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6 January 1498 - Vasco da Gama comes ashore at the mouth of the Limpopo River.
He and his crew make the first White contact with Black southern
Africans, after having encountered Hottentots (Khoi-Khoi) earlier on 7
November 1497, at St. Helena Bay.
(Wallis, F. (2000). Nuusdagboek: feite en fratse oor 1000 jaar, Kaapstad: Human & Rousseau.)

6 January 1688 - A Dutch ship, the Rosenberg, carrying Huguenots (Protestant refugees from France), leaves for the Cape from the Netherlands. (Wallis, F. (2000). Nuusdagboek: feite en fratse oor 1000 jaar, Kaapstad: Human & Rousseau.)
6 January 1857 - “Die Vierkleur” (Four Colour), flag of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR), is hoisted for the first time in Potchefstroom at the inauguration of M.W. Pretorius, the first president of the ZAR. (Wallis, F. (2000). Nuusdagboek: feite en fratse oor 1000 jaar, Kaapstad: Human & Rousseau; ---, (2005). ‘Pretoria 1855-2005: Chronologie 1798-1935’, Bylaag tot Rekord. )

6 January 1896 - Cecil John Rhodes is forced to resign as prime minister of the Cape, because of his involvement in the Jameson Raid. (Burne, J. (ed)(1989). Chronicle of the World, (Sl): Longman Chronicle).

6 January 1900 - Death of Herman Albrecht, a South African soldier who fought on the side of the British during the S.A. War and who received the Victorian Cross. (Wallis, F. (2000). Nuusdagboek: feite en fratse oor 1000 jaar, Kaapstad: Human & Rousseau.)

6 January 1900 - The Battle of Wagon Hill (Platrand), south of Ladysmith, takes place, in which the Boer forces make an unsuccessful attempt to bring about the fall of Ladysmith. (Cloete: The Anglo-Boer War; SESA, v.11, p. 308;
SA National Museum of Military History. (1999). Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902, Johannesburg: The Museum.)

6 January 1906 - Walter Whall Battiss, South African educationist, painter and specialist on the San art, is born in Somerset East, Eastern Cape. (Wallis, F. (2000). Nuusdagboek: feite en fratse oor 1000 jaar, Kaapstad: Human & Rousseau; Kruger, D.W. (ed)(1972). Dictionary of South African Biography, Cape Town: Human Sciences Research Council, v. 5, p. 36.)

6 January 1940 - Aggrey Zola Klaaste, journalist and editor of the Sowetan, is born in Kimberley. (Hayes, S. (ed)(2000). Who’s Who of Southern Africa 2001…, Graighall: Jonathan Ball.)

6 January 1961 - The United Nations Secretary-General, Dag Hammarskjold, visits South Africa from 6-12 Jan. www.sahistory.org.za

6 January 1964 - South Africa signs treaty with France on the installation of a scientific space tracking station in South Africa.
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6 January 1978 - Donald Woods, banned editor of the Daily Dispatch (East London) reaches Britain with his family, having fled South Africa via Lesotho and Botswana. The pro-government Afrikaans press launches a virulent campaign against him: the British and American press in contrast give wide and sympathetic coverage to the story of his escape. mzansiafrika.typepad.com

6 January 1984 - Joan Hoskyn Davies, archivist and the first woman to become head of an archives depot, dies in Cape Town. (Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.1, Pretoria: HSRC.)

6 January 1986 - Impala Platinum fires 20,000 Black mine workers in Johannesburg. www.brainyhistory.com

6 January 1988 - General Bantu Holomisa, who ousted Stella Sigcau in a coup, appoints himself as the Transkei’s military and government chief. (Kalley, J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds) (1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood.)

6 January 1989 - The cockpit voice-recorder of the SAA Helderberg, which crashed into the Indian Ocean off Mauritius, is recovered from the aircraft after a search of fourteen months. (Wallis, F. (2000). Nuusdagboek: feite en fratse oor 1000 jaar, Kaapstad: Human & Rousseau; (2005). Milestones, The Star, 6 January.

6 January 1995 - Joe Slovo (69), national chairman of the Communist Party in South Africa and Minister of Housing in the Government of National Unity, dies of leukaemia. (Wallis, F. (2000). Nuusdagboek: feite en fratse oor 1000 jaar, Kaapstad: Human & Rousseau: Joyce: South Africa in the 20th Century; (2005). Milestones, The Star, 6 January.)

6 January 1995 - SA signs agreement upgrading existing diplomatic relations with Ethiopia. (Kalley, J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood.)

6 January 2005 - Former president Nelson Mandela's only surviving son Makgatho (54) dies in the Linksfield hospital in Johannesburg. President Mandela announces that his son had HIV/Aids, and stresses that being open about HIV/Aids was the only way to stop people "regarding it as an extraordinary thing for which people go to hell and not to heaven". www.news24.com

6 January 2005 - The South African Tsunami Relief Fund hands over a first bulk donation of R700 000 to the International Red Cross. www.news24.com

6 January 2005 - News 24 reports that the Irish deputy premier, Mary Harney, from Dublin, has quietly been holidaying with family and friends in the Southern Cape. www.news24.com
6 January 2007 - Basil Neo Sipho Bridgeman (Doc) Bikitsha (77), veteran journalist and story-teller who wrote for Drum and various newspapers, dies at the Tshepo Themba Clinic in Dobsonville, Soweto. www.sundaytimes.co.za

7 January 1814 - The Rev. Hendrik Willem Ballot (47), parson in Tulbach, dies and is buried in front of the pulpit of the Dutch Reformed Church. (Wallis, F. Unpublished manuscript).

