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BiographyMatthew Nkoana
… school he took a job selling newspapers. In 1952 he came to Johannesburg and got a job on the Bantu World, working his way up to political columnist, in…
BiographyLeoni Marinovich
… a 52 minute film on the Eritreain liberation struggle (yet to be broadcast, possibly Canadian Broadcasting Corp.), was … Urbanology in 1990 from the…
BiographyJerry Dibanhlele Khumalo
… from detention in the 1956 Treason Trial , Khumalo moved to work in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) and continued as … the same branch as the late Archie…
EventHarms releases his report
… of the government, the commission found no evidence to back up the allegations army and police involvement in hit … Coetzee, Almond Nofomela and David…
EventChristoffel Coetzee de Villiers (37), compiler of South African genealogical registers, dies
… Location: back to this day in history search archive Christoffel … Theal, and sponsored by the Cape Government from 1893 to 1895. The system of genealogical…
EventLiberia is established
… for Africa. Slaves freed from slave ships were sent to Liberia instead of being sent back to their countries of birth - these colonists formed an …
EventFour ANC members killed in an ambush near Piet Retief, eastern Transvaal
… four anti –Apartheid activists believed they were about to come back to South Africa and continue with the struggle they had been …
Address by President Nelson Mandela at a Luncheon hosted by Prime Minister Tomichi Murayama Tokyo, 5 July 1995
… expectations. For that we are deeply grateful. What must strike any visitor to Japan is the complete recovery you have made from the … rising of the sun,…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: Pre-1500
… including South Africa and the first African people begin to settle in South Africa. Hundreds of years later the first … Australopithecines roamed the…
EventNew Zealand imposes a blanket ban on sports teams from South Africa
… of international sanctions against South Africa dates back to the late 1950s. In 1959, the Anti-Apartheid Movement …
EventThe World Health Organisation (WHO) declares Aids a worldwide epidemic
… It is now believed that the disease first emerged as far back as the 1960’s. On 13 September 1985, the World Health … South Africa having the highest of any…
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt's landscapes of high voltage by Melvyn Minnaar, 21 November 2014
… adventurer-explorer-writers of Southern Africa, wide-eyed to the differences of the worlds they encountered, our master photo-grapher has stubbornly traipsed…
ArticleDemocratic Alliance (DA)
… September that year. However, the history of the DP goes back to 1959 when a number of liberal members of the United Party (UP) broke away to form the…
PlaceStutterheim, Amatola- Eastern Cape
… situated about 70 km from East London on the N6 Highway to the north. Stutterheim is a town with a population of … From the Xhosa groups that were moving…
ArchiveChristian principles and race problems by Jan H. Hofmeyr
… student of Professor Hoernle at the South African College back in 1908. As an introduction to the lecture, there appears some background information on…
ArchiveChristian principles and race problems
… student of Professor Hoernle at the South African College back in 1908. As an introduction to the lecture, there appears some background information on…
EventMolly Blackburn, political activist and civil rights campaigner is killed in a car accident
… councilor0f Walmer, Port Elizabeth. Blackburn returned to black Sash in 1982, and immediately teamed up with fellow … a car accident near Humansdorp, Eastern…
BiographyJansie Lourens
… After Barbara Hogan , Lourens was the next white woman to be convicted of treason after the Treason Trials . … and the spreading of pamphlets. Lourens was…
EventThe Liquor Laws Amendment Bill comes into effect
… Location: back to this day in history search archive The Liquor Act, … bill was withdrawn, and Indians were once again allowed to enter licensed premises…
EventJan van Riebeeck visits Robben Island for the first time
… settlement at the cape, however, before the island began to grow into its modern legacy as a place of sorrow. It's unique geography - close to the mainland,…
Archive1996 - President Mandela, State of the Nation Address, 9 February 1996
… of our soccer team in the African Nations Cup. This is bound to replay itself in other cities, adding to the crowning … of irritants; or if, on the other…
PlaceAnnisfontein, a Spring and Outspan in Richtersveld- Northern Cape
… in the Richtersveld with Geographical History dating back Millions of Years! A Spring may be the result of Karst … and fissure—openings ranging from inter…
PlacePump House, corner Prince and Sir George Grey Streets, Oranjezicht.
… The Pump House was named as such because it is used to pump water from the Robinson Dry Dock in the Victoria & … is also the building where the first dynamo…
Biography of Can Themba by Aisha Ahmed
… the inferiority that the White people were insisting to define the Black people by. He also wrote about the … Whites continued, Themba and many of his…
ArticleThe Cape Malay
… East Asia in the sixteenth century by European powers led to the enslavement of millions of Afro-Asian peoples. … the divide and rule tactic and used…
PlaceYellowwood Park, Durban
… and on many a junior school’s list of educational places to visit, cares for injured and orphaned wild animals and birds - most of their injuries due to…
EventZuid-Afrikaansche Republiek decides that December 16 will be a public holiday called Dingaan's Day
… The decision to make December 16 a holiday named Dingaan's Day was in … identity. However, in 1952 the name of the day was changed to Day of Covenant. After…
BiographyDinah Molefe
… potter at Rorke's Drift between 1969 and 1983. She learnt to make traditional pots at home, before she went to the ELC Art and Craft Centre, Rorke’s Drift…
BiographyEric Mbatha
… drypoint and even mezzotint. Students were also encouraged to experiment by printing etchings in colour, as opposed to colouring prints by hand. Mbatha’s…
BiographyPeter Hans Paul Gastrow
… strengthened by the forced removal of Botshabelo residents to make way for White farmers. This affected Gastrow … Progressive Federal Party (PFP). In 1981…