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EventBishop Tutu receives Martin Luther King Award
… Bishop Desmond Tutu received the Martin Luther King Jr Award for Non-Violence for his commitment and role during the struggle against apartheid in 1986…
June 12 Movement
… June 12th marked a historic moment in the history of Black students. The University of the Western Cape acting together with the …
June 12 Movement
… June 12th marked a historic moment in the history of Black students. The University of the Western Cape acting together with the …
ArchiveJune 12 Movement
… June 12th marked a historic moment in the history of Black students. The University of the Western Cape acting together with the …
EventRobert Sobukwe is sentenced to three years’ imprisonment
… Founding member and president of the Pan Africanist Congress , Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe , … three years' imprisonment for incitement of Blacks to urge the…
PlaceKwaDukuza
… In July 1825, King Shaka , son of Senzangakhona and Nandi, who was the king of the Zulus from 1816, established a royal settlement as a … King Shaka and the…
EventAlan Paton is born
… On 11 January, 1903 Alan Steward Paton, author of Cry, the Beloved Country was born in Pietermaritzburg, … Maritzburg College in 1918; he went further to…
EventWW2 veteran Job Masego dies
… by a train. Masego had been employed as a delivery man at the explosives factory at Modderfontein, Springs, before he volunteered for service with the Native…
EventMau Mau political prisoners escape from Mageta Island, Lake Victoria
… Mageta Island, Lake Victoria in a canoe. This was after the prisoners hacked to death a fisherman, Onimbo Haulu who refused them use of his canoe for escape…
EventMinister announces compulsory education for Black children
… The minister of (Black) education and training, Dr Ferdinand Hartzenberg, … beginning near Pretoria. Implementation would start at the beginning of 1981 for…
PlaceLittle Lions Head, Mt. Above Llandudno
… Sandy Bay and Hout Bay and is basically a smaller version of Lions Head as they look almost identical. " We went for our third hike to the top on Sunday and…
PlaceFrankfort
… Frankfort is a small farming town situated on the banks of the Wilge River in the Free State province of South Africa. …
EventNegotiations between SA, Cuba and Angola start in London
… Representatives of South Africa, the United States (US), Angola and Cuba met in London (3-4 May) in search of a solution to the Angolan war and independence…
EventEleven people are killed at Donnybrook, Kwazulu
… The killing of eleven people at Donnybrook, Kwazulu-Natal on the 21 March 1996 can be considered as part of the ongoing rivalry between supporters of the…
PlaceOnderstepoort Veterinary Research Institute
… The building was designed by the Department of Public Works and was completed in 1908 as … on the farm site, at 'De Onderstepoort', 11km North of Church…
EventSomerset concludes a treaty with Ngqika (aka Gaika)
… Governor Lord Charles Somerset concluded a treaty with the Xhosa chief, Ngqika (who was also known as Gaika). The treaty was concluded after Somerset visited…
EventMac Maharaj is born
… (Mac) Maharaj, political activist and first SA Minister of Transport in the democratically elected government in 1994, was born in … As minister he…
EventNiger's Independence Day
… Rationed away to French colonialists at the 1885 Berlin Conference, the French West African colony was controlled strictly as an … grant independence to the…
PlaceBeaufort West, Cape Town
… A Town 573 km from Cape Town , established in 1818 on the Farm: ''Hooyvlakte'' . It is currently the name of one of the Suburbs in which a section of…
EventSimon Mann pleads guilty in a Zimbabwean Court to attempting to purchase dangerous weapons
… to Equatorial Guinea. Upon landing it was claimed that the pilot failed to declare that there were 60 persons on board in addition to himself, the co-pilot,…
EventHendrik Jacobus Coetsee is born
… Jacobus "Kobie" Coetsee, former minister of justice in the government of F.W De Klerk, was born in … Orange Free State. Both his parents were members of the…
PlaceOriental Plaza, Fordsburg, Johannesburg
… to home-ware to spices, plus food stalls. Established in the Johannesburg suburb of Fordsburg in the mid-1970s, when Indian traders from the vibrant 14th …
EventFirst air flight from London to South Africa
… By the 1920s, the development of heavier than air flight had progressed considerably, partly due to the outbreak of World War One. Britain, having emerged…
EventMangope calls out troops as unrest flares in Bophuthatswana
… In 1994, the persistant tensions in Bophuthatswana homeland came to a head after the homeland's government decided against registering for the … the African…
ArchiveAPDUSA Bulletin 3: Dont help sellouts to get R40 000 a year
… This pamphlet analysis and illustrates the results of the elections held in 1981, in which the government offered …
PlaceMaclear/Nqanqarhu
… The Sivewright Bridge, in Station Street. Is a National … Bridge With Arches. This place was first known by the by the San People as; ' Nqarhu '. When…
PlaceSt Saviours Church Anglican Church and Cemetery, Bowwood Road, Claremont
… St. Saviours Church is at the Corner of Bowwood and Main Roads in Claremont, Cape Town, South … present Site since 1854 and has immense Historical value…
EventBlacks boycott municipal elections
… on this date to elect segregated local authorities. For the first time elections for all areas, except homelands, were held on the same day. This meant that…
EventKenya is granted independence
… gained its independence from Britain with Jomo Kenyatta as the country’s first Prime Minister. The Union Jack was replaced by the black, red and green flag…
EventMiriam Makeba, South African singer, dies
… South African singer Miriam Makeba dies at the age of 76 after a 30 minute performance for Roberto Saviano in the Italian town of Caserta. Nicknamed 'Mama…