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… Voortrekker Jan Bantjes is born …

… De La Rey is born …

… Theatre born out of struggle …

… Martha Helena Cillié is born …

… Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz, was born into a wealthy family in Cuba. He attended Catholic … United States, was overthrown and Castro became the prime minister of Cuba. The United States broke all ties with Cuba … *Please note that some sources are claiming that he was born in 1927* …

… due to persistent cough. The famous jazz bass player was born in Langa , Cape Town in 1947. As a teenager, Ntoni … musician Victor Ntoni dies at the Helen Joseph Hospital in Johannesburg …

… Isaac 'Ike' Osler Horvitch was born on 9 October 1920, in Cape Town, South Africa. Ike … pogroms in Lithuania to England. His father Woolfie, was born in Manchester, England but  immigrated to South Africa … time, Horvitch was living temporarily in the outskirts of Johannesburg when, at four o'clock one morning, two special …

… Alfred Temba Qabula was born on 12 December 1942 in Flagstaff, Bhalasi in Pondoland … father worked as a machine-handler in the mines in Johannesburg. His father died in 1949 after someone allegedly … Nqunqa. On 3 March 1973 their first child, Noduma, was born. In April 1975 Msawenkosi was born followed by …

… Born to Indian Emigrants from Tamil Nadu, India, Mudaliar grew up in Johannesburg. She was named after the village her mother came … Valliamma Munuswamy Mudaliar, SA political activist dies from a fever …

… Albert Newall was born in 1920 in Manchester in the United Kingdom. Newall … South Africa, where he eventually settled in Doornfontein, Johannesburg with his young family. He found work as a … exhibition took place in 1949 at the Beaux Arts Gallery Johannesburg , featuring a selection of landscapes in oil and …

… implementation of UN administration of the territory. The SA government rejected the resolution of the General … and in conflict with international law, and declared SA's intention to continue to administrate SWA. In 1969 this … The UN ends SA mandate over South West Africa …

… novelist, playwright, journalist, scholar and actor, was born on 21 April 1943 in Akure, Ondo State, south-west … Omotoso (Kole Omotoso) passed away on 19 July 2023 in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa. …

… Dimitri Tsafendas, murderer of South African Prime Minister Hendrik F. Verwoerd in 1966, died at the age of 81 … schizophrenic three months before he knifed to death Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd. After killing Verwoerd he claimed … Tsafendas, murderer of South African Prime Minister Hendrik F. Verwoerd in 1966, dies …

… Dorothy Nomzansi Nyembe was born on the 31st of December 1931 near Dundee in northern … commitment and dedication to the liberation struggle. In 1994 after the first democratic elections, she was one of the …

… Clarence Mlami Makwetu was born on 6th December 1928 in Hoyita, in … front in order to unite the liberation movements. After 1994 election Makwetu was one of the three PAC members in … S. (1992). Who’s Who in South African Politics: Volume 4 , Johannesburg: Ravan Press.|Gail M. Gerhart, Teresa Barnes, …

… John Ndevasia Muafangejo, SA artist and teacher, is born in Etunda lo Nghadi, Angola.   He moved to South West …

… businessman and CEO of the National Gambling Board of SA since 1999, is born in Nquthu, Natal. He was …

… Edward Motale, SA soccer player who was awarded the accolade, ‘Footballer of the Season 95’ by Kick Off, is born in Pretoria. ( …

… Sydney Vernon Peterson, one of the prominent SA poets of the 1940s, is born in Riversdale, CP. His poems were translated into E …

… Albert van de Sandt Centlivres, chief justice of SA and chancellor of the University of Cape Town, is born in Cape Town. …

… Lima, editor and publisher of the first Dutch newspaper in SA, De Verzamelaar, is born in Amsterdam, the Net …

… Lionel Davis, SA artist, is born in Cape Town.  He was a political prisoner on Robben …

… Jonathan Ayliff, SA lawyer and politician, brother of John and son of the Rev. John Ayliff, is born in Salem, Cape Province. …

… Robert Koch, German scientist who visited SA to investigate the causes of rinderpest, is born in Germany. He was awarded the No …

… soldier, educator and financier who emigrated to SA in 1913, is born in Peel, Isle of Man, UK. …

… Dr Hendrik Johannes van der Bijl, SA industrialist who laid the foundation for the establishment of Escom and Iscor, is born in …

… Sir John George Fraser, SA statesman and private secretary of Pres. J.H. Brand of the OFS, is born in Beaufort West, Karoo. …

… Sack, S. (1988). The Neglected Tradition, Johannesburg: Johannesburg Art Gallery. , p. 132 … Edoardo Villa, SA artist, is born in Bergamot. Italy. He studied sculpture in Italy and …

… Sack, S. (1988). The Neglected Tradition, Johannesburg: Johannesburg Art Gallery, p. 115 … Justice Sfiso Mkame, SA artist, is born in Durban.   As a child he drew on sand walls.  He …

… Dr Abraham Johannes van der Merwe, SA church leader and leader of the Afrikaner community, is born in the district of Calvinia, …