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EventItalo-Ethiopian Treaty of 1928 is signed
… 1935. In 1935 Ethiopia was invaded and annexed by Italy under Benito Mussolini, who needed to provide land for …
EventJoe Slovo is born
… government repressive legislations. In 1954 he was banned under the Suppression of Communism Act of 1951. However, …
EventThe first regional committee of the UDF is established in Natal
… Anti-apartheid organisations united under the umbrella of the United Democratic Front. One of the …
EventNeil Aggett is buried in Johannesburg
… in police detention, and was the first White person to die under those circumstances since 1963. Police alleged that he …
EventPrime Minister B.J Vorster supports changes to Black labour
… by far right groups within the National Party which begun under Verwoerd. Vorster built on the National Party's policy …
EventDanie Malan, SA athlete, sets a new world record in the 1 000m event in Munich
… his last two years of high school, and won the national under/17 title for the 400m race in 1967. After school, Malan …
EventNational Party wins general election
… The National Party under Dr H.F. Verwoerd claimed majority of votes in a …
EventAbolition of Internal Security Act
… would replace the South African Defence Force (SADF) under the control of a political organisation that would be …
EventButhelezi says Zulus would continue carrying cultural weapons
… banned these weapons. The Kwazulu Homeland authorities under the Chiefs and Headman Act , which empowered headmen …
EventAt least 150 people die in clashes between the ANC and IFP
… Black townships most affected. The violence took place under the State of Emergency, which was declared in 1985 by …
EventPolice break up demonstrations against South African rebel Cricket Tour
… earned the cricketers the nickname 'Rebel cricket tour' under the captaincy of Mike Gatting, included other British …
EventFive ANC leaders are released from prison
… headquarters after movement was banned in April 1960 under the Unlawful Organisation Act. During the raid scores …
EventCiskeian police disrupt residents’ meeting
… their South African citizenship and did not wish to fall under the jurisdiction of Ciskei. The western portion of …
EventPercy Qoboza, influential anti-Apartheid journalist, dies
… Qoboza was editor of the weekly newspaper City Press. Under his leadership, the newspaper became South Africa's …
EventLeendert Janszen, junior merchant of the VOC, recommends settlement at the Cape
… to the Chamber of Amsterdam, a group of company officials under the leadership of Jan van Riebeeck, set out for the …
EventAt an international summit in SA leaders pledge to push for a new global trade deal that will help poor countries
… for poor countries. This association, which falls under the umbrella of the London based think tank known as …
EventBreyten Breytenbach; SA poet, activist and painter, receives the Hertzog Prize for his poetry
… with a false passport in 1975, was arrested, charged under the Terrorism Act and jailed for seven years. After his …
EventCollen Chauke, infamous escapee, is captured
… was stolen. He died in 2003 in Kalafong hospital, under the watch of security guards. While in prison in 2000, …
EventHendrik Witbooi, Chief of the Nama, dies
… conflict with the Germans. Initially serving as soldiers under the Germans for three years during the Herero Revolt, …
EventGerman action in Herero Revolt is condemned in the Reichstag
… settlers flooded into the area. The Ovaherero chafed under colonial rule and on 11 January 1904 they rose in …
EventJohn Koenakeefe Mohl, SA artist is born
… Mohl, South African artist and founding member of Artists Under The Sun, was born at Dinokana village in Lehurutshe, …
PlaceFort Beaufort
… Initially the division of Fort Beaufort fell under the district of Albany, and was proclaimed a separate …
EventThe Birkenhead runs aground with 638 passengers
… An English troop carrier, the Birkenhead, under Captain Robert Salmond, stranded on a reef opposite …
EventAngolan government signs peace treaty with UNITA
… The Angolan government under President Jose Eduardo dos Santos and the rebel …
EventScientists find the virus that may cause Aids.
… infected with the disease, including 3000 000 children under the age of 15 years. It has been revealed that at least …
EventValliamma Munuswamy Mudaliar, SA political activist dies from a fever
… of the oppressive system she and her family were living under. When Mudaliar was sixteen she joined her mother and a …
EventThe South African government is to grant self-government to KaNgwane
… KaNgwane. Subsequently, it was announced that a Commission under the chairmanship of Judge Frans Rumpff, would be …
EventThe Government Gazette publishes a Proclamation that dissolved KaNgwane Legislative Assembly
… Together with the Ingwavuma district, KaNgwane was placed under the direct control of the Department of Cooperation and …
EventRuth Perry is elected to lead Liberia, thus becoming Africa's first female head of state
… country from a devastating seven-year civil war, to peace under a sub-regional plan of the Economic Community of West …
PlaceHoward College Building and the Memorial Tower Building, University of Natal
… completed in 1972. It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 7 March 1986. …