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ArticleDutch settlement, the Indian Ocean slave trade and slavery at the Cape - seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
Reasons: DEIC permanent settlement at the Cape 1652 The DEIC (Dutch East India Company) in the Netherlands was set up in 1602 to trade. In 1647, the Haerlem,…
Community histories of Rustenburg
Afrikaans Community (1838-1899) The First White Inhabitants It is documented that the first pioneers from the Eastern Cape undertook a hunting expedition…
ArchiveClass and Ethnicity: The Politics and Ideologies of the Greek Community in South Africa, circa 1890-1924 by Evangelos Anastasios Mantzaris
A History of Zonnebloem College 1858 to 1870 A Study of Church and Society by Janet K.H. Hodgson, University of Cape Town, 1975
George Hobson (55), SA author of mainly animal stories, dies in Cape Town. Nuusdagboek: feite en fratse oor 1000 jaar, Kaapstad
A 1000-strong search party finds the body of the Prince Imperial of France, Louis Napoleon, who was killed when Zulu warriors a
Lord Robert Stephenson Baden-Powell, British hero during the siege of Mafeking (1900) and founder of the Boy Scout movement in
Declaration by about 1,500 Mayors calling for the release of Nelson Mandela and all other South African political prisoners pub
Wilhelmina, queen of the Netherlands from 1890 and throughout World Wars I (WWI) and II (WWII), abdicates in favour of her daug
Several University of Cape Town students are injured and eighteen arrested during a 1000-strong picket in De Waal Drive in Cape
Following the and the protest at Langa, roughly 1,500 Blacks are detained by the South African police in Cape Town.
BiographyWilliam Wellington Gqoba
William Wellington Gqoba was born in Gaba, near Alice, Eastern Cape in August 1840. He was the son of Gqoba of the Cirha clan, who was in turn the son of Peyi,…
BiographySir George Grey
George Grey was the only son of Lieutenant-Colonel Grey of the 30th Foot. His father was killed at the sack of Badajoz in the Peninsula War, eight days before…
BiographyKobera Manual
Aunty Kobera Manual of Ocean View died at the age of 98 on Wednesday 27 July 2016. In 2009 I interviewed her at her home in Ocean View, when she shared some…
Leong Yun Pin
Mr Leong Pin died on 19 November 1966 after being detained on 18 Novemver 1966 at the Leeuwkop prison under the 180-day clause.The official cause of death at…
Hezekiel Sepeng, SA Olympic -, World and Commonwealth silver medal winner in the 800m events, is born in Potchefstroom. ;
About 100 White sympathisers join evicted Black squatters in a passive protest against the demolition of shanty dwellings outsi
Max, a 180 kg gorilla, is shot in his neck and shoulder by a robber who got into his cage.
Fighting between Nigeria’s Hausa and Yoruba tribes leaves 100 dead in Lagos. (2004). Yesterdays, Pretoria News, 18 October.
The South African Government grants diplomatic immunity and privileges to about 100 UN, Commonwealth, European Community and OA
Martin West, lieutenant-governor of Natal, appoints a location commission to investigate into the problems caused by about 100
The possessions of Piet Retief and about 100 men who were murdered in February by Dingane, is auctioned.
BiographyRev. George Champion
Reverend George Champion was born in the state of Connecticut, United States in 1810. After graduating from Yale University, Champion joined the American Board…
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