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The schools’ boycott spreads to the Black townships and riot police are in action in Durban and Port Elizabeth. At Elsies River
Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama, on board the Saint Gabriel, and tasked with finding a sea route to India and the Orient, dr
Jabu Ndlovu, his wife Jabulani, both trade unionists (NUMSA), and their daughter, are shot and burnt in an attack on their home
Jabu Ndlovu, his wife Jabulani, both trade unionists (NUMSA), and their daughter, are shot and burnt in an attack on their home
Two South Africans, Ian Woodall and Cathy O’Dowd, reach the summit of Mount Everest and become the first official South African
Amy Johnson arrives in England after her record flight of twelve days and fifteen hours from London to Cape Town and back.
The Rev. Andrew Murray, DRC minister and educationalist, and second son of Andrew Murray sr. (1794-1866), is born in Graaff-Rei
Legislators in Johannesburg take oaths of office and Blacks and Whites sit down together for the first time to govern South Afr
Sir Rufane Shaw Donkin, acting governor of the Cape who supervised the arrival and settling of the British Settlers and who fou
UN Security Council votes to set up the largest and most expensive peacekeeping operation so far 30 000 troops and civilians ar
Abraham Jacobus (Kootjie) van den Heever, journalist and author and younger brother of C.M. van den Heever, is born on the farm
The Prime Ministers of South Africa and Rhodesia meet in Cape Town for talks on the Rhodesian problem and the possibilities for
Anglo-Boer War 1: The British forces are defeated and 83 British soldiers under Sir George Colley are killed and 111 wounded in
Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. Ben Viljoen and seven men are ambushed and captured by the British. His pocket book saves his life b
Mozambique and Zimbabwe sign a defence and security agreement under which an attack by SA on either country will be taken as an
Sebokeng activist, Joseph Skosana, is shot and killed and Oupa Dlamini, an ANC activist, wounded at about 20h00 when unknown gu
Helen Beatrice May Joseph, SA political and human rights activist, dies in Johannesburg. She came to SA in 1931 and, with Lilia
PlaceSchmidtsdrift
… traced back to 1827 when it was declared a Crown Trust Land. Occupied by the Tswana-speaking Batlhaping and Griqua … Schmidtsdrift Native Reserve, in terms…
ArticleOrigins of the Battle of Blood River 1838
… with the AmaZulu King Dingane over the ownership of land. Sources cite that Retief paid a successful visit to the … of the cattle, also may have reported…
Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union of Africa, Annual Conference Agenda, St Phillips School, Chapel Street. District 6, Cape Town, 18 January 1923
Address by President Mandela on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
ArticleApartheid Legislation 1850's-1970's
… of the Mines and Works Amendment Act No 27 of 1956 Black Land Act No 27 of 19 June 1913 Prohibited Blacks from owning or renting land outside designated…
Say It out Loud - The Coloured People and the Franchise, 1906
From the book: Say It out Loud by Mohamed Adhikari The Coloured People and the Franchise , 1906 On Tuesday 31st July the principles of the Constitution to…
‘Wash Me Black Again’: African Nationalism, the Indian Diaspora, and Kwa-Zulu Natal, 1944-1960 by Jon Soske
… on the social grammars of property, relationship with land, family structure, and different gender roles. In such … 1 oh what lack of love has caught me…
ArticleThe missionaries
… within his kingdom. The missionaries were first given land in the west of the Mzimvubu River where they built the … As the socio-political history of the…
The Cape Northern Frontier
… The Dutch farmers moved further north to colonise more land to cultivate in order to meet the requirements of the … from the Khoikhoi and San, discontinued…
Attacks on Sasol 1 and NATREF in Sasolburg and Sasol 2 in Secunda take place in the night of 31 May/1 June in order to coincide
Attacks on Sasol 1 and NATREF in Sasolburg and Sasol 2 in Secunda take place in the night of 31 May/1 June in order to coincide with Republic Day. Nobody is…
GEAR and Neo-Liberalism (Part 2) by Thabo Mbeki, 28 March, 2016
V During the whole period when GEAR has been challenged “from the left”, the assertion was made that GEAR sought to replace the RDP. I am certain that there…
Commission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 23 September 1976, Volume 12 and Volume 13
Excerpts from the transcript of continuing evidence of Vusamuzulu Pumelelo Credo Mtetwa and evidence from Langa Daniel Skosana and Fanyana Lawrence Shiburi,…
EventZola Budd, former SA athlete and World Record holder, is born
Zolla Budd was born to an Afrikaans family on 26 May 1966 in Bloemfontein. She was one of five children. Budd was especially close to her older sister Jenny…