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… David Lloyd George stated in the British House of Commons that as many as 30 000 armed Blacks were at that stage employed in the British army during the Second Anglo Boer War. … and the British sides were opposed to using armed Blacks in the war, realities gradually started to influence their …

… Harold Rubin was born in Johannesburg on 13 May 1932. He was educated at Jeppe High School in Johannesburg and studied drawing and painting privately … and formed his own quartet. The quartet snuck into the black township, Sophiatown, and made music with saxophonist …

… Afrikaner musician and groundbreaking songwriter born in Johannesburg, on 27 March 1960. He started singing in the late 1980s while working for the conservative … life, titled ‘Who killed Johannes Kerkorrel’ was released in 2011. … Kerkorrel, Afrikaans singer and songwriter, is born in Johannesburg …

… In a historic move, the Union Jack was lowered for the last time in Africa on this day when the embattled ex-British colony of … Whites and agreed to be part of the Commonwealth countries in the process. … End of the road for the Union Jack in Africa …

… because of tension over six dissidents hiding from police in the British Consulate in Durban. The South African government in retaliation for London's refusal to evict the fugitives … South Africa and the United Kingdom embroiled in a diplomatic crisis …

… On 15 July 1960, the first Boeing 707 jet aircraft arrived in South Africa from America. This aircraft has remained in the service of the South African Air Force (SAAF) up until … as the latest Airbus and Boeing variants have replaced it in that role. The remaining aircraft in service with SAAF are …

… the eighties. However, many other companies chose to stay in the hope that they could contribute in the eradication of apartheid and achievement of equality. One of the companies that chose to remain in the country was Mobil, which later merged with Exxon to …

… suburb of Johannesburg, was officially re-named Pageview in honour of Mr. J.J. Page, the Mayor of Johannesburg at the … known as Fietas. It was one of the oldest communities in Johannesburg, and one of the first 'locations' … areas) established under the government of Paul Kruger in 1893. Fietas was an integrated community, not unlike …

… an oversight to discuss vigilantes and political violence in KwaZulu-Natal without paying attention to the implications … of a Government security strategy aimed at disempowering black communities and weakening support for the ANC, while helping more conservative or moderate black movements to mobilise within the black communities. In …

… of the 20th century. He was born James wa Thiong’o Ngugi in Limuru, Kenya on 5 January 1938 during the height of … a Bachelor of Arts degree from Makerere University in 1963, the same year that Kenya became independent from … of Leeds in Britain. wa Thiong’o wrote the play, The Black Hermit whilst still an undergraduate at Makerere. It …

… Andrew Mokete Mlangeni was born on 6 June 1925 on a farm in the Bethlehem, Orange Free State (now Free State Province) … district, as one of a twin (he has a sister). He grew up in Soweto, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). He was the … its secretary for the Johannesburg region, responsible for black groups. In 1951 he formally joined the ANC Youth …

… Opening address by President Nelson Mandela in the president’s budget debate in the National Assembly Cape Town, 15 April 1997 …

… Anglo-Boer War 2: At Paardekop, in the Gatsrand, near Vereeniging, General J.C. Smuts and a small party are surprised in their …

… In a report published in the New Nation, a former South African army sergeant, Mr. …

… The Secretary of Health announces that all senior doctors in the Public Service, irrespective of race, will in future receive e …

… Statement on violence in New Brighton, Port Elizabeth on October 18, by local ANC leaders, in the October 20, 1952 …

… Some 2 000 men storm King Hassan’s birthday party in Morocco, killing 100 people in an attempted coup; the king survives. …

… A number of people are injured in a bomb explosion at a taxi and bus terminal in Johannesburg. Right wing complicity is suspect …

… to Kenyan President Jomo Kenyatta, is assassinated in Nairobi. He was born in Kenya …

… PAC member and deputy editor of the Sowetan, is shot dead in a car by two gunmen in Soweto. …

… Gandhi, her mother Sushila and father Manilal stage a sit-in in the ‘whites only" reading room, defying the segregati …

… A pipeline explodes in Nigeria when villagers try to siphon off oil. Between 400 and 700 people die in the blaze. …

… The Rev. Pierre Simond delivers the first sermon in French in the Cape when he addresses Huguenot refugees at …

… Hendrik Witbooi, leader of the Nama tribe in German South West Africa, dies in a skirmish with the Germans near Keetmanshoop, S …

… Hadebe, ANC Natal midlands deputy chair, is gunned down in an ambush on a vehicle transporting senior ANC officials in R …

… of Bantu Administration and Development states that, in 1973, 475,387 foreign Africans were working in South Afric …

… Ten people die in Khayelitsha when gunmen open fire on taxi association members in a revival of Western Cape taxi hostilities. …

… Five miners die in a hoisting accident on Rustenburg Platinum Mines, bringing to fifteen the death toll in mining accidents dur …

… Bute, E.L. & Harmer, H.J.P. (1997). The Black Handbook , London: Cassell. … Sankara, head of the Military Council of the Revolution in Burkina Faso, is assassinated in a military coup and replaced …

… Erwin Rommel, famous German commander of German forces in North Africa, suspected of complicity in the 20 …