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Alfred Beit, friend of Cecil John Rhodes, co-founder of the De Beers Mining Company and co-founder of Southern Rhodesia, is bor
The Convention on the Conservation of the Living Resources of the South-east Atlantic, to which SA is a party, is signed in Rom
Louis Thibault, SA architect of several well-known houses in the western Cape and also the Lutheran Church in Cape Town, is bor
The Gemini succeeds in its search for the black box of the Helderberg in the sea near Mauritius, nearly a year after it crashed
EventThe Azanian People's Organisation (AZAPO) is founded after the government banned a host of BCM organisations in October 1977.
In the aftermath of the 16 June 1976 Uprising, in Soweto, Johannesburg, the apartheid government banned all the organisations under the Black Consciousness…
ArchiveReminiscences of the Arrest of Fikile Bam & Marcus Solomon in 1963 by Roseinnes Phahle, August 2019
When I got arrested it was through Winnie. I got arrested in Winnie’s car, and when I got to the island I talked to him about Winnie, very strongly, to say…
BiographyRobert Mokwena (George Sello)
Robert Mokwena, also known by his guerrilla name as George Sello, was born on 4 April 1952 in White City Jabavu, Soweto in the Transvaal (now known as Gauteng…
BiographyJohn Koenakeefe Mohl
John Koenakeefe Mohl was born on 29 September 1903 in Dinokana, Zeerust in the North-West Province. Mohl's father was a carpenter who sculpted objects such as…
BiographyEphraim Mojalefa Ngatane
Ephraim Mojalefa Ngatane was born in Maseru, Lesotho (then Basutoland) in 1938. He moved to Johannesburg in about 1943, where he was educated at the Mooki…
BiographyBusisiwe Victoria Mhlongo
Busisiwe Victoria Mhlongo, popularly known as Busi Mhlongo, was born on 28 October 1947 at Inanda, near Durban in KwaZulu-Natal. She began her singing…
BiographyJob Patja Kekana
Jon Patja Kekana was born on 1 January 1916. He grew up on a rural homestead outside of Potgietersrus, now known as Mokopane, in Limpopo province. Kekana’s…
BiographySewsunker ‘Papwa’ Sewgolum
“Papwa” Sewsunker Sewgolum was born in 1930, into a family of poor sugarcane labourers in Natal. He started working at an early age, and as a young boy,…
BiographyJames Matthews
James David Matthews was born on 25 May 1929 in District Six in Cape Town, to working class parents. After completing standard seven, Matthews began to work…
BiographyKgalema Petrus Motlanthe
Kgalema Petrus Motlanthe was born on 19 July 1949 at the Boksburg-Benoni Hospital. He grew up in Alexandra, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). His parents,…
BiographyJulia Nicol
Julia Nicol worked actively as an anti-apartheid activist in the late 1980s and early 90s, particularly concerned with the anti-discrimination rights for…
A key suspect in the bomb attack on the American embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, who was tracked down in Cape Town by t
Yom Kippur War ends with Israeli troops 100 km from Cairo and forty km from Damascus. Several other dates are given for this ev
Jan Jacobus van der Post, SA author who lived as a boy with the San for several years where he learned their language and custo
Jan Jacobus van der Post, SA author who lived as a boy with the San for several years and who learned their language and custom
BiographyAlfred Toto Metele
Alfred Toto Metele was born to farmworker parents,in the farming area of Qumhra, Eastern Cape. He attended school at Mooiplaas, outside East London, where he…
ArticleBoeremag Treason Trial Timeline
The first treason trial in South African history post apartheid regime is under way amid high security at the Pretoria High Court, with a group of alleged…
ArchiveDebating the Church Street Bombing, by Christine Devine, 15 November 2012
ArchiveDiamonds looted in car bomb chaos, Natal Witness, 1 August 1987
ArchiveThird Witbank bomb victim dies, New Nation, 2 November 1988
BiographyAlfred Assegai (Mkhonto) Kumalo
Alfred Assegai (Mkhonto) Kumalo was born on 4 January 1879 in Edendale, Pietermaritzburg. At the age of four his parents moved to Amajuba in the southeast of…
BiographyJohn Tengo Jabavu
John Tengo Jabavu was born on 11 January in 1859 near the Methodist mission school at Healdtown district. His parents, though poor, were anxious to give him…
BiographyBarbara Anne Hogan
Barbara Hogan was born on 28 February 1952 and grew up in Benoni. After completing her primary school education, Hogan enrolled and completed her matric at St…
BiographyJoe Nzingo Gqabi
Joe Nzingo Gqabi was born in 1929 in Aliwal North, Cape Province. He completed the tenth grade and found work as a construction labourer after coming to…
BiographyEvelina de Bruin
Evelina de Bruin was born on 25 December 1933, and she grew up in the small town of Postmasburg, Northern Cape. In the early days of her life, her parents…
BiographySydney Brenner
Sydney Brenner was born in Germiston, close to Johannesburg, to Jewish parents on 13 January 1927. His father was a shoe repairman who had moved to South…