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Dr. Albert Stals (71), SA Minister of Health, dies in Cape Town.
SA signs joint communiqué concerning the development of bilateral relations with Jordan.
The Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, beats Burjina Faso 1-0 in a home game.
Robert Mugabe returns to Southern Rhodesia after an exile of five years.
SA signs treaty of the principles of inter-state relations with India.
Sarel J. Pretorius (Sarel Jacob), SA poet, is born in Postmasburg, Northern Cape.
Zolani Petelo, SA mini flyweight, wins the International Boxing Federation (IBF) title.
BiographyAlex Hepple
Alex Hepple was born in the Johannesburg suburb of La Rochelle on 28 August 1904. His father, Thomas Hepple (1869-1942), an immigrant from Sunderland, was a…
BiographyRobert Gwelo Goodman
Robert Gwelo Goodman was born in 1871, Taplow, England. Goodman's The Parade and the City Hall, Cape Town (1917) is a painting that has special relevance for…
BiographyBarend Jacobus (Ben) Erasmus
Barend Jacobus Erasmus was born to Barend Jacobus Gerrit Wessel Erasmus and Susara Catharina Elizabeth Horak on 29 December 1918 in Johannesburg. His father…
BiographyKevin Dowling
Kevin Patrick Dowling was born in Pretoria and was ordained as a priest of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer on 9 July 1967. He was appointed the…
Henry Reed Ngcayiya
He trained as a teacher at Healdtown Institution, a Methodist boarding school near Fort Beaufort in the Eastern Cape. Ngcayiya left the teaching profession…
BiographyJames M. Thaele
James M. Thaele was born in Basutoland in 1888 and was reputed to be the son of a Basuto chief and a Coloured mother. From 1906 until about 1910, he studied at…
BiographyWalter Gilbert Wiles
Walter Gilbert Wiles was born in Cambridge, England in 1875. Wiles was one of the five artist-sons of the sculptor Henry Wiles. Of all the five sons, he was…
BiographyBen Baartman
The son of a farm worker, Kopi Ben Baartman was born in the Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape) town of Molteno on 1 March 1924. He worked on the mines around…
Ntela Richard Sikhosana
Exiled person, MK Commissar, Robben Island prisoner, member of the African National Congress and South African Communist Party and South African National…
BiographyZondeni Veronica Sobukwe
Zondeni Veronica Sobukwe was born on 27 of July 1927 in Hlobane, Natal (now Kwazulu-Natal), South Africa. Mrs Sobukwe (then Miss Mathe) was a trainee nurse…
BiographyNzimeni Elliot Mfaxa
Nzimeni Elliot Mfaxa was born August 26, 1926 at KwaGusha Farm in Somerset West. He was orphaned at age 12,Mfaxa moved to the Eastern Cape to attend secondary…
BiographyAnthony Holiday
Anthony Holiday had served as a senior reporter on the Cape Times newspaper prior to his arrest, and had also been employed by the Rand Daily Mail as a…
BiographyBeauclerk Upington
Beauclerk Upington, eldest son Sir Thomas Upington, was born on 29 March, 1873. He arrived in Cape Town at the age of one. He was educated at the South African…
BiographyCoopoosamy Naidoo
Coopoosamy, the eldest son of Thambi and Veerammal Naidoo, was sentenced in 1909 to seven days with hard labour for hawking without licence. He went hawking…
BiographyJabulani Sikhakhane
Mr Jabulani Sikhakhane has over 20 years’ experience in journalism and communications, with his main focus being on financial and political reporting. He has…
BiographyPregaluxmi (Pregs) Govender
Pregaluxmi (Pregs) Govender was born on 15 February 1960 in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). Her father – a writer and, mother, a teacher – valued critical…
Address of Nelson Mandela, President of the African National Congress on Receiving an Honorary LLD Degree at the University of Fort Hare 9 May 1992
Mr. Chancellor, Comrade OR Tambo, revered and long-standing leader of our people, Mr. Vice-Chancellor and Rector, Professor S.M.E. Bengu, Chairperson of…
BiographyDimitri Tsafendas
Dimitri Tsafendas was the parliamentary messenger who assassinated Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd on 06 September 1966 by stabbing him four times with a…
BiographyMary Elizabeth Davis
Mary Elizabeth Davis was born in Portobello County, Edinburgh, Scotland on 26 December 1858. She was a business person and supporter of women’s causes. Davis…