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PlaceRailway Station, Sannaspos, Bloemfontein
The Station Building, situate on a protion of the Farm Klipkraal 117 in the District of Bloemfontein. Situated on the Druenberg – Sannaspos inter-provincial…
PlaceRobertson, Route 62
In about 1853 the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) in Swellendam resolved to establish a new congregation to serve the spiritual needs of residents in its Southern…
ArticleThe following is a list of 43 names of those killed in the stampede at a soccer match at Ellis Park stadium
The 43 spectators were crushed to death when fans forced their way through gate four in the north east corner of the stadium. A further 117 were injured. …
PlaceRorke's Drift, KZN
Rorke's Drift, situated 46 km South East of Dundee, on the Battlefields Route. Is the site of one of the most famous battles of the Anglo-Zulu War. Years later…
PlaceMakhonjwa Mountains, Barbeton
Situated in North-Eastern South Africa, the site comprises 40% of the Barberton Greenstone Belt, one of the World’s oldest Geological structures. The Barberton…
ArticleStates of Emergency in South Africa: the 1960s and 1980s
One of the key instruments used by the apartheid government to neutralise political dissent was the State of Emergency (SOE). In periods when the government…
Black Concentration Camps during the Anglo-Boer War 2, 1900-1902
While the two main forces in the Anglo-Boer War 2 were White, it was not an exclusively White war. At least 15 000 Blacks were used as combatants by the…
PlaceRondebosch Fountain, Main Road, Rondebosch.
The fountain was, in reality, only an ornamental trough used for the watering of horses, and consists of a round cast-iron drinking bowl supported on legs in…
EventRamaphosa and Motlatsi are arrested
First general secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), Cyril Ramaphosa, and its president, James Motlatsi, were arrested in Newcastle, Natal. The…
EventTryna du Toit, Afrikaans novelist, is born in De Aar, Karoo
Catherina Charlotte Kotzenberg was born in De Aar on 13 January 1910. She started writing books at the age of thirty and chose to write under the pseudonym,…
ArticleTimeline of the German and Herero, Nama War and Genocide
1904 6 January, The settler Frau Sonnenberg tells German soldiers stationed at the Waterberg, including the Sergeant in charge, Sergeant Rademacher, that…
ArticleHistory of Women in Prisons during Apartheid
This article was written by Justin Lawler and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project During the times of apartheid,…
EventThe Prince Imperial of France dies in the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879
The 22-year-old Prince Imperial of France, Eugene Louis Jean Joseph Napoleon, who studied in England at the Royal Military Academy and joined the British…
EventDeath of Harry Oppenheimer
South Africa's most successful businessman, Harry Oppenheimer, died after a short illness at the age of 91. Oppenheimer was admitted to the intensive care unit…
The National Arts Festival
In 1974, an inaugural festival titled the 1820 Settlers National Monument was opened as a memorial to the British immigrants in South Africa. They established…
ArticlePrehistory of the Durban area
Prehistory of Southern Africa The Durban area is probably best known for the historic Zulu kingdom, dating to the early 19th century. To understand the…
Political deaths in police custody 1984 - 1989
YearDateNameAffiliationPlace of deathDescription198415 JulyNgalo, Johannes (26) ParysFound dead in cell due to serious internal injuries. 29 September …
PlaceOrlando Stadium
This was the site of the first stadium in Soweto, officially opened in 1959. For almost 50 years this was a famous home of soccer, associated with a host of…
EventDorothy Fischer becomes the first South African woman to undergo a heart transplant
40 year-old Dorothy Fisher was given a new heart in 1969 and became the longest surviving patient. She lived for 12 years afterwards. She was South Africa's…
EventSA government threatens to pull out of the UN peace plan for Namibia
The South African government threatened to pull out of the United Nations (UN) peace plan for Namibia unless action was taken against the South West African…
”Africans and San Francisco.” Statement by Dr. A. B. Xuma, May 8, 1945
Many people have written me and others have asked me personally what part the African National Congress is taking to bring to the attention of Allied Nations…
19. Lawrence asks for exemption from discriminatory laws
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai Vendenayagum Lawrence petitioned the Natal…
EventLucas Mangope leaves Mmabatho due to uprising
President Lucas Mangope, the leader of the apartheid homeland Bophuthatswana, retreated from the capital, Mmabatho, in the face of a popular uprising after he…
EventAbyssinian fortress of Dessie is captured by South African troops during World War II
The Abyssinian fortress of Dessie, located between Addis Ababa and Amba Alagi, was captured by General Alan Cunningham's South African divisions. This event…
ArticleThe Group Areas Act of 1950
The National Party was elected in 1948 on the policy of Apartheid ('separateness'). This 'separateness' put South Africans of different racial groups on their…
BiographyWinnie Madikizela-Mandela
Early YearsNomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Madikizela was born, the fifth of nine children, in the village of Mbongweni, Bizana, in the Transkei on 26 September 1936…
PlaceLady Frere, Eastern Cape
Originally named after the wife of; Sir Henry Bartle Frere, the then Governor of the Cape, Lady Frere serves as the centre for the Glen Grey farming district…
BiographyBenjamin Magson Kies
Benjamin Magson Kies Introduction Benjamin Magson Kies was an important South African political activist and theorist from about the middle of the 1930s…
EventQueen Mother Elizabeth turns 100
Queen Elizabeth, British Queen Mother, celebrated her 100th birthday with thousands of people lining up in the streets of London to cheer her. The Queen Mother…
EventA Second Plenary session of Multi Party negotiations for a transition to democracy in South Africa reconvene
The second plenary session of the Congress for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA II) was convened in Johannesburg. Unlike the first session CODESA II ended in…