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EventMorgan Tsvangirai is cleared of Treason charges
The Zimbabwean opposition leader of the Movement for Democratic Change, Morgan Tsvangirai, was charged with treason for allegedly plotting to kill President…
EventFormer member of the Mandela United Football Club, Katiza Cebekhulu appears before the TRC
A former member of the Mandela United Football Club, Katiza Cebekhulu, who disappeared on the eve of the 1991 trial in which he was expected to testify,…
EventWorld Cancer Day is instituted as an annual world-wide cancer awareness campaign
World Cancer Day was founded by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) to raise awareness and to encourage its prevention, detection and treatment…
EventGwen Lister is born
Gwen Lister is a South African born Namibian Journalist, publisher and anti apartheid activist. She was born in East London on 5 December 1953. After…
EventANC President, Oliver Tambo, denies that the ANC is in secret negotiations with the South African government
The African National Congress (ANC) President, Oliver Tambo denied that the ANC was in secret negotiations with the South African government. His denial came…
EventVigilante mob beats man to death in Diepsloot
Elvis Ramoloyi was beaten to death by a mob after a confrontation with two men who got upset when he reversed his car too close to where they were standing…
EventHenry Olonga, Zimbabwean Cricketer is born
Henry Khaaba Olonga was born in Lusaka, Zambia, to a Kenyan father and a Zimbabwean mother. The family moved back to his father’s homeland, Kenya, before…
EventSouth Africa and Lesotho establish a consultative committee to resolve border disputes
South Africa and Lesotho decided to establish a consultative committee to resolve misunderstandings arising from the movement of people across their common…
EventA UN report estimates the number of people who have HIV/AIDS in Africa at 50,000
A United Nations report estimates the number of people who have HIV/AIDS in Africa at 50,000. The report came five years after the Centre for Disease Control…
EventAn inquest into the death of Ernest Dipale finds no-one criminally liable for his death
An inquest into the death of Ernest Dipale, who had died in custody at the Johannesburg Security Police headquarters, John Vorster Square on 8 August 1982,…
EventJan Carel Juta (52), father of the publishing industry in SA, dies in Chiswick, London
Jan Carel Juta was a South African business man born in Holland in 1824. He sailed to the Cape in South Africa in 1853 where he soon established the company…
EventThe University of South Africa is officially opened, replacing the University of the Cape of Good Hope.
South Africa’s biggest University, the University of South Africa (Unisa) was officially opened on 2 March 1918. It had been known as the University of the…
EventA British Sports Council team begins a three-week fact-finding tour of South Africa to probe racial discrimination in sport
In May 1962 Dennis Brutus, Secretary of the South African Sports Association, wrote to Otto Mayer, the then Chancellor of the International Olympic Committee …
EventThe 41st annual conference of the ANC in Queenstown gets underway
The 41 annual conference of the African National Congress (ANC) in Queenstown, Eastern Cape, continues. Amongst the ANC leaders who attended the event was…
EventHestrie Cloete, world champion high jumper, is born
Hestrie Cloete was born in Germiston, East of Johannesburg on 26 August 1978. She began participating in sports at an early age. Her long-time coach, Martin…
EventNelson Mandela announces his separation from his wife, Winnie Mandela.
Just two years after coming out from prison, Nelson Mandela announced his intention to separate from his wife of 34 years, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. Mandela…
EventMusician, Gito Baloi of Tananas fame, is killed
Musician Gito Baloi was shot dead on 4 April 2004, during a hijacking on his way home from a concert. Gito Baloi was born in Mozambique on 30 September 1964…
Ikwezi
Ikwezi, a Xhosa word meaning "rising star", was a Marxist-Leninist journal devoted to proletarian socialist revolution in Southern Africa, published in England…
EventCommandant General Hiemstra announces the outcomes of Anglo-South African deliberations
The head of the South African Defence Force, Commandant General Hiemstra, announced the successful conclusion of Anglo-South African talks on aspects of the…
PlaceBrandvlei, Karoo
Abiekwakop is a Hillock 50 km North of Brandvlei, in the Kenhardt District. A Khoikhoi name derived for the bushes they used, to make digging apparatus. …
EventGert Maritz (41), Voortrekker leader, dies.
On 23 September 1838 Gerhardus Marthinus (Gert) Maritz, Voortrekker leader, died at Sooilaer, in Natal (now kwaZulu Natal), he was 41 years old. The Great Trek…
EventLillian Ngoyi, well-known anti-Apartheid activist, dies
Anti-Apartheid activist and founder member of the African National Congress Women’s League (ANCWL), Lilian Ngoyi died on 13 March 1980. She was 68 years old. …
Tell no Lies, Claim no easy Victories by Thabo Mbeki, 4 April 2016
Last year on December 15, Max Boqwana, the CEO of the Thabo Mbeki Foundation (TMF), posted a Notice on this Facebook Page that starting in January this year,…
Document 91 - John Gomas, “The Native Representation Bill is Passed: What Must be Done Now?” Umsebenzi, 25 April 1936
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 91 - John Gomas, "The Native Representation…
Black consciousness and the land question by Pandelani Nefolovhodwe, 17 March 2015, South Africa
Introduction A Sowetan article of the 6th September 2013, states that 14% of audited land in South Africa is in the hands of the state, and 79 % is in the…
From the 1973 Durban strikes to the Marikana massacre and De Doorns conflict: How trade unions acquired their power and what has gone wrong with employment relations in South Africa subsequently by Johann Maree
Forty years ago during January and February 1973 mass strikes by African workers in Durban broke out in protest against low wages. In total 61,000 workers went…
46. The Gandhi-Smuts compromise explained
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai On 28 January 1908, Gandhi and two of his…
’Under Investigation’ video material going live on facebook
Under Investigation is an ambitious community development project being run in Steytlerville in the Eastern Cape. The project has several elements but centres…
PlaceGardens, Cape Town
Gardens is a residential suburb of Cape Town and was probably so named because it incorporated part of Van Riebeeck's original gardens. Lying sandwiched…
Document 69 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa, Johannesburg, to the Cape Town branch, 22 March 1937
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 69 - Letter from the Workers' Party of South…