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EventAhmed Helmy, Egyptian actor, is born
Ahmed Helmy was born on 18 November 1969 in Banha, Egypt. His career as an actor began when Sherif Arafa noticed Helmy in a children’s programme and was…
EventPhambili Ka Ntloko, national organiser of AZAPO, is born
Phambili Ka Ntloko was born on 18 April 1960 in Queenstown, Eastern Cape. As a high school student, Ntloko became involved in the South African Students’…
EventA booby-trapped TV kills Tsitsi Chiliza, wife of an ANC official in Harare, Zimbabwe
On 14 may 1987, a Zimbabwean citizen, Tsitsi Chiliza, who was married to an ANC member was killed in a bomb hidden inside a TV set. It is believed that the…
OR Tambo Memorial Lecture delivered by President Jacob Zuma, 25 October 2015, Port Elizabeth
… recuperate from illness. He suffered the first stroke in 1989. In April 1993 he passed on, so close to seeing the …
ArticleWhy protect children’s rights?
The inclusion in the Bill of Rights of a special section on the rights of the child was an important development for South African children, most of whom had…
EventLuc Montagnier, virologist who discovered the human immunodeficiency virus, is born
On 18 August 1932, Luc Montagnier was born in Chabris, France. He studied natural sciences at the University of Poitiers and received his license of sciences…
EventRSA introduces more press restriction
Faced with increasing resistance and an increasingly ungovernable country, the government introduced wider press restrictions under the 1986 state of emergency…
EventSouth Africa mandated to govern South
The League of Nations, the world body formed after World War 1 in 1919, afforded South Africa a mandate to govern South-West Africa (now Namibia). The mandate…
EventJosephine Wood, founder of the South African Library for the Blind, is born in Grahamstown
Josephine Ethel (Josie) Wood was born on 22 January 1874 in Grahamstown. She was one of six children of the first mayor of Grahamstown, George Samuel Wood and…
EventThe United Nations (UN) imposes sanctions on Libya
The United Nations (UN) imposed sanctions on Libya for refusing to hand over two men suspected of bombing the Pan Am flight 103. Seven years later (1999),…
EventLouis Raymond, an Olympic tennis singles gold medalist is born
Louis Bosman Raymond was born in Pretoria on 1 January 1895.[i] Raymond won a gold medal in the men’s singles at the Olympic Games in 1920, hosted in Antwerp,…
Class, Consciousness and Organisation: Conclusion by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
PlaceFaculty of Health Sciences, UCT Observatory
The oldest medical school in South Africa, offer a variety of educational, training and academic career options within the context of health care and research …
EventBafana Bafana legend Philimon Raul Masinga dies
On 12 January 2019,legendary Bafana Bafana striker Philimon Masinga died at 49 years old in a Johannesburg hospital after a long battle with cancer. …
PlaceValkenburg Hospital, Observatory
The Building, originally designed in a Cape Dutch style and is one of the oldest Farmhouses surviving along the Liesbeek River. Its original construction dates…
PlaceSt Saviours Church Anglican Church and Cemetery, Bowwood Road, Claremont
St. Saviours Church is at the Corner of Bowwood and Main Roads in Claremont, Cape Town, South Africa. St. Saviours has stood on its present Site since 1854…
EventMpho Mathibela, one of the Siamese twins separated in an operation six months earlier, leaves hospital for the first time
Mpho and Mphonyana Mathibela made headlines when they were born conjoined at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital on 7 December 1986.The twin girls were joined at…
EventDisbanding of Communist Party is announced
Sam Kahn, leader of the Communist Party of South African (CPSA) and natives' representative in parliament, announced in parliament that the party has…
EventZimbabwe becomes a member of the United Nations (UN)
Zimbabwe's pre-colonial history is synonymous with the ruins of Great Zimbabwe, after which the country is now named. Following colonisation by Britain,…
EventSipho Malaza allegedly dies in detention
A Black high school student, Sipho Malaza, presumably died on this day thirty years ago while in Security Police custody. His death was the twenty-first in…
EventPolice detain Valli Moosa and Murphy Morobe in Port Elizabeth
Police arrested United Democratic Front national secretary-general Mohammed Valli Moosa and its acting publicity secretary Murphy Morobe in a pre-dawn raid on…
EventCleric and anti-apartheid activist, Mpilo Desmond Tutu is ordained as Archbishop of Cape Town
On 7 September 1986, former Secretary-General of the South African Council of Churches and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Desmond Tutu, was ordained as an…
EventForced removals at the Crossroads informal settlement
Numerous attempts were made by the local government to clear informal dwellings at Crossroads in close proximity to the Cape Town International airport. The…
PlaceFreshford House Museum, 31 Kellner Street
Freshford House Museum is one of the few houses of the upper middle class of the Edwardian Period that still exists in Bloemfontein. The house was designed and…
EventCarl Niehaus is sentenced to 15 years in prison for high treason for being a member of ANC underground
Carl Niehaus grew up in Zeerust, North West Province, and completed his higher education at Rand Afrikaans University (RAU). A student of theology, Niehaus was…
ArticleKasturba Gandhi timeline 1869 - 1944
1869 April, Kasturba Kapadia is born in Porbandar, in present-day Gujarat. 1876 Kasturba Kapadia and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi are betrothed by their…
A New Date For the Founding of the South African Society of Artists, and it’s Second Annual Exhibition of 1898
WHILE THIS EXHIBITION AND CATALOGUE purport to mark the centenary of the founding of the South African Society of Artists (SASA) in 1902, it is actually the…
ArchiveRobert Grendon: A Life Rediscovered, (Daily Maverick), 4 March 2024
Poet, scholar, botanist, auxiliary soldier, journalist, politician, talented sportsman and grandson of a famous Herero leader, Robert Grendon is one of the…
EventOne of the most infamous murders in South Africa takes place
19 year old Marlene Lehnberg hired Marthinus Choegoe to assist in the brutal murder of 48-year-old Susanna Magdalena van der Linde, wife to Christiaan van der…
The Mission: A Life for Freedom in South Africa by Denis Goldberg
Foreword by Dr Z. Pallo Jordan Preface Chapter 1 Break down the walls Chapter 2 Respect for all, Childhood in Cape Town, 1933 – 1949 Chapter 3…