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B-0149402	biography	Johannes Nkosi	1905-1930	✓
B-0149289	biography	Moses Ndlovu	1944-2004	✓
B-0150398	biography	Audrey ‘Bobbie’ Cobden	1923-2016	✓
B-0149881	biography	Lloyd Spencer	1955	✓
R-0144645	archive	From the Archive of Steve Bantu Biko by Mafika Gwala, 23 May 2019	20 Aug 2019	–
R-0117917	archive	How and why a small ANC of (S.A.) clique decided to make a public emergence at this time and state in the development of our situation	22 Feb 2016	–
E-0065420	event	Ghana’s Black Stars, the only African team standing in the Quarter Finals of the FIFA 2010 World Cup in SA, are defeated by Uruguay	1 Jul 2011	✓
E-0069460	event	World War II: SA armoured cars are in pursuit of the German forces and re-enter Tobruk, continuing as far as Benghazi, east Lib	11 Nov 2011	✓
E-0092957	event	Israel Abrahams, Chief Rabbi of Cape Town and Hebrew scholar, dies in Jerusalem, Israel. He came to SA in 1937 and held the pos	28 Aug 2012	✓
E-0087541	event	Second-Lieutenant William Nimmo Brown of the 1st SA Infantry is killed in the Battle of the Somme and becomes the first South A	28 Jun 2012	✓
E-0086474	event	The SA rugby team beats Wales 96-3 in Pretoria – the highest score up to now, as are the 13 tries scored. The 31 points o	22 Jun 2012	✓
E-0086325	event	Thabo Mngomeni, SA Bafana Bafana player who was awarded Kick Off’s accolade for the Goal of the Decade for his goal for Bush Bu	22 Jun 2012	✓
E-0086319	event	WWI: The first Battle of the Somme begins. It lasted five months and the death toll of more than 1 million resulted in an allie	22 Jun 2012	✓
E-0086305	event	The bulk ore carrier MV Treasure sinks off the western coast of SA, soiling more than 19 000 penguins. This resulted in the wor	22 Jun 2012	✓
E-0088960	event	Anglo-Boer War 2 -ZAR General De la Rey arrests ex-General Schoeman on his farm near Pretoria for refusing to obey an order to	20 Jul 2012	✓
E-0088837	event	ANC President Nelson Mandela says that next week’s general strike will go ahead. He says the aim of the mass protest was not an	20 Jul 2012	–
E-0085614	event	For the first time in SA history White, Coloured and Indian voters go to the polls on the same day to vote for representatives	8 Jun 2012	✓
E-0088453	event	WWI: Only three SA officers and 140 men march out of Delville Wood. Six days earlier, on moving in, the strength of the brigade	13 Jul 2012	✓
E-0084834	event	News 24 announces that SA broke the Zimbabwean boycott in March this year. Armscor has sold spare parts to the value of more th	1 Jun 2012	✓
E-0074150	event	Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of Paardeberg, which was to last up to 27 February, starts with an attack by the British under Maj	17 Feb 2012	✓
E-0092734	event	Thabo Mooki, SA football player who was the first winner of the Kick Off Footballer of the Season, 96/97, is born in Moletsane,	28 Aug 2012	✓
E-0092351	event	Ten-year-old Liam Aspeling, snatched from a car on his way to school the previous day, is found unharmed but guarded by an arme	27 Aug 2012	✓
E-0092332	event	Sally Knight Little, SA golf player who won the individual title in the world golf championship in Spain in 1970, is born in Ca	27 Aug 2012	✓
E-0091997	event	The US calls on Egypt and Israel to work out an interim agreement on reopening the Suez Canal as the first step toward resolvin	27 Aug 2012	✓
E-0091857	event	France confirms that it is selling two new combat submarines to South Africa, to help SA to protect the oil route round the Cap	24 Aug 2012	✓
E-0090209	event	Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria, monarch of the British Empire (thus also of the Union of SA at the time), is born at	10 Aug 2012	✓
E-0091282	event	SA gains 180 medals during the 7th All Africa Games that ends in Johannesburg; followed by Egypt with 156 and Nigeria with 128.	23 Aug 2012	✓
E-0091048	event	Absa Bank hands an old warrant of arrest for Nelson Mandela, dated May 18, 1961, to the Minister of Arts and Culture, Dr Pallo	14 Aug 2012	✓
E-0090732	event	For the first time in SA history White, Coloured and Indian voters go to the polls on the same day to vote for representatives	14 Aug 2012	–
E-0084067	event	Mzolisi Goodman Diliza, businessman and Chief Executive of the Chamber of Mines of SA, is born. He was the first Black to be ap	25 May 2012	✓

Biography

1905-1930

Johannes Nkosi

A martyr for the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA and SACP after 1953), was the son of Jacobina Nkosi (no details of his father could be traced). Nkosi…

B-0149402

Biography

1944-2004

Moses Ndlovu

Moses Ndlovu was born in KwaSemane which is in the Otto Bluff area near Pietermaritzburg, Natal. His parents were farm tenants. Ndlovu attended primary school…

