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Op-Ed: The Zuma rape trial and its bearing on the post-Zuma era by Raymond Suttner (Daily Maverick) ,17 August 2016
The lessons of the Zuma rape trial have a bearing on the type of future leadership we must seek. In the normal course of events someone acquitted of a criminal…
PlaceMofolo Arts Centre
Located on Mzilikazi Street in Mofolo, the Mofolo Arts Centre is a hub of cultural and artistic exploration in Soweto. The centre is one of the few…
EventLalla Hirayama, the Japanese-born South African television personality is born
Lalla Hirayama was born in Hiratsuka, Japan on 10 February 1988. At the age of six, her family immigrated to South Africa. Lalla is a South African “It” girl…
PlaceKing’s Blockhouse, Devil’s Peak, Cape Town.
Following the first British occupation of the Cape in 1795, the existing Dutch line of defence, known as the French line, was extended by the addition of three…
EventThe SA Constitutional Court abolishes the death penalty
On 6 June 1995 a historic resolution was taken by the Constitutional Court to abolish the death penalty. The court ruled that capital punishment, as provided…
PlaceSAAF Memorial and Museum
This memorial is built on Bay Hills and offers a clear view of the Air Force Base at Zwartskop. The outline of the Voortrekker Monument is also visible from…
Document 32 - League of African Rights, Petition, 1929
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 32 - League of African Rights, Petition, 1929 A…
EventPaedophile Gert van Rooyen and mistress commit suicide
Padeophile Gert van Rooyen and his mistress, Joey Haarhoff, commit suicide in Pretoria while being pursued by the police. Paedophile Gert van Rooyen and his…
EventThabo Mbeki is elected 2nd President of a democratic South Africa
Thabo Mbeki was sworn in as South Africa's second democratically elected president in front of a vast crowd of dancing and cheering supporters. The…
EventRoman Catholic Bishop Augustin Misago, cleared of genocide charges
On 15 June 2000, Roman Catholic Bishop Augustin Misago of Gikongoro was cleared of charges against him regarding his alleged participation in the Rwandan…
EventThe Rand Revolt breaks out
The end of World War I was followed by a global depression that affected South Africa as well. Soon after the war, in 1918 and 1919, Black workers across…
EventArrival of Chinese labourers in South Africa
A labour shortage at the gold mines on the Rand resulted in the importation of Chinese labour in 1904. This situation, in part, was the result of the Anglo…
EventSuppression of Communism Act, No. 44 of 1950 approved in Parliament
The Suppression of Communism Act, No. 44 of 1950, according to which the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) was declared an illegal organisation, was…
ArchiveKora: A Lost Khoisan Language Chapter 3: The Sounds of Kora
From the book: Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du PlessisThere will be many readers who would like to have a sense of…
EventKing George V visits the SANLC
The South African Native Labour Contingent were recruited and employed to assist Britain in the First World War with labour duties. Black South African men…
EventThe National Library of South Africa is founded
The Governor of the Cape Colony in 1818 was Lord Charles Somerset. It was he who first issued a proclamation launching the first South African Public Library…
EventBanned PAC Leader, Robert Sobukwe, is refused an exit permit to leave SA
On 22 June 1971 a Pretoria court ruled that the former leader of the banned Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), Robert Sobukwe, would not be allowed to use his…
EventPhumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka sworn in as UN- Women Executive Director
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka was sworn in as the Executive Director of UN Women during a ceremony on 19 August 2013 at United Nations (UN) Headquarters in New York…
EventANC receives letter of gratitude from the British Prime Minister, Herold Macmillan
0n 10 February 1960, the African National Congress (ANC) received a letter from the British Prime Minister, Herold Macmillan; it was seven days after he made…
EventBhekisani Manyoni, artist, is born in Greytown
On 6 September 1945, Bhekisani Manyoni was born in Greytown, Natal (now KwaZulu Natal). He later moved with his family to the Dundee area, near Rorke's Drift,…
EventA.G. Visser, SA physician and poet, dies in Heidelberg, Transvaal
Andries Gerhardus Visser was born on 1 March 1878 on the farm Zaaifontein, in the district of Fraserburg, South Africa. Visser attended the Huguenot Memorial…
EventUDF members challenge the government to arrest them on charges of high treason
Boesak and his colleagues were addressing a protest meeting on the night of 27 February 1985. The meeting was attended by more than 5000 people at the Durban…
EventCar bomb explodes outside Air Force headquarters
On the afternoon of 20 May 1983, two African National Congress (ANC) cadres, Freddie Shangwe and Ezekial Maseko, drove to Church Street in Pretoria and parked…
EventThe 104mm field-gun known as ‘Long Cecil’ is test fired for the first time
The 104mm field-gun designed by American George Labram and manufactured in the De Beers workshop in Kimberley, known as 'Long Cecil' after Cecil John Rhodes,…
EventHaile Selassi I, Emperor of Ethiopia, is born
Haile Selassi was born as Lij Tafari Makonnen in the village of Ejersa Gor, in the Harar province of Ethiopia. Heir to a 13th century dynasty, he ascended to…
PlaceOld Court House, Victoria Embankment, Durban
The building was designed by architect Stanley Hudson and was erected in 1911 as the Old Court House, and is the oldest public building in the central business…
EventEdgar Wallace (56), author and newspaper editor in South Africa, dies in Hollywood.
Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was born in London in 1875. His mother, unmarried and struggling to make a living, gave him up for adoption when he was nine…
PlaceEbenezer, Limpopo
Ebenezer was established in 1831 as a station of the Rhenish Missionary Society. The 1875 census indicated that the Village had a population of 291. It was…
'Native life' 100 after Sol Plaatje published it by Janet Remmington, Brian Willan, Bhekizizwe Peterson (Mail and Guardian), 30 September 2016
Sol T Plaatje’s ground-breaking work Native Life in South Africa was published 100 years ago in 1916. Janet Remmington, Brian Willan and Bhekizizwe Peterson…
37. Deputation to Lord Selborne, 1905
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai A deputation of Indians went to see Lord…