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EventCPSA is founded
… The founding conference of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) took place in Cape Town from 30 July …
EventP.W. Botha and Kenneth Kaunda in a historic meeting
… President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia met the Prime Minister, P.W. Botha, in a mobile home that had been set down in the middle of the African bush across South…
EventDRC President Laurent Kabila is assassinated
… On 16 January 2001, Laurent Kabila President of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was killed by … in which he had sacked them. It was later confirmed…
EventMbongeni Ngema was born on this day
… screenwriter and librettist. He is best known for writing the internationally acclaimed and award-winning musical, … was nominated for five Tony Awards and…
EventANC stalwart and Rivonia Trialist, Govan Mbeki, is released from Robben Island Prison
… On 5 November 1987, Govan Mbeki , member of African National Congress (ANC) National Executive … to be freed, as apartheid was dying. Upon his release the…
EventAir France A-300B Airbus hijacked from Athens arrives at Entebbe, Uganda
… Tel Aviv to Paris was hijacked after a stopover in Athens. The four hijackers were members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the …
EventAnna 'Sister Nannie' Tempo died
… Anna 'Sister Nannie' Tempo, was born of a slave mother and father who were kidnapped as children off the coast of Mozambique. She was born in the late 1870s…
EventSix SA Tsunami survivors arrive at Lanseria
… Six injured South African survivors of the tsunami in Thailand arrived at Lanseria airport on board a rescue flight from Bangkok. The tsunamis were set off a…
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.4 No.1 Oct-Dec 1959
… Contents: Revolution is Now. Cartoon, David Marais. On the Boycott, Julius Nyerere. Durban Explodes, Myrna Blumberg. The African in Industry, Brian Bunting…
EventANC calls on International community to save lives
… At the end of the Soekmekaar and Silverton trial in Pretoria, three young … Tsepo Mashigo 20, and Naphtali Manani were found guilty of high treason, the…
PlaceSarah Baartman Centre for Women and Children, Manenberg
… This centre was established in memory of Sarah Baartman who was transported in 1810 from South Africa to Europe. The Saartjie Baartman Centre for Women and…
EventChad gains its independence
… The French received considerable resistance in the 1920s to their plan to make Chad a French protectorate – under the command of conqueror Rabih al-Zubayr,…
EventEllis Park soccer stampede kills 43
… full to over capacity. Twenty-nine people died inside the stadium and a further fourteen died outside. Several … Nation and thirteen year old Sphiwe Mpungose…
EventPius Langa is born
… Justice Pius Nkonzo Langa, deputy president of the Constitutional Court and Chancellor of the University of Natal (now KwaZulu Natal) was born in … Hayes, S…
EventArmed Policemen appeared at Langa funeral service
… On 8 June 1986 chaos erupted during the funeral service of Mr Thamsanqa, an activist who died of natural causes inside the Methodist Church in Langa. The…
EventDurban mass meeting endorses Smuts and Gandhi agreement
… An Indian mass meeting in Durban unanimously endorsed the agreement between General J.C. Smuts and Mahatma Gandhi … regarding voluntary registration, poll…
PlacePolokwane Art Museum
… Town Clerk. Today there are over 1000 works displayed in the indoor collections, and the outdoor collection consists of many sculptures on permanent display…
EventWinnie Mandela speaks out against Terrorism Act
… Winnie Mandela, wife of the then imprisoned African National Congress leader, … thirteen years of enforced silence with a strong attack on the country's…
EventDelmas Treason Trial starts
… The Delmas Treason Trial, up to that time the longest trial in the history of SA, started in Delmas, east of Pretoria. Twenty-two … South African Institute…
Roelf Meyer and Bantu Holomisa confer
… Roelf Meyer, former chief negotiator of the National Party during the multi-party peace negotiations, met with Bantu Holomisa, … Southern African Political…
EventLabour pioneer Samuel Long is arrested
… Samuel Alfred (Taffy) Long, heralded as one of South Africa's greatest working-class martyrs, was arrested after the defeat of Fordsburg during the Rand…
PlaceBreakwater Prison, near Alfred Docks, Cape Town
… Monument under old NMC legislation on 18 December 1970. The Breakwater Prison was constructed in 1860 to house British convicts working on the breakwater,…
EventUN Security Council urges SA government to end Rivonia Trial
… On June 9, 1964, just two days before the final verdict was reached, the UN Security Council passed a resolution urging the South … South Africa's apartheid…
EventAPLA burns down farm house in Fouriesburg
… The Pan Africanist Congress 's military wing, the Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA) burnt down the farm house of Edmund Middleton of Fouriesburg on 10…
EventRailway line between Cape Town and Beira in Mozambique is completed
… On 6 October 1902 the 3200km long railway line between Cape Town, South Africa and Beira in Mozambique was completed. The construction of the Beira Railway…
EventAngolan government signs peace treaty with UNITA
… The Angolan government under President Jose Eduardo dos Santos and the rebel organisation, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) of…
EventTRC releases documents revealing plot to kill UN Secretary
… United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold of Sweden. He stated that although the TRC could not verify the authenticity of such a plot, he decided to…
EventFather Michael Lapsley, an Anglican priest, is injured by a letter-bomb
… in Australia, where he joined a religious community, The Society of the Sacred Mission. This organisation transferred him to …
EventVerwoerd’s grandson joins ANC
… In a historic move, Wilhelm Verwoerd, grandson of former South African Prime Minister, Hendrik Verwoerd, main architect of apartheid, joins the African…
ArchiveAddress to NUSAS Congress 1968
… President's address to the 44th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of …