this despite the enormous amounts invested in it and the resulting wealth …
EventIndian Rights Campaigner Bhawani Sannyassi Dayal is born
… Johannesburg as son of Jariam Singh, a former president of the Transvaal Indian Association. In 1913 he was one of the organisers of the Indian strike led by…
ArchiveStatement
… Statement by Alfred Nzo, Secretary General of the ANC National Executive Committee, on the current situation in South Africa. The regime over the past few…
ArchiveCollaborators and falsifiers exposed
… With the official opening of the Sultan Technical College, the members of the College Council had taken a decision to …
EventGandhi demands end to White ‘hooliganism’
… meeting in New Delhi, Mahatma Karamchand Gandhi called on the South African government to stop the hooliganism by Whites. The authorities warned the Passive…
ArchiveCircular from John Daniels, SRC Vice-President
… Organisations, National Unions of Students, regarding the NUSAS Deputation to the Minister of Justice following the banning of the NUSAS President. Includes…
PlaceKwaDukuza
… 1825, King Shaka , son of Senzangakhona and Nandi, who was the king of the Zulus from 1816, established a royal settlement as a halfway station between the…
EventSA Olympic team leaves for Barcelona
… The South African Olympic team of ninety-five members took off to participate in the 22nd Olympic games staged in Barcelona, Spain in 1994. … was South…
EventSouth African boxers,Zolile Mbityi and Peter Malinga both win world titles
… world titles. Mbityi, South African (SA) flyweight, won the International Boxing Organisation (IBO) flyweight title, while Peter Malinga, SA welterweight,…
EventNP set to withdraw from GNU
… Deputy President F.W. de Klerk announced that the National Party was to withdraw from the Government of National Unity on June 30. This came after the…
EventGeneral Koos de la Rey, buried in Lichtenburg amid a very tense atmosphere.
… de la Rey, known as Koos de la Rey, a Boer general during the Second Anglo-Boer War who is widely regarded as being one of the strongest military leaders…
EventRwandan and Burundian presidents J Habyarimana and C Ntayamira are killed in an air crash
… 0n 6 April 1994, an extraordinary event in the history of the African continent took place in Kigali, Rwanda when two … Tanzania, at which they discussed…
Ubuntu Awards 2018
… ABOUT THE AWARDS The Annual Ubuntu Awards have grown exponentially since they were launched in 2015. Now in their fourth year, the Awards are carried live on…
PlaceUganda
… in East Africa , whose diverse landscape encompasses the snow-capped Rwenzori Mountains and immense Lake Victoria … wildlife includes chimpanzees as well as…
PlaceOfficers’ Club, Military Base, Wynberg
… on 22 August 1969. Wynberg Military Base is, with the exception of the Castle, the oldest military establishment in South Africa. Its …
PlaceLanherne Building, Humewood Road, Port Elizabeth
… resident engineer and general manager of the South African Railways. During WWII it was converted to a … home for servicemen, and in 1960 it was sold to the…
EventCOSATU leads an anti-VAT strike
… The Congress Of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) called a … nation-wide strike to demonstrate their opposition to the government's intention to impose…
EventCorner stone of Mission Church is laid in Graaff-Reinet
… a piece of land and six windows, building started on the Dutch Reformed Mission Church in Graaff-Reinet. The corner stone was laid on this date and the…
EventDr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang’s advice is criticised
… The Sunday newspaper Sunday Independent reported that the special mixture prescribed by SA Health Minister Dr Manto … to fight HIV/AIDS, could be a recipe…
EventSouth African Police announce arrest of serial killer
… The South African Police in Pretoria announced the arrest of Moses Sithole, named the country's most wanted man at the time. Sithole, …
EventRebel commando leader Fourie is executed
… Fourie, farmer, soldier and rebel commando leader during the 1914 Rebellion, was executed by a firing squad after being found guilty of high treason. The…
EventDinuzulu refuses British instructions to take up arms against Boers
… King Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo of the Zulu Kingdom in northern Natal, which is now part of the Kwazulu-Natal province, refused to follow British instructions to…
ArchiveJune 16: South Africa's Youth Day
… Speakers notes for the 12th anniversary of June 16th, 1976. Examines the significance of the day, the enemy reaction, the responsibility of the youth, …
PlaceWits School of Arts (WSOA)
… The Wits School of Arts (WSOA) is ranked as one of the top interdisciplinary school of arts in South Africa … according to World Universities Ranking…
SABC’s Matthews was Motsoeneng’s willing enforcer-in-chief: FJT (TMG Digital), 28 June 2016
… A statement by the FJT leadership described Matthews’ resignation as acting group CEO at the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) as “long overdue”…
EventLiberation struggle activists, Gwala and Mothopeng are released from Robben Island
… Two members of the banned liberation movements, Harry Gwala , a member of the African National Congress (ANC) and Zephania Mothopeng a member of the Pan…