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13 December – Bubu Mazibuko, actress. 17 December – Tim Clark, golfer. Class 36-000 (GE SG10B) Deaths. 21 February – Pieter Voltelyn Graham van der Byl, politician (b. 1889) 8 May – Bram Fischer, former South African Communist Party leader. (b. 1908) Railways Locomotives
This is a list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives. Most are scanned from microfilm into pdf, gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
This is a list of newspapers in South Africa. In 2017, there were 22 daily and 25 weekly major urban newspapers in South Africa, mostly published in English or Afrikaans. [1] According to a survey of the South African Audience Research Foundation , about 50% of the South African adult population are newspaper readers and 48% are magazine ...
The Star. The Star is a daily newspaper based in Gauteng, South Africa. The paper is distributed mainly in Gauteng and other provinces such as Mpumalanga, Limpopo, North West, and Free State . The Star is one of the titles of the South African Independent News & Media group (INL), owned by Sekunjalo Media Consortium whose founder and chairman ...
December 27, 1975 (Saturday) A cave-in killed 372 coal miners at the Chasnala Colliery of IISCO, the Indian Iron and Steel Company, in the worst mining disaster in the history of India. After an explosion, millions of gallons of floodwater roared into the coal pits near Dhanbad in the Jharkhand state. [77]
The Cape Times is an English-language morning newspaper owned by Independent News & Media SA and published in Cape Town, South Africa . As of 2012 the newspaper had a daily readership of 261 000 [2] and a circulation of 34 523. [3] By the fourth quarter of 2014, circulation had declined to 31 930. [4]
South Africa was re-admitted to the UN in 1994 following its transition into a democracy. 26 – Anneline Kriel is crowned as Miss World 1974, the second South African to hold the title after Penny Coelen in 1958, when Helen Morgan resigns four days after winning the 24th Miss World pageant. Unknown date. The Sishen-Saldanha iron ore line is ...
1975–1990: Albert Tertius Myburgh (26 December 1936 – 2 December 1990) was a South African journalist and editor, best known as editor of the Sunday Times. Myburgh resigned as editor of the Sunday Times in September 1990 after 15 years. His next role was to be an ambassador to Washington or London.