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Johannes Jane Tane Kekana, a chief of the Lebelo clan of the Ndebele born c. 1840, dies and is buried at Wallmannstal, north of
Schalk Willem Burger, vice-president and acting president of the ZAR after President Kruger left for Europe in 1900, dies at Go
PlaceLiberia
Liberia, which means ‘freedom’ formerly known as the Grain Coast, is one of the few African countries including Ethiopia that were not colonised by the…
'Native life' 100 after Sol Plaatje published it by Janet Remmington, Brian Willan, Bhekizizwe Peterson (Mail and Guardian), 30 September 2016
Sol T Plaatje’s ground-breaking work Native Life in South Africa was published 100 years ago in 1916. Janet Remmington, Brian Willan and Bhekizizwe Peterson…
PlaceOatlands, Simonstown
… a period of two years. He gave up possession in the year 1800. At the end of the First British Occupation in 1803, the …
BiographyRoseberry Tandwefika Bokwe
Roseberry Tandwefika Bokwe was born in 1900 in the Tsomo district of the Transkei. He began his education at the mission of his father,John Knox Bokwe, in Ugie…
EventThe first cable connection between SA and Europe is launched
On 31 July 1879, the first cable connection between South Africa and Europe, via Aden, was launched. It was laid by the British electrical engineer Charles…
EventThe first plots are sold in Mayfair on the West Rand
The Johannesburg suburb of Mayfair was laid out the farm Langlaagte No.258, the farm on which gold was discovered in the late 1800s. The mineral rights of…
ArticleSonghai, African Empire, 15-16th Century
Overview, West Africa and the rise of the Songhai Empire West Africa is home to many of Africa's oldest kingdoms. These kingdoms played an important role in…
Mission Stations - T-Z
Mission Stations - T TABA MOSEGU, Transvaal: Bn 1880 TABASE, Umtata, Cape: Mor 1873; MorG 1914 TABLE MOUNTAIN, Pietermaritzburg, Natal: ABCFM c1851 …
Ixopo, Kwa-Zulu Natal- Midlands
Ixopo, immortalized in Alan Paton’s: “Cry the Beloved Country” is the main centre of the Southern Midlands. Although originally named: ‘Stuartstown’, the…
PlaceChad
Chad is the fifth largest country in Africa[i]. Chad is estimated to be one of the areas for where the human species originated[ii]. The area which is now…
ArchiveMapping free Indian migration to Natal through a biographical lens, 1880-1930 by Kalpana Hiralal
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