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Thirteen leading officials of the ousted government in Liberia are publicly executed on the orders of the new military regime.
Jannie de Beer, Springbok rugby flank forward who kicked remarkably well during the1999 Rugby World Cup quarterfinals, is born.
The prime minister announces a new sport policy in which he distinguishes between multiracial sport and multinational sport. Mu
French army rebels seize Algiers.
1,575 people are now being detained under South Africa’s state of emergency.
The ‘Eerste Nasionale Teeen Koffiefabrieke’ (First National Teaand Coffee Factories), the first public companies owned by Afrik
Allied forces take Bologna in Italy during World War II. Thousands of South Africans fought in Italy.
Arthur Wellesley Briscoe (30), SA cricket player in three test matches, is killed in Ethiopia during World War II.
World War II: Tripoli is under bombardment by British warships.
Sathyandranath Ragunanan (Mac) Maharaj, political activist and former SA Minister of Transport, is born in Newcastle, Natal. He
The treaty of friendship between Egypt and Iraq, first pact between Egypt and another Arab state, is signed.
Daniël F. du Toit, (’oom Lokomotief’) (77), founder member of the ‘Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners’ and editor of ‘Die Afrikaa
Eghard van der Hoven, SA actor and arts director, is born.
At least twenty-eight people die when a train from Port Alfred plunges from the Blaauwkrantz bridge in the Eastern Cape.
Marius Philip Olivier Burgers, one of the first full-time broadcasters of the ‘Suid-Afrikaanse Uitsaaikorporasie’ (Afrikaans st
Abraham Jonker, Afrikaans novelist, is born in the district of Boshof, Orange Free State.
A new Sultan of Morocco, Muldi Mohammed, is installed.
Anglo-Boer War 2: The British Secretary for War, St. John Broderick, tells the House of Commons that every effort is being made
Martha Helena Cillié, teacher and headmistress whose greatest achievement was her contribution to the education of girls
The three villages clustered about the mouth of the Buffalo: East London West Bank; East London East Bank, and Panmure, are mer
The South Atlantic island St. Helena becomes a British crown colony.
Ndlambe, regent of the AmaRarabe, influenced by his sangoma Makana (Nxele, also known as Links) attacks Grahamstown in broad da
EventFrene Noshir Ginwala, former speaker of the SA Parliament, is born
Frene Noshir Ginwala was born on 25 April 1932. She studied in the United Kingdom (UK) where she obtained a LLB degree and later a doctorate in history from…
EventAbyssinian fortress of Dessie is captured by South African troops during World War II
The Abyssinian fortress of Dessie, located between Addis Ababa and Amba Alagi, was captured by General Alan Cunningham's South African divisions. This event…
EventThe second Ashanti War breaks out in Africa
The second Ashanti war took place between 1873 and 1874, 50 years after the first one. The Ashanti Kingdom had its headquarters in Kumasi, which was in the…
EventBenjamin Mzimkulu Macala, SA artist, is born
Benjamin Mzimkulu (Ben) Macala was born in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State (now Free State). As a young boy he tended cattle on a farm in the Free State and…
ArchiveTime for Azania by Robert Sobukwe, 1976
Sobukwe giving the opening speech of the Inaugural Convention of Africanists in April, 1959. His message was a call for African unity and independence.
Robert Sobukwe Speech at the University of Fort Hare as President of the Students’ Representative Council, 21 October 1949
Prof. Dent, Ladies and Gentlemen, I intend to follow in my opening remarks the conventional pattern. And for that reason I will give a very brief review of our…
Robert Sobukwe Inaugural Speech, April 1959
Sir, Sons and Daughters of Afrika! Mr. Speaker as already informed you that we had hoped that this inaugural Convention of the Africanists would be opened by…
PlaceNigeria
Many reports claim that little is known about the earliest history of Nigeria. By 2000 B.C. most of Nigeria was thinly occupied by people who had a basic…