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2,800 African miners strike at the Van Rhyn Deep mines in a bid to redress some of their grievances.
Dr Johannes Theodorus van der Kemp (64), controversial missionary and physician in the Eastern Cape, dies in Cape Town.
Yolande Wessels disappears after school in Kempton Park. Later evidence suggests that she was abducted by paedophile Gert van R
Pieter Johannes (Piet) Potgieter, second son and sixth child of Andries Hendrik Potgieter and in 1853 elected chief commandant
Meeting between Director-General N P van Heerden and Dr C Crocker, Assistant Secretary of State in Washinton on 30 March 1988
Meeting between South Africa and United States of America to discuss international relations with regard to the political and military situation in southern…
Cornelis Jacob van de Graaff assumes governorship at the Cape. Graaff-Reinet is named after him and his wife.
Dr. Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, leader of the opposition PFP, resigns from parliamentary politics because he said Parliament is
Police baton-charge and teargas protesters at Jan Smuts Airport in Johannesburg. The protesters had gathered to express their d
Sisulu attends a secret meeting at the house of George Xarile together with F. Van Rensburg (a shift boss from Vlakfontein mine
Gert van der Linde (75), former chairman of the old Cape Provincial Council and MP, dies in Port Elizabet
Paedophile Gert van Rooyen and his mistress, Joey Haarhoff, commit suicide in Pretoria while being pursued by the police.
The six-man Commission of Inquiry into security legislation, under the chairmanship of Justice P.I. Rabie, presents its report
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…
BiographyBertram Buxton Xiniwe
Bertram Buxton Xiniwe was born in Middledrift in the Cape, the son of Paul Xiniwe, who subsequently became a well-known hotel operator in King William's Town…
BiographyHammington Silulami Majija
A graduate of Healdtown, he taught in Rhodesia and the Transkei and later worked as business manager of Contact in Cape Town. A prominent figure in the Liberal…
EventScores of people, including a Chief, are killed in Lari, Kenya, following an attack by Mau Mau freedom fighters
On 26 March 1953, close to 100 people were killed and scores of others injured at Lari in Kiambu region, Kenya, when Mau Mau freedom fighters attacked the area…
ArticleTimeline of State Action Against the Press in the 1960s
1960 Mar- Norman Phillips of the Toronto Star was detained 3 and '/2 days for trying to cable a story about a police attack on Nyanga, Cape Town. The report…
The SA rugby team wins the first test against the USA in New York 38-7. Ray Mordt of SA scores in his second consecutive te
BiographyKuben Naidoo
When Prema Naidoo and others were detained in 1981, the South African press published a photograph of his ten-year-old son, Kuben Naidoo, holding up a banner…
International Boycott of Apartheid Sport by Mary Corrigall
… refinement of apartheid rather than its elimination. SAN-ROC formed By 1962 it became clear to SASA that no … meeting of the South African Non-Racial Olympic…
PlaceOhrigstad
… found in the Area. This indicates that the Pedi and San groups lived here thousands of Years ago. Ohrigstad is a … found in the Area. This indicates that the…
Natures Valley, Garden Route
… glacial periods interrupted this coastal occupation, San hunter-gatherers lived in this Area from about 10,000 … glacial periods interrupted this coastal…
Heritage Route of Transvaal, Limpopo and Mpumalanga
… History of; the Kruger National Park including the San people , Voortrekkers and various gold prospectors. The …
BiographyMakhosi “Tholi” Nyoka
Makhosi “Tholi” Nyoka was born on 3 April 1957 and grew up in KwaMashu, a township north of Durban, where she attended Umzuvele Secondary School. Nyoka was…
BiographyLillian Diedericks
Lillian Diedericks was born in 1925 in the oldest part of New Brighton township, Red Location (near the railway line), in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape. Her…
I am an African by Thabo Mbeki, 8 May, 1996, Cape Town (video)
Something Torn and New an African Renaissance by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
The making of an African working class: Port Elizabeth, 1923-1963
MA Thesis in Economic History, submitted to the University of Cape Town by Janet Mary Cherry.