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EventChief Mhlabunzima Maphumulo is shot dead
… Mhlabunzima Maphumulo, was gunned down in the driveway of his home in Pietermaritzburg. Maphumulo was a chief from … of Pietermaritzburg. He had survived a…
EventMandela visits Zambia
… started a seventeen-day foreign visit on 27 February, his first since 1962. Subsequent to his release from prison on 11 February 1990, after 27 years … a…
EventNdaweni Mahlangu causes a storm in political circles
… premier, caused a storm within political circles with his now infamous statement, "It is acceptable for politicians to lie". Mahlangu was trying to defend…
SA's Zuma 'showered to avoid HIV' (BBC News), 05 April 2006
… sex with an HIV-positive woman, thinking this would reduce his risk of being infected. This emerged as he was cross-questioned during his trial for rape. He…
Chapter 8 - Negotiating an end to the deadlock
… question of MK arms caches and ANC underground units. In his report to the UN Secretary-General, Vance was critical of most institutions of state, but his…
EventSheikh Yusuf, regarded as the founder of the Islamic faith in the Cape, dies at Zandvliet (Macassar)
… alongside and supported Sultan Ajung of Bantam, Gowa, in his war against the Dutch. Twice Sheikh Yusuf escaped from … their promise and Sheikh Yusuf was…
ArchivePACT Dance Company: 2nd Season 1994
… Artwork of the back of a naked black man with his hands behind his head, and four white hands around his body. Notice of a dance programme at State Theatre, …
EventNelson Mukhuba is born
… gardener and house painter until he chose to promote his own Vhavhenda culture through his music and woodcarving skills. Mukhuba used mainly Marula and…
EventVasco da Gama dies
… to Asia around the southern point of Africa, died on his final voyage to India as Portuguese viceroy. He fell ill, probably of malaria, upon his arrival in…
EventCecil John Rhodes (48) dies in Muizenberg
… aged 48. He arrived in South Africa in 1870 and invested his inheritance from his grandmother in the diamond diggings in Kimberley. He helped launch the De…
4. Conclusion
… saw no alternative but to remain within the fold. Despite his disenchantment with the Party's direction at its 1938 … ANC or the Party after it was…
EventJohn Langalibalele Dube is born
… Zulu Mission (AZM) in Natal to James and Elizabeth Dube. His father, James Dube was one of the first ordained pastors … Station. Dube’s uncle Mqawe was a…
B.J. Vorster - Select Speeches
… speaker he is equally at home in Parliament as WELL as in his appearances outside Parliament. There is always a serious undertone in all his speeches…
EventVuyisile Mini, Trade unionist and uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) activist is hanged
… and uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) activist was hanged for his role in the MK and anti-apartheid resistance. As a member … (ANC) member to be executed by the…
EventNeil Aggett is buried in Johannesburg
… Johannesburg. It was estimated that 15 000 people attended his funeral. His labour organisation issued a call that on 11 February 1982, that on the day of…
EventCleric and anti-apartheid activist, Mpilo Desmond Tutu is ordained as Archbishop of Cape Town
… in 1961. He moved to London in 1962, where he completed his Honours and Masters Degree in the Arts in 1966. On his return to South Africa he taught at the…
EventJohn Koenakeefe Mohl, SA artist is born
… came when he was attending school in Mafikeng, where his talent was recognized by Rev. Hale of the London Missionary Society, on his visit to the school…
EventOlaudah Equiano, enslaved person and writer dies
… islands and the West Indies. He later managed to buy his freedom and settled in the United Kingdom. One of his slave masters had taught Equaino to write…
EventMazisi Kunene, Zulu poet and ANC activist, is born
… University of Natal and later won a scholarship to further his studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies … was a member of the African National…
ArticleNational and Provincial Elections - 2024 - South Africa
… on 19 June 2024. President Cyril Ramaphosa expanded his national cabinet with 32 Ministers and 43 Deputy … 16 new cabinet ministers, 10 of which are from…
EventJomo Sono, South African soccer player and director, is born
… was born in Orlando East in Soweto. Sono was brought up by his grandparents after his father died and his mother abandoned him. He was forced to work from a…
Stuart Commission Report
… camps. Recently a trainee tried to commit suicide because his girl-friend had been taken from him. Women lovers of … 1983, December and is the first doctor…
Mandela’s membership of the Communist Party: what needs to be reassessed by Tom Lodge
… in 1961. Does it matter? It certainly did 50 years ago. In his court testimony Mandela said that he did not become a Communist, though he qualified his…
EventJRR Tolkien born in Bloemfontein
… J.R.R. Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State. His parents, Mabel and Arthur Tolkien, were British but … a bank in South Africa. He was a sickly…
Gertrude Fester Biography by Nehal Patel
… Therefore, segregation would protect the Whites. His collaborator, D. F. Malan , suggested segregation would … Apartheid oppression started before birth and…
EventJohn Thomas Baines, South African painter, traveller and writer, is born
… work as a storekeeper and artist. This expedition included his exploration of north-west South Africa to determine its … suitability for colonial settlement…
ArchiveBirth of a reggae superstar 3 August 1964 by Sam Mathe
… fame? They called him Mr Knock-Out, I suspect because his songs were chart-busters. He was the most famous coloured … Steenkamp, a coloured player from…
PlaceLookout, Uitenhage
… into lush green irrigated fields with fruit trees. His vision also included farm produce being delivered via … to Kimberly. Everyone was investing in diamond…
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March in Pretoria
… that time “the husband would come to the house and tell his wife , “I’m going to jail now.” And then the wife says, … it was confining the man, inherent to…
ArticleSouth Africa in the 1970s
… that ideas were not dormant in libraries. Because of his banning, Turner remained in the background and Webster, … chanting " filumuntu ufesidikiza" (Man is…