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EventSpringboks beat Scotland at Murrayfield
… Despite the fact that the team had won the World Cup under his training, he lost his position as coach, presumably …
EventViolence erupts in Richmond
… by the ANC for his involvement in the very violence under discussion. This was made worse by the choice of ANC …
EventDe Klerk resigns as NP leader
… of the National Party (NP) and from public life. It was under his leadership where banned liberation organisations …
EventSouth Africa mandated to govern South
… War 2. The UN advised that the territory should be put under UN trusteeship, according to the provisions of Chapter …
EventThe Second General Election is held in the Union of SA
… but many of his followers voted for the new party under General J.B.M. Hertzog. …
EventEmily Hobhouse travels to South Africa
… she was denied further access to the camps and deported under martial law. …
EventRhodes asks Charter for British South Africa Company
… law and order but the Crown reserved supreme control. Under the conditions stipulated was that no slave trade was …
EventThe use of Dutch is ratified in the Cape parliament
… alongside English. On 5 May 1925, Afrikaans was subsumed under Dutch and thus obtained official recognition. In …
EventDennis Brutus is born
… Italian and French ancestry, was classified as Coloured under apartheid laws. In the 1960’s he joined the …
EventOlive Schreiner, noted SA author, dies in Wynberg, Cape Town
… could not take credit for it since it had been published under a pseudonym due to prejudice against female authors. …
PlaceUniversity of the Free State, Main building, Bloemfontein
… and 1929 respectively. It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 7 October 1983. 1904 | Founded …
PlaceAlbany, Eastern Cape
… Howden in 1819, and to the Peerage of the United Kingdom under the same title in 1831. The Town of Cradock in the …
PlaceAliwal North, Eastern Cape
… 1847-1852. To commemorate his victory over the Sikhs under Runjet Singh, at Aliwal in India, on the 28 January …
Chapter IX - Triumph of disunity (1)
… of the Dutch who left the Cape Colony in small groups under different leaders””the Trek Boers. Inter-tribal strife, … stations which became the nuclei of…
ArchiveZambia, the ANC and the struggle against apartheid 1964-1990
… in Southern Africa, the organisation and growth of the ANC under the refuge of a host state, and the effects on Zambia …
PlaceSacramento Cannon, Cape Recife
… maiden voyage in 1647. It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 7 March 1986. Wording on English …
PlaceValkenburg Hospital, Observatory
… were then restored. It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 27 June 1986. Valkenberg …
PlaceNew Somerset Hospital, Beach Road, Green Point
… in South Africa. It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 2 April 1971. New Somerset …
PlaceLeinster Hall, 7 Weltevreden Street, Gardens
… Victorian verandah. It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 4 March 1983. Leinster Hall is …
PlaceSt Saviours Church Anglican Church and Cemetery, Bowwood Road, Claremont
… made in 1903 and 1953. It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 31 December 1981. The Cemetery …
EventIndependent African States resolve to impose sanctions against South Africa
… belonging to the Government and companies registered under the laws of the Union of South Africa and to prohibit …
PlacePublic Library, Port Elizabeth
… classical features. It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 7 December 1973. Reviewed 10 …
PlaceCity Hall, Port Elizabeth
… It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 29 November 1974. The Port …
PlaceKitson the Steam Train, Krugersdorp
… in the country, and was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 29 April 1983. …
EventThe first Prime Minister of the DRC, Patrice Lumumba, declares martial law in Katanga
… dismissed Kasavubu. In October 1960 Lumumba was placed under house arrest. He escaped to Kasai at the end of …
EventSouth African Journalist, Zwelakhe Sisulu is abducted.
… Walter and Albertina Sisulu. In 1981 he was arrested under the Terrorism Act, detained without trial, tortured and …
EventJoyce Barker, SA soprano, is born in Mooi River, Natal.
… Midlands. At the age of nineteen she started training under Daisy Holmes in Durban. Barker made a significant …
EventPolitical activist, Dr Yusuf Dadoo is re-elected President of Transvaal Indian Congress
… and social conditions that the Indian community lived under during segregation and apartheid. Educated in London, …
EventThe HMS Cornwall and HMS Dorsetshire sink near Colombo
… the Bay of Bengal. Shortly afterwards, the cruisers came under heavy attack by dive-bombers from the Japanese aircraft …
EventMartin Luther King, Junior, is born
… the South African Government, led by the National Party under D.F. Malan was introducing Apartheid in 1948, King was …