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PlaceKhomani Cultural Landscape
… The area in the Southern Kalahari , bordered in the East by Botswana and … the West by Namibia , is where you will find a small group of the Khomani San a…
PlaceFicksburg
… The town was founded by General Johan Fick in 1867 who won the territory in the Basotho Wars. Ficksburg is situated in … area, Ficksburg is especially…
EventCastro decides to send troops to Angola to fight South Africa
… The president of Cuba Fidel Castro decides to send Cuban troops to Angola in response to South Africa's invasion of the country. After attaining its…
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…
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 Sebokeng on ……
Fighting Talk
… Fighting Talk was initially a publication of the Springbok Legion of ex-servicemen and women, until in February 1954 when the "Fighting Talk Committee", in…
PlaceHector Pieterson Memorial and Museum, Soweto
… The museum is located on 8288 Khumalo Street, Orlando West ( Soweto ). The museum is named after one of the first casualties. But commerates all of those…
PlaceLodge de Goede Hoop, Stal Square, Cape Town
… In 1772 the Masonic Order established its first lodge in the Cape under a warrant obtained from the Grand Lodge National of the Netherlands. Initially…
EventTelkom to roll
… The telephone company, Telkom, announces that it will buy and … in an effort to fight AIDS, which has infected some 13% of the adult population. According to…
EventRain Queen Makobo Modjadji VI, dies after a sudden illness
… Province. Rain Queen Modjadji VI is a direct descendent of one of the royal houses of Monomotapa, which ruled over the Zimbabwean people in the 15th and 16th…
EventPassbook laws relaxed
… In July 1986, South Africa was in a state of martial law, with a nation-wide State of Emergency having been declared in June of the same year. To counter the…
EventStampede kills twelve people in Harare
… stampede that killed twelve people. Among those killed in the stampede were four children, the youngest age five. The stadium was filled to capacity with…
EventSouth African poet, writer and political activist, Mafika Pascal Gwala is born in Durban.
… Pascal Gwala was born on 5 October 1946 in Verulam, north of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal. He is the second child of five children of his parents. He … editor,…
PlaceBoys High School, Pretoria
… in Brooklyn, Pretoria, South Africa, founded in 1901 by The Rt Hon. Lord Milner. Its academic performance places it among the best secondary schools in…
EventHansi Pauline Pollak, welfare worker and social activist, is born
… Johannesburg in 1905. She served as an officer in command of the Women Army Auxiliary Services during the World War II. In 1944 she was seconded to undertake…
Interview with Oliver Tambo to Radio Freedom, 01 April 1981
… [The following was a reply by Mr. Tambo to a question on Radio Freedom concerning the "noise Chief Gatsha Buthelezi was making about his nephew … who is…
South African Tragedy: Jail Part Lovers by Joseph Lelyveld (New York Times), 5 January 1983
… She and Neil Aggett had been a couple for the better part of a decade. In that time, they both became doctors, then … that they were apart even when they…
EventSouth Africa relinquishes sovereignty over Walvis Bay
… to this day in history search archive Walvis Bay, from the Dutch for "Whale Bay", is situated in Namibia, along the west coast of southern Africa, formerly…
PlaceIrish House, Polokwane Museum
… Right in the centre of the city of Polokwane is Irish House, a Victorian building that was … Right in the centre of the city of Polokwane is Irish House, a…
EventNomsa Mapongwana is assassinated
… Thirty-four year old Nomsa Mapongwana, wife of chairperson Michael Mapongwana of the United Democratic Front (UDF) affiliated Western Cape … in Lingelethu…
EventUDF activist Toto Dweba’s mutilated body is found
… According to Coleman (ed.) in A Crime Against Humanity, the mutilated body of Toto Roy Dweba, member of the United Democratic Front (UDF) and of the Natal…
EventNational Heritage Day celebrates South African cultural diversity
… National Heritage Day is one of the newly created South African public holidays. The day was previously known as Shaka Day, and was celebrated … (2012)…
EventSA eldest person celebrates her birthday
… The eldest person in South Africa and allegedly eldest in the world, Granny Moloko Temo, of Mogodi Village between Dendron and Bochum in Limpopo … Gallagher,…
PlaceDistrict Six Museum
… The District Six foundation was established in 1989, and in 1994, the District Six Museum came into being. This museum was … the Museum has also become a…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Bloemfontein
… Also known as the Tweetoring Kerk , The Dutch Reformed congregation of Bloemfontein was established on 13 November 1848, and its …
“Don’t Support Apartheid Sport”: Appeal By Chief A. J. Luthuli and Dr G. M. Naicker, June 1962
… A. J. Luthuli And Dr G. M. Naicker, June 1962 77 FIFA - the world soccer body has suspended the all-White South African Football Association from … give…
EventANC stalwart, Albertina Sisulu dies in Johannesburg
… Walter Sisulu died at her Linden home, Johannesburg at the age of 92. Often referred to as the ‘Mother of the Nation’, she was a nurse and one of the …
EventBilateral talks to continue
… A consensus was reached following the fall-out between the leaders of the African National Congress (ANC) and government over … Fraser, R. (1989). Keesing's…
Indian Opinion
… M.H. Nazar and Madanjit Viyavaharik in 1903 in the Natal Province. The newspaper focused on Indian rights, poor living conditions of indentured labourers and…
EventSolomon Kalushi Mahlangu is born
… Solomon Kalushi Mahlangu, a soldier of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC), who was executed by … Sonderling, N.E. …