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EventSouth African poet, writer and political activist, Mafika Pascal Gwala is born in Durban.
… Mafika Pascal Gwala was born on 5 October 1946 in Verulam, north of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal. He is the second … child of five children of his parents. He…
PlaceFort Schanskop
… After the Jameson Raid in 1896, Pres Paul Kruger of the “Zuid-Afrikaansche … a Gauteng Provincial Heritage Site. Due to budget cuts the SA Defence Force was…
Statement at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Struggle of Women in South Africa and Namibia, 11 August 1981
… the Women's Section of the African National Congress and in the name of the entire oppressed and struggling people of … gratitude for the invitation extended…
EventThe ‘Hospital and Lunatic Asylum’, the first civilian hospital in Cape Town, is opened
… In the early 1800s, there was only one hospital for army men in the Cape, as well as a naval hospital in Simonstown. So, in order to set up the first…
EventLord Charles Henry Somerset, governor of the Cape Colony, is born in Badminton, England
… British Governor at the Cape from 1814 to 1826, was born in Badminton England on 12 December 1767. Under his term as governor, Somerset played an important…
"Future of the Africanist Movement" Questions and Answers Y R. M. Sobukwe, in The Africanist, January 1959
… Mr. Kenneth Kaunda of the Zambia African National Congress in Northern Rhodesia. Both have been unable to attend our convention, for both are now, in the…
EventEllen Phyllis Hellmann, social anthropologist and executive member of the SAIRR, dies in Johannesburg
… Ellen Phyllis Hellmann was born in Johannesburg in 1908. Her father had immigrated to South Africa from Germany in 1894. She studied Social Anthropology at…
Chapter 2. The Early History of the Garment Workers - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… Although I had been active in the labour movement since the days of my youth, my … of general secretary the union was purely fortuitous. In 1927 I entered…
EventCanada offers a second contingent of troops to the British in the South African War
… cavalry and field artillery to bolster British troops in the South African War. The British initially declined … Canadian assistance. Canada joined the South…
Chapter 20. Malan’s Road to a New South Africa - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… pamphlet under the title, The Road to A New South Africa, in which the party's attitude towards trade unions is clearly stated. This policy is identical in…
EventBrenda Fassie, South African singer and diva, dies in her sleep at Sunninghill Hospital
… Brenda Nokuzola Fassie was born in 1964 in Langa , a township near Cape Town . She was named after … band Brenda and the Big Dudes . Fassie began a solo…
EventMohandas K. Gandhi is arrested as he leads a march of Indian miners in South Africa
… On his journey to South Africa in 1893, Mohandas Gandhi had first -hand experience of the … was the establishment of the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in 1894…
Dr Piet Koornhof, one of the most controversial figures in South African history, dies
… figures from South Africa's apartheid era, died in a Stellenbosch frail care centre at the age of 82, following a stroke. Early in his life, as a Rhodes…
EventJulius Nyerere chairman of the Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) addresses the ANC in Arusha
… attending the African National Congress (ANC) conference in the Tanzanian city of Arusha. Significantly, Arusha is the city where Nyerere issued the Arusha…
EventProf. James Smith, who identified the first coelacanth found in South Africa, is born
… September 1897, Prof. James Leonard Brierly Smith was born in Graaff-Reinet in the Cape Province (now Eastern Cape). He studied chemistry … Oxford, he began…
EventA booby-trapped TV kills Tsitsi Chiliza, wife of an ANC official in Harare, Zimbabwe
… Chiliza, who was married to an ANC member was killed in a bomb hidden inside a TV set. It is believed that the … to the apartheid government attacking ANC…
ArchiveA Place In The City - The Rand On The Eve Of Apartheid by Luli Callinicos
… as a defeat for the democratic ideals they had defended in the Second World War, less than five years earlier. The … little to blacks, said Xuma, which white…
Event523 people die in the Black concentration camps of the Second Anglo Boer War
… war was officially declared between Britain and the Boers. In March 1901 Lord Kitchener, the commander of the British … approximately 116 000 Boer women and…
ArchiveIndian South Africans in Struggle for National Liberation Evidence of Molvi Ismail Ahmad Cachalia in the South African Treason Trial, June 21-28, 1960, Edited by E. S. Reddy
… Indian South Africans in Struggle for National Liberation Evidence of Molvi Ismail Ahmad Cachalia in the South African Treason Trial, June 21-28, 1960 … In…
Anti-Apartheid Activism in Britain: The AAM, the BEM/BSC and the wider concerns of the Black community regarding anti-apartheid activism in Britain by Elizabeth Williams
… Anti-Apartheid Activism in Britain: The AAM, the BEM/BSC and the wider concerns of the Black community regarding anti-apartheid activism in Britain by…
Soweto Students Representative Council: To all fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, friends and workers, in all cities, towns and villages in the Republic of South Africa.
… and mothers, brothers and sisters, friends and workers, in all cities, towns and villages in the Republic of South Africa. …
The Bulls beat the Sharks 21 20 in Durban, to win the Super 14 final in the last minute of the game. It is the first time i
… The Bulls beat the Sharks 21 20 in Durban, to win the Super 14 final in the last minute of the game. It is the first time i …
EventSouth Africans pay tribute to Nelson Mandela at the Grand Parade in Cape Town
… away. The crowd gathered together at the Grand Parade in front of the City Hall in Cape Town, the place where Nelson Mandela delivered his … first public…
EventElsa, the lioness made famous by Joy Adamson’s book Born Free, dies in Kenya
… was one of three orphaned lions whose mother was killed in self defence by George Adamson. Adamson was a wildlife conservationist based in Kenya. He was…
EventIan Smith announced that he is ready to yield to majority rule in Rhodesia
… Smith announced that he is ready to yield to majority rule in Rhodesia (now known as Zimbabwe). This represented an … On this occasion, Smith led his…
EventMiss Namibia, Michelle Mclean, model and masseuse, is crowned Miss Universe in Bangkok, Thailand
… born model Michelle Mclean was crowned miss Universe in Bangkok, Thailand in 1992. Mclean had won the 1991 Miss Namibia pageant as well as making it to the…
EventConnie Mulder resigns as a result of his involvement in plot to sell apartheid propaganda
… Minister of Information, Connie Mulder , resigns his seat in Parliament at the insistence of the Prime Minister P. W. Botha as a result of his involvement in…
EventJan van Riebeeck’s statue, presented by Cecil John Rhodes, is unveiled in Cape Town
… was unveiled. The statue stands on Heerengracht Street in Cape Town. It was sculpted in bronze by John Tweed and donated to the city by Cecil John … who was…
From Protest to Challenge: Documents of African Politics in South Africa 1882-1964 Volume 1
… and Johannesburg branches, the 'real business' was ushered in next morning by a procession with band and banners from … chairman Jimmy Shields (recently…
EventFreak storms create havoc in the Eastern Cape and President Mandela narrowly escaped injury
… Tornadoes are rare in South Africa. Therefore, the radar equipment used to predict and track these killer storms are not in huge supply in the country,…