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Say It out Loud - Equal Rights: The treatment of Coloured People in the North, 1901
… Schreiner has said, and being amongst the most loyal of His Majesty's subjects, as Mr. Chamberlain and Lord Alfred … when once he has accepted a certain…
EventJohn Fairbairn (70), journalist and outspoken critic, dies in Cape Town
… left England and arrived in the Cape in1823. Soon after his arrival he founded a school which he ran for a short … the authorities for a free press…
EventAdriaan Vlok is born
… Vlok, was born in Sutherland, Cape Province. He started his career in the department of justice at the magistrate's … after the African National Congress …
EventGovernment admits responsibility for Mdluli’s death
… Mdluli (50), on 19 March 1976 and agreed to pay damages to his family. A claim for loss of support by Mdluli's widow … the amount of R28 616. Joseph Mdluli…
EventPAC leader Robert Sobukwe is released
… harshly sentenced to three years in prison. At the end of his sentence, Parliament enacted a General Law Amendment Act, … was being released from detention…
EventSheik Yusuf arrives at the Cape of Good Hope
… Company (DEIC). He arrived on board De Voetboog and with his family and retinue; they were forty-nine people in total. In order to minimise his influence on…
EventFirst aeroplane flight in Kimberley breaks the non-stop flight record
… John Weston, a civil engineer, began the construction of his own aeroplane in 1907 at Brandfort, in the Free State. … it to France. It is possible that John…
PlaceDiepkloof, Soweto
… male migrant workers. These Hostels were Built by the Apartheid government to provide basic shelter in the form of … has only 3% of the City’s retail space…
EventChairman of the IEC resigns
… Commission (IEC), Judge Johann Kriegler, resigned from his position two years after the Commission's establishment. Kriegler cited his protracted dispute…
Address at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 11 December 2001
… those of the South have an inalienable responsibility to work together for the development and prosperity of the poor … comrades during our fight for freedom…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Celebrations of the Bicentenary of the Independence of Haiti: Port-AU-Prince, 01 January 2004 Your Excellency, President Jean-Bertrand Aristide,
… a duty to join hands in mutually beneficial solidarity, to work in partnership to defeat poverty, underdevelopment, … the leadership and people of Haiti, we…
Author uncovers Gandhi’s links with early ANC leaders by Anelisa Kubheka (Daily News), 02 March 2012, Durban
… that should be continued,” he said. Eloquent During his lecture at the university, Nauriya said Gandhi wrote about John Langalibalele Dube in his journal in…
EventVlakplaas Commander testifies before Harms Commission about secret police killings in 1981
… on the eve of the execution of Almond Nofomela. Before his execution, Nofomela confessed to being part of the … in Britain in 1990 to investigate these…
EventPower Struggle in Zulu hierarchy
… of Home Affairs and leader of Inkatha Freedom Party, and his nephew King Goodwill Zwelithini, escalated during Shaka … to Nongoma, to protect the king amid…
ArticleCOVID-19 Timeline 2019-2020
… spike by nearly 900 and China slowly begins to return to work and daily life. 11 March- The WHO declares the Covid-19 … based on conclusive research and…
EventJohn “Shoes” Moshoeu was born on this day
… most successful players to have ever played the game and his nickname was derived from his his dribbling skills. He represented clubs such as Kaizer …
EventKip Keino of Kenya wins the Olympic gold medal for 1,500 metres in 3 mins 34.9 secs
… was born in Kipsano, Kenya on 17 January 1940. Keino began his international running career in 1962. From early on he trained under very high altitudes to…
EventRuben Xulu, SA artist, dies in Marian Hill
… in wood and stone. He was born deaf on 10 May 1955. His disability was never a hindrance. Throughout his career, his subject matter was solely religious…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the 118th Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly: Cape Town, 13 April 2008
… to time constraints, President Mbeki omitted portions of his speech during the delivery, but the full prepared text … and sustainable development. Part of…
Who Shot My Dad? by Jann Turner
… brought me closer to my father, but never close enough to his killer. It has brought me all too close to the kind of … given the circumstances, this was a…
EventSA poet Sydney Vernon Peterson dies
… poets and educationist of the 1940s, died in Germiston. His poetry was translated into English, Italian, Russian and … novel, As die son ondergaan (When the…
PlaceCentlivres, a Railway Siding-16 Km from Uitenhage
… Commissioner of the Uitenhage District from 1849 until his retirement in 1863. He was a renowned cartographer, … statistician and author. He was best known…
EventANC flag raised at the funeral of John ‘Hennie’ Ferus
… who died in a car crash the on Monday 20 April 1981. His funeral, in Worcester, was the first "political funeral" … Robben Island for three years and two…
Speech at the Funeral of M.P. Naicker, London by O. R. Tambo, 8 May 1977
… here to pay our last respects to a man who because of his belief in the freedom of the people of his country was robbed of the citizenship of the land of his…
EventSolomon Kalushi Mahlangu is born
… 1976 after the student demonstrations of 1976. He received his military training in Angola and Mozambique. He returned … commemorate the 1976 demonstrations…
EventMarien Ngouabi, President of Congo dies
… of the Congo was assassinated. Ngouabi, who started his career as the Commander of the first Paratrooper … unstable, in part due to Ngouabi purging any…
EventSouth Africa deports Donald “Dolan” Acheson
… 1989, Acheson allegedly gunned Lubowski down outside his house in Windhoek. Neighbours claimed that they first … found a piece of paper with numbers that led…
EventA vagrant from Johannesburg, Tim Singiswa on a one
… Tim Singiswa, a vagrant from Johannesburg, protests on his own and draws more interest than the questions of the … asked them for their reasons. Singiswa got…
EventPieter Willem Frederik Wenning, SA painter, is born in The Hague, Netherlands
… liking to the Cape; which became the subject of most of his paintings. In1916, Wenning moved to the Cape, became a full time painter and started working on…
EventMau Mau political prisoners escape from Mageta Island, Lake Victoria
… to death a fisherman, Onimbo Haulu who refused them use of his canoe for escape. Haulu’s action imperilled the escapees as his refusal could jeopardise the…