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EventPiet Retief is baptized in Drakenstein, Western Cape
… Piet Retief was one of the leaders of the Great Trek that introduced Afrikaner settlement to the …
PlaceHillbrow Tower
… The Hillbrow Tower (JG Strijdom tower) is a tall tower located in the suburb of Hillbrow in Johannesburg, South Africa. At 269 m, it has …
EventIFP declares attacks on UDF as self-defence
… Mr Velaphi Ndlovu, an IFP parliamentarian in the Kwazulu homeland claims that attacks by Inkatha Freedom … family members were self-defence. This was despite…
EventCaptured Gen. Cronje and his wife are shipped to St Helena
… General Pieter Arnoldus (Piet) Cronje, commandant-general of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR, also known as Transvaal … February 1900 and was banished…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Wellington East
… The foundation stone of this church was laid way back in 1838. The first section of the building which comprised of the nave … https://showme.co.za…
EventWalvis Bay is handed over to Namibia
… The South African government ended eighty-four years of control over the Walvis Bay enclave by handing over the port and twelve … Walvis Bay, History of…
EventANC government tension continues
… On the day that the first serious talks between the Minister of Constitutional Development, Roelf Meyer, and Cyril … to take strong measures against the…
PlaceLutheran Church, New Germany
… The New Germany Lutheran Church is the oldest congregation in the ELCSA(NT). Located in the … relevance. In January 1969, the foundation stone of the…
EventRSA introduces more press restriction
… resistance and an increasingly ungovernable country, the government introduced wider press restrictions under the 1986 state of emergency. The state of…
EventQueen Mother Elizabeth turns 100
… Queen Mother, celebrated her 100th birthday with thousands of people lining up in the streets of London to cheer her. The Queen Mother is the first member of…
PlaceRosebank, Johannesburg
… business node and tourist attraction. Rosebank is one of a kind in that it has effectively combined a successful … size, visitors, residents and workers are…
EventPaarl Riots report submitted
… H. Snyman submitted to parliament a final report on the 1962 Paarl Riots. The report analysed the main causes of the riots, and included information on Poqo,…
Invitation: BikoHausen - Steve Bantu Biko and Karlheinz Stockhausen in Johannesburg, 1971
… (Camera) Catherine Meyburgh, Jannous Aukema (Editing) At the end of a working lecture tour to South Africa in March 1971, the composer Karlheinz…
EventOlive Shisana was born on this day
… South African academic, Dr Olive Shisana was born in the town of Pietersburg, South Africa, on the 27th of November 1950. [1] She holds a BA degree which …
EventXhosa hero Maqoma dies on Robben Island
… Xhosa war hero and regent of the AmaNgqika (Gaika) Xhosa clan during the youth of Sandile, Maqoma (also spelled Makoma or Macoma), … Potgieter, D.J. et al. …
PlaceComoros
… The Comoros Archipelago African Islands are situated in the Western Indian Ocean . It is 3572.4 km from the 'Mother … used these islands as a trading outpost…
EventCourt approves same-sex couple's right to marry
… In October 2002, Marie Fourie and her partner of twelve years, Cecelia Bonthuys had been refused the right to marry on the basis of the common law…
ArchiveMafika Gwala Second Annual Lecture and Book Launch, 5 October 2016
… The Mafika Pascal Gwala Annual lecture was initiated by South … History Online in 2015 and is run in partnership with both the University of Kwa Zulu Natal …
EventNelson Mandela delivers a speech marking his first 100 days in office
… On 18 August 1994, the first democratically elected President of the Republic of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, delivered a …
EventMilitary coup is executed in Lesotho
… On 30 April 1991, the head of the Lesotho military, Maj.Gen Justin Lekhanya was ousted by … that had governed Lesotho since 1986, the ousting of the king of…
Where is Jacob Zuma’s rape accuser? by Noni Mokati (IOL News), 7 May 2016, Johannesburg
… Khwezi’s poem, which she performed dressed in a khanga in the Netherlands in 2008, was widely shared on Facebook. It reads: “I am khanga - I wrap myself…
ArchiveCircular from John Daniels, SRC Vice-President
… Circular from John Daniels, Vice-President of NUSAS, to SRC Presidents, NUSAS Executive, Local Committee … Organisations, National Unions of Students,…
PlaceSada
… word meaning “at last”), a Township about 30km North of Seymour and 3km South of Whittlesea, was first established … or resettlement camp for Farm Workers…
EventIFP agrees to participate in 1994 elections
… The transition in South Africa from Apartheid regime to democratic dispensation was not easily achieved. The period was characterised by demands and counter…
EventLiberation struggle activists, Gwala and Mothopeng are released from Robben Island
… Two members of the banned liberation movements, Harry Gwala , a member of the African National Congress (ANC) and Zephania Mothopeng a … www.disa.ukzn.ac.za …
Remember Soweto 16 June 1976
… You are cordially invited attend the conference ’#ApartheidMustFall to #RhodesMustFall?: The Soweto Uprising of 16 June 1976’, which will be held at UCL…
EventNon military national service for objectors
… A Defence Amendment Bill provides for an alternative form of national service for conscientious objectors who oppose military service on religious grounds…
EventFormer Springboks player, Naas Botha is born
… Hendrik Egnatius Botha was born on the 27 of February 1958 in Breyten, in the Eastern Transvaal (now Mpumalanga). He schooled in …
EventSACTU launches a national potato boycott.
… The potato boycott began in protest against slave-like labour … rations and slave wages. In articles in New Age the brutality of this system was exposed in…
EventCheryl Carolus is born
… in London, political activist and Chief Executive Officer of Tourism South Africa, Cheryl Carolus, was born in Silvertown on the Cape Flats. At school,…