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EventFormer South African Prime Minister and State President John Vorster is born
… Vorster was born in in Uitenhage in the Eastern Cape on 13 December 1915. Vorster began his political career as a …
EventSouth African artist Gerard Sekoto is born
… Sekoto continued exhibiting his art work regularly. On 13 December 1989 he received an honorary doctorate from the …
EventFighting breaks out on the Johannesburg market square
… behind him began to move forward, he was shot dead. A 13-year old boy, Monty Dunmore, was shot through the back … [online], available at www.skyscrapercity…
EventFawcett Commission into Concentration Camps in South Africa
The Fawcett Commission headed by Millicent Fawcett in 1901, was established as a result of an outcry against the treatment of Afrikaners in concentration camps…
EventSoweto students march against government’s language policy
… but ended with violence, tears, blood and death of a 13 year old boy, Hector Peterson. The Soweto uprising began …
PlaceHazyview
… and creative souls to this, lush haven! Situated only 13 km from the Kruger National Park, the area surrounding …
PlacePongola Game Reserve, Zululand
… the centre of the Reserve before entering the man-made 13 276 hectare Lake. It provides a leisure environment unique … the centre of the Reserve before…
EventKing Sekhukhune is defeated by the British in war
… a location. Sekhukhune was murdered shortly afterwards on 13 August 1882 by his half-brother Mampuru. Click here to …
ArticleThe Sedition Trial 1946 - 1948
… Gold Mines on Monday 12 August 1946 . The call on 13 August by the Transvaal Council of Non European Trade …
ArticleThe Arrival of Jan Van Riebeeck in the Cape - 6 April 1652
… after Van Riebeeck had left the Cape, and was completed 13 years later. Van Riebeeck’s Original Fort on the Shores of …
Article2014 South African platinum strike: longest wage strike in South Africa
In democratic South Africa, the government allows citizens to express dissatisfaction through peaceful demonstrations. Workers are also allowed by legislation…
ArticleBlack Consciousness and 16 June – The birth of a new generation
… the normal course of emancipation of the black people.” On 13 June 1976 the South African Students Movement (SASM) …
ArticleHIV/Aids in South Africa timeline 1940s-2009
… from a common cup could transmit AIDS, and Ryan White, a 13-year old hemophiliac with AIDS, was barred from school. … Aids becomes leading cause of death in…
ArticlePan Africanist Congress timeline 1959-2011
… Revolution” triggers ideological divisions within the PAC. 13 June, Sobukhwe is admitted as an attorney to practice in … in parliament the unbanning of all…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 4 Essay Questions and Answers
… in Nata l who portrayed Shaka as a nation builder. [13] In the early 1900s a Natal administrator, James Stuart, … P. “In Search of History: Grade 10 Learner…
PlaceRobertson Division
… outside of the metro in the Western Cape, as it is home to 13.5 per cent of the total population, followed by Eden at … as Africans and Whites accounted for…
EventPeter “Terror” Mathebula dies
… Sydwell Mhlongo in Rabosotho Hall, Tembisa, Transvaal. On 13 December 1980, Mathebula became South Africa’s first black …
General South African History Timeline: 1970s
… white students are also arrested in the same connection. 13 November, The Anglican Bishop of Lesotho, the Rev. Desmond … with the Republic of Rhodesia will…
A Working Life, Cruel Beyond Belief by Alfred Temba Qabula
… - Chapter 12 A Working Life, Cruel Beyond Belief - Chapter 13 A Working Life, Cruel Beyond Belief - Chapter 14 A Working …
EventMedical Association agrees to investigate Biko’s death
… conduct a public investigation into Steve Biko's death on 13 November 1980. This happened following public outcry …
EventAnti apartheid activist Dr. Richard Turner is assassinated
… a window of his home in Durban and died in the arms of his 13-year old daughter, Jann. After a lengthy investigation …
EventThree British mercenaries are sentenced to death for their part in the Angolan civil war
… and Cuban soldiers and they were eventually cornered and 13 of the mercenaries, 10 British and three Americans were …
EventSA Special Forces accused of train violence
… in train violence, particularly the Benrose massacre on 13 September 1990. He also named a Zimbabwean who had …
EventThe Dutch Reformed Church rejoins the World Alliance of Reformed Churches
… On 13 October 1998, the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) rejoined the …
EventSouth Africa completes destroying its stockpile of anti-personnel mines
… purposes. 5 000 of the mines left were live mines and 13 000 were retained to be used for training in demining. …
The Lusaka Years: The ANC in Exile in Zambia, 1963 to 1994
Invitation The HSRC Seminar Series The Lusaka Years: The ANC in Exile in Zambia, 1963 to 1994. Speaker: Hugh Macmillan, research associate, African…
PlaceThe Fountain and Garden of Remembrance, Chatswood-Sydney. Willoughby Park Centre
The Willoughby Memorial Fountain...was, on March 10th, 1901, unveiled by the Hon. John See, M.L.A., State Minister for Defence. The Fountain was erected by…
PlaceMaputo National Park
… future generations. The decision was announced in Paris on 13 July 2025 at a meeting of the UNESCO World Heritage …
EventMike Gatting's rebel cricket tour is curtailed
… team, culminated in Dr Ali Bacher's statement on February 13, 1990. In the statement Bacher acknowledged that it was …
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 1 European Societies
… skin turning black due to subdermal haemorrhages. [13] Other symptoms included swelling of the armpits, neck and … [13] Walter S. Zapotoczny, “The Political…