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The first radio licence in SA is issued to Dr J. van Rensburg of Carnarvon.
WWII: General Jan Smuts, premier of SA, becomes a field marshal of the British army.
Bulelani Ngcuka, SA’s first National Director of Public Prosecutions is born in Middledrift, Transkei.
Dr Jan Bouws, Dutch and SA musicologist and composer, dies in Tygerberg, Cape Town.
EventAfrikaner women march to the union buildings in protest of SA’s involvement in WW2
About 10 000 Afrikaner women, led by Mrs H.C. Steyn, wife of former President M.T. Steyn, marched to the Union Buildings to protest about the South African…
EventBanned PAC Leader, Robert Sobukwe, is refused an exit permit to leave SA
On 22 June 1971 a Pretoria court ruled that the former leader of the banned Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), Robert Sobukwe, would not be allowed to use his…
BiographyOprah Winfrey
Daughter of Vernon Winfrey by Vernita Lee (May 2, 1935 - November 22, 2018), a former maid. She was raised as the daughter of Vernon Winfrey, a coal miner,…
Place'Aguada de Sao Bras', Mossel Bay
Bartholomew Dias and his crew landed with his men on 3rd of February 1488, but Mossel Bay's History can be traced back, with the help of Archaeological…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1700s
… and Roodezand, later called Tulbagh. 1701 13 March, Khoi-San raid more than 40 cattle of Dutch farmers at the Cape. … rift in his kingdom. A commando attacks…
BiographyGovindasamy Krishnasamy Thambi Naidoo
Govindasamy Krishnasamy Thambi Naidoo*was born of indentured stock in 1875 in Mauritius. His family, originally from Mattur, state of Madras, in Tamil Nadu…
Jan van Riebeeck establishes the Burgher Militia a few days before the Hottentot (Khoi-Khoi) rising at the Cape.
Jan van Riebeeck urged by the Vryburgers (Free Burghers), starts peace negotiations with the Kaapmans (Khoi-Khoi group).
BiographyHarry Heinz Schwarz
Harry Schwarz (born Heinz Schwarz) was born in Cologne, Germany (Weimar Republic) on 13 May 1924. Growing up in a Jewish family, Schwarz witnessed the rise of…
ArticlePrehistory of the Cape Town area
… cattle-less people became known as the 'Bushmen' and 'San'. The distinction between Khoe pastoralists and San hunter-gatherers has been a topic of debate for…
Dr Willem Henry Jacobus Punt, founder of the ‘Stigting Simon van der Stel’ (Simon van der Stel Foundation) and well-known SA cu
ArchiveBiography of Hlabeng Sam Matlole
Biography of Hlabeng Sam Matlole. Hlabeng Sam Matlole was born in 16 June 1924 in Zone 7 Sebokeng. He was a member of VCA Zone 7 area committee treasure and he…
ArchiveThe Man Before Mandela by Steven Gish
Few alumni know this, but one of South Africa’s most important civil rights leaders is part of the University of Minnesota family. One hundred years ago,…
BiographyReverend Beyers Naudé
Beyers Naudé was born in Roodepoort, in the then Transvaal, on 10 May 1915. He was named after Christiaan Frederik Beyers, a Boer general who was close to his…
BiographyMarimuthu Pragalathan “MP” Naicker
He was born in Natal in 1920, and although his family was poor he managed to complete high school. He worked as a truck driver, a union organiser for sugar…
BiographySimon Nkoli
“If you are Black and gay in South Africa, then it really is all the same closet…inside is darkness and oppression. Outside is freedom.”— Simon Tseko…
PlaceAan de Doorns, Western Cape
The name is Dutch for 'at the thorns'. A Settlement situated just 8 km from Worcester on the R 43 to Villliersdorp.Aan de Doorns has one of the largest Wine…
BiographyGünther Komnick
Günther Komnick was born in Insterburg in the former German province of East Prussia in 1929 into a cultured family of artists. He lived through the monumental…
BiographyCharles W H Kohler
As the driving force behind the creation of the Ko-operatieve Wijn-bouwers Vereniging van Zuid-Afrika, Beperkt (The Co-operative Wine Growers' Association of…
BiographyWilliam Cock
In 1849, Cape Town lived up to its reputation for giving visiting vessels a rousing reception. But this was a reception with a difference; it was in fact a…
EventSADF takes over security of Northern Natal from the SAP to prevent infiltration into SA by Liberation Movements
The deteriorating state of security that marked the eighties convinced the Apartheid government that a revision of its approach to infiltration by the…
BiographyWilliam Henry Beaumont
William Henry Beaumont was born in India on 24 February 1851. His father was a Lieutenant Colonel of the 23rd Madras Light Infantry. Beaumont attended…
BiographyAnderson Khumani Ganyile
Anderson Khumani “Dan” Ganyile’s was born in 1935 in Bizana District, Transkei (now Eastern Cape). He attended St John’s School in Umtata and then Lovedale…
BiographyAlfred Milner
Alfred Milner, a statesman and colonial administrator, became Governor of the Cape and High Commissioner of South Africa in 1897. He pushed the Transvaal…
EventThe ship São Bento (St Benedict) is wrecked on the Transkei coast
Though the date on which the São Bento was shipwrecked is under dispute (some sources claim the ship was wrecked on the 22 April 1554), the reason for the…
Chapter XII - Can we be free?
From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph The State of Emergency was over. Lilian and I came out of gaol together on the morning of 31 August and climbed…