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PlaceFort Beaufort
… Initially the division of Fort Beaufort fell under the district of Albany, and was proclaimed a separate division on 8 March …
EventMlungisi Sisulu dies.
… On 3 January 2008 Mlungisi Sisulu, the grandson of Walter Sisulu died in London from Cerebral Malaria. … Mercy Vuthela, two young South African exiles…
PlaceKwaMhlanga
… KwaMhlanga is a town in Mpumalanga near Pretoria and is the spiritual home of the Ndebele tribe that settled here in the early 18th …
EventChris Hani is born
… Thembisile 'Chris' Hani, Chief of Staff of Umkhonto we Sizwe, military arm of the African National Congress (ANC) and General-Secretary of the South African…
EventDr Ernst Gideon Malherbe, SA educationist, is born in Luckhoff, OFS.
… was born on 8 November 1895 at Luckhoff. He studied at the Stellenbosch University and the University of Columbia and was a founding member of the National …
NANNA’S LIFE STORY
… Contents Early Days Seasonal work in the canning factory THE 'SUBS' STEWARD - "a fine leader to workers in all areas" … those days children were not allowed…
EventInkatha becomes a political party
… The Inkatha National Cultural Liberation Movement, founded on 21 March 1975, was transformed into the multi-racial Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) at a special ……
EventA consumer boycott is called in Boksburg
… The town councils of Vosloorus and Reiger Park staged a consumer boycott in Boksburg on the East Rand (now Ekurhuleni municipality, Gauteng). The … Black and…
PlaceOttery
… was probably established in 1904 as a residential suburb of Cape Town. The railway line from Maitland reached Ottery on 1 February … built and operated as a…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Foreword by A. P. Mda
… From the book: Freedom In Our Life Time by Anton Muziwakhe Lembede When I reflect on my memories of Lembede, two things stick out in my mind ”” his…
EventPolice break up demonstrations against South African rebel Cricket Tour
… force to break up demonstrations against a "rebel tour" of South Africa by the English Cricket team. Angry anti apartheid demonstrators including the African…
EventPolice constable is buried alive at Ackerville cemetery near Witbank
… On 31 May, Constable S.H. Mandlazi was attacked by a crowd of people armed with spades at the Ackerville cemetery while he was attending the funeral of a…
EventSA artist Helen Martins is born
… Martins , artist known for her queer sculptures at the Owl House in the Karoo village of Nieu Bethesda, was born in Nieu Bethesda in the Eastern … Verwey, E…
Matthews being used to turn SABC into a laughing stock: ANC (TMG Digital), 28 June 2016
… The ruling party’s Zizi Kodwa attacked Matthews for playing the “victim game” and described as “opportunistic” the public announcement of his resignation as…
PlaceOld Court House, Victoria Embankment, Durban
… The building was designed by architect Stanley Hudson and was erected in 1911 as the Old Court House, and is the oldest public building in the … district. It…
EventTanzania gains independence
… During the fourteenth century, Tanzania's location on the East African coast made it easily accessible to Arab … mid-eighteenth century due to the economic…
EventA vagrant from Johannesburg, Tim Singiswa on a one
… While the cross examination of a state witness in the Boeremag trial before the Pretoria High Court continues, …
EventNiger President Ibrahim Bare Mainassara is assassinated
… The Niger president, Ibrahim Bare Mainassara, was … own presidential guard while boarding a plain in Niamey, the capital city of Niger. Immediately after the…
PlaceOld Locomotive “Emil Kessler”, Johannesburg
… Monument under old NMC legislation on 6 April 1936. (Note the National Monuments plaque on the side of the loco.) The engine weighs 12,7 tonnes and was …
EventBanned PAC Leader, Robert Sobukwe, is refused an exit permit to leave SA
… On 22 June 1971 a Pretoria court ruled that the former leader of the banned Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), Robert Sobukwe, …
PlaceMagnet Theatre, Cape Town
… “Cheap Flights”. Then in 1991, it re-emerged to produce “The Show’s Not Over ‘Til the Fat Lady Sings” which was performed in Cape Town , … with Jazzart…
EventFirst Women Anti-Pass Campaign starts
… The June 1913 anti-pass campaign was probably the first recorded incidence of protest by women against the Union government. About 700 …
Nelson Mandela Correspondence around Mandela’s health
… TB in 1988, Nelson's health had been good. At a time when the Press reported that he had cancer, he wrote to Winnie: … tremendous both in flesh and spirit. I…
PlacePrince Alfred's Guard Museum, Port Elizabeth
… The Prince Alfred's Guard Museum, located in Central Port Elizabeth's Prospect Road, was formed through the amalgamation of a Military Museum formerly housed…
PlaceStasiegebou, Sannaspos
… This Railway Station Building of sandstone was completed shortly before the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902). It is one, of only a few Station Buildings erected…
PlaceAliwal North, Eastern Cape
… Town on the banks of the Orange River, some 195 km from Bloemfontein, on the road … London. It was founded in 1849 and named by the Governor of the Cape Sir…
PlaceFort Wynyard
… On June 11, 1795, a squadron of British warships anchored in False Bay. In reaction the commander of the Cape forces ordered that a new battery, Kijk-in-de…
EventEdward Roworth, SA landscape painter, dies in Somerset West
… African artist. Roworth came to South Africa in 1902 with the British forces during the Anglo-Boer war. At the end of the war Roworth decided to stay in…
EventRand Afrikaans University is established
… The Rand Afrikaans University (RAU), the second university with its seat in Johannesburg, was established by an act of parliament as the academic home of…
EventIndependent Democrats benefits from floorcrossing rule
… The Independent Democrats (ID), a political party which was formed by Patricia de Lille, who had defected from the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), benefited…