B-0149289

Biography

1923-2016

Audrey ‘Bobbie’ Cobden

Audrey ‘Bobbie’ (her childhood nickname) Cobden was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal Province (now Gauteng) on 15 April 1923. She grew up in Johannesburg and…

B-0150398

Biography

1955

Lloyd Spencer

Lloyd Spencer was born in South Africa in 1955. As a teenager, he had developed and printed his own medium format photos using his father's antique cameras as…

B-0149881

From the Archive of Steve Bantu Biko by Mafika Gwala, 23 May 2019

Mafika Gwala was a significant South African writer, who emerged in the 1960s and 1970s. A prominent activist of that era, he expressed the political needs and…

R-0144645

How and why a small ANC of (S.A.) clique decided to make a public emergence at this time and state in the development of our situation

ANC statement, written by Alfred Nzo, on the Makiwane group expulsion.

R-0117917

Event

1 Jul 2011

Ghana’s Black Stars, the only African team standing in the Quarter Finals of the FIFA 2010 World Cup in SA, are defeated by Uruguay

In the 2010 World Cup, Ghana progressed beyond the group stages, and reached the quarter-finals where they were eliminated by Uruguay. Ghana was defeated by…

E-0065420

Event

11 Nov 2011

World War II: SA armoured cars are in pursuit of the German forces and re-enter Tobruk, continuing as far as Benghazi, east Lib

E-0069460

Event

28 Aug 2012

Israel Abrahams, Chief Rabbi of Cape Town and Hebrew scholar, dies in Jerusalem, Israel. He came to SA in 1937 and held the pos

E-0092957

Event

28 Jun 2012

Second-Lieutenant William Nimmo Brown of the 1st SA Infantry is killed in the Battle of the Somme and becomes the first South A

E-0087541

Event

22 Jun 2012

The SA rugby team beats Wales 96-3 in Pretoria – the highest score up to now, as are the 13 tries scored. The 31 points o

E-0086474

Event

22 Jun 2012

Thabo Mngomeni, SA Bafana Bafana player who was awarded Kick Off’s accolade for the Goal of the Decade for his goal for Bush Bu

E-0086325

Event

22 Jun 2012

WWI: The first Battle of the Somme begins. It lasted five months and the death toll of more than 1 million resulted in an allie

E-0086319

Event

22 Jun 2012

The bulk ore carrier MV Treasure sinks off the western coast of SA, soiling more than 19 000 penguins. This resulted in the wor

E-0086305

Event

20 Jul 2012

Anglo-Boer War 2 -ZAR General De la Rey arrests ex-General Schoeman on his farm near Pretoria for refusing to obey an order to

E-0088960

Event

20 Jul 2012

ANC President Nelson Mandela says that next week’s general strike will go ahead. He says the aim of the mass protest was not an

E-0088837

Event

8 Jun 2012

For the first time in SA history White, Coloured and Indian voters go to the polls on the same day to vote for representatives

E-0085614

Event

13 Jul 2012

WWI: Only three SA officers and 140 men march out of Delville Wood. Six days earlier, on moving in, the strength of the brigade

E-0088453

Event

1 Jun 2012

News 24 announces that SA broke the Zimbabwean boycott in March this year. Armscor has sold spare parts to the value of more th

E-0084834

Event

17 Feb 2012

Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of Paardeberg, which was to last up to 27 February, starts with an attack by the British under Maj

E-0074150

Event

28 Aug 2012

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

E-0092734

Event

27 Aug 2012

Ten-year-old Liam Aspeling, snatched from a car on his way to school the previous day, is found unharmed but guarded by an arme

E-0092351

Event

27 Aug 2012

Sally Knight Little, SA golf player who won the individual title in the world golf championship in Spain in 1970, is born in Ca

E-0092332

Event

27 Aug 2012

The US calls on Egypt and Israel to work out an interim agreement on reopening the Suez Canal as the first step toward resolvin

E-0091997

Event

24 Aug 2012

France confirms that it is selling two new combat submarines to South Africa, to help SA to protect the oil route round the Cap

E-0091857

Event

10 Aug 2012

Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria, monarch of the British Empire (thus also of the Union of SA at the time), is born at

E-0090209

Event

23 Aug 2012

SA gains 180 medals during the 7th All Africa Games that ends in Johannesburg; followed by Egypt with 156 and Nigeria with 128.

E-0091282

Event

14 Aug 2012

Absa Bank hands an old warrant of arrest for Nelson Mandela, dated May 18, 1961, to the Minister of Arts and Culture, Dr Pallo

E-0091048

Event

14 Aug 2012

For the first time in SA history White, Coloured and Indian voters go to the polls on the same day to vote for representatives

E-0090732

Event

25 May 2012

Mzolisi Goodman Diliza, businessman and Chief Executive of the Chamber of Mines of SA, is born. He was the first Black to be ap

E-0084067