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SA signs protocol with Cyprus on the establishment of diplomatic relations.
Gideon Fagan, SA composer and director, is born in Somerset West.
ArchiveNegotiating the future of traditional healers in SA: differences and difficulties
Dirk Meerkotter, SA painter and potter, is born in Pietersburg, Tvl.
Dr D.F. Malan (84), SA Premier (1948-1954), dies in Stellenbosch.
Tutu: ‘Visualise a peaceful SA’ Article in Sunday Times, 12 December 1993
WW2: The 1st SA Division enters Abyssinia from the south.
SA signs agreement with Lesotho on issuing of notes and coins.
EventEugéne Nielen Marais, S.A. poet, writer, lawyer and naturalist, is born
Eugene Nielen Marais began writing at a very young age. By the age of 12, he was a published writer. Marais became famous as an Afrikaans writer, even though…
Senator Edward Kennedy pays an eight-day visit to South Africa.
Roger Henry Daller (Henry) Davies, SA sculptor, is born in Pietermaritzburg.
The Sahara is traversed by an automobile for the first time.
SA signs agreement with Botswana regarding the establishment of a representative office.
Guy Pierre Du Toit, S.A. sculptor, is born in Rustenburg, Transvaal.
EventDavid Phaswane Mogano, SA artist, is born in Pietersburg , Northern Transvaal
David Phaswane Mogano was born in Pietersburg (now Polokwane), Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo) in 1932.Upon completing his high school studies he left for…
EventA delegation of seven Coloured leaders meets with SA Prime Minister Vorster to discuss the future of the Coloured community
A seven-man delegation of Coloured leaders flies from Cape Town to Pretoria to meet South African Prime Minister, John Vorster for discussions on the future of…
BiographyBaden Powell
Baden Powell or BP was born Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden Powell was born on the 22 February 1857, the son of Professor Baden Powell, of Oxford University. His…
BiographyNomkhitha Virginia Mashinini (née Boto)
Nomkhitha Virginia Mashinini was born on the 9th of May, 1935, in the rural Bengu village of Lady Frere in the former Transkei. After the death of his first…
BiographyFrederick Timpson I’Ons
Frederick Timpson I'Ons was born in Islington, Middlesex, England on 15 November 1802. His father was John I'Ons, the master of a riding-school in Islington…
BiographyJames Ford
James Ford was born in Cornwall, England. He is listed as a member in the SASA Exhibition of Pictures catalogue of 1904, but there is no record of him ever…
BiographyJames Mata Dwane
Dwane was born in the Eastern Cape in 1848 and was raised as a Wesleyan. Ordained as a minister in 1881, he proved to be a man of great ability and strong…
BiographyRissik Haribhai "Barney" Desai
Rissik Haribhai "Barney" Desai was born into an Indian family on 10 April 1932 in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), South Africa. According to South Africa’s…
BiographyVera Ponnen
Vera Ponnen (nee Vera Gwendoline Alberts) was born in 1915 in England. She came to South Africa in 1938 as a governess. The next year, she went to Johannesburg…
BiographyMargaret Nash
Margaret Nash was born at Milford-on-Sea in England on 1 March 1929. In 1931, her family moved to South Africa and settled in Durban, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal…
BiographyNana Henrietta Moabi
Nana Henrietta Moabi (nee Radadi) was born in Lichtenburg, Western Transvaal (now North West Province) on 18 September 1938. She completed her lower primary…
BiographyTlou Matlala
Tlou Matlala was banished on 11 June 1952 from Matlala's Location, Pietersburg District, Transvaal [now Polokwane, Limpopo] to Zwelitsha Native Reserve, King…
BiographyMadibeng Chris Mokoditoa
Restricted to Johannesburg. Madibeng Chris Mokoditoa was an Articled clerk, studying to become an attorney. He was the secretary of the University of…
ArchiveEdward Webster: South African intellectual, teacher, activist, a man of great energy and integrity, and the life and soul of any party
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