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EventTshifiwa Muofhe, a Lutheran Church elder suspected of complicity in the Sibasa Police Station bomb blast, dies in police custody
… In October 1981 Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) operatives bombed Sibasa Police Station in independent Vendaland. Several policemen were killed in the attack. The…
Event15 000 applications for gold mining permits received per week in Johannesburg
… and gain immense profits from the diamonds and gold that black miners extracted from the earth. Most African miners … labourers, spending nine to eleven…
BiographyZuleikha Mayat
… Zuleikha Mayat was born in 1926 in Potchefstroom, Transvaal (now North West … comprising of women from all walks of life – Black, White, Christian , Hindu ,…
BiographyJo Ractliffe
… This biography was written by SAHO in collaboration with Artthrob MODUS OPERANDI Jo Ractliffe is … projections. However her main chosen medium is the analog…
Reports Concerning Slaves from India in South Africa
… a political prisoner, spent part of his confinement in April-May 1706 in a dungeon in the Castle in Cape Town, which he shared with Ari van … Reports…
BiographyNyangana Zithulele Absolom Cindi
… Nyangana Zithulele Absolom Cindi was born in Alexandra Township, Johannesburg on 18th of August in 1950. Cindi began his primary education at Entokozweni ……
BiographyNcumisa Chwayita Kondlo
… Ncumisa Chwayita Kondlo grew up in the rural village of Peddie in the Eastern Cape . Kondlo was politically active from an … , Eastern Cape where she was…
EventFirst celebration of May Day in South Africa
… Unions, the Communist Party and other labour movements in the struggle against Apartheid. May Day, as we know it … old. Men, women and children forced to…
BiographyAmos Langdown
… Amos Langdown was born on 7 May 1930, in Plettenberg Bay. He was involved for many years in art education. He trained as a teacher at the Zonnebloem … of the…
PlaceAddo Drift, Sunday's River in the Eastern Cape
… South African interior. A military post was erected there in about 1815, and in 1823 its land was granted to William Wright, a land speculator who had…
Statement at Press Conference in Dar es Salaam Concerning Sentences in the Rivinia Trial by O. R. Tambo, 12 June 1964
… Elias Motsoaledi were today sentenced to life imprisonment in the Rivonia trial which since last year, has been the focal point of world attention. The…
EventJean van der Poel dies in Cape Town.
… was a historian and teacher who played an important role in the South African Teachers' Association and undertook several major historical projects. Born in…
EventANC celebrates its 79th anniversary in Durban
… National Congress (ANC) celebrated its 79th anniversary in Durban on 8 January 1991 for the first time as a legal … Congress (PAC) and South African…
BiographyNokugcina Elsie Mhlophe
… Mhlophe known as Gcina Mhlophe was born on 24 October 1958 in KwaZulu- Natal , South Africa. She has been writing and … Swahili and Japanese. Her work is…
BiographyMakhaya Ntini
… Makhaya Ntini was born on 6 July 1977. He grew up in a small village in the Eastern Cape called Mdingi. Ntini is a product of the … became popular amongst…
22. Natal sirdars regarded in India as pariah
… Bhana and Bridglal Pachai By 1911, the public outcry in India against the system of indentured labour had grown so … Indians had to be stopped. Before export…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Foreword by A. P. Mda
… From the book: Freedom In Our Life Time by Anton Muziwakhe Lembede When I reflect on my memories of Lembede, two things stick out in my mind ”” his…
ArchiveSA Air Force operation, 20 May 1983, Unsettling whites objective of MK bombing campaign: TRC told, SAPA, 13 May 1998
… SA Air Force operation, 20 May 1983, Unsettling whites …
EventCecil John Rhodes is buried in the Matopos
… of the Cape Colony , Cecil John Rhodes , was buried in the Matopo Hills, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe ). Rhodes visited England in 1901. He was already ill on his…
EventTeboho Mokgalagadi wins gold in the Paralympic Games
… won a Paralympic world record gold medal 100m sprint in his first international competition at the Olympic Stadium in Athens, Greece. He fell to his knees in…
EventThe Nelson Mandela Museum is opened in Mthatha
… is a three component structure comprising of a museum in Mthatha, a visitors’ centre in Mvezo and a youth centre in Qunu, all in the Eastern Cape. The museum…
35. Colour legislation in the Orange River Colony
… Ordinance of October 1903 imposed further restrictions in the ex-Free State Republic on persons of colour, or … fate of hundreds of British Indians who…
EventSouth African actor, Ken Gampu, dies in Vosloorus
… at the age of 74, Ken Gampu was a well known veteran actor in South Africa. Gampu was the first South African actor to act in Hollywood films, having spent…
BiographyMary Dorothy Benson
… – known as Mary Benson – was born on 8 December 1919 in Pretoria, Transvaal Province (now Gauteng), where she … this point, Benson had never considered the…
PlaceAnnis River, near Kuboes in the Northern Cape
… the Outspan and Spring- Annisfontein. used by travellers in former times. The formation of a Spring may be the result … The water eventually emerges from…
EventUN Secretary General is killed in a plane crash
… to meet with President Moise Tshombe of Katanga Province in Congo in an attempt to end the fighting in Katanga. UN officials in Elisabethville were stunned…
PlaceAnnisfontein, a Spring and Outspan in Richtersveld- Northern Cape
… A Spring and Outspan in the Richtersveld with Geographical History dating back … The water eventually emerges from below the surface, in the form of a Spring…
PlaceMandela Capture Site, Howick in Kwa Zulu Natal
… Visit the Capture Site between Nottingham Road and Howick in KwaZulu-Natal. In 2012, to mark the 50th anniversary of Mandela's arrest, a sculpture was…
EventScores of people are killed in Boipatong, Vaal
… was carried out by armed men from Kwa Madala Hostel in Sebokeng, south of Johannesburg. In what has become known as the Boipatong massacre, township…
EventWidespread violence and intimidation in 1996 Kwazulu-Natal
… The prevalent violence in kwaZulu-Natal began with widespread interference during … the African National Congress (ANC) from running campaigns in the rural…