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1945 In South Africa
The following lists events that happened during 1945 in South Africa. Incumbents * Monarch: King George VI. * Governor-General and High Commissioner for Southern Africa: Nicolaas Jacobus de Wet. * Prime Minister: Jan Christiaan Smuts. * Chief Justice: Ernest Frederick Watermeyer. Events * 22 May – The South African Bureau of Standards (SABS) is established. * 26 June – Prime Minister Jan Smuts represents South Africa in San Francisco at the drafting of the United Nations Charter. Births * 3 February – Marius Weyers, actor * 8 June – Nicky Oppenheimer, mining magnate * 27 June – Omar Badsha, photographer, trade unionist and political activist. * 21 July – Barry Richards, cricketer * 28 September – Pieter-Dirk Uys, performer, author, satirist, and social activist. * 5 October – Riaan Cruywagen, news reader and voice artist * 16 October – Kaizer Motaung, footballer, founder & chairman of Kaizer Chiefs F.C. * 22 October &n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King Of South Africa
From 1910 to 1961, the Union of South Africa was a self-governing country that shared a monarch with the United Kingdom and the other Dominions of the British Empire. The monarch's constitutional roles were mostly delegated to the governor-general of the Union of South Africa. South Africa became a republic and left the Commonwealth of Nations on 31 May 1961. On 31 May 1994, South Africa rejoined the Commonwealth as a republic, after the end of apartheid. History The monarchy was created by the South Africa Act 1909 which united four British colonies in Southern Africa: Cape of Good Hope, Natal, Orange River Colony and Transvaal. The act also made provisions for admitting Southern Rhodesia as a fifth province of the union in the future, but Southern Rhodesian voters rejected this option in a referendum held in 1922. South-West Africa became a League of Nations mandate of the union in 1915. Following a referendum on the subject, South Africa adopted a new constitution in 196 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omar Badsha
Omar Badsha (born 27 June 1945) is a South African documentary photographer, artist, political and trade union activist and an historian. He is a self-taught artist. He has exhibited his art in South Africa and internationally. In 2015 he won the Arts & Culture Trust (ACT) Lifetime Achievement Award for Visual Art. In 2017 he received an honorary doctorate Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil), for his groundbreaking work in the field of documentary photography in South Africa. He was also awarded a Presidential honor The Order of Ikhamanga in Silver for "His commitment to the preservation of our country’s history through ground-breaking and well-balanced research, and collection of profiles and events of the struggle for liberation" Early life Badsha was born in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal on 27 June 1945. He is a third-generation South African of Indian origin and comes from a Gujarati Muslim Sunni Bohra family. His father Ebrahim Badsha was one of the South African pioneer black artists and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1945 In Africa
1945 marked the end of World War II and the fall of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan. It is also the only year in which Nuclear weapon, nuclear weapons Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, have been used in combat. Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 – WWII: ** Nazi Germany, Germany begins Operation Bodenplatte, an attempt by the ''Luftwaffe'' to cripple Allies of World War II, Allied air forces in the Low Countries. ** Chenogne massacre: German prisoners are allegedly killed by American forces near the village of Chenogne, Belgium. * January 6 – WWII: A German offensive recaptures Esztergom, Kingdom of Hungary (1920–1946), Hungary from the Russians. * January 12 – WWII: The Soviet Union begins the Vistula–Oder Offensive in Eastern Europe, against the German Army (Wehrmacht), German Army. * January 13 – WWII: The Soviet Union begins the East Prussian Offensive, to eliminate German forces in East Pruss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1945 By Country
1945 marked the end of World War II and the fall of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan. It is also the only year in which nuclear weapons have been used in combat. Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 – WWII: ** Germany begins Operation Bodenplatte, an attempt by the ''Luftwaffe'' to cripple Allied air forces in the Low Countries. ** Chenogne massacre: German prisoners are allegedly killed by American forces near the village of Chenogne, Belgium. * January 6 – WWII: A German offensive recaptures Esztergom, Hungary from the Russians. * January 12 – WWII: The Soviet Union begins the Vistula–Oder Offensive in Eastern Europe, against the German Army. * January 13 – WWII: The Soviet Union begins the East Prussian Offensive, to eliminate German forces in East Prussia. * January 16 – WWII: Adolf Hitler takes residence in the ''Führerbunker'' in Berlin. * January 17 ** WWII: The Soviet Union occupies Warsaw, Polan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1945 In South Africa
The following lists events that happened during 1945 in South Africa. Incumbents * Monarch: King George VI. * Governor-General and High Commissioner for Southern Africa: Nicolaas Jacobus de Wet. * Prime Minister: Jan Christiaan Smuts. * Chief Justice: Ernest Frederick Watermeyer. Events * 22 May – The South African Bureau of Standards (SABS) is established. * 26 June – Prime Minister Jan Smuts represents South Africa in San Francisco at the drafting of the United Nations Charter. Births * 3 February – Marius Weyers, actor * 8 June – Nicky Oppenheimer, mining magnate * 27 June – Omar Badsha, photographer, trade unionist and political activist. * 21 July – Barry Richards, cricketer * 28 September – Pieter-Dirk Uys, performer, author, satirist, and social activist. * 5 October – Riaan Cruywagen, news reader and voice artist * 16 October – Kaizer Motaung, footballer, founder & chairman of Kaizer Chiefs F.C. * 22 October &n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Of South Africa
The first modern humans are believed to have inhabited South Africa more than 100,000 years ago. South Africa's prehistory has been divided into two phases based on broad patterns of technology namely the Stone Age and Iron Age. After the discovery of hominins at Taung and australopithecine fossils in limestone caves at Sterkfontein, Swartkrans, and Kromdraai these areas were collectively designated a World Heritage site. The first nations of South Africa are collectively referred to as the Khoisan, the Khoi Khoi and the San separately. These groups were displaced or sometimes absorbed by migrating Africans (Bantus) during the Bantu expansion from Western and Central Africa. While some maintained separateness, others were grouped into a category known as Coloureds, a multiracial ethnic group which includes people with shared ancestry from two or more of these groups: Khoisan, Bantu, English, Afrikaners, Austronesians, East Asians and South Asians. European exploration of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Village Main, Gauteng
