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BiographyHelen Joseph
… School, a school for girls in Hyderabad. She then came to live in Durban , South Africa c. 1930, where she met and … during the Second World War , and her…
BiographyDavid Nthubu Koloane
… Louis Maqubhela he visited art galleries in Johannesburg to learn more. In 1972 Maqhubela left South Africa to pursue an art career in London. He sent…
BiographyLucy Mary (nee Mullins) Wiles
… while doing her portraits. Lucy Mullins, by her marriage to Brian Wiles, became a member of the well-known Wiles … whole has always been conventional,…
BiographyKenneth Hlaku Rachidi
… Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo). He was the first born to Maria and Manabane Rachidi and had three other siblings. … Hare. University life offered Rachidi a…
BiographyLord Kitchener
… scale and became a symbol of the national will to win. Kitchener rallies troops at the beginning of World … weaken resistance and bring British victory. On…
BiographySifiso Nkabinde
… failed his first year, but this may have been ignored due to his political connections. During the 1980s Nkabinde … during one of the legislature's debates…
BiographyPhilemon Masinga
… clinics by legendary player Jomo Sono and was recruited to his team, Jomo Midas Cosmos. In 1992 Masinga represented … before leaving the country. Leeds…
BiographyBen Turok
… He was born in Latvia in 1927 and came with his family to South Africa in 1934. After graduating from the University … a lecturer at a London Polytechnic…
EventThe first slave arrives at the Cape
… Batavia as a stowaway aboard the Malacca. Abram claimed to have run away from slaveholder Cornelis Lichthart of … of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) until…
PlaceBattle of Muizenburg Monument, Muizenburg
… turmoil in Europe and the importance of the Cape sea-route to India the British Government sent a fleet of seven Royal … Navy ships under the command of vice…
ArchiveChapter 16 Tee Shirts, Music and More Solidarity by Denis Goldberg
… and materials that showed South Africa’s vulnerability to economic sanctions. The British AAM had also carried … a national group – African, Coloured, Indian…
BiographyMartha Helena Cillie
… another member, P.J. Cillié, made a valuable contribution to the development of fruit cultivation in South Africa. … a similar post at this school. In 1891…
BiographyRichard Goldstone
… as advocate at the Johannesburg Bar. He progressed rapidly to Senior Council by 1976 and was appointed Judge of the … (NICRO), a position he filled until…
BiographyEdwin Cameron
… his schooling at Pretoria Boys’ High School and thanks to an Anglo-American Corporation Open Scholarship award; Cameron was able to attend Stellenbosch…
BiographyRoy Padayachie
… Tagore High School in Clairwood, Durban and then went to study for a B.Sc. degree at the University of … (now University of KwaZulu-Natal). He went onto to…
BiographyPenny Siopis
… narratives of Siopis’ works, however they do bridge over to a wider global social context and how the viewer relates to the fragility of the subject. Siopis…
BiographyFezile David Saphendu
… his father Bhityileyo also worked at the mines. According to his brother, Thembinkosi Saphendu, "Some of Fezile's colleagues called Ntsikelelo to alert him…
BiographyConstance Stuart Larrabee
… Stuart Larrabee was born in Cornwall, England and came to South Africa with her parents when she was three months … in Munich. She is one of the first South…
EventThe 25th Summer Olympics opens in Barcelona, Spain
… Brisbane, Birmingham, Belgrade and Paris who had bid to host the games. The games were also the first to be free of boycotts that had plagued the games since…
EventTranskei announces it is re-establishing diplomatic relations with South Africa
… with South Africa following Pretoria’s undertaking to negotiate over disputed land. The break of diplomatic … all South African Defence Force (SADF) members…
EventThe first airmail in SA, consisting of 730 post cards, is flown eight kilometres by Evelyn Driver in his Bleriot plane from Ken
… 1911 when Evelyn Driver flew postcards from Kenilworth to Muizenburg. The mail bag was fastened to the back of his seat as he flew the Bleriot monoplane…
EventBavumile Vilakazi dies
… provincial secretary and South African high commissioner to Uganda, Bavumile Vilakazi, died of a heart attack in Kampala. He was on his way back from the…
EventPres Mandela’s testimony in SARFU affairs set aside
… reasons for the decision of the Pretoria High Court to set the investigation of the Browde Commission into South … Nelson Mandela was unsatisfactory because…
PlaceGlebe Cottage, Waterloo Road, Wynberg
… The building dates back to the early 19th century and, in its time, has …
EventIconic musician, John Lennon, was shot dead outside his New York apartment
… 11:00 PM, John Lennon was shot 4 times in the back as he entered his luxury apartment building on … when the gunman opened fire. He was rushed in a police…
BiographyDaniel Francois Malan
… Hertzog broke his ties with Prime Minister Louis Botha to form the National Party , Malan was one of his first … Hertzog government of 1924. Malan…
BiographyEsther Franks
… of the University. In 1925 she was the second woman to graduate in medicine at the University, being preceded by … work of SANCB in the 1930s. She paid…
BiographyDenise Darvall
… day of the accident, the resuscitation team stopped trying to revive Denise. After parental permission was obtained, Denise Darvall’s heart went to the first…
EventThe Democratic Party is founded
… Location: back to this day in history search archive The Democratic … History: a chronology of key events from independence to mid-1997, Wesport: Greenwood. …
The start of mass campaigns
… was a very bad thing and we all knew, no, things are going to be worse for us all now the Nationalists are boss. We knew now we were going to have to work…