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EventHarold Strachan is served with restriction order
Harold Strachan, former South African Air Force pilot in World War 2 and member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) and Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the…
EventCosatu calls for three days national protest against the Labour Relations Amendment Bill (LRA)
… South African Institute of Race Relations. (1989). Race Relations Survey 1988/89 , Johannesburg: South …
EventRecognition of the Customary Marriages Act comes into effect
The Recognition of the Customary Marriages Act 120 of 1998 came into effect after an investigation by the South African Law Reform Commission of the legal…
EventThe TRC is set up by parliament
The South African parliament approved legislation to set up the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 1995. The Commission, based on the Promotion of National…
EventBettie Cilliers, famous SA painter, is born
Bettie Cilliers-Barnard, famed SA painter and mother of actress Jana Celliers was born in Rustenburg, Transvaal. Though Cilliers-Bernard was at one time one of…
EventMaude Francis Eyston Sumner, SA painter, is born
On 16 September 1902 Maude Francis Eyston Sumner, SA painter, who lived, worked and exhibited in SA, England and France, was born in Johannesburg. Born in 1902…
EventFirst Nobel prizes are awarded
Swedish chemist and inventor of dynamite, Alfred B. Nobel, established the Nobel Prizes in his will. This bequeathment allegedly shocked his relatives and the…
EventStandard Bank becomes the first bank to opens its doors on the Witwatersrand
Standard Bank was established in Port Elizabeth in 1862, then known as The Standard Bank of British South Africa. It started doing business in a tent in…
EventSouth African author and feminist Olive Schreiner is born
South African author Olive Emilie Albertina Schreiner is born to Gottlob and Rebecca (Rebekah) Schreiner. During her youth she lived in Cradock in the Eastern…
EventSamora Machel pledges solidarity with the people of South Africa
President Samora Machel of Mozambique pledged solidarity with the South African people, in reaction to the massacre on 30 January 1981, where more than 14…
EventAlbertina Sisulu’s banning order is renewed
On 31 July 1969 Albertina Sisulu, the wife of Walter Sisulu who was serving a life sentence Robben Island had her banning order renewed for another five years…
EventSA government threatens to pull out of the UN peace plan for Namibia
The South African government threatened to pull out of the United Nations (UN) peace plan for Namibia unless action was taken against the South West African…
EventDavid Malebane, a student at the Tompi Seleka Agricultural College in the Limpopo, shoots three lecturers before shooting himself
David Malebane was a student at Tompi Seleka Agricultural College in Limpopo. He had failed to graduate several times and when he received results showing that…
EventThe Pretoria Show is opened for all races
The Pretoria show is an annual event that began as an agricultural show and grew to include arts, entertainment, education and exhibitions over the years. The…
EventBoers and the British clash in the battle of Dalmanutha
On 21 August 1900 the Boers and the British again clashed in what became known as the battle of Dalmanutha (Bergendal). The battle lasted six days, ending on…
EventAndré Phillipus Brink, well-known SA author, is born
South African novelist, Andre Phillipus Brink was born on 29 May 1935. Brink obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in Literature at the University of…
EventFlorence Josephine Zerffi, SA still life and landscape painter, dies
Florence Louise Josephine Zerffi was born in 1882, London, England. She came to Cape Town in 1916 after studying art in London and at the Arts and Crafts…
EventBritain and Egypt agree on independence for Sudan.
Britain and Egypt agree on independence for Sudan following years of colonial rule. The tale of these two countries’ rule over Sudan dates back the 19th…
EventSouth Africa begins occupation of South-West Africa
Few years after the Second Anglo-Boer War (11 Oct 1899 – 31 May 1902), the European continent got embroiled in hostilities, which culminated in the break out…
South African History Online and Bridgewater State University Partnership Project - 2018 Submissions
Kaitlin Bedard Kaitlin Bedard is a History and Secondary Education major at Bridgewater State University. A life-long…
The National Arts Festival
In 1974, an inaugural festival titled the 1820 Settlers National Monument was opened as a memorial to the British immigrants in South Africa. They established…
ArticleThe Bambatha Rebellion begins
The first sign of open resistance against payment of the tax came when a magistrate called A.W. Leslie went to collect taxes from the Hlongwa and Cele clans in…
ArticleThe missionaries
Missionaries arrived in Pondoland in 1830 when Faku, the ruler of the Mpondo Kingdom from 1818 to 1867, allowed Wesleyan missionaries to establish a mission…
ArticlePan-Africanism
Pan-Africanism is the belief that people of African descent have common interests and should be unified. Historically, Pan-Africanism has often taken the shape…
ArticleDebating Stellenbosch University’s Language Policy
… by the late Afrikaans professor, Christo van Rensburg. In 1989 he stated that a language could not be held responsible …
ArchiveThis violence is not unique to SA by Daniel Magaziner, 09 September 2019
Every time there is violence of a particular sort in SA I think about 1949. In mid-January of that year a single incident between an Indian shopkeeper and a…
ArticleNon-European Unity Movement (NEUM)
This article was written by Baruch Hirson A Short history of the Non-European Unity – An insider's view Where is the Non-European Unity Movement? The Non…
EventMbongeni Ngema was born on this day
On this day Mbongeni Ngema was born in Kwazulu Natal. He has distinguished himself as a renowned playwright, screenwriter and librettist. He is best known for…
EventJody Scheckter
On 29 January 1950 Jody David Scheckter was born in East London, Eastern Cape .[i] Scheckter became South Africa’s first and thus far only Formula One World…
EventMiriam Makeba returns to South Africa
This Day in History: 10 June 1990Miriam Makeba returned to South Africa on 10 June 1990 after 31 years in exile. Known as Mama Africa, she had left in 1959 as…