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Eventold Indian flower seller is fined for trading in a racially restricted area
… seller was fined R24 or 60 days in prison for breaking the municipal by-laws. The young man was charged on 29 counts for resisting moving … area in Rosebank…
EventSA artist Anthony Nkotsi is born
… Anthony Molebatsi Nkotsi, South African artist and the head of the Printmaking Department in 1988 at the Johannesburg Art Foundation, was born in…
EventGeneral Motors fails to leave RSA quietly
… General Motors (GM), the American owned automobile industry in South Africa, pulled out of the country amidst a series of disputes and strikes from workers…
EventSA TV Producer reported killed in Air crash
… producer, was reported killed in a plane crash in Nigeria the previous night while on assignment for Africa Report. The twin-engine Boeing 737 left Murtala…
EventEvidence found at Barberton confirms theory of life on earth as early as about 3.4 billion years ago
… and Professor Donald R. Lowe of Stanford University in the United States, assisted locally by South African … sedimentary rock at Barberton, Mpumalanga. The…
EventGlaxoSmithKline to reduce AIDS drugs price
… Britain's GlaxoSmithKline PLC, the world's largest producer of AIDS drugs, announced it would reduce the price of its popular AIDS medication. Combivir, a…
EventLouis Hayward, South African–American Actor dies.
… started landing leading roles. He starred in films such as The man in the iron mask and The Son of Monte Cristo. Sadly, his career started to decline …
EventIvorian Footballer Didier Zokora is born in Abidjan, Ivory Coast
… moving to Turkish side, Trabzonspor. He has been part of the Ivorian national team for the past twelve years. Zokora is therefore part of the Ivorian team…
EventNigerian political campaigner, women’s rights activist and traditional aristocrat, Funmilayo Ransome Kuti is born
… members that comprised of literate and illiterate women. The organisation was thrust into the public eye when it organised a rally of women against price…
Prominent South Africans Indians
… is an ongoing project and we welcome contributions from the public. Politics and Labour Adam, Feroza Asmal, Kader …
Africa in Today’s World by Max Coleman - Book Launch
… This book by the distinguished Anti Apartheid activist Max Coleman is about the Cycle of Life: From birth, survival to development in Africa to-day against…
PlaceMea Vota, Rissik Street, Sunnyside, Pretoria
… Westenberg and C van der Made, both engineers employed by the Netherelands-South Africa Railway Co, for their own occupation. It is one of the last remaining…
PlaceSettler Houses, 10-12 Castle Hill, Port Elizabeth
… The two buildings, originally owned by Police Constable Sterley, date from about 1840, and together with the adjacent house at 7 Castle Hill, are typical…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Jeppetown, Johannesburg
… The foundation stone of this building was laid on 5 May 1906 by General Koos de la Rey, and the church was officially consecrated on 26 January 1907. It is…
EventKwame Nkrumah orders release of political prisoners
… Coast), a leading exponent of Pan-Africanism , ordered the release of the last of his political prisoners, detained under the Preventive Detention Act of…
EventSouth African artist Michael Zondi is born
… Msinga in Greytown , Natal. He was trained in woodwork at the Swedish Lutheran Mission Trade School, and obtained … in building construction and design. He…
EventState Security Council Approves Cross
… The State Security Council (SSC) approves guidelines for the conducting of military operations against liberation movements in foreign countries. The…
EventSouth Africa signs CITES treaty on international trade in endangered species of wild flora and fauna
… South Africa was a founding member of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species in Wild Fauna and Flora, known as the CITES Treaty. This…
EventCOMSA calls on SA to move towards election
… In a first-phase report, the Commonwealth Observer Mission to South Africa (COMSA), … that based on its homicide rate, this country was one of the most…
EventJoyce Kgoali dies
… The Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces (NCOP), Joyce Kgoali, … was also a National Executive Committee (NEC) member of the African National…
EventNelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa’s first democratic President
… sworn in as South Africa's first democratic President at the Union Buildings in Pretoria on 10 May 1994.. He replaced the outgoing National Party leader F.W…
ArchiveFederation or desolution
… The 33rd lecture in the Alfred and Winifred Hoernle Memorial lecture series … move towards forming a federal constitution and that the" Verwoerdian Utopia…
ArchiveNkosi Sikelele I-Afrika
… Since 1997, The South African national anthem has been a hybrid song combining new English lyrics with extracts of the hymn "Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika" and the…
Twenty-four people are killed in Operation Beanbag in Maputo, Mozambique.
… people are killed in Operation Beanbag, an attack by the South African army on the ANC and PAC in Matola, a suburb of Maputo, Mozambique. … Ramos, is …
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.7 No.1 1988
… Charles Ndaba; Tsafendas’s Diary by Ivan Vladislavic. From the Oral Tradition: Rise Eagle Rise by Don Mattera. Interview: John Kani: Combatant from the Stage…
EventMilton Obote (81), Uganda’s former dictator, dies in a South African hospital
… Obote, a member of the legislative council of Uganda from 1957, founded the Uganda People's Congress in 1960. Obote became Uganda's Prime Minister after…
EventBrett Kebble, SA millionaire and director of mining companies, linked to several cases of alleged fraud, is born
… Brett Kebble was born on 19 February 1964 in Springs, on the East Rand. In the 1990’s Kebble got into mining and was soon director of … On 27 September,…
EventHamilton Naki, a laboratory assistant to cardiac surgeon Christian Barnard, dies
… worked for Robert Goetz, who asked him to assist him in the laboratory instead of gardening. Having started with just assisting with the animals and cleaning…
ArchiveInterview with Alexander Hepple
… Hepple (1904-1983), politician and author, a member of the South African parliament for the white socialist Labour Party from 1953 to 1958, and edited its…
ArchiveBolt Number 6 1972
… EDITOR, CHRISTOPHER HOPE. Content: The Hero of Currie Road, Alan Paton; Reinaldo Ferreira’s Recipe for a Hero, John Torres; The Pack, Terence Hammond & David…