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Professor Terence Ranger: An Obituary by Trevor Grundy
… was at its height, Terence Ranger, who has died at his home in Oxford at the age of 85, told the left-wing … build up." In early 1968 - soon after the…
EventP.W. Botha offers to resign
… P.W. Botha offered to resign amid speculation regarding his involvement in the Information Scandal of 1978, if his accusers could prove that either he, or a…
EventKing Dinuzulu dies
… also saw to it that he received a farm to live on, died on his farm Uitkyk in Middelburg district, Transvaal. At his own request he was buried with his…
EventSA composer Benjamin Tyamzashe is born
… national popularity through the music that he composed. His music enjoys a wide popularity within the education … festivals. He was the only composer and…
ArchiveGuaranteeing fundamental freedoms in a new South Africa
… on 7 May 1990, in celebrating the Diamond Jubilee year. In his introduction, the author, commends the late Alan Paton on his lecture delivered in 1985, as…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Introduction
… spark that made it natural for Nelson Mandela to instruct his daughter Zinzi to read his message to the people of Soweto. An examination of the … P.W. Botha,…
ArchivePetrus Mashishi
… from its founding in 1987 until 2009, was both a man of his times and a giant representing working class principles … of what had once been a proud struggle…
EventJuan de Jongh, the South African rugby player is born
… Juan is a professional South African rugby player.[ii] His position of choice in “centre” in rugby.[iii] He attended … de Villiers for the 2010 Super 14…
EventFidel Castro, president of Cuba from 1976 to 2008, is born
… degree at the University of Havanna, where he also began his political career. In 1953, he led a failed attack on Moncada Barracks in Cuba. This resulted in…
EventCarl Niehaus is sentenced to 15 years in prison for high treason for being a member of ANC underground
… grew up in Zeerust, North West Province, and completed his higher education at Rand Afrikaans University (RAU). A student of theology, Niehaus was months…
EventNotorious Pirate, Captain William Kidd, is reportedly sighted off the coast of Cape Town
… him. In 1696, Kidd set course for the Cape coast, where his vessel was reported to have been spotted on 20 January … that Kidd's notoriety was considered to…
EventThabo Mbeki is elected 2nd President of a democratic South Africa
… supporters. The inauguration came just two days before his 57th birthday. The occasion was also a farewell to South … elected president, Nelson Mandela, who…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter VIII - “Christianity and Civilization”
… is to find it put into the mouth of a Black chief. In his book "Chief Moroka," S. M. Molema quotes the following … in the subjugation of the Africans. The…
ArchiveBiography of Flora Nwapa by Emily Coolidge
… is able to support her husband financially by rejecting his idea of having her work on their farm and instead … a daughter, but she is suddenly taken by a…
EventSmiso Zwane, South African hip hop artist is born
… electronic duo Dirty Paraffin. [ii] “Mswenkofontein” is his hit single, which features StiloMagolide and uSanele. … and “Holy Oxygen II” in 2017…
ArchiveFirst Mafika Gwala Lecture: The Arts of Resistance - Mafika Gwala and South African Poetry by Ari Sitas
… work in the late 1980s would be appropriate in marking his legacy. The more I re-read what I had said then the more … inappropriate in those times. I have…
EventBhekisani Manyoni, artist, is born in Greytown
… Greytown, Natal (now KwaZulu Natal). He later moved with his family to the Dundee area, near Rorke's Drift, where he … Drift Art School. After attending…
EventSir Patrick Manson, Scottish doctor and founder of tropical medicine is born
… causes elephantiasis. These observations, made during his time as medical officer for the Chinese Imperial Maritime … of plasmodium, a parasite which causes…
EventNelson and Winnie Mandela travel to Canada.
… 1990, Nelson Mandela visited Ottawa, Canada escorted by his then wife Winnie Madikizela Mandela. He travelled to Canada a few months after his release from…
EventSolly Sachs leaves South Africa
… Africa to settle in England on this date. He stated that his position in South Africa had become untenable. This move … Act (1950) had been served on him on…
EventControversial Catholic Archbishop Milingo agrees to renounce marriage
… by the Unification Church Revered Sun Myung Moon. After his marriage, the archbishop asked the church to release him from his vow of celibacy. On refusal of…
EventCol Eugene de Kock testifies in Court
… Former Police Colonel Eugene de Kock began with his testimony in Pretoria Supreme Court by revealing his part in the apartheid regime's 'dirty tricks'…
EventBoer statesman, soldier and first president of the South African (Transvaal) Republic, Marthinus Wessel Pretorius dies
… (Transvaal) Republic, Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, died at his home in Potchefstroom at the age of eighty-one. He was … to have held both offices. Despite…
EventSir John Herschel, British astronomer, arrives in Cape Town
… in Cape Town on 15 January 1834 on a ship, accompanied by his wife Margaret Brodie Stewart. During their stay in the Cape, Herschel and his wife produced…
Dr Piet Koornhof, one of the most controversial figures in South African history, dies
… care centre at the age of 82, following a stroke. Early in his life, as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford, Koornhof wrote a … , on August 2, 1925. In 2001, Koornhof…
A tireless campaigner by Jaspreet Kindra, 29 October 2003, South Africa
… within Durban Metro for initiating court action against his own council, but he stuck to his guns. The council had a change of heart right on the … in the…
Pravin Gordhan vs the Law, as defined by clichés by Mervyn E. Bennun (Politics Web), 08 September 2016
… answer 27 questions about certain matters relating to his time as head of the South African Revenue Service; we … almost on the eve of the day Pravin Gordhan…
ArticleEvents leading to the Bambatha Rebellion
… for cash. Gandhi captured the proletraisation process in his book, Satyagraha in South Africa, I n order to increase …
Durban Historical & community
… Indian Congress and father of India’s independence, set up his first experiment in communal living inspired by Tolstoy - …
Biography of Miriam Makeba by Narcy Negrete
… boxer is sentenced to 14 years in jail for the murder of his girlfriend, who he suspected cheated on him. At the end of the musical he supposedly took his…