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… The Capitol theatre in Pretoria, described as the best in the world, is inaugurated. …

… Benedictus Watermeyer, jurist, politician and educator in the Cape Province, dies in London. …

… Benedictus Watermeyer, jurist, politician and educator in the Cape Province, dies in London. …

… A mass meeting in Cape Town requests British government to recognise British settlement in Natal. …

… British Minister Resident in the Middle East, Lord Moyne (based in Cairo), is assassinated. …

… Seven Nigerian United Nations peacekeepers are killed in an ambush by Somalis in Mogadishu. …

… A referendum in Zaire, in which women vote for the first time, approves a new …

… The Rev. Andries A. Louw, first minister in Fauresmith, OFS, dies in Paarl, Cape Province. …

… president P.W. Botha (82) marries Barbara Robertson (52) in his home in Wilderness. …

… Archaeologists announce they have found fabulous treasures in the tomb of Tutankhamen in Egypt. …

… Eighteen ANC supporters are killed in Bruntville in retaliation for a protest against cultural weapons. …

… United Nations investigators arrive in Sudan to determine whether genocide took place in Darfur. …

… Sixteen people die in an attack by IFP supporters in Bruntville, Mooi River, Natal. …

… British Minister Resident in the Middle East, Lord Moyne (based in Cairo), is assassinated. …

… Pres. Paul Kruger is interred in what is now the Heroes’ Acre in Pretoria. …

… A Diaz bust is unveiled in the garden of the art gallery in Cape Town. …

… Rioting by Africans in Cato Manor (Durban) results in the death of nine policemen. …

… Dr Karl Bremer, Minister of Health in Dr Malan’s cabinet, is born in Hopefield. …

… Twenty-three girls are burned to death in their boarding house in Mombasa, Kenya. …

… Melt Jacobus Brink, expert in Afrikaans literature and playwright, is born in Cape Town. …

… Dulcie Evonne September, main representative of the ANC in France, is murdered in Paris. …

… They come for me in the morning: they come for you in the evening! …

… Yellow poster with black lettering. Red block in centre. Image of fist in centre. Trade Union struggle poster. … Freedom! from below : The struggle for trade unions in South Africa …

… College, (formerly Adams College) where he matriculated in 1962. At Amanzimtoti, he was a prefect and played first … all political persuasions in South Africa. He warned that black support for peaceful change could not continue … deals with the political philosophy of Inkatha and other black liberation movements in South and Southern Africa.In …

… Percy John ‘Jack’ Hodgson born on 17 August 1910 in Roodepoort, was the eldest son of three children born to … she remarried a few years later.Together with many of his black revolutionary contemporaries, Hodgson experienced the … life in post-war South Africa. The Legion recruited both black and white servicemen and women on the front and at …

… For Africanisation of the Party Letter from Moses M Kotane in Cradock to Johannesburg District Party Committee dated … not blindly applicable for S Africa. In Europe self-consciousness (class) has developed immensely whilst here … class to be used against all the workers, white and black. These tyrant laws must be swept away. For these …

… the renovated premises of my once favourite shop as a kid in Salt River just around the corner from where I once lived … symbol, not realising that this has great significance for black South Africans. On the border of Observatory and Mowbray there was a large transit camp for the black soldiers that went off as ‘Springboks’ to fight in …

… Mweli Skota was born in Kimberley in the 1880s and attended school there. He worked at various … National Biographical Dictionary (Who's Who) of Black Folks in Africa  reissued in altered form in 1932 and …

… of South Africa (CPSA) from 1931 to 1933. He was born in Yorkshire, England, and immigrated to South Africa, in 1921. He joined the CPSA in Cape Town in 1925 and was one … but polled only 93 votes. During the controversy over the "Black Republic" doctrine, issued by the Comintem in 1928, …

… Group Areas Act, Jason's family was forced to move to the black township of Guguletu in 1960. Jason's interest in photography developed after borrowing a friend's camera as …