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EventFormer SA Cricket Captain, Hansie Cronje, dies
… Outeniqua Mountains in the Southern Cape. Cronje was on his way home (Fancourt Estate) when he missed his scheduled flight at an Airport in Johannesburg on…
EventChief Malaboch is taken prisoner
… of the Bahananwa (Xananwa) people refused to leave his traditional mountain kingdom of Blouberg as ordered by … resulted in the Malaboch war, with the chief…
ArticleThe Padavatan Six and the 1917 Natal Floods
… of the Umgeni (uMngeni) River burst after heavy rains. The death toll would have been much higher if it were not for the … for generations on the beaches of…
EventSouth African actor, Ken Gampu, dies in Vosloorus
… At the time of his death at the age of 74, Ken Gampu was a well known veteran … films, having spent two years in the United States. His first acting job was…
PlaceGreenhill Road 14, Emmarentia, Johannesburg
… When Lourens Geldenhuys was 14, his father moved them to the gold reef, where their farm … for gold, this became the Geldenhys Estate! Lourens and his…
ArticleSilverton and Soekmekaar trial
… bringing harm to civilians. Mashigo testified that during his training cadres were told not to use methods involving … Petrus Mashigo, and Naphtali Manana…
ArticleThe Jameson Raid
… the raid, but by that time it was too late as Jameson and his party had already crossed into the Transvaal. … to trial in Johannesburg. Some of them were…
Mashwabada Victor ''Castro'' Mayatula
… a stroke in Soweto in September 1980.Mourners marched from his large funeral at Regina Mundi to the Avalon Cemetery …
BiographyRodger Bosch
… of the political landscape with President Jacob Zuma. His work has appeared in publications across South Africa and …
EventSASO leader, Abram Tiro is assassinated
… Tiro was completing an application form to continue his studies through the University of South Africa (Unisa) … exhumed by the Azanian People's Organisation…
EventClarence Mlokoti is shot dead by hijackers
… club, was shot dead by hijackers while trying to take his car in Pimville, Soweto. The highjacking took place on Tuesday night while Mlokoti was waiting for…
![Freddie Mercury [Bulsara], singer and songwriter, is born in Zanzibar, Africa.](/sites/default/files/styles/saho_medium/public/event_pics/Freddie%20Mercury.jpg?itok=Vuq6ADKe)
EventFreddie Mercury [Bulsara], singer and songwriter, is born in Zanzibar, Africa.
… Mercury was born Farrokh Bulsara in Zanzibar, East Africa. His parents were Parsis from Bombay (now Mumbai), India. … in India and grew up there. At the age…
Article‘Liberated’ Slaves? by Joline Young
… journeys on slave ships, the rigours of which caused the death of many of their contemporaries along the way, the … of trauma that they endured must have…
ArticleNational Party (NP)
… Hertzog often publicly disagreed with the opinions of his fellow leaders of the SAP, in particular, those of Prime … South Africa described him as anti…
ArchivePress statement on the release of the Sharpeville Six
… Six as they calls on State President to exercise his presidential pregotative to save the lives of the Sharpeville Six who are now facing the death sentence…
EventFollowing the infamous Treason Trial, ANC leader Chief Albert Luthuli is banished by the Apartheid Government for five years
… Apartheid Government demanded that Luthuli choose between his chieftainship and the ANC. His refusal to leave the ANC resulted in him being deposed as … the…
EventTunisia: The self-emulation of Tarek el-Tayeb Mohamed Bouazizi sparks the Jasmin Revolution
… set himself alight after local Tunisian police confiscated his wheelbarrow full of fresh produce and publically humiliated him. Bouazizi, in his frustration…
EventANC leader, James Arthur Calata, dies
… gatherings but was eventually allowed to carry on with his church work, although not without government harassment. … ANC's structures both nationally and…
EventNigerian Political Scientist Professor Claude Ake is born
… miles northeast of Lagos. There were no survivors. Ake’s death sparked speculation that his adversaries were behind it. He was vocal in political and social…
EventSA Artist, Father Frans Claerhout, is born
… on this day in Pittem, western Belgium. After completing his studies, he immigrated to South Africa in 1946 as a … He served primarily in Bloemfontein,…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1980-1989
… by members of an apartheid hit-squad while reversing out his drive-way at his home in Harare, Zimbabwe. 12 August, MK launches an … in the Transvaal. 12…
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: A Reflection of the Chasm Between Constitutional Rights and the Lived Experience in South Africa by Rhiain Moses
… as the depiction of a brief and suspicious report of the death of a prisoner (Coetzee, 1997, p. 6), places the novel … is a “man of conscience”, supposedly…
Shared Cultural Trauma: Inarticulacy as Social Disability in South African Literature by Hannah Pagan
… as the depiction of a brief and suspicious report of the death of a prisoner (Coetzee, 1997, p. 6), places the novel … is a “man of conscience”, supposedly…
EventDennis Brutus is born
… Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe) to South African parents. His parents moved back to South Africa and settled in Port … Games. He was arrested in 1964 and…
Event”Unknown” White man is hanged in Pretoria
… the South African criminal history a man was hanged with his name known only by authorities. The 37-year-old White male was accused of criminally assaulting…
EventRobert Sobukwe is sentenced to three years’ imprisonment
… was arrested and sentenced, but refused to appeal against his sentence, as he had refused the aid of an attorney, on … either a court of law or a court of…
EventSimon van der Stel, commander and governor of the Cape, is born
… official and Maria Lievens, the daughter of a freed slave. His father remained in the service of the DEIC until his death, upon which Simon went to Batavia,…
General South African History Timeline: 1970s
… the Rev. Desmond Tutu announces that he is giving up his current post to become Secretary-General of the South … African is issued with a certificate of…
EventSir Benjamin D’Urban, for whom the city Durban was named, assumes office as Governor of the Cape of Good Hope
… battles, including Salamanca and Toulouse. As part of his foreign service, he became the governor of Antigua in … office as Governor of the Cape of Good Hope…
EventEdgar Wallace (56), author and newspaper editor in South Africa, dies in Hollywood.
… Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was born in London in 1875. His mother, unmarried and struggling to make a living, gave … and Stoughton publishers in 1921. The…