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BiographyDr. Zacharias “Zac” Johannes De Beer
… AAC. In 1972 he became chairman of Anglo American Central Africa and lived in Zambia until 1974. De Beer was a director … Slabbert Trust, renamed Progressive…
EventThird Pan African Parliament session begins in Midrand
The third session of the Pan African Parliament (PAP) began at its temporary home in Gallagher Estate in Midrand, north of Johannesburg. The session was opened…
EventSally Little, South African golfer recognized by the LPGA as one of its top
… said, "but I never realized it until I went home to South Africa where my mother took one look at me and nearly had a … Little was at the top of her career…
EventSouth African pop queen, Brenda Fassie, is born
Brenda Nokuzola Fassie, South African Pop Queen, was born in 1964 in Langa, a township near Cape Town. She was named after the American country singer Brenda…
EventJan Volschenk, a well-known South African painter, dies
On this day in history, Jan Volschenk, a prominent South African painter, died at the age of 83. He passed away in the town of Riversdale in the Cape Province,…
EventSouth African cricketer, Hashim Mahomed Amla, is born
… Cricket 365, Hashim Amla (South Africa) , from cricket365 , [online], Available at …
ArchiveAfrican National Congress Consultative Conference: Speeches and Resolutions
Speeches and resolutions from the African National Congress Consultative Conference in Johannesburg, December 14-16, 1990. Includes speech by Oliver Tambo,…
EventSouth African tenor opera singer, Siphiwo Ntshebe dies
Siphiwo Ntshebe was born in Brighton, Port Elizabeth. He was a great opera singer, whose career ended abruptly when he died of meningitis on 25 May 2010…
BiographyAchmat Dangor
… Johannesburg, Transvaal (now known as Gauteng), South Africa in 1948. He lived with his grandmother in Fordsburg, … as the representative of the Ford…
Message on the Twentieth Anniversary of the Tanganyika African National Union by O. R. Tambo, July 1974
… and all members of the African National Congress of South Africa, I convey warm greetings and profound feelings of … under the Tanzanian flag. The fighting…
BiographyLord William Waldegrave Palmer Selborne
… appointed First Lord of the Admiralty. He came to South Africa to succeed Lord Milner as High Commissioner in South Africa, and Governor of the Transvaal and…
EventSouth African Police announce arrest of serial killer
The South African Police in Pretoria announced the arrest of Moses Sithole, named the country's most wanted man at the time. Sithole, thirty-one years of age…
BiographyJanub Gool
… to found the African People's Democratic Union of Southern Africa, she fled South Africa in 1963 with I. B. Tabata and lived in Zambia. In …
ArchiveANC Statement on the death of Ray Alexander Simons, African National Congress, 12 September 2004
… Party while still a teenager. She arrived in South Africa on 6 November 1929, and joined the Communist Party of South Africa on 11 November, five days…
BiographyWinnie Motlalepule Kgware
… at the founding of the Media Worker's Association of South Africa (MWASA). … ( 2000), No one to blame? I n pursuit of justice in South Africa , (University…
BiographyJustice Sfiso Mkame
… the height of the turbulence of the apartheid era in South Africa; the strength of these works gave Ka-Mkame a high …
BiographyThandi Klaasen
… Klaasen, born Thandiwe Nelly Mpambani, was one of South Africa's most celebrated jazz musicians and a defining voice …
BiographyLetsau Nelson Diale
… the April 1994 democratic elections took place in South Africa Diale was elected as a Member of Parliament … 2011]|Anon, Letsau Nelson Diale , from Whos who…
BiographyJames Matthews
… commitment to the struggle for a non-racial South Africa at the National Orders Awards in October 2004. …
BiographyMatlakana Philemon Tefu
… awareness. Matlala taught about inequalities in South Africa and the oppression of African people under apartheid. …
BiographyRuth Mompati
… an International Day of Solidarity with Women in South Africa. In 1994, she was elected a member of parliament in … (2006) Life and soul: portraits of women…
BiographyRefiloe Jackie Phelile Sedibe
… with processing the entry of new recruits from South Africa and Zambia . From 1969 to 1976, Sedibe served on the …
BiographyNjinga Ana de Sousa
… the Mbundu people living on the Western coast of Central Africa. The ruler of Ndongo was titled the Ngola, and acted … basically armed bands of people…
EventPortuguese navigator Bartholomew Dias erects the first stone cross on the South African coast
… the Bushman's River on the Eastern Cape coast. It is South Africa's oldest monument. Bartholomew Dias and the Padroes … and thus he sailed around the…
BiographyJackson Mphikwa Mthembu
… Mphikwa Mthembu was a Minister in the Presidency of South Africa and parliamentarian for the African National Congress … Frank Chikane , that Mthembu joined…
EventFormer South African Prime Minister JG Strijdom dies
Johannes Gerhardus (JG) Strijdom was born in 1893 in the Cape Colony. He trained as a lawyer at the Victoria College (now Stellenbosch University). Strijdom…
BiographyMargaret Singana
… the British magazine Music Week. Margaret, known as “Lady Africa” in Southern Africa, suffered from bad heath in 1980, but despite this … during this time…
BiographyLionel Rusty Bernstein
… that they both joined the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) and both got elected as Distric Committee in 1941. In 1942 Bernstein enrol in the South…
EventThe South African Astronomical Observatory celebrates 200 years of its existence
… ‘Beyond 200 years of Astronomy’. The event will include an Africa-centred astronomy symposium and a virtual astronomy …
BiographyErrol T. Shanley
… Union. In 1933 he joined the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) and became active in the party-inspired …