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EventHarold Macmillan begins his “winds of change” tour of Africa
British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan began his "winds of change" tour of Africa in Ghana. Ghana became the first country in Sub-Sahara to gain independence…
EventThe Proteas become the first South African team in history to win a Test cricket series in Australia
The current South African national cricket team, The Proteas, is one of the most successful national teams in the country and the world. Their record in test…
EventThe Labour Party (LP) adopts a resolution to represent the Coloured community
At its annual conference held in Eshowe, Natal, the Labour Party (LP) adopted a resolution stating that it seeks to represent the Coloured community in a…
EventAuthor of the book, Born Free, Joy Adamson, is killed
Author of the book Born Freeand naturalist, Joy Adamson died under mysterious circumstances in a Kenyan bush. Initially it was reported that she was attacked…
EventMahatma Gandhi leaves the Tolstoy Farm 1913
Mahatma Gandhi , a champion of passive resistance and non-violent campaigns left the Tolstoy Farm in Transvaal (now known as the Gauteng Province). After being…
EventProfessor Roland Levinsky, world leading researcher in biomedicine dies
Professor Roland Levinsky, of the University of Plymouth, was born in South Africa to a British mother and Jewish father on 16 October 1943. His father was…
EventThe Esso Oil Company closes its business in South Africa
Esso South Africa withdrew business from South Africa on 31 December 1986. The country was at the height of political conflict and violence that made it hard…
EventCommodore Dieter Gerhardt and his wife are sentenced to life imprisonment
Commodore Dieter Gerhardt, the former commanding officer of the Simonstown naval base, and his second wife Ruth Gerhardt, were sentenced to life imprisonment…
EventMolly Blackburn, political activist and civil rights campaigner is killed in a car accident
Molly Blackburn was a political activist who joined the Black Sash in 1955. She later left black Sash when she felt that the group was not very active. She…
EventKing Mwanga of Uganda signs a contract with the British East Africa Company
Danieri Basammula-Ekkere Mwanga II, Mukasa beter known as King Mwanga II, was Kabaka of the kingdom of Bungada after the death of his father, Muteesa I in 1884…
EventMacassar Beach, in False Bay, is proclaimed a Coloured group area by the Group Areas Board
Macassar is a beach in False Bay, east of the Peninsula. The beach is named after Macassar in the former Dutch East Indies, where a nobleman named Sheik Yusuf…
Event5,580 Egyptian prisoners of war are exchanged for four Israelis held by Egyptian troops
5,580 Egyptian prisoners of war were exchanged for four Israelis held by Egyptian troops following the Tripartite Invasion (Israel, Britain and France). The…
EventStruggle icon Nxele Makana drowns while escaping from Robben Island
Post the Fourth Frontier War 1811-1812, the Cape Governor, Sir Charles Somerset, made a verbal treaty with Gaika, the supposed paramount chief of the Western…
EventFour black newspapers are banned by the SA government
Four black newspapers, Post Transvaal, Saturday Post, Sunday Post and the Sowetan, were banned, technically on the same day that the eight week strike of black…
EventZimbabwe and England draw in a Bulawayo Test Cricket match with England needing one run to win
Zimbabwe and England drew in in a Bulawayo Test Cricket match on 22 December 1996. England was the favorites to win the game and came close several times. …
The South African liberation movements in exile, c. 1945-1970 by Arianna Lissoni
Chaskalson was a pillar of strength in my battle against HIV/Aids by Justice Edwin Cameron - Constitutional Court, 9 December 2012
Arthur Chaskalson was a formidable man. He could be severe. To those he opposed, he could be intimidating. But he also had a tender side. That was mostly…
ArchiveThe Arthur Chaskalson I knew by George Bizos, 5 December 2012
George Bizos says late former Chief Justice would never have been a secret member of a political party Speech by George Bizos SC, Constitutional Litigation…
Chaskalson transcended his bias and loyalties by Tony Leon, 4 December 2012
JAMES Baldwin once described the US as "the most desperately schizophrenic of republics". I wonder what he would have made of the presence of so many of the…
Arthur Chaskalson: 24 November 1931 - 1 December 2012 by Jeremy Gauntlett, 4 December 2012
Adv Jeremy Gauntlett on the life and work of the late former Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson's last public address was just weeks ago. It expressed two…
The Honorable Arthur Chaskalson, 3 December 2012
Arthur Chaskalson Chief: Justice Emeritus, Constitutional Court of South Africa
Arthur Chaskalson was appointed by President Nelson Mandela in June 1994 to be the first President of South Africa's new Constitutional Court and was the Chief…
2004 Gruber Justice Prize: Arthur Chaskalson
If a life could be mapped, that of the Honorable Arthur Chaskalson would surely appear as a straight line starting from a commitment to human rights, and…
SA mourns former chief justice Arthur Chaskalson by SAPA, 3 December 2012
Death of a lion of the law, Arthur Chaskalson by Rebecca Davis, 3 December 2012
Former Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson died on Saturday from leukaemia. There are few individuals who have played so significant and honourable a role in South…
South Africa: Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson to Receive State Funeral, 3 December 2012
EventAn inquest into the death in detention of the white trade union leader, Dr. Neil Aggett opens
At the conclusion of a forty-four day inquest into the death in detention of white trade union leader, Dr. Neil Aggett, the Johannesburg magistrate, Pieter…
EventEgyptian and US Archaeologists discover a 5000 years old fleet of ships near the Nile
On 20 December 1991 (21 December according to other sources) Egyptian and American Archaeologists discovered a 5000 years old fleet of ships near the Nile in…
EventThe 41st annual conference of the ANC in Queenstown gets underway
The 41 annual conference of the African National Congress (ANC) in Queenstown, Eastern Cape, continues. Amongst the ANC leaders who attended the event was…
EventA Zairian aircraft crashes in Angola, killing 141 people.
On 18 December 1995, a Lockheed L-188C Electra plane owned by Zaire’s (now Democratic Republic of Congo) Trans Service Airlift Company, crashed shortly after…