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Mozambique’s southern province of Inhambane warns that 100 000 people in the province are at risk of starvation because poor ra
About 100 striking Nigerian oil workers seize four offshore rigs and hold hostage ninety-seven expatriate workers as well as mo
Dr Wilson Carswell, medical adviser to the government Aids unit, says about 100 000 South Africans are already infected with th
At least 100 people drown and the town is devastated when the river at Laingsburg in the Karoo floods its banks.
BiographyJoseph Chamberlain
Joseph Chamberlain was a British statesman, a colonial administrator and politician who went from being a radical, almost socialist liberal to an arch…
PlaceWoodstock
… Homes near the Van Papendorp Homestead and, by the early 1800's, the Area had begun to be known as Papendorp. In 1845 …
BiographyIssy Heymann
Issy Heymann was born on the 24 December 1910 in Lithuania. At the age of nineteen, in 1931, Heymann arrived in South Africa. In 1935, he became an executive…
ArticleHistory of Slavery and early colonisation in SA timeline 1602-1841
1602 Chamber Representatives of the Netherlands Parliament grant a founding charter to the Dutch East India Company to establish an Indian trading empire in…
BiographyImam Abdullah Haron
Imam Abdullah Haron was born on 8 February 1924 in Newlands-Claremont, an area which in the late twentieth century became a very prosperous commercial centre…
EventPhilip Rabinowitz, Polish born South African centenarian, sets a new world record by running the 100m in 28.7 seconds.
Philip Rabinowitz, Polish born South African centenarian, sets a new world record by running the 100m in 28.7 seconds. Owing to a power failure the time is not…
BiographyPrincess Magogo
Princess Magogo was born in 1900, the daughter of the Zulu King, Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo (1868 – 1913) and Queen Silomo. In 1926 she married King Mathole…
Wellington Mlungisi Tshazibane
Mr Wellington Tshazibane,aged 30,an employee of the De Beers-Lesotho Mining Company,was detained on 9th December 1976 at Rand Airport,Johannesburg.He was held…
BiographyProfessor Harold Jack Simons
Harold Jack Simons was born on 1 February 1907 in Riversdale in the Cape. He was educated in South Africa and for a few years was attached to a law firm and…
Genadendal Historic Village & Museum
… assemble. British occupation changed this, however, and by 1800 the first Church was completed, but it soon became too …
A total extinction confidently hoped for: the destruction of Cape San society under Dutch colonial rule, 1700–1795 by Mohamed Adhikari (Journal of Genocide Research (2010), 12(1–2))
ArticleCo-operation and conflict on the Highveld
The Boer Republics, and the Basotho kingdom (a case study) Moshoeshoe moves to Thaba Bosiu The 1820s and 1830s were a time of great upheaval. There were many…
BiographyEdgar Harry Brookes
Edgar Harry Brookes was born in England on February 4th,1897 and emigrated to South Africa with his family in 1901.In 1920 he was hired to teach at the…
BiographyDorothy Ruth Boxall
Dorothy Ruth Boxall was born on 19 July 1895 in King William's Town, Eastern Cape, South Africa. She dedicated herself to the promotion of music in South…
BiographyAmos Langdown
Amos Langdown was born on 7 May 1930, in Plettenberg Bay. He was involved for many years in art education. He trained as a teacher at the Zonnebloem College in…
BiographyGeorge Christopher Cato
George Christopher Cato was born in 25 February 1814, London. The eldest son of a Huguenot family called Caton who settled in London. His family, silk weaving…