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BiographyDaniel Francois Malan
D.F. Malan was born in 1874 in Riebeeck West in the Cape. He completed his doctorate of divinity at the University of Utrecht in 1905 and was ordained as a…
BiographySister Bernard Ncube
Sister Bernard Ncube was born in Johannesburg in 1932. She attended Roma College in Lesotho, where she received a diploma in Theology and in 1955 she entered…
BiographyBettie du Toit
Bettie Du Toit was born on 15 July in 1910, on a farm in the former Transvaal Province. She was orphaned at three when her father died. Her mother had passed…
Thola Mosala
Mr Thola Mosala was detained on 31 August 1976 together with chief Neo Sibi. Mr Mosala was a leader of a Sotho minority in the Transkei who strongly opposed…
ArticleGrade 11 Topic 3 – Source-Based Questions
An image showing the persecution of German Jews after the Nazi took powerImage Source Source 3A The source below shows how the Nuremberg laws affected…
The Independent Development Trust allocates R70 million to provide pre-school facilities for 1.2m of the estimated 3.5m impover
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at the Cape Town press club’s 21st anniversary celebration Cape Town, 31 October 1996
The Second Polar Year Project (1 August 1932-31 August 1933) starts. The Union Weather Services of South Africa renders valuabl
The ‘Luthuli Combat Detachment’, comprising of ZAPU and ANC guerrillas, crosses the Zambezi into Rhodesia (30 July 31 July) at
The South African government admits donating $35 billion in 1989 to support political parties opposing the South-West Africa Pe
Pres. Gnassingbe Eyadema, president of the West African state Togo for 31 years, is inaugurated for another term of 5 years.
The resignation of the Minister of the Interior, Theo Gerdener, is announced and will take effect from 31 July 1972.
Cyrus Vance, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, visits South Africa (21-31 July), for talks with a broad array of
President de Klerk announces the future disbandment of two security force units, the 31 and 32 battalions, and the dissolution
Statement on a National Day of Protest, by the Central Executive Committee of the ANC Youth League (Transvaal), May 31, 1950
The terms of reference of the Erasmus Commission are extended to investigate and evaluate, by 31 March 1979, the government’s p
Address at the Opening of the World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, Durban, 31 August 2001
Your Excellency, Secretary General of the United Nations, Mr Kofi Annan, Your Excellencies Heads of State and Government, Ministers and Heads of Delegation, …
Lindiwe Chibi (31), dies from pneumonia at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital. The actress, who played the character of Doob
A newspaper reports in Mbabane that Swaziland’s King Mswati III has bought himself a luxury sedan worth about R3.5m while his d
Adam Kok III (64), Griqua chief, dies in Griqualand East. Date is given as 31 December 1875 in another source.
BiographySmash Moweng
Smash Moweng, from Evaton Township, Vereeniging District, Transvaal [now Gauteng] was described as yet another “ringleader” (of the Evaton bus boycott) who was…
BiographyEmily Isabel Fern
Born Ballarat, Australia, 1881; died Johannesburg, 1953. Fern arrived in Johannesburg as a child in 1890, and was taught oil painting by a nun at End Street…
BiographyEdgar Dumile Ngoyi
Edgar Dumile Ngoyi was born on 26 December 1926 in the Eastern Cape. He worked as a painter and builder. Ngoyi became politically active in the ANC as a member…
BiographyZolile Hamilton Keke
Zolile Hamilton Keke was born on 31st of October 1945 in East London and grew up in Duncan Village township. He attended Welsh High School in East London where…
BiographyKing Dinuzulu
Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo succeeded Cetshwayo as king of the Zulu nation in 1884. At the time, Zululand was experiencing a process of national disintegration. After…
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close Document 33 Accord on Afrikaner self-determination 23 April 1994 BETWEEN THE FREEDOM FRONT, THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS AND THE…
BiographyWalter Battiss
Walter Battiss was born in Somerset East to an English Methodist family in 1906, and became one of South Africa’s first and most important abstract painters…
BiographyChief Malebogo
Malebogo (Kgalusi Seketa Masilo Ratshatsha Malaboch) was chief of the Bahananwa chiefdom, a group of the Tswana peoples. Lebogo led the Bahananwa to the…
BiographyNathaniel Impey Honono
Nathaniel Impey Honono (Tshutsha) was born on 21 October 1908, in the district of Qumbu, in the then Transkei (Eastern Cape). He graduated with a BA degree…
BiographyNerine Constantia Desmond Fial
Nerine Constantia Desmond Fial was born in Constantia, Cape, 1908. She studied graphics at London's Central School of Art in 1938, but was otherwise largely…