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EventThe first radio licence in SA is issued to Dr J. van Rensburg of Carnarvon
On 16 August 1924 the first radio licence in SA was issued to Dr J. van Rensburg of Carnarvon. The first station in South Africa was put up by the South…
SA’s first commercial service television station depending solely on advertising, e.tv, starts broadcasting.
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…
Funeral of Sean MacBride: Oliver Tambo, 05 May 1988
Our Banners Dipped As a young man, Sean MacBride, an Irishman, spent time in prison for his part in the struggle for independence of his own people. From 1973…
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…
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…
BiographyPieter Streicher Steyn
Professor Pieter Steyn was born in 5 January 1940 in Vryburg in the North West. He is currently a senior researcher at the Department of Chemistry and Polymer…
BiographyJames Randolph Vigne
James Randolph Vigne was born in 1928 in Kimberley and grew up in Port-Elizabeth. He went to school at St Andrew’s College in Grahamstown where he enjoyed a…
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,…
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).
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…
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…
Dr Willem Henry Jacobus Punt, founder of the ‘Stigting Simon van der Stel’ (Simon van der Stel Foundation) and well-known SA cu
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…