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EventSouth Africa will subscribe to the UDHR
… inaugurated state president, Nelson Mandela, announced in his first State of the Nation Address to Parliament that …
EventSouth African Cricketer, Dave Nourse ,is born in England
… country. A bowler and left- handed bats man, Nourse made his first-class cricket debut for natal two years later. …
PlaceStellenberg, Stellenberg Avenue, Kenilworth
… Vogel in 1697 but it was almost immediately transferred to his youngest son, Frans van der Stel, on extremely favourable … settle at the Cape, who was known…
PlaceKronendal, Main Road, Hout Bay.
… in a blue top, grey pinafore and a bonnet. He remarked to his wife: “What a funny hat that woman is wearing.” He … and had dressed up to play a practical…
ArchiveAre there South Africans? by Sir Keith Hancock
… delivered by Sir Keith Hancock in which the title of his talk questions the integrative or disintegrative trend of …
ArchiveBiography of Naphtali Mbuti Nkopane
… August 1944 on a farm near Nigel in the Transvaal. In 1949 his family moved to Evaton in the Vaal, in August 1984 …
EventForeign Affairs Deputy Minister Pahad is born
… 1985. A banning order was served on him, which restricted his movements and prevented him from attending public …
EventNeil Aggett dies in detention
… person to die in detention since 1963. At the time of his untimely death, he was 28 years old. …
EventKing Hassan II of Morocco dies
… hospital in Rabat. Hassan's death was announced by his son and successor Crown Prince Sidi Mohammed on national …
ArchiveClothing Workers Union: we demand jobs and a living wage for all
… the poor of this world to be rich in faith and to inherit His kingdom? He promised those who loved Him? Is it not the …
How Zweli ‘misled’ Khwezi, 17 September 2017
… house in which she was staying and asked her to sit on his lap. This would later be used to paint her as a “loose … political journalist confided in her that…
ArchiveInternational Bulletin, No 20, December 1988
… General Secretary of the Communist Party in Israel on his birthday, a letter sent to the Saudi Arabian authorities …
EventSA Police Commissioner, Lt. Gen. H.J. du Plooy to take drastic actions against police who call Africans “Kaffir”
… with ‘World’, a non-White newspaper, du Plooy said that his policy on Africans was one of “leniency and extreme …
EventTennis champion Frew Mcmillan is born in Springs
… and Wimbledon tennis champion, was born in Springs. On his own, McMillan also won two pro single titles, and with …
EventAlbert Nzula dies in Moscow
… USSR. He left SA in 1931 to study in Moscow. The date of his death varies in different sources. It is given as 17 …
EventBenjamin Tyamzashe receives an honorary degree
… Festival, Tyamzashe was again honoured posthumously for his immense contribution to the field of music. …
EventAlexander Kerr dies
… Fund (now Alexander Kerr Memorial Fund) was started in his memory by the Presbyterian Church of Southern Africa to …
EventIdi Amin dies
… at the age of 78 as a result of multiple organ failure. His eight-year rule in Uganda had been characterised by …
EventAlexander Kerr is born
… Africa started the Dr Alexander Kerr Bursary Fund in his memory to provide financial assistance in the form of …
PlaceVissershok Farm
… 'Dolphin Beach Hotel', in Milnerton. Three years after his arrival at the Cape of Storms, Jan van Riebeek instructed …
PlaceValdezia Mission Station, Soutpansberg District
… of the Vatsonga people to Christianity. Shiso Zwele and his family were the first to convert. The congregation began … area is said to be getting a face-lift…
PlaceThulamela Local Municipality
… concentrations of extreme Rural and Urban poverty and the Apartheid legacy that confronts Local Government. The overall … of peace-loving people, and he…
Remarks by President Jacob Zuma, the Grand Patron of the National Orders, on the occasion of the awarding of the National Orders Awards, on Freedom Day, Presidential Guest House, 27 April 2012
… of you are the story. The story of our journey from an apartheid South Africa, to a free, non-racial, non-sexist and … community which waged relentless…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the Joint Houses of Congress of the Republic Of Argentina Buenos Aires, 23 July 1998
… you took the selfless step of breaking ties with the apartheid regime, because you believed that we too should … dismantled the nuclear arsenal established…
ArticleThe Arniston
… Ceylon, with a fleet of ships, including six Indiamen and His Majesty’s warships. Aboard were injured soldiers and … built by Colonel Giels’ wife. Colonel…
27. Transvaal Indians respond to the 1895 arbitration decision
… 2 April 1895, Chief Justice Melius de Villiers delivered his decision on Law 3 of as amended in 1886. With regard to … Your petitioners conveyed the protest…
ArchiveInterview with Ambrose Makiwane
… Makiwane entered Fort Hare in 1955, when he was age 34. His family lacked the means to send him earlier, and he had …
EventSA Sculptor Thomas Lehupela is born in Thaba ‘Nchu
… to the Ramagaga group in Thaba 'Nchu as having influenced his career. …
EventDieter and Ruth Gerhard are detained
… South African naval officer, Commodore Dieter Gerhardt and his second wife, Ruth, had been detained for questioning in …
EventUS ambassador Andrew Young visits SA
… at the invitation of mining magnate Harry Oppenheimer. On his visit, Young met Soweto student leaders, Black and White …