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BiographyEthel Edwards
On 2 January 1907 The Cape Argus Weekly Edition published a photograph of Ethel Edwards in its supplement on "Famous South African Artists". In it she stands…
BiographyHelen Joseph
Helen Beatrice May Fennell was born in Easebourne, United Kingdom, in 1905. She grew up in London, with her parents and brother, Frank. She graduated with a…
BiographyDr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo
Dr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo played an outstanding role in the South African liberation movement for over half a century - in persuading the Indian community to link…
BiographyGertrud Theiler
Gertrud Theiler was the youngest daughter of sir Arnold Theiler KCMG, founder and first director of the Veterinary Institute, Onderstepoort, and his wife, Emma…
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Sir John Cradock, governor of the Cape, issues a proclamation putting the Hottentots (Khoi-Khoi) under colonial law. This means
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Sir John Kotze, appointed Chief Justice of the South African Republic (ZAR) in 1881, is born in Cape Town.
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Sir Andries Stockenström, landdros of Graaff-Reinet (as his father had been) and later commissioner-general of the Eastern
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Sir Lionel Phillips (80), mining magnate, chairman of the Chamber of Mines and politician, dies at Vergelegen, Somerset West.
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French government has decided to supply no further continental (ground or air) armaments to South Africa. This political decisi
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Sir Lionel Phillips, President of the Chamber of Mines and developer of deep level mining, is born in London.
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Air Force Base Waterkloof is founded with two hangars, a runway and No’s 1 and 2 Fighter-bomber Squadrons and No 3 Communicatio
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A Zimbabwean student, threatening an air hostess with a syringe and hypodermic needle, demands access to the cockpit of an SAA
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South African politician and author of “Jock of the Bushveld,” Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, is born in King William’s Town.
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A committee of twelve delegates meets to draw up a concept for the establishing of the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap e
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Sir Arnold Theiler (69), veterinary researcher and Director of Veterinary Services for the Union of SA at Onderstepoort, dies i
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The Minister of Defence, P.W. Botha, accompanied by General Hiemstra, Lieutenant-General J.P. Verster, Chief of the Air Force a
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Sir Pierre van Ryneveld and Quintin Brand arrive in Wynberg after the first flight from London to Cape Town.
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Sir John William Akerman, Natal businessman, politician and speaker of the Natal colonial parliament, is born in Plymouth, Engl
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Sir Peregrine Maitland, Governor of the Cape, declares the maintenance of British authority over all emigrant Boers and defines
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Windvogelberg, named after a San chief, is renamed Cathcart in honour of Sir George Cathcart, Governor of the Cape Colony.
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Atlas Corporation completes deliveries to the South African Air Force (SAAF) of a first series of Impala MK-2 jet fighters.
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On behalf of the British government Sir Arthur Havelock, the Natal governor, annexes Zululand. The date is respectively giv
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Sir John Frederick William Herschel, well-known British astronomer (in South Africa 1834-38), dies in Collingswood, Kent, Engla
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Governor Sir Benjamin D’Urban issues a proclamation extending the boundary of the Cape Colony eastwards from the Keiskamma to t
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A Zambian air force plane carrying Zambia’s national soccer team crashes into the Atlantic off Gabon, killing all thirty aboard
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Atlas Corporation completes deliveries to the South African Air Force (SAAF) of a first series of Impala MK-2 jet fighters.
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WW2: Allied air raid on Tunis causes considerable damage just before Axis troops start their final withdrawal from Tunisia.
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The British under Sir Garnet Wolseley defeats Sekhukhune, Pedi paramount chief in the Battle of Sekhukhune Mountain and impriso
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British Parliament draws up sanctions against Ian Smith’s regime in Rhodesia. Sir Humphrey Gibbs, the British Governor of Rhode
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