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ArchiveFor the record: An open letter to the organisers of the Congress of the People
Mohammed Valli Moosa, former SA Minister of Environmental Affairs & Tourism,is born in Lenasia, Johannesburg.
Magnus André De Merindol Malan, former SA Minister of Defence, 1980, is born in Pretoria.
SA signs joint communiqué on the establishment of diplomatic relations with the Kingdom of Cambodia.
British troops are flown in to Uganda to suppress an army mutiny over low pay.
SA signs joint communiqué on the establishment of diplomatic relations with the Republic of Panama.
Members of the S.A. security force murder Dr Richard Turner at his home in Durban.
The South African flag is hoisted on Prince Edward Island after an agreement with Britain.
Gary Kirsten becomes the first SA cricket player to score 10 centuries in test cricket.
PlaceWellington, Western Cape
… dates back to Stone Age groups like the Khoikhoi and the San , to the settlement of Free Burghers and Huguenot …
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Chapter 1 - The First Farmers by Jeff Guy
… We know that first peoples were hunting peoples - known as San or, in the popular literature, as Bushmen. At some time … know, for example, that hunting and…
BiographyFather Smangaliso Mkhatshwa
Father Smangaliso Mkhatshwa was born in 1939 in Barberton, in Mpumalanga (Eastern Transvaal) province. He received his primary schooling in Barberton,…
BiographyKlaas Matlala
Klaas Matlala was arrested in the fields where he resided at Matlala's Location, Pietersburg District, [Northern] Transvaal [now Polokwane, Limpopo Province]…
BiographyLothar Neethling
General Lothar Paul Neethling was born in East Prussia. In 1948, the Afrikaners who were supporters of Nazi Germany during World War II came up with a plan to…
BiographyJoseph Hugo Saliwa
Joseph Hugo Saliwawas dismissed from the Native Affairs Department (NAD)in Lady Frere Eastern Province, [now Eastern Cape] ‘on account of unsatisfactory…
Robert Mokxotho Matji
Robert Mokxotho Matji was born on 22 August 1922 in Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng). He later moved to the Eastern Cape, settling in Port Elizabeth, where he…
PlaceTarkastad, Eastern Cape
… quite a bit of attention and are an example of the San rock paintings that draw people to the Area. Other …
BiographyRebecca Makgomo Masilela (nee Kekana)
Affectionately known as ‘Magogo’ (meaning grandmother – a title bestowed to her for her motherly, nurturing character), Rebecca Makgomo Masilela (nee Kekana)…
“The most patient of animals, next to the ass:” Jan Smuts, Howard University, and African American Leadership, 1930 by Robert Edgara and Myra Ann Houser
Baron Pieter van Rheede, appointed governor of the Cape who died at sea on his way to the Cape, is born in Utrecht, the Netherl
Speech by Prsident Nelson Mandela at the Greek Chamber of Commerce and Idustries of Southern Africa man of the year awards Johannesburg, 19 November 1994
Rijkloff van Goens arrives in Table Bay to report on conditions at the Cape to the Directors of the Dutch East Indies and to fo
P.J. van der Merwe, writer of the book “Ons halfeeu in Angola 1880-1928” is born on the farm Die Hoek near Humpata, Angola. (St
Adam Kok III, Griqua chief and third son of Griqua chief Adam Kok II, dies near Kokstad. Date is given as 30 December 1875 in a
PlaceNamibia
… in the treacherous waters, whalebone shelters used by the San and ghost towns that boomed during the early diamond … various different groups. Its population…
Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis - Acknowledgement
… “An historical incident: conflict with the Briqua and San,” (Matiti and Teteb). “The doro, or young men’s …
BiographyDulcie Howes
"Nothing Can Match the singleness of purpose, the foresight, or tenacity through all adversity, of Dulcie Howes ... She achieved in her lifetime what she set…
BiographyMary Dorothy Benson
Dorothy Mary Benson – known as Mary Benson – was born on 8 December 1919 in Pretoria, Transvaal Province (now Gauteng), where she received her early education…
Nelson Mandela by O. R. Tambo - Extract from "No Easy Walk to Freedom: Articles, Speeches and Trial Addresses of Nelson Mandela edited by Ruth First", 1965.
MANDELA AND TAMBO said the brass plate on our office door. We practised as attorneys-at-law in Johannesburg in a shabby building across the street from the…
Nelson Mandela by Oliver Tambo
MANDELA AND TAMBO said the brass plate on our office door. We practised as attorneys-at-law in Johannesburg in a shabby building across the street from the…