Monday, 25 January 1965
Abram Fischer, Q.C., standing trial under the Suppression of Communism Act, fails to arrive in court, forfeits his bail and disappears. He went underground and only recaptured in November to stand trial for conspiring to commit sabotage and being a member of the banned organization, the Communist Party of South Africa. He was served with life imprisonment.
Saturday, January 25, 1969
South African celebrity Desmond Dube was born, the son of well-known actress Lillian Dube.
Monday, 25 January 1971
On 25 January 1971,General Idi Amin Dada led a military coup that overthrew Ugandan President, Milton Obote while he was at a Commonwealth meeting in Singapore. Amin was a soldier in the British colonial army and became one of its first Ugandan commissioned officers. He was Obote’s close ally, rising to become the army’s chief of staff.
Thursday, January 25, 1990
Extracts of a document written by Nelson Mandela in anticipation of a meeting with President P.W. Botha in the beginning of 1989, is published by a Cape Town newspaper.
Wednesday, 25 January 1995
On 25 January 1995, King Moshoeshoe II was formally reinstated as King of Lesotho. Moshoeshoe had a turbulent reign over Lesotho as he was twice dethroned, first in the 1970s when he was exiled from Lesotho and in 1990 when he was stripped of constitutional powers and removed from the throne.
Tuesday, January 25, 2005
The first Oscar nomination for a South African film, ‘Yesterday’, a drama about a woman in a rural village who discovered she is HIV-positive, was announced. ‘Yesterday’ is the first feature-length film in the Zulu language.
All information taken from http://www.sahistory.org.za/this_day/25/01.
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