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Robert Sobukwe, President of the Pan Africanist Congress, is sentenced to three years’ imprisonment for incitement of Africans
Prof. J.C. van Rooy and Dr E. Greyling open the CNO-Voortrekker-Bewaarskool (Christian National Education Crèche) in Pietermar
The government imposes a one-year ban on all outdoor meetings except sports meetings and funeral gatherings in cemeteries.
Johannes Theodorus van der Kemp, controversial missionary and physician of the London Missionary Society, arrives at the Cape.
The third session of the Pan African Parliament (PAP) begins at Gallagher Estate in Midrand, north of Johannesburg.
A UN program to feed two million Angolans resumes after the government lifts a three-month ban on food deliveries.
EventFormer City Press Editor Mathata Tsedu’s son is found burnt beyond recognition in the boot of his car
The remains of Avhatakali Netshusaulu, accountant and son of the former City Press editor Mathata Tsedu, were found in the boot of his car after he had been…
4,000 Black postal workers have refused to give oaths of loyalty to Ian Smith’s government in Rhodesia.
Allison Wessels George (Mhlongo) Champion, trade union leader, Black politician and businessman, is born at Sans Souci Mission
Justice Kees van Dijkhorst of the Pretoria Supreme Court sentences the eleven "Delmas Treason Trialists" he had convi
President Swart appoints a one-man commission, Mr Justice J.H. Snyman, to inquire into the riots in Paarl, CP.
Marthinus Cornelius (oom Tienie) van Schoor, electrical engineer, inventor of the single-line train control system and cultural
Jan Daniël Cilliers, poet under the pseudonym “Kleinjan”, is born on a farm in the vicinity of Wellington, CC.
Pieter Voltelyn Graham van der Byl, politician and member of parliament, dies at Fairfield, Caledon district, Western Cape.
BiographyKhaya Biko
Early lifeKhaya Biko was born in Queenstown in the Eastern Cape in 1944, the second of four children of Mzingaye Biko, a police officer and later a clerk, and…
BiographyHezekiel Sepeng
Hezekiel Sepeng was born on 30 June 1974 in Potchestroom, Western Transvaal. At primary school he began to show the natural talent of a good marathon runner. …
Masango Caleb job Mayekiso
Masango Caleb Job Mayekiso was born 1913 in Idutywa Transkei. He was a factory worker in Port Elizabeth.He was a genuine working-class leader.In 1940's…
Baroness Castle of Blackburn opened an exhibition on the history of the Anti-Apartheid Movement at the opening session of the Symposium
I don't know why I should have been honoured in this way by being asked to open this exhibition; awhole stream of people have done far more than I have been…
ArticleNamibian Timeline
… A Commando expedition of Boers, Khoe and San cross the !Garib (Orange) River and attack a Nama leader … leadership with a programme of…
BiographyPeter Rudolf Gisela Horn
Peter Rudolf Gisela Horn was born 7 December 1934 in Teplice, Czechoslovakia (currently in Czech Republic). At the end of World War II he had to flee his home…
BiographySue Williamson
Sue Williamson was born in Litchfield, England in 1941. Her family immigrated to South Africa in 1948. Williamson studied at the Art Students' League in New…
ArticleWomen and The Food and Canning Workers’ Union
The fruit-canning industry in South Africa can be traced to the late nineteenth century, when the first jam factories opened in Paarl and Stellenbosch in the…
ArticleSotho (South Sotho or Basotho)
… ). Some of these communities had established ties to San peoples who lived just west of Moshoeshoe's territory. As …
BiographySolomon Madikizela
Solomon Madikizela, from Amagutyana Location, Bizana District, [Eastern Province, now Eastern Cape] “established himself as the leader of proceedings at…
BiographyMxolisi Mgxashe
Mxolisi “Bra Ace” Mgxashe was born in 1944. He joined the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) in Cape Town in the 1960s and took part in the march, in Cape Town’s…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the SA freedom day celebrations Pretoria, 27 April 1996
Master of Ceremonies; Distinguished Heads of State and Dignitaries from abroad; Ministers; Honourable Guests; Friends and Compatriots. For generations…
EventCharles Darwin and the HMS Beagle reached the Galapagos Islands
… to survey the South American coast, the Beagle reached San Cristobal (Chatham) in September 1835. The Beagle spent 5 …
BiographyAmy Biehl
Amy Biehl was born on 26 April 1967 to a Roman Catholic family in Newport Beach, California, in the United States of America (USA). She excelled academically…
EventExtracts from one of South African President Thabo Mbeki’s most stirring speeches
… land. I am an African! I owe my being to the Khoi and the San whose desolate souls haunt the great expanses of the …
BiographyJohn Mtini
Born in 1887, John Mtini was the 'Grand Old Man' of the trial who took part in the 1929 anti-pass campaigns, the struggles of the unemployed of 1931-2, the…