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BiographyVuminkosi Zulu
Vuminkosi Zulu was born on 24 November 1948 in Mapumulo, KwaZulu-Natal. From the age of thirteen Zulu attended school in Kranskop for six years and completed…
Abraham Jacobus (Kootjie) van den Heever (58), SA author and younger brother of C.M. van den Heever, dies.
EventLegendary photographer Sam Nzima dies
On 12 May 2018, legendary photographer Sam Nzima passed away at the age of 83 in hospital in Nelspruit, Mpumalanga. Nzima was born in Lillydale a small village…
EventErfdeel farm in Orange Free State becomes SA’s richest gold deposit
On 3 June 1954, a mining engineer at the Erfdeel farm in the Orange Free State pulled up a drill-core laden with ore from nearly 6,000-feet. The Essayists…
Jan Sebastian Rabie, well-known SA author, is born near George.
Jan Spies, SA author and radio and TV personality, is born.
Cecil Higgs, one of SA’s foremost painters, dies in Cape Town.
EventA book claims that SA’s Nuclear weapons programme has continued since 1993
Peter Houman and Steve McQuillan's book " Mini-Nuke Conspiracy: Mandela's Nuclear Nightmare " claimed that South Africa did not destroy all its nuclear weapons…
Eghard van der Hoven, SA actor and arts director, is born.
Anton van Wouw, SA sculptor, is born in Driebergen, the Netherlands.
Jan H.H. de Waal (65), SA author, dies in Cape Town.
ArchiveYuppies moet help bou aan nuwe SA (Article written in Afrikaans)
The Arrival of the Khoisan
… way of life and new ideas about the world. For the San hunter-gatherers many aspects of the Khoikhoi way of life … Vol 3 edited by A. Balkema, pp 441-2…
BiographyJoseph Manana
Manana was born in Escourt, KwaZulu-Natal. He has been working as an artist since the mid 1980s and is largely self-taught. A few years ago he received an…
BiographyShirish Nanabhai
Shirish was born one of eight siblings on 1 March 1938 at 51 Commercial Rd, Fordsburg. Jasmath Nanabhai, Shirish J. Nanabhai’s father, was from the village of…
BiographyTheophilus Tshangela
Theophilus Tshangela was banished from Kwamaleida in the Amadiba Location, Bizana District [Eastern province, now Eastern Cape] to the Frenchdale Native Trust…
BiographyWilliam Tilden McClain
William Tilden McClain, son of Mary and Harry McClain and an elder brother to David Jack McClain was born on 14 January 1923 in Shelbyville, Indiana. McClain…
BiographyMadi Gray
Madi Gray was born in Cape Town, where she grew up, attended school and went to university. Her parents were immigrants from Germany, who came to South Africa…
BiographyEs’kia Mphahlele
Extract from media statement on the passing of Dr. Es’kia Mphahlele (1919 - 2008): By Minister of culture & society, Dr Z. Pallo JordanEs'kia [Ezekiel]…
BiographyDorothy Moss Kay
Dorothy Moss Kay was born in Greystones, County Wicklow, Ireland, 1886. Kay (nee Elvery) studied at the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin. She came to SA in…
BiographyBheki Cele
Life and Early Career Bhekokwakhe (Bheki) Hamilton Cele was born on 22 April 1952 to Albertina Mtshali and Gillford Cele at uMuzumbe Mission Hospital near…
Maria Visser (68), mother of SA singer Worsie Visser, dies in Barkley West, a month after her son was killed in an accident.
Maria Visser (68), mother of SA singer Worsie Visser, dies in Barkley West, a month after her son was killed in an accident.
A memorial tablet for Johannes van der Walt, SA wrestler and national hero of an Afrikaner section, is unveiled at the Rand Afr
BiographyAutshumao (Herry the Strandloper)
Autshumao also known as Herry the strandloper (beach walker), he was chief and interpreter of the Gorinhaikonas. In 1630 he was taken to Bantam by the English…
Jan van Riebeeck nominates the first Burgher Council in Table Bay, consisting of four freemen.
Maria van Riebeeck, daughter of Jan and his wife Maria, is born at the Cape.
Willem Adriaan (Wilhelm Adriaen) van der Stel, eldest son of Simon van der Stel who also became governor of the Cape, is born i
Khoisan Identity
… provisions would be made ‘for the recognition of the Khoi-San communities, their leadership and structures’. He continued: ‘It is important to remember that…
BiographySolomon Kalushi Mahlangu
Solomon Kalushi Mahlangu was born in Pretoria on 10 July in 1956. He was the second son of Martha Mahlangu. His father left him in 1962, and from then on only…