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EventSA War Memorial is opened at Delville Wood
… The South African National War Memorial was opened outside the village of Longueval, France, next to the historic Delville Wood. The … Potgieter, D.J. et al…
EventViolence erupts in Paarl
… members from Mbekweni, Paarl, met and resolved to attack the White town of Paarl. Over 200 men armed with axes, pangas, sticks, … at about 02h00 and split…
EventSevered human leg drops off SAA plane
… land at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York. Pam Hearne, the owner of the house on which the leg fell, said she heard something …
PlaceIrma Stern Museum
… Irma Stern is considered one of South Africa’s most prolific and powerful artists who … played a leading role in introducing avant-garde art to the country…
EventFifty killed over three days during Inkatha
… Front (UDF) supporters in Natal, South Africa, following the release of Mandela on 11 February 1990. One of the reasons advanced for this violence is that…
EventJohn Fairbairn (70), journalist and outspoken critic, dies in Cape Town
… Regarded as the father of free press in South Africa, John Fairbairn left England and arrived in the Cape in1823. Soon after his arrival he founded a school …
New Age
… New Age, newspaper and its' predecessors, The Guardian; Advance were founded by trade unionists, … was known as a leftist publication. New Age was linked to…
Mzimhlophe /Qhudeni
… Mzimhlophe, an area about 60m km north of Kranskop in central Natal was founded on Trust land in the Nkandla district of KwaZulu as a place of relocation,…
EventNational Arts Festival celebrates 37 years in Grahamstown
… On 30 June 2011 the biggest Arts event in South Africa, known as the National Arts Festival, will be celebrating 37 years … since its inception in 1974. This…
EventSouth Africa is told by IAEA to open all nuclear plants to international inspection
… On 28 September 1984, the 266th plenary meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was held. In a …
Funeral arrangements afoot for Mama Dideka Mhlaba, 20 January 2010
… Funeral arrangements are afoot in the Eastern Cape in preparation for the funeral of African National Congress (ANC) veteran, Mama Dideka …
EventGideon Scheepers executed
… Gideon Scheepers, Boer scout and commanding officer during the Second Anglo-Boer War (South African War) was executed by a firing squad beside an open grave…
EventANC and IFP to meet over violence
… The African National Congress (ANC) and Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) announced that they would hold a meeting of the two parties in Durban, in an attempt to…
EventNatal Football Union founded
… The Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 and the subsequent war with the South African Republics brought a new influx of Whites to South Africa, many of whom were soccer …
EventMakapane’s Cave is under siege
… The nearly month-long siege of Makapane's Cave took place after warriors of the Ndebele chief Makapan (Makapane) massacred … Kruger, S.J.P. (1902). The…
EventAmerican troops withdraw from Somalia
… The civil war in Somalia during 1980-1990 resulted in an … a widespread famine in Somalia. A major problem was that the humanitarian food aid sent to Somalia…
EventNotorious ‘SOWETO’ policeman dies
… Brigadier Theuns Swanepoel ("Rooi Rus"), one of the most feared interrogators of the South African Security Police, dies in Roodepoort. …
ArchiveFrank Talk
… Frank Talk, first published in March 1984, as the official publication of the Natal Region of AZAPO, the Azanian Peoples Organisation, …
EventWaluz and Derby-Lewis are sentenced to death
… Judge C.F. Eloff sentenced Polish immigrant and supporter of the Neo-Nazi Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB), Janusz … politician Clive Derby-Lewis to death…
EventSouth Africa heeds United Nations call to assist Korea
… South Korea in an attempt to bring it under communist rule The North Koreans were heavily supported by soldiers from the People's Republic of China, received…
David Goldblatt by Jean Dykstra, 11 September 2011
… Goldblatt that is included in his current exhibition at the Jewish Museum, the South African photographer ponders how it is possible to … has documented the…
Nelson Mandela Sending Photographs
… photographs and comments on them, and he marvels at the growth of grandchildren. They come with their mothers as infants in … to fetch me before then. 15…
EventCourt go-ahead for United Democratic Front meetings
… United Democratic Front was granted a court order by the Minister of Law and Order and Divisional Commissioner of Police to go ahead with a meeting to launch…
EventMining Magnate Oppenheimer dies
… industrial magnate, Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, who founded the Anglo American Corporation, died in Johannesburg at the age of 77. Oppenheimer was credited with…
EventWinnie Nomzamo Madikizela-Mandela is sentenced to six years
… On 14 May 1991, Winnie Nomzamo Mandela, the then-wife of Nelson Mandela was sentenced to six years in jail by a … by Justice Michael Stahl Stegmann for her…
PlaceRhodes
… The village of Rhodes lies on the banks of the Bell River at the foot of the Witteberge. It was laid …
EventNavanethem (Navi) Pillay is born
… Navanethem (Navi) Pillay, the United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights … on 23 September 1941 in Clairwood, Durban . She went to the University…
EventSouth African Aerial Transports services are inaugurated
… Air services were inaugurated in South Africa with the amalgamation of a London-based company, the South African Aerial Navigation Company and the SA-based ……
EventFree, compulsory education for Black children
… The government announces that its aim, is to provide all … as soon as possible. Teachers and scholars rejected the education provided because it was…
PlaceCypress Tea Gardens, Hermanus
… Mystery and romance surround the original building. In those days it consisted of two stone and clay fisherman's cottages built in 1875 in the vernacular…