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This day in history

Rwandan President Paul Kagame is the overwhelming winner of presidential elections. The election was the first since the 1994 g

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Election officials confirm Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf as the winner in Liberia’s post-war elections, making her Africa’s first-ever

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William Anderson Bloomfield, Victoria Cross winner during WW1, is born in Edinburgh, Scotland. His parents came to South Africa

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Mattheus Uys Krige, author, dramatist, poet and five times winner of the “Akademieprys” award for translated literature, is bor

Charles Barends, the renowned South African jockey is born

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Charles Barends, the renowned South African jockey is born

… [i]Charlie was a jockey for 32 years, and rode 2 300 race winners [ii] Charlie only rode one July Handicap winner in 27 …

Dumile Feni portrait

Dumile Feni

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Sergio Motsoaneng, a gold medal winner in the 1999 Comrades, admits his brother ran sections of the race in his place.

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Irene Charnley, Executive Director of Johnnic, trustee of several funds and winner of the Businesswoman of the Year Award 2000,

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Right-wingers break up a meeting, which was to be addressed by ANC deputy president Nelson Mandela at the University of Pretori

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Jabu Jeremiah (Shuffle) Pule, SA footballer who was winner of the Kick Off Magazine Soccer Player of the Season, ½ award, is b

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Christoffel Coetzee, SA author and winner of the Eugène Marais and M-Net awards for his novel ‘Op soek na generaal Mannetjies

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Chief Albert Luthuli, Nobel Peace Prize winner and former President of the banned ANC, is killed after being struck by a train

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The ANC has come out the biggest winner in the municipal councillor floor-crossing period, notching up at least 290 councillors

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Pierre Jacy Fourie, boxer and winner of the middle and light-heavyweight SA titles, is born in Malvern, Johannesburg. He was

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Mohammed Charles Ouseb, Namibian football player for Kaizer Chiefs who was winner of the Kick Off Footballer of the Season, 98/

Four important figures in the South African Film Industry

… director who made South African classics like Katrina, The Winners, Die Kandidaat (South Africa's first political …

Nadine Gordimer portrait

Nadine Gordimer

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Dr Nnoseng Ellen Kate Kuzwayo, ANC politician and noted writer of Call me Woman (winner of CNA Award 1985 and translated into s

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Bruce Fordyce, legendary Comrades Marathon winner, is born in Hong Kong. He came in 1956 to South Africa with his parents and i

Mannie Manim portrait

Mannie Manim

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Raphael Ndukwe Chukwu, foreign football player who plays for SA and who was winner of the Kick Off Footballer of the Season, 97

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Pierre Jacy Fourie, boxer and winner of middle and lightweight SA titles in the 60’s and 70’s, is killed when his car strikes a

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Pierre Jacy Fourie, boxer and winner of middle and lightweight SA titles in the 60’s and 70’s, is killed when his car strikes a

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Thabo Mooki, SA football player who was the first winner of the Kick Off Footballer of the Season, 96/97, is born in Moletsane,

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Gary Player wins the US Open golf tournament to become only the fourth winner to earn all four top-pro golf titles. Player, fro

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Gary Player wins the US Open golf tournament to become only the fourth winner to earn all four top-pro golf titles. Player, fro

Art South Africa Today exhibitions

Art South Africa Today exhibitions

… Villa selected 63 works from 400 submissions. Award winners included Ezrom Legae , Bill Ainslie, Sidney Goldblatt …

Kgalema Petrus Motlanthe portrait

Kgalema Petrus Motlanthe

… was roundly criticised by the media, the three Nobel winners and civil society, but this had no effect on the …

Adrian Leftwich portrait

Adrian Leftwich

Lives of Courage

Lives of Courage

… their personal and community histories. Competition winners receive cash and book prizes, and their research is …