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EventA coalmine explosion in Rhodesia kills over four hundred workers
… in Rhodesia’s (now Zimbabwe) worst mine disaster ever. The disaster stunned the whole country and the world. Over a third of those who perished were citizens…
PlaceAnniskop, Hill in Karoo-Namibia
… Hill some 13 km North-West of the confluence of the Annis River with the Orange River. Near the hill is the joining of the Orange …
EventMbongeni Ngema was born on this day
… screenwriter and librettist. He is best known for writing the internationally acclaimed and award-winning musical, … was nominated for five Tony Awards and…
EventDefiance campaign leadership meets with SAIC
… Defiance Campaign Executive members meet with the leadership of South African Indian Congress (SAIC) to … defiance campaign to their respective annual…
EventNational Party wins national elections
… Barry Munnik (JBM) Hertzog's National Party (NP) wins the South African general election with an outright majority. Race plays a critical role for the first…
EventBlack People Convention is formed
… Twelve years after the banning of the African National Congress (ANC) and Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), a new political movement, the Black People…
EventAmanzimtoti blast kills five
… were killed and forty injured in a bomb explosion in the Sanlam shopping centre in Amanzimtoti , Natal South … we Siswe (MK) cadre Andrew Sibusiso Zondo,…
EventDr Joosub Ebrahim is born
… Dr Joosub Hajee Suliman Ebrahim, recipient of the Order for Meritorious Service Class 1: Gold from the state president in 1992, for his contribution as … a…
EventXhosa Chief Sandile is killed
… Xhosa Chief Sandile, born in the Ciskei in 1820, was killed in Denge Forest in a skirmish with the Fingos under Captain J. Lonsdale. Sandile was a son from…
EventJean-Bedel Bokassa, ruler of Central African Empire, crowns himself.
… Jean-Bédel Bokassa was the head of State of the Central African Republic from 1 January 1966 to 4 … 1976. After eleven years as president he dissolved the…
EventRichard Maponya, one of South Africa’s richest businessmen, is born
… Richard John Maponya was born in Lenyenye in the Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo Province). The founder and first president of the National Federated Chamber…
EventTakudzwa Ngwenya, Zimbabwean-born American rugby player, is born
… born in Harare, Zimbabwe on 22 July 1985. He played for the Mashonaland Club and for Vainona High School in his home … moving on to Dallas Athletic Rugby…
ArticleSouth Africa Cabinet Members 2014
… Jonas Presidency Jeff Radebe Buti Manamela Women in the Presidency Susan Shabangu Energy Tina Joemat-Peterssen …
ArticleList of victims of police action, 21 March, 1960 (Sharpeville and Langa)
… Funeral, 13 April, 1960. Source: Peter Magubane / The Drum Archive / african.pictures Casualties in Sharpeville …
ArchiveFive Freedoms Forum - African National Congre
… Report of the Commission on the women's role in shaping the future, for the Five Freedoms Forum - ANC Conference in …
ArchiveSPRO-CAS Occasional Publication Number 7: Power, privilege and poverty
… Report of the Economic Commission of the Study Project on Christianity in Apartheid Society examining the realities of the South African economy under…
EventTribute to Joost van der Westhuizen
… A public memorial service was held by the state to commemorate the Rugby legend Joost van der Westhuizen, at Loftus Versfeld … rushed to hospital on Saturday…
FAVT: Future Africa Visions in Time – Group Show (until 28 April 2017)
… & Emeka Alams, Fallen, 2015, Picture by: Lara Buchmann The Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies, Iwalewahaus (University of Bayreuth) and the Goethe…
PlaceAbees, Bela-Bela
… km away from Pretoria North. It was laid out in 1882 on the Farms: 'Het bad; Noodshulp; Roodepoort and Tufbult'. This Area attained Municipal status in 1932…
Nqutu, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… The name being of Zulu origin derived from 'insquthu'- … vessel, descriptive of a nearby hill from which the village takes its name. It is 53 km East of…
EventDjibouti, France’s last colony, gains independence
… Djibouti is a very small country located on the horn of Africa. It is so small that it has an estimated population of less than a million, one of the least…
EventJudgement is handed down in a landmark case
… The Appeal Court handed down a landmark decision in the case Rikhoto v. East Rand Administration Board (ERAB), granting him the right to permanent urban…
EventRhodesia withdraws from Summer Olympic Games
… The International Olympic Committee (IOC) asked Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) to withdraw from the 20th Olympic Summer Games held in Munich, Germany. The request…
EventTripartite Alliance plans mass action
… The Tripartite Alliance, consisting of the African National Congress (ANC), South African Communist … Union (COSATU), outlined a mass action plan for August…
EventBophuthatswana drops squatting charges against Bosplaas residents
… The 'homeland' government of Bophuthatswana under the presidency of Chief Lucas Mangope decides to withdraw its squatting charges against the Bosplaas…
EventPresident Thabo Mbeki sacks Deputy President Jacob Zuma.
… Thabo Mbeki sacks Deputy President Jacob Zuma. Mbeki makes the announcement during a special joint sitting of the two houses of parliament, almost two weeks…
EventPolitical parties call for Constitutional changes
… parties in parliament tabled more than 300 amendments to the constitutional legislation. The New National Party (NNP) strove for the insertion of a lockout…
EventLabram, manufacturer of ‘Long Cecil’ is killed by shell from ‘Long Tom’
… of a cannon popularly known as 'Long Cecil' in the De Beers' workshop in Kimberley, was killed by a shell from a Boer 'Long Tom' cannon during the siege of…
EventPolitical activist and trade unionist James La Guma is born
… and trade unionist James Arnold (Jimmy) La Guma, member of the South African Communist Party (SACP) and president of the South African Coloured People's…
EventDe Klerk calls for stringent safety measures
… President F.W. de Klerk announces the calling up of military reservists to curb political violence will top the agenda of the forthcoming multiparty…