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Two young lions are dispatched from Cape Town to Ceylon as a gift to the King of Kandy. http://www.news24.com
News 24 reports that four top SANDF commanders are being investigated for sexual charges in the DRC by either the United Nation
Fifty-seven (or seventy according to another source) lives are lost when a gale in Table Bay wrecks eleven (News 24 states eigh
News24 reports that Iraq is the most dangerous place to be a journalist, followed by Cuba and Zimbabwe, according to the Commit
News 24 reports that South African actor Antony Coleman has won the award for best actor in a feature film for his performance
News 24 reports that a delay with the awarding of a tender of billions of rands to renew Spoornet’s age-old locomotives is thre
BiographyDorothy Joan Wright
Dorothy Joan Wright was born in Pretoria in 1911. Wright was the daughter of Dorothy Kay and studied under Francis Pickford-Marriott at the Port Elizabeth…
Archive24 years for ANC man, Mozambique citizen guilty of Witbank sabotage, The Argus, 9 December 1982
BiographyDingaan Bongani Thobela
Dingaan Bongani “The Rose of Soweto” Thobela was born at Baragwanath hospital on 24 September 1966. His mother named him Bongani, but his paternal grandmother…
BiographyKenneth Mfiki
Kenneth Mfiki was from Mooiplaats, East London, Eastern Province [now Eastern Cape]. He allegedly “stirred up factions in the location” and ”insulted and…
BiographyMads Nørgaard
Danish documentary photographer and open source software developer who has spent a decade documenting and capturing the Mother City and her people. His work…
BiographyJohannes Gerhardus Strijdom
Born on 14 July 1893, J G Strijdom served as Prime Minister of South Africa from 30 November 1954 to 24 August 1958. During the 1920s Strijdom practised law in…
BiographyVuminkosi Zulu
Vuminkosi Zulu was born on 24 November 1948 in Mapumulo, KwaZulu-Natal. From the age of thirteen Zulu attended school in Kranskop for six years and completed…
BiographyYetta Barenblatt
Yetta Barenblatt was born on 24 September 1913, in Dublin, Ireland, to Basna and Solomon Malamed. In 1925, a friend encouraged her to come to South Africa…
Umberto Eco on the Merits of Studying History (and the Terrors of Losing It) by Charles Chu (The Polymath Project), 24 September 2017
Unit 731. Sound familiar? Probably not. Until recently, I didn’t know what they were. Or what they did. Unit 731 was a Japanese military unit responsible for…
According to News 24, Britain grants self-government to the Orange River Colony on this date. Kruger gives the date on which re
Address by President at the official opening of the new bridge over the Limpopo River at Beit Bridge Beit Bridge, 24 November 1995
Your Excellency President Robert Mugabe; Distinguished guests; Ladies and gentlemen. The people of South Africa and Zimbabwe share a long history going…
News 24 reports that South Africa will foot an R11.2m bill to upgrade a monument in Mbuzini, south of Komatipoort, at the site
In a Tri-Nation test match the SA rugby team comes back from 5-25 and beats New Zealand 24-23 on King’s Park, Durban.
In a Tri-Nation test match the SA rugby team comes back from 5-25 and beats New Zealand 24-23 on King’s Park, Durban.
Bartolomeu Dias, Portuguese discoverer of the Cape of Good Hope, drowns at sea. The date is given as 24 May in another source.
The Galiot Noord is wrecked fifteen miles (24 km) west of Cape St Francis after a survey voyage to Delagoa Bay and Natal. Most
Media 24 reports that about 75 people have died in Kenya of a hemorrhagic fever called Rift Valley Fever for the past three wee
BiographyZola Budd
Zola Budd was born on 26 May 1966 in Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa. Budd burst into national prominence in 1983. In 1984 she gained international…
BiographyNokugcina Elsie Mhlophe
Nokugcina Elsie Mhlophe known as Gcina Mhlophe was born on 24 October 1958 in KwaZulu- Natal, South Africa. She has been writing and performing on stage and…
BiographyGoolam H. Gool
Goolam H. Gool was born on 24 March 1905, in Cape Town, Western Cape. He was the son of Yusuf Gool, born in India, in 1864. He made his way to Cape Town in…
BiographyNesta Mathom Nala
Nesta Mathom Nala, born in 1940, lived and worked in the Thukela valley at Oyaya, near Ndondondweni, in the Mamba area of Inkhanyezi. At the age of twelve,…
BiographyNcumisa Chwayita Kondlo
Ncumisa Chwayita Kondlo grew up in the rural village of Peddie in the Eastern Cape. Kondlo was politically active from an early age. In her student days at…