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EventThe Battle of Blood River
… On 16 December 1838 the Battle of Blood River took place near …
EventMaude Francis Eyston Sumner, SA painter, is born
… On 16 September 1902 Maude Francis Eyston Sumner, SA painter, … Sumner [online], available at: www.askart.com [accessed 12 September 2013] …
EventStandard Bank becomes the first bank to opens its doors on the Witwatersrand
… The bank has grown to span 17 African countries and 16 countries across South East Asia, Latin America and …
EventEdenburg is founded
The church village Edenburg in the Orange Free State was established when the farm Rietfontein was purchased to build a church. The initial application for…
EventProfessor Roland Levinsky, world leading researcher in biomedicine dies
… in South Africa to a British mother and Jewish father on 16 October 1943. His father was born in the Lethuania/Poland …
Founding members of friends of United Democratic Front
… forum for 8 years, Nadine Gordimer is the author of 16 novels and short story collections, Richard Luyt was a …
EventDRC President Laurent Kabila is assassinated
… On 16 January 2001, Laurent Kabila President of the Democratic …
Thirty years ago by Raymond Suttner (extract from 'Inside Apartheid's Prison')
… 30 YEARS AGO- RETURN TO PRISON 30 years ago on 12 June 1986 I was re-detained for 27 months. 18 of these … one chapter of that phase of imprisonment. CHAPTER…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - The Financial Strangulation of Native Education
… as a loan from the Treasury. It also received a sum of £16,500 for development. This sum of £16,500 represents all … authorising an annual allowance of £15…
PlaceBennebroek Wreck, Hamburg
On the 16t of February 1713, the Bennebroek which was an 'East Indiaman'- which is a large sailing vessel. This type of sailing vessel's were built from in the…
PlaceCross erected by Bartholomew Dias
The original cross is currently housed in the Library of the University of the Witwatersrand, and was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on…
EventANC President Albert Luthuli banned
… a loss of power and salary. He chose the latter. On 12 July 1954 Luthuli was scheduled to address a group …
EventKwame Nkrumah is released from jail
… to lead the newly formed government a year later on 12 February 1951, after his party, the Convention People's …
EventThe Sebokeng Massacre of mourners leaves more than 30 dead and 40 more injured
… On the night of 12 January, 1991, more than 30 people were killed while … ‘Remembering the Nangalembe Nighti Vigil Massacre’ , 12 January, [online],…
EventClayton Sithole, the last political activist to die in Apartheid police detention
… He died in John Vorster Square police station just 12 days before the release of former president Nelson Mandela …
PlaceAlbasini Dam, Limpopo
… his Residence, on the Western Bank of the Phabenspruit are 16 km North-West of Pretoriuskop, has been declared a …
EventThe Rev. Allan Hendrickse steps down as a leader of the Labour Party
… 2004. Hendrickse died of a heart attack at the age 77 on 16 March 2005. …
EventProtests against Afrikaans language in Black schools
… protests that erupted in Soweto, preceding the June 16 Soweto uprising. The protests were the pupils’ expression …
EventSudanese-born basketball player and political activist, Manute Bol is born
… Manute Bol was born in Turalei, Sudan on 16 October 1965. He came from a family of tall people; both …
EventTwo former Soweto student leaders, Khotso Seathlolo and Mary Loate are given long term sentences
… 10 years. The two were convicted for events related to the 16 June 1976 uprising. On this day, more than 20 000 learners … 07 February 2013]|SAHO, ‘Key…
Event270 workers charged with Marikana Massacre
… connected with the fateful event that took place on the 16 August 2012,whereby the South African police services …
The Afrikaner Bond
… of the provincial bestuur (administration) took place on 12 January 1884, attended by delegates from Standerton, … They resolved to hold a larger congress in…
ArticleA list of South African Shipwrecks
… Armadale Castle The Armadale Castle was a mail steamer of 12 973 tons. A sister ship to the Kenilworth Castle, she was … and was broken up in Japan in 1907…
PlaceGallery 101
… In 1961, the Swiss Fernand Francis Haenggi (b. 1934, Dijon, …
PlaceCiskei
… caused much anger. The government of Ciskei was formed in 1961 after the South African government declared it a …
PlaceAdelaide, Eastern Cape
… status in 1896. Today there is a population of over 12 000 people. In the Eastern Cape and 3.554 million (2019) …
EventBafana Bafana legend Philimon Raul Masinga dies
… On 12 January 2019,legendary Bafana Bafana striker Philimon …
EventThe HMS Cornwall and HMS Dorsetshire sink near Colombo
… Akagi, Soryu, and Hiryu. The HMS Cornwall was sunk within 12 minutes by nine bombs, while its sister ship, the …
EventMinister of Defence, P.W. Botha, reports to the Senate on the Arms Industry and defines the main aims of South Africa’s defence policy.
… These are among the points outlined by P.W. Botha on 12 March 1968, the then Minister of Defence. History has …
EventNational Party wins general election
The National Party under Dr H.F. Verwoerd claimed majority of votes in a parliamentary general election, Verwoerd's last election before his assassination in…