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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…
PlaceKoeberg Nuclear Power Station, Cape Town
… Construction of Koeberg began in 1976 and Unit 1 was synchronized to the grid on 4 April 1984, with Unit 2 following suit on 25 … It is situated at…
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 …
A Dialogue in Partnership with Kaya FM - MyConstitution Exhibition
… South Africa’s Constitution - admired and respected around the world for its pioneering approach to human rights - is the symbol of a remarkable negotiated…
PlaceWhite Horse Stones, Naval Hill, Bloemfontein
… Also known as Witperd Klip. The stones were laid during the South African War by members of the Wiltshire Regiment who were then Stationed at Naval …
PlaceValkenburg Hospital, Observatory
… The Building, originally designed in a Cape Dutch style and is one of the oldest Farmhouses surviving along the Liesbeek River . …
EventFormer MK members are dismissed from SANDF
… The government discharged 2,221 trainees who had gone absent without leave in October from the newly instituted South African National Defence Force … The…
EventFamine anniversary in Ethiopia
… Following major American television's first airing of the famine crisis in Ethiopia, the world celebrated the day as famine anniversary. The day … Askin, S. …
PlaceBoom van Sameswering, Onze Rust, Bloemfontein
… The so-called Tree of Conspiracy stands on the farm Onze Rust, and once belonged to Marthinus Steyn, the last President of the Free State, who bought the…
EventFourteen are killed in Phola Park violence
… her husbands death, following a night attack by residents of nearby Zulu hostel. She grieved for 10 minuites then fled … hostel dwellers and Phola Park…
EventTrade unionist, Barend Erasmus dies
… Barend Erasmus , a noted trade unionist, worked for the Johannesburg Municipal Transport Service (JMTS). While at the JMTS, he became involved with the…
EventMandela threatens armed struggle
… (ANC) deputy president Nelson Mandela warned that if the South African government fail to take effective steps to end the current violence in the country,…
PlaceTylden, Eastern Cape
… Tylden in the region of Eastern Cape is a town in South Africa. Serving as landing site and home of settlers in the 1820's . The Eastern Cape also remains…
EventTutu and Mkhatshwa join solidarity fast
… Bishop Desmond Tutu of the Anglican Church, and Father Smangaliso Mkhatshwa of the Catholic Church, held a morning-to-sunset hunger strike …
EventCullinan diamond is cut into two
… The Cullinan diamond was cut into two big stones, The Star of Africa and the Cullinan 2, as well as seven …
EventSAIC Executive meets in Cape Town
… Executive met in Cape Town and pledged full support to the Passive Resistance launched by the Passive Resistance Councils (PRC) of Natal and the Transvaal…
EventReverend David Russell sentenced for defying his banning order
… Religious leaders were among the foremost and vocal opponents of the Apartheid regime. Acting out of conscience and under the …
EventHendrik Verwoerd becomes Prime Minister
… Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd assumed office as the Prime Minister of South Africa after the death of J.G. Strijdom. An ardent advocate of Apartheid, … August…
EventVan Wyk de Vries Commission submits its report to Parliament
… A second report by the Commission of Inquiry, under chairmanship of Justice Van Wyk de Vries, appointed in 1968 to investigate the activities of South Africa…
EventThree Zimbabwean intelligence officers stand trial for a bomb attack on an ANC house
… Conjwayo were arrested in Zimbabwe in connection with the bombing that killed the driver of the car transporting the bomb and injured several ANC … Africa…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Timeline
… From the book: Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom commissioned by The Department of Education 1902 Treaty of Vereeniging 1910 31 May, Adoption …
EventArthur Elias Letele, medical doctor and prominent ANC leader who went into exile in Basutoland, dies
… was born in Lesotho in 1916, but grew up in Ladybrand in the Free State. After completing secondary school in the Eastern Cape, he studied medicine and…
EventNongqawuse’s unfulfilled prophecy
… A period of hardship set in for the AmaXhosa after their defeat in the Eighth Frontier War (also called Eighth War of … Cameron, T. (ed)(1986). An…
EventGoldstone Commission confirms SADF complicity in violence
… The Commission of Inquiry Regarding the Prevention of Public Violence and Intimidation (Goldstone Commission), … (1999). Southern African Political History:…
EventTwo prisoners sentenced to death for sodomy
… were two prisoners on Robben Island who had been accused of ‘mutually perpetrated sodomy’ according to trial records from the Cape Council of Justice in…
PlaceFort Daspoortraand
… This fort was built by the firm Schneider & Co, which was connected to the French firm, Le Creusot. Military engineers, Leon Grunberg and Sam Leon were…
EventInternational Labour Organisation (ILO) suspends South Africa
… The governing body of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) voted in favour of suspending South Africa from participation in its Annual … Southern…
EventSA accepted back in international cricket
… The International Cricket Council (ICC) agreed to grant full membership to the United Cricket Board of South Africa (UCBSA), which would allow South African …