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Today in History
25 Oct 2011 at 11:20hrs | Views
1854 - The nearly month-long siege of Makapane's Cave took place after warriors of the Ndebele chief Makapan (Makôpane) massacred 23 Voortrekkers, who were on a hunting expedition in northern Transvaal. During the siege, this Ndebele clan was wiped out by hunger, thirst and bullets.
1900 - England formally annexes the Transvaal.
1919 - Air services were inaugurated in South Africa with the amalgamation of a London-based company, the South African Aerial Navigation Company and South African Aerial Transports Ltd, under the name of the latter.
1962 – Nelson Mandela is sentenced to five years in prison.
1986 - International Red Cross ousted from South Africa.
1993 - After a series of promising deliberation processes on constitutional reform between the government, ANC and other key liberation movements, South Africa was invited to rejoin the Commonwealth Countries with effect from January 1994.
1999 SA author J.M. Coetzee wins the Booker prize for fiction a second time for his novel Disgrace.
2002 – As a South African pathologist was conducting an autopsy on the late Kuwadzana MP Learnmore Jongwe at Harare Hospita, members of the ZRP clashed with MDC youths and mourners at the late legislator's Ridgeview home.
2003 – Zimbabwean Information Minister Jonathan Moyo hit out at dispossessed white farmers who were holding on to title deeds for their properties, the Herald said. "We need a legal instrument that makes those title deeds a little lower than toilet paper, forever a nullity that invites ridicule in any decent court of law," Moyo was quoted as saying.
2005 - Five out of the 12 provinces of the MDC backed party leader Morgan Tsvangirai's call to boycott November's senate election but seven defied the call to leave the party dangerously split.
2006 - Police in southern Zimbabwe raided members of a cult who were living in the wild and refusing to eat until Jesus Christ came.
2009 - The Coalition Against Child Labour Zimbabwe (CACLAZ) said a survey it carried out showed that nearly 90% of children on farms did not have birth certificates and therefore their ages could not be verified, a situation that some unscrupulous elements were taking advantage of to hire these children as labour.
1900 - England formally annexes the Transvaal.
1919 - Air services were inaugurated in South Africa with the amalgamation of a London-based company, the South African Aerial Navigation Company and South African Aerial Transports Ltd, under the name of the latter.
1962 – Nelson Mandela is sentenced to five years in prison.
1986 - International Red Cross ousted from South Africa.
1993 - After a series of promising deliberation processes on constitutional reform between the government, ANC and other key liberation movements, South Africa was invited to rejoin the Commonwealth Countries with effect from January 1994.
1999 SA author J.M. Coetzee wins the Booker prize for fiction a second time for his novel Disgrace.
2002 – As a South African pathologist was conducting an autopsy on the late Kuwadzana MP Learnmore Jongwe at Harare Hospita, members of the ZRP clashed with MDC youths and mourners at the late legislator's Ridgeview home.
2003 – Zimbabwean Information Minister Jonathan Moyo hit out at dispossessed white farmers who were holding on to title deeds for their properties, the Herald said. "We need a legal instrument that makes those title deeds a little lower than toilet paper, forever a nullity that invites ridicule in any decent court of law," Moyo was quoted as saying.
2005 - Five out of the 12 provinces of the MDC backed party leader Morgan Tsvangirai's call to boycott November's senate election but seven defied the call to leave the party dangerously split.
2006 - Police in southern Zimbabwe raided members of a cult who were living in the wild and refusing to eat until Jesus Christ came.
2009 - The Coalition Against Child Labour Zimbabwe (CACLAZ) said a survey it carried out showed that nearly 90% of children on farms did not have birth certificates and therefore their ages could not be verified, a situation that some unscrupulous elements were taking advantage of to hire these children as labour.
Source - zfn
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