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EventStephen Gray, SA writer and academic, is born
… Born in Cape Town, Steven Gray is one of South Africa’s most prolific writers. He received an M.A. … in English from Cambridge University, a M. Fine Arts…
EventMK operatives, Jerry Mosolodi, Terry Mogoerane and Thabo Motaung are executed
… for their part in a hit on Wonderboom police station. The ANC declared the execution a crime against humanity and defended the attack on the police station…
EventPresident FW de Klerk tells Parliament that South Africa had constructed six nuclear fission devices
… 1993; South African President F.W. de Klerk announced the existence of a South African nuclear programme as well as the fact that the Apartheid regime had…
EventWorld No Tobacco Day is observed
… World Tobacco day was declared by the World Health Organization in 1987. The day is observed by abstaining from tobacco for a period of 24 hours around the…
Addis Video Art Festival to Cape Town Hosted by ALMA MARTHA
… by Francois Knoetze and Daniel Gray 7PM Erf 81, Corner of Military and Leeuwenvoet Roads, Tamboerskloof, Cape Town … is very excited to be hosting a…
SABC’s Matthews was Motsoeneng’s willing enforcer-in-chief: FJT (TMG Digital), 28 June 2016
… A statement by the FJT leadership described Matthews’ resignation as acting group CEO at the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) as “long … overdue…
Document 37 - Letter from S. P. Bunting to E. R. Roux, 29 November 1930
… Roux, Wolton is leaving tonight for Cape Town to introduce the "new line" to the Cape Town branch. At the Johannesburg branch meeting last … absence this…
EventAmy Johnson, a female aviator, lands in Cape Town in record time
… Amy Johnson obtained her pilot's license from the London Aeroplane Club in 1929. After purchasing a second-hand aircraft, she made history by becoming the…
Extraordinary Life: Zapiro
… cartoonist Zapiro's work is as important as ever following the Charlie Hebdo killings. His life and role in society is … Don Quixote: he has taken up his pen…
EventZulu King Zwelithini threatens to establish a separate Zulu state
… de Klerk that he is ready to set up a Zulu state covering the KwaZulu homeland and Natal province as an act of insubordination against the government and…
EventFour South Africans and a British national charged with illegally exporting military equipment to South Africa
… that South Africa was completely self sufficient in terms of its arms manufacturing capability, the Apartheid regime relied heavily on imported components…
PlaceShell House, Johannesburg
… The ANC’s iconic Shell House in downtown Johannesburg, where Nelson Mandela planned the Democratic takeover of the South African Government, has been sold to…
EventSA Prime Minister, B.J. Vorster reveals that SA scientists have succeeded in developing a new process for uranium enrichment
… The Prime Minister, Balthazar Johannes Vorster announced in the House of Assembly in Cape Town that South African scientists have … Nuclear Weapons Program’ …
EventANC Consultative Conference comes to an end
… The African National Congress (ANC) Consultative Conference, which was held in Johannesburg following the Organisation's unbanning, came to conclusion. It…
EventTinashe Washington Nengomasha, Zimbabwean international football player is born in Harare, Zimbabwe
… Although Tinashe Nengomasha had been in the Zimbabwean under 20 National team, he was basically … Kaizer Chiefs as a midfielder, a position that earned him…
ArchiveConformity and conflict: Afrikaner nationalist politics in South Africa
… Thesis sumitted to the Faculty of Social Studies, for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the Oxford University. …
EventSACC publishes a report condemning apartheid as a false faith hostile to Christian beliefs
… A Commission of the South African Council of Churches (SACC) published a … hostile to Christian beliefs. This came a few months after the SACC was…
EventCOSATU conference prohibited and organisers restricted
… The government prohibited an anti-apartheid conference … which aimed to include delegates from a broad spectrum of anti-apartheid organisations, and…
EventUnited Nations appoints Kofi Annan as secretary
… citizen, Kofi Annan, was appointed as secretary-general of the United Nations (UN) to replace the outgoing Boutros Boutros Ghali, whose term of office had ……
EventSomaliland is granted independence by British government
… 25 June 1960 marked the end of 73 years of British regime in Somaliland. Fireworks and singing crowds marked the Independence of Somaliland and celebrations…
EventSA beaches are opened to all racial groups
… South African beaches would be opened to all people across the racial lines. The decision to open the beaches was made after a number of protest multiracial…
Seedtimes Retrospective Omar Badsha
… A major retrospective exhibition of Omar Badsha’s drawings, woodcuts and photographic essays from the mid-1960s to 2000s. His drawings are being shown for…
TRAC (Transvaal Rural Action Committee) Newsletter, 1983 - 1990
… TRAC, the Rural Action Committee, established in 1983 as a project of the Black Sash, published this Newsletter with the intention …
PlaceHouse Preller, Hartebeesport
… was a well-known journalist and historian who championed the cause of the Afrikaans language. He occupied this house from 1935 …
PlaceKlapperkop Fort, Pretoria
… Klapperkop offers visitors panoramic views of Pretoria in all directions. Not only is it fast becoming a … jogging, cycling and mountain biking destination,…
EventSA cross-border raid in Maputo kills several
… people were killed in Operation Beanbag, an attack by the South African army on the planning and control headquarters of the African National Congress (ANC)…
PlaceGazebo, Civic Square
… The elegant gazebo in the Civic Square was built in 1924. It was the home of a coach magnate, Doel Zeederberg, who established the … (in Zimbabwe, then…
EventTwo top SA scientists are refused entry into Russia.
… two top South African scientists were refused entry into the Soviet Union during the International Science Congress in Leningrad. The scientists were Prof. L…
EventBritish troops land in Madagascar.
… Madagascar, a mountainous large island in the Indian Ocean, consists of many rivers and high rainfalls. was previously a French colony controlled at the time…
PlaceGrydo Pass
… Gydo Pass is situated in the Western Cape, province of South Africa on the Regional road R303 between Ceres and Citrusdal. The Gydo …