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Anglo-Boer War 2: In one of the most savage incidents Col. Baden-Powell ‘persuades’ almost 700 Barolong women and children to
The railway line from Pietermaritzburg to the Transvaal border at Charlestown, near Volksrust, is opened.
Jan Carel Juta (52), father of the publishing industry in SA, is born in Chiswick, London.
Sir Bartle Frere meets the Transvaal Boers assembled in support of their claim to independence. He promises them complete freed
Charlotte Makgomo Maxeke, teacher, social worker, politician and founder of the Bantu Women’s League of South Africa, is born i
Frans Oerder, SA landscape and still life painter, is born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
EventAdoption of the Orange Free State constitution
The Orange Free State constitution was adopted on 7 April 1854, three weeks after the renunciation of British sovereignty. Initially the Boers (Voortrekkers)…
The Boers of Potchefstroom and Winburg declare their independence.
A punitive commando under joint command of Piet Uys and Hendrik Potgieter is sent off to punish Dingane and return stolen cattl
Jan van Riebeeck sets foot ashore for the first time to try to find the best spot to erect a fort at the Cape.
João da Nova lands at Mossel Bay and leaves a stone with an inscription behind. The stone is now kept in the South African M
World Health Day. (GIED: Celebrating 10 years of Freedom, 2004).
EventBlacks in South Africa protest against segregation
On the 300 anniversary of the arrival of Jan van Riebeeck in Table Bay, the African National Congress (ANC) and the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) at a…
EventThe death of Andries Tatane
On 13 April 2011, activist Andries Tatane was killed, by police after a service delivery protest turned ugly in Ficksburg, Free State. Following his death,…
EventThe ANC unveils its proposed constitutional principles
On 12 April 1991, the African National Congress (ANC) made public its proposed constitutional principles in a discussion document, which to some extent had the…
EventConstruction of the Victoria Falls Bridge and the railway line are completed
The Victoria Falls Bridge was constructed in 1905 at the height of British penetration of Northern and Southern Rhodesia. The brainchild of Cecil Rhodes, the…
EventSouth African woman, Janice Bronwyn Linden, is sentenced to death in China for smuggling drugs
On 9 April 2010, Janice Bronwyn Linden, 35 from Wentworth in Durban was sentenced to death by a high court in Guangdong Province, China for smuggling drugs…
EventDutch East Indian Company, pioneer in the expansion of European settlement in South Africa is formed
The Dutch East India Company(DEIC) or Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC) popularly referred to as 'the Company', was founded when seventy-three directors…
Gandhiji’s vision of a free South Africa: A collection of articles by E.S. Reddy
"If we look into the future [of South Africa], is it not a heritage we have to leave to posterity, that all the different races commingle and produce a…