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Sam Ramsamy, president of the (NOCSA), announced South Africa’s acceptance of an invitation to participate in the Olympic Game
SA’s Baby Jake Matlala beats IBA light featherweight boxing champion Michael Carbajal in Las Vegas to become world champion.
Samuel Alfred (Taffy) Long, heralded by subsequent labour histories as one of SA’s greatest working-class martyrs, is arrested
SA troops led by Gen. Jan Smuts invade East Africa in their confrontation with German forces in World War I.
The liner SA Vaal rescues a Johannesburg man, Joseph Honeywill, eleven hours after he fell overboard near the Canary Islands.
Denel, SA’s state-owned defence and aerospace group, announces that it has been awarded contracts amounting to $2 million (abou
Political assassinations: Nhlanhla Makhanya (14), Rev. Mntambo, his son and an employee, Mr Mtshali, Mr Ngenya and Siyabonga Go
SA Safety and Security Minister says in parliament during a discussion on his budget vote: "They can continue to whinge u
Victor (Vic) Toweel, (bantamweight) becomes SA’s first universal boxing champion by beating Manuel Ortez of the USA in Johannes
Willem van der Berg, SA novelist and former head of the Afrikaans service of the SAUK (SABC), is born.
Prof. Izak Wilhelmus van der Merwe (Boerneef), well-known SA poet and author, is born on Boplaas, district Ceres.
Willem van der Berg, SA novelist and former head of the Afrikaans service of the SAUK (SABC), is born.
Catharina Felicia van Rees, musician who published the first collection of SA folk songs, dies in Gelderland, the Netherlands.
Anton Ackerman, SA actor and member of the theatrical company of Wena Naudé and Willem van Zyl, is born.
François Petrus (Toon) van den Heever, SA poet and justice-president, is born in the district of Heidelberg, Tvl.
Mozambique and Zimbabwe sign a defence and security agreement under which an attack by SA on either country will be taken as an
ArticleCommunity histories in Port Elizabeth
… the Eastern Cape and intermarried with Khoikhoi and San people in the area. Young Nelson Mandela in traditional … they destroyed or incorporated the Khoikhoi…
ArchiveWhere did all the masks go? by Dewald van Rensburg (22 May 2020)
In the first quarter of this year South Africa’s normally staid and insignificant mask industry exploded. Like its peers across the globe it had orders…
ArchiveChristian principles and race problems by Jan H. Hofmeyr
This was the first lecture in a series of the Hoernle Memorial Lectures delivered by Jan H. Hofmeyr, who was subsequently a student of Professor Hoernle at the…
Say It out Loud - A letter to the Coloured People of South Africa
From the book: Say It out Loud by Mohamed Adhikari Albert Lodge, Mount Street, Cape Town, 31 May 1910 The inauguration of the Union of South Africa…
ArchiveWhy the nationalist say there is no place for mission schools
PlaceJan De Waal House, 93 Bree Street, Cape Town
Jan de Waal, born in Amsterdam, arrived at the Cape in 1715 as an employee of the Dutch East India Company The erf on which this double storey house stands was…
‘Just say yes, Mr President’: Mbeki and AIDS by Anthony Brink A PROSPECTUS
‘”¦ when historians assess the democratic credentials of Thabo Mbeki’s government in future, it is likely that their most critical attentions will focus on its…
EventKenya lifts ban on sports links with South Africa
On 20 June 1991 the Kenya National Sports Council sent a letter to its 39 affiliated associations informing them that they were now free to invite South…
BiographyMahomed Dawood Barmania
Mahomed Dawood Barmania was the son of Dawood Barmania, owner of commercial and farming properties in both Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) and Surat in the West…
The Chamber of XVII orders Jan Van Riebeeck to restrict the allocation of farms at the Cape to officials who wanted to farm, to
Merchant Jan van Riebeeck is appointed commander at the Cape at a salary of 90 Dutch guilder per year and not 150, as was his r
ArticleLand: dispossession, resistance and restitution
… required. Land was seized from the Khoikhoi, and later the San, to increase Dutch grazing pastures, expand their farming … seized and occupied land while…
BiographyWolfie Kodesh
Wolfie Kodesh was born in Benoni on 18 October 1918. His paternal grandparents arrived in South Africa after fleeing the pogroms in Eastern Europe. His mother,…
BiographyAllison Wessels George Champion
Allison George Champion was born on 4 December 1893 at Sans Souci School near the mouth of the Tugela River in Natal. His father had been adopted by American…