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ArchiveAfrica South Vol.4 No.4 Jul-Sept 1960
… Contents: Sunshine and Sharpeville. Cartoon, David Marais. The Nineteen Days, anon. correspondent. The Lion and the Cockrell, Michael Picardie. Cartoon, Gask…
PlacePolokwane Art Museum
… Town Clerk. Today there are over 1000 works displayed in the indoor collections, and the outdoor collection consists of many sculptures on … up of melted…
EventGeneral De Wet is defeated by British forces
… At the height of the South African War 1899-1902 (Anglo-Boer War), General … Bothaville, South Africa by British forces. In 1899-1902, the South African War…
EventInternational Labour Organisation (ILO) suspends South Africa
… The governing body of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) voted in favour … participation in its Annual General Conferences in Geneva. The resolution…
EventSouth West African People’s Organisation (SWAPO) is founded to oppose South African rule
… The South West African People's Organisation (SWAPO) was … Namibia) on 19 April 1960 by Herman Toivo Ya Toivo. The party was originally formed to advocated…
EventWinnie Mandela speaks out against Terrorism Act
… Winnie Mandela, wife of the then imprisoned African National Congress leader, Nelson … thirteen years of enforced silence with a strong attack on the country…
EventCelebration of Nigeria’s Day of Independence cancelled due to air disaster
… independence anniversary celebration was called off at the last minute by General Ibrahim Babangida's military … aircraft, in which over 160 military…
EventSA accepted back in international cricket
… The International Cricket Council (ICC) agreed to grant full membership to the United Cricket Board of South Africa (UCBSA), which would … South African…
EventWinnie Mandela’s Soweto home reported burnt down
… The Sowetan reported that the Soweto home of Winnie Mandela, wife of an imprisoned leader of the African National Congress (ANC), Nelson Mandela, was ……
EventDelmas Treason Trial starts
… The Delmas Treason Trial, up to that time the longest trial in the history of SA, started in Delmas, east of Pretoria. …
EventPatricia de Lille testifies at Schabir Shaik’s trial
… At the time, leader of the Independent Democrats, Patricia de Lille, finally took the stand at the Durban High Court to testify in the fraud …
EventMorgan Tsvangirai is cleared of Treason charges
… The Zimbabwean opposition leader of the Movement for Democratic Change, Morgan Tsvangirai, was … Charges against Tsvangirai were brought two weeks before the…
Roelf Meyer and Bantu Holomisa confer
… Roelf Meyer, former chief negotiator of the National Party during the multi-party peace negotiations, met with Bantu Holomisa, former leader of the Transkei…
EventPieter Jacobs Marais reports discovery of gold
… Jacobs Marais reports his discovery of alluvial gold in the Jukskei River on B.J. Liebenberg's farm, Bultfontein, in 1853. The site was just north of the…
EventWorld Book and Copyright Day is celebrated globally
… first held in 1995.By celebrating this Day throughout the world, UNESCO seeks to promote reading, publishing and the protection of intellectual property…
EventANC President Oliver Tambo meets with Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow
… The African National Congress (ANC) leader, Oliver Tambo met Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU)’s Central…
PlaceLanglaagte Deep Residential Village, Johannesburg
… Cecil Rhodes’s behalf, was guided from Ferreira’s Camp to the main group of gold reefs by a son of the widow Petronella Oosthuizen, the owner of a farm at…
EventMinister promises relaxation of apartheid rules and elimination of racial segregation in sports
… The Minister of Sport, Piet Koornhof, announced a relaxation of apartheid rules for sport and declared that the government is working towards eliminating…
EventHosni Mubarak, President of Egypt is born
… in Kafr-El-Meslha. Upon completing high school, he joined the Egyptian Military Academy, where he received a bachelor's degree in Military Science. He later…
EventPrime Minister Vorster holds talks with Dr. Kissinger
… Minister Balthazar Johannes (B.J) Vorster held talks with the United States Secretary of State, Dr. Henry Kissinger, on 23 and 24 June in West Germany to…
EventChief Mhlabunzima Maphumulo is shot dead
… The president of the traditional leaders organisation CONTRALESA and African … stalwart, Chief Mhlabunzima Maphumulo, was gunned down in the driveway of his…
EventViolence erupts in Bophuthatswana Townships and Kathlehong
… from GaRankuwa, Mabopane, Soshanguve and areas in the Odi district presented a petition listing political and civic grievances at the Odi magistrate's court…
EventMandela visits Zambia
… meetings and interviews. His first foreign destination was the headquarters of the African National Congress (ANC) in Lusaka, Zambia, where he met with the…
EventDe Klerk resigns as NP leader
… former South African president announced his retirement as the leader of the National Party (NP) and from public life. It was under … his leadership where…
EventNkosi Sikelel’iAfrica composer, Enoch Sontonga dies
… Enoch Mankayi Sontonga, writer and composer of the National Anthem Nkosi Sikelel' IAfrica (God Bless Africa) died at the age of thirty-two. He wrote Nkosi…
EventDennis Brutus is born
… and settled in Port Elizabeth. He studied law at both the University of the Witwatersrand and the University of Fort Hare. Brutus, who is of African, …
EventA Second Plenary session of Multi Party negotiations for a transition to democracy in South Africa reconvene
… The second plenary session of the Congress for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA II) was convened in Johannesburg. Unlike the first session CODESA II ended…
ANC WL deeply saddened at death of Cde Nokuhamba Nyawo, 7 March 2012
… The ANC Womens League is deeply saddened to hear that … true cde and a truly inspiring women. She did not fit into the stereotype often associated with…
Open Textbooks for Africa Summit
… You have been invited to the first Open Textbook Summit: physics & astronomy Textbooks prices have skyrocketed globally, but as the rand takes a hit so does…
EventRobert Sobukwe is sentenced to three years’ imprisonment
… Founding member and president of the Pan Africanist Congress , Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe , was … three years' imprisonment for incitement of Blacks to urge…