Village Main is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. The suburb lies less than a kilometre south of the Johannesburg CBD. Once mining land, now consists of light industry and one of the city's main freeways, the M2 runs through the suburb. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. History Prior to the discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand in 1886, the suburb lay on land on one of the original farms that make up Johannesburg Johannesburg ( , , ; Zulu and xh, eGoli ), colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, or "The City of Gold", is the largest city in South Africa, classified as a megacity, and is one of the 100 largest urban areas in the world. According to Dem ..., called ''Turffontein''. Lying close to the Main Reef gold deposits the suburb was on mining land of the ''Village Main Reef Mining Gold Company''. Was surveyed as a suburb in 1923 and proclaimed on 10 June 1924. References Johannesburg Region F {{Johannesb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belinda Bozzoli
Belinda Bozzoli (17 December 19455 December 2020) was a South African author, academic, sociologist, and politician. She was deputy vice-chancellor of the University of the Witwatersrand for a period from 2002, having headed its school of social sciences. In 2014 Bozzoli was elected a member of the South African parliament for the Democratic Alliance. From 2019 she served as Shadow Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology. Early life and education Bozzoli was born on 17 December 1945 in Johannesburg to Guerino Renzo and Cora Bertha Bozzoli, both Italian South Africans. She earned her Bachelor of Arts and Honours degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand and then obtained her Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Sussex. Bozzoli was an Associate Fellow at Yale University between 1978 and 1979. Academic career Bozzoli authored three single-authored, internationally published books and was the editor or co-editor of a further four. She ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lillian Dube
Lillian Dube (born 30 September 1945) is a South African actress. She is perhaps best known for portraying Masebobe in the soap opera ''Generations''. Personal life In 2007, Dube was diagnosed with breast cancer and has been in remission as of 2008. The cancer returned again in 2015. Awards and nominations In 2017, Dube was awarded an honorary doctorate in Drama and Film Production at the Tshwane University of Technology. Select filmography *''Mapantsula'' (1988) *''Sweet 'n Short'' (1991) *''There's a Zulu On My Stoep'' (1993) *''A Good Man in Africa'' (1994) *''Cry, the Beloved Country'' (1995) *'' In My Country'' (2004) *'' Oh Schuks... I'm Gatvol'' (2004) *''Cape of Good Hope'' (2004) *''Fanie Fourie's Lobola'' (2013) *''The Forgotten Kingdom ''The Forgotten Kingdom'' is a 2013 American-South African-Lesotho drama film written and directed by Andrew Mudge and featuring Jerry Mofokeng. It received nine nominations, and won three awards at the 10th Africa Movie Academy A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaizer Chiefs F
''Kaiser'' is the German word for "emperor" (female Kaiserin). In general, the German title in principle applies to rulers anywhere in the world above the rank of king (''König''). In English, the (untranslated) word ''Kaiser'' is mainly applied to the emperors of the unified German Empire (1871–1918) and the emperors of the Austrian Empire (1804–1918). During the First World War, anti-German sentiment was at its zenith; the term ''Kaiser''—especially as applied to Wilhelm II, German Emperor—thus gained considerable negative connotations in English-speaking countries. Especially in Central Europe, between northern Italy and southern Poland, between western Austria and western Ukraine and in Bavaria, Emperor Franz Joseph I is still associated with "Der Kaiser (the emperor)" today. As a result of his long reign from 1848 to 1916 and the associated Golden Age before the First World War, this title often has still a very high historical respect in this geographical area. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaizer Motaung
Kaizer Motaung Snr OIS (born 16 October 1944) is a former South African association football player and founder of Kaizer Chiefs FC, of which he is chairman and managing director. He was nicknamed "Chincha Guluva". Early life Born in the Orlando East section of Soweto, Motaung first played professional football at the age of 16, for the Orlando Pirates FC. His entry into international football occurred in 1968, when Atlanta Chiefs founder and owner, Dick Cecil, and former West Ham United player Phil Woosnam, who was manager of the Atlanta Chiefs franchise in the then-recently formed North American Soccer League (NASL), recruited Motaung after team trials in Zambia. NASL career Despite struggling to come to terms with the weather and overcoming injury, Motaung made his North American debut for the Atlanta Chiefs as a substitute in a friendly game against Manchester City, scoring two goals in the process. He continued to play brilliantly for the rest of the season, scoring s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riaan Cruywagen
Riaan Cruywagen (born 5 October 1945) is a South African television news reader and voice artist who has been associated with the South African Broadcasting Corporation since its first television broadcasts in 1975. Cruywagen continued to present the Afrikaans news on the SABC network every weeknight until his final broadcast on SABC 2 on 26 November 2012 at 7pm CAT. He has made approximately 7000 news broadcasts. Career He began his career as a journalist in 1965 when he started working part-time at the SABC in Cape Town, while studying at the University of Stellenbosch. He presented his first news bulletin on 26 November 1975 at 8:00 pm – the first story he read on that night was the sentencing of Breyten Breytenbach to nine years in jail. In June 2003, following an outcry over reports that Cruywagen's contract with the SABC would not be renewed, an agreement between the SABC and UASA (United Association of South Africa) was reached. His contract was renewed and it was anno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