7 January 1824 - The first independent newspaper, the South African Commercial Advertiser, is published in Cape Town, edited by Thomas Pringle and John Fairbairn. (Wallis, F. (2000). Nuusdagboek: feite en fratse oor 1000 jaar, Kaapstad: Human & Rousseau.)

7 January 1846 - Twenty people drown when a strong north-westerly gale breaks the Frances Spaight loose from her anchors in Table Bay. (Wallis, F. (2000). Nuusdagboek: feite en fratse oor 1000 jaar, Kaapstad: Human & Rousseau.)

7 January 1848 - Phatho, chief of the mixed Xhosa- Hottentot (Khoi-Khoi) people the Gqunukwebe and other Xhosa chiefs attend a great gathering of Xhosa chiefs at King William’s Town, where Cape Governor Sir Harry Smith explain his eastern frontier policy. (Kruger, D.W. (ed)(1972). Dictionary of South African Biography, Cape Town: Human Sciences Research Council, v. 3, p. 685.)

7 January 1848 - At the great Xhosa gathering in King William’s Town, Xhosa chief Sandile pledges allegiance to the British crown in the presence of the governor, Sir Harry Smith. (Wallis, F. Unpublished manuscript).

7 January 1871 - Fredericus (Frederik) Rompel, journalist and parliamentary reporter of De Volksstem in the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR) is born in the Netherlands. (Wallis, F. Unpublished manuscript).

7 January 1903 - The Boer generals report back in Pretoria after a campaign in Europe to procure aid for the reconstruction of the country after Anglo-Boer War 2. (Wallis, F. (2000). Nuusdagboek: feite en fratse oor 1000 jaar, Kaapstad: Human & Rousseau.)

7 January 1905 - Coert Steynberg, SA sculptor is born at Hennops River. (Wallis, F. (2000). Nuusdagboek: feite en fratse oor 1000 jaar, Kaapstad: Human & Rousseau.)

7 January 1908 - Cecilia Makiwane, first Black woman to become a professional nurse in South Africa, is registered. (Wallis, F. (2000). Nuusdagboek: feite en fratse oor 1000 jaar, Kaapstad: Human & Rousseau.)

7 January 1908 - Frederick Dalberg, SA opera singer, is born in England. (Wallis, F. Unpublished manuscript).

7 January 1915 - Thelma Gutsche, author, biographer and film critic, is born in Somerset West, Cape Province. (Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.1, Pretoria: HSRC.)

7 January 1917 - Sarel J. Pretorius (Sarel Jacob), SA poet, is born in Postmasburg, Northern Cape. (Wallis, F. (2000). Nuusdagboek: feite en fratse oor 1000 jaar, Kaapstad: Human & Rousseau.)

7 January 1919 - ANC organises a campaign against pass laws. www.sahistory.org.za

7 January 1919 - Founding of the Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union of South Africa. Leader: Clements Kadalie. www.sahistory.org.za

7 January 1935 - Sir W. Clark is appointed as British high commissioner in South Africa. (Wallis, F. Unpublished manuscript).

7 January 1938 - SA’s first national news Agency, the South African Press Association (Sapa), is established from what was the Reuters South African News Agency. (2005). Milestones, The Star, 7 Jan.

7 January 1955 - The Natives’ Resettlement Board launches the Western Areas removal scheme by issuing the first removal notices. Some residents of Sophiatown and Martindale were to leave by 12 February. (Joyce: The Rise and Fall of Apartheid).

7 January 1957 - African bus boycott lasting ten weeks is initiated in Johannesburg and Pretoria.
www.sahistory.org.za

7 January 1959 - Peter Mokaba (1959-2002) is born in Pietersburg, (now Polokwane), where he did both his primary and high school education. During the 1976 uprisings, Mokaba became a leader of school boycotts.
www.sahistory.org.za

7 January 1961 - African heads of state issue the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights at Casablanca, Morocco. (2005). Milestones, The Star, 7 Jan.

7 January 1961 - The SA rugby team beats England on Twickenham 5-0. Doug Hopwood scores a tri, which is converted by Frik du Preez. (Wallis, F. Unpublished manuscript).

7 January 1982 - The Acting General-Secretary of the Lutheran Church in South Africa claims that T. Muofhe, a Lutheran elder, has died in custody. Brigadier T.R. Malandzi, head of Venda’s National Force confirms this. Four pastors are also detained in Venda. (Kalley, J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds) (1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood.)

7 January 1983 - The Government Gazette proclaims that only one-fifth of District Six, will be returned in its entirety to its earlier status and again be designated a Coloured area. (Kalley, J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds) (1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood.)

7 January 1986 - The ANC in exile in Lusaka calls on its supporters to take the struggle into White areas.
(Kalley, J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds) (1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood.)

7 January 1986 - South Africa’s foreign minister ‘Pik’ Botha warns Botswana to take action against ANC operations in its country. (Kalley, J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds) (1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood.)

7 January 1987 - The British army suggests that 600 troops returning from a tour in Kenya should take an AIDS test. africanhistory.about.com

7 January 1992 - Danish Coalition indicates to the European Council that it favours the lifting of remaining EU sanctions. (Kalley, J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood.)

7 January 1994 - South Africa beat Australia in the Sydney Test by 5 runs. www.brainyhistory.com

7 January 1999 - Tony Blair, British premier, announces in Pretoria that Britain is going to increase the grant for development by 40% during the following three years. (Wallis, F. Unpublished manuscript).

7 January 2003 - Ten people die and 100 are injured in a train accident near Muldersvlei station, Paarl. (Wallis, F. Unpublished manuscript).

7 January 2007 - Richard Ishmail, former ANC MK and managing director of Big Issue, a publication for the homeless, is accosted by a burglar and stabbed to death in his home. (SABC news Bulletin.)