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EventThe first known reference to Antjie Somers, a South African bogy figure, is made in The Friend
… that Somers was just an angry, bitter man after losing his job (having accidentally killed someone) and becoming a … he had used to run from the law -…
PlaceKruger House Museum
… Street, this was the home of President Paul Kruger. It was his personal property as the ZAR did not have an official … Museum lies just a few blocks from…
EventChief Mhlonthlo revolts against the British
… resident magistrate at Tsolo in the Eastern Cape, and his staff to Sulenkama where they were massacred, during a … It was at this moment that the six men…
PlaceTsolo
… appointment of Hamilton Hope as resident magistrate for his district. A second magistrate, Alexander Welsh, was … whose village was on the Xokonxa river…
ICA launches 2017 Great Texts/Big Questions lecture series with Professor Ngugi wa Thiong'o
… He burst onto the literary scene with the performance of his first major play, The Black Hermit, at the National … 1964 followed by a second novel, The River…
Address by President Nelson Mandela opening the morals summit called by the National Religious Leaders’Forum Johannesburg, 22 October 1998
… eroded respect for one another and for life itself. That apartheid was a sin and encouraged sinful behaviour is no … for freedom have also proved corrupt…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the 1995 National Conference of IDASA Cape Town, 18 August 1995
… of an era of hope and promises. The special abuses under apartheid laws which the Coloured community suffered - Group … of our communities, damaged by the…
The White man’s task by Jan Smuts, 22 May 1917
… and to render brilliant services to the Allies. One of his most notable and prophetic speeches on African problems was delivered at a dinner given in his…
EventThami Mnyele, SA artist and member of MK, is killed in Gaborone
… a talented graphic artist and a political activist. Due to his political activities, Mnyele was forced to leave his family in Alexander, becoming exiled in…
EventDr Joosub Ebrahim is born
… Class 1: Gold from the state president in 1992, for his contribution as businessman, philanthropist and … by the University of South Africa, in recognition…
EventCetshwayo, travels to London to request that he should be restored as a king of the Zulu Kingdom
… of Zululand, visited Queen Victoria of Britain. Prior to his visit to Britain, he was exiled to the Cape after losing … of Ulundi, during the Anglo Zulu War…
EventIvorian Footballer Didier Zokora is born in Abidjan, Ivory Coast
… footballer born in Abidjan on 14 December 1980. He started his career in his home country’s team Académie MimoSifcom. His younger brother, Armando was also a…
Archive4. The conscientious objectors
… of two posters with drawings of Philip Wilkinson at his trial. Quote from part of his speech to the judge at his trial. …
EventKhoikhoi warriors defeat Portuguese thieves
… to the Portuguese State of India from 1505 to 1509. Upon his successor taking over he sailed back to his homeland with a fleet of three ships – Garcia, Belèm…
EventSekonyela, chief of the Batlokwa, dies in the Wittebergen Reserve, Herschel district.
… people. He effectively took over the chieftainship from his mother queen Manthatisi in 1824 settling in Jwalaboholo … raids on neighbouring tribes, often to…
EventPolitical activist, Professor ZK Matthews is born
… opened a cafe. Though exposed to politics at a young age - his father was a Cape voter and his cousin, Sol Plaatje, a founder member of the African ……
EventANC sacks its chief whip Mbulelo Goniwe, after finding him guilty of sexual harassment
… on the evening of a birthday party that was held in his home. Goniwe and the assistant, Nomawele Njongo, … by bringing three charged against Goniwe: abusing…
EventAllen Kwela was born on this day
… African music, both of which were important in shaping his musical style. When he moved to Johannesburg during the … Mashiyane performed. However, he…
EventJacob Thabo Lengane is murdered in Soweto
… activities, was found dead with a bullet wound in his head, near to Community centre in Moletsane township, … Mr Lengane was murdered after being kidnapped…
EventIvorian Footballer, Arouna Kone, is born in Anyama, Ivory Coast
… in Anyama, CÁ´te d'Ivoire on 11 November 1983. Kone began his football career as a player for his hometown team Rio Sport d'Anyama. In 2002 he was signed ……
EventEducationist George Molefe is born
… in New Brighton, Port Elizabeth in 1939. As result of his tireless efforts to improve the quality of schooling and … Elizabeth's African Townships' in 1973…
EventFormer South African football coach Clive Barker is born
… title after the team was reinstated after a ban due to Apartheid . … Sinesipho Mbandazayo. Clive Barker let off his leash in entertaining biography, from…
PlacePaul Kruger’s House, 60 Church Street West, Pretoria
… Kelly for £500, upon which this house was built. After his election as President of the new ZAR in May 1883, … 1899. Kruger occupied the house until 29 May…
The Fruits of the 1973 Durban Strikes: A Powerful Black Trade Union Movement. Are they still on track or are they off the rails? by Johann Maree
… He worked at the University of Cape Town from 1972 until his retirement as an Emeritus Professor of Sociology in 2008. …
EventThe Paramount Chief of the Zulus, Prince Goodwill Zwelithini, is officially removed as a member of the Zulu Legislative Assembly
… became the eighth Zulu Monarch following the death of his father, King Cyprian in 1968 and brief regency that … of interfering in party politics in violation…
EventSheikh Yusuf, regarded as the founder of the Islamic faith in the Cape, dies at Zandvliet (Macassar)
… alongside and supported Sultan Ajung of Bantam, Gowa, in his war against the Dutch. Twice Sheikh Yusuf escaped from … their promise and Sheikh Yusuf was…
EventHenri Edouard Prosper Breuil (84), French archaeologist who did research with Dr Robert Broom in SA, dies in Paris
… a mission to examine rock shelters and rock art. Most of his research in South Africa was conducted with Dr Robert … interest in Paleolithic art began when…
EventCecil John Rhodes, South African statesman, is born
… was sickly as a teenager and suffered bouts of asthma. His family sent him to Natal, South Africa, to live with his older brother in the hope that the hot…
EventChief Mhlabunzima Maphumulo is shot dead
… Mhlabunzima Maphumulo, was gunned down in the driveway of his home in Pietermaritzburg. Maphumulo was a chief from … of Pietermaritzburg. He had survived a…
EventMandela visits Zambia
… started a seventeen-day foreign visit on 27 February, his first since 1962. Subsequent to his release from prison on 11 February 1990, after 27 years … a…