Saturday, 26 March 1898
On the 26 March 1898, a proclamation was published in the Official Gazette of the ZAR.
This proclamation prohibited the hunting of game in the area between the Crocodile River in the south and the Sabie River in the north, and between the Lebombo Range in the east and the Drakensberg Range in the west.
This marked the origins of the Sabie Game Reserve, the second reserve in Africa.
The Anglo-Boer War halted further development of the reserve, but the British, after winning the war, proceeded with the plan to develop the Sabie Game Reserve.
This task was given to Major James Stevenson-Hamilton in 1902, in order to protect the animals against hunters, ivory poachers and cattle farmers.
It was renamed Kruger National Park in 1926, and was opened to the public in 1927. Visitors were able to view animals and plant life in the protected area.
Wednesday, 26 March 1902
Cecil John Rhodes, imperialist, political manipulator, diamond magnate and Premier of the Cape Colony dies aged 48.
He arrived in South Africa in 1870 and invested his inheritance from his grandmother in the diamond diggings in Kimberley.
He helped launch the De Beers Mining Company with his partner, C. D. Rudd.
Monday, 26 March 1990
The police opened fire on a crowd of Sebokeng township residents who sought to march on the local offices of the ruling National Party (NP).
The incident claimed eleven lives and more than 300 were injured.
The protestation focused on high rents, racially segregated local facilities and called for the resignation of township councillors.
Monday, 26 March 1990
Minister of Education Piet Clase announced, after almost three decades of segregated state education in South Africa, that the principle was to be abandoned.
As of January 1991, White state schools would be allowed to admit Black students on condition that the majority of parents gave their consent for this move.
This announcement came after years of separate education systems, which was implemented by the government in the late 1950s.
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