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EventA car bomb explodes at Ellis Park Rugby Stadium
On 2 July 1988, Lester Dumakude, commander of an Umkhonto we Sizwe special operations unit, detonated a car bomb by remote control outside Ellis Park Stadium…
BiographyLefifi Tladi
The thinker, poet, and painter, Lefifi Tladi, was born in 1949 in the culturally vibrant township of Lady Selborne in Pretoria, Transvaal Province (now Gauteng…
BiographySolomon Kerzner
Please note: Silber, G. (1999) “Solomon Kerzner” from They Shaped our Century: The Most Influential South Africans of the Twentieth Century. Published by Human…
EventUSA drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki
The Second World War broke out with the German invasion of Poland in 1939. By 1941, the Japanese had launched a military strike on the United States by…
BiographyColine Williams
Coline Williams was born on 30 May 1967 and grew up in Bonteheuwel, a township in the Western Cape, South Africa. The eldest of three siblings, Coline, her…
BiographyMassabalala (Bonnie) Yengwa
Massabalala Yengwa, was the son of the Zulu labourer who had been jailed during the African National Congress (ANC) anti-pass campaign of 1919. Yengwa was born…
BiographyStephen Bantu Biko
IntroductionStephen (Steve) Bantu Biko was a popular voice of Black liberation in South Africa between the mid 1960s and his death in police detention in 1977…
BiographyKenneth Kaunda
Kenneth Kaunda was the first president of Zambia. He was born on 28 April 1924 at Lubwa Mission in Chinsali. (In what was then Northern Rhodesia.) He was the…
EventZAR’s last Cruesot ‘Long Tom’ dynamited
During the Anglo-Boer War II, the fourth and last Creusot 'Long Tom' of the state Artillery of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (South African Republic, also…
BiographyKenneth Hlaku Rachidi
Kenneth Hlaku Rachidi was born on 11 April 1944 at Ga-Nchabeleng in Sekhukhuneland, Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo). He was the first born to Maria and…
BiographyManfred Zylla
“I use art as a tool to confront reality. I use art as a tool to get to know the world in which I live. And I use art as a tool to experience my own reality…
EventBomb in Benoni Wimpy kills Mary
Mary-Anne D'Oliveira Netto Serrano (21) was killed in a bomb explosion in the Wimpy Bar at the Benoni Plaza, Benoni on the East-Rand. About sixty people were…
EventBoeremag bomb blasts rock Soweto and Bronkhorstspruit
Just after midnight on 30 October 2002 eight bomb blasts rocked Soweto. Seven of the blasts occurred on main commuter railway lines running through the…
EventA bomb blast rocks the ANC London office
On this day the African National Congress (ANC) headquarters in London, England, was bombed. General Johann Coetzee, former head of the South African security…
Document 4 - B.M. Kies “The Background of Segregation”, Address delivered to the National Anti-CAD Conference, 29 May 1943
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 4 - B.M. Kies "The Background of Segregation",…
ArchiveEditorial: The Bop Show
ArchiveWill Bobby Bob too?
ArchiveEditorial: After the Bomb
ArchiveANC : ANC : Mandela Kom!
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ArchiveOut of the bog!
Tom Mann Arrives, 1922
Evelyn Ntoko Mase
Little is available in the public to construct a thorough biography of Evelyn Ntoko Mase before and after her relationship with Nelson Mandela. She may have…
EventHiroshima is targeted by a WWII atomic bomb
On August 6 and 9, 1945, the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, were totally destroyed by the first atomic bombs used in warfare. The American government…
BiographyDJ Ready D (Deon Daniels)
Deon T Daniels aka DJ Ready D, was born in District Six, Cape Town on 11 December 1968, before the residents there were forcibly removed. Ready D and his…
BiographyAbram Ramothibi Onkgopotse Tiro
Abram Onkgopotse Ramothibi Tiro was born on 9 November 1947 in Dinokana, a small village near Zeerust North West Province, South Africa. His parents, now late,…
BiographyJacob “Baby Jake” Matlala
Jacob Matlala was born in 1962 in Meadowlands, Johannesburg. At the age of 10 he started going to the gymnasium with his father who was an aspiring boxer…
BiographyMolefe Pheto
Molefe Pheto grew up in Alexandra, Johannesburg. As a talented young boy who displayed many interests in the arts, he was sent to London to study music and…
EventJohn Harris and the Johannesburg station bomb
A time bomb placed in the Johannesburg railway station exploded during the evening rush hours. The explosion resulted in the death of one person and severe…
EventZAR’s last Cruesot ‘Long Tom’ is dynamited
During the Second Anglo-Boer War, the fourth and last Creusot 'Long Tom' of the state artillery of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (South African Republic,…
EventFrance tests an atomic bomb in Algeria
France conducted its first nuclear bomb test at Reganne, Algeria, in the Sahara desert. At the time, Algeria was under French control. The test, code named…