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EventThe Battle of Kambula takes place
On 29 March 1879, the Anglo-Zulu War Battle of Kambula took place. The battle involved the British Number 4 Column, led by Colonel Evelyn Wood VC and the Zulu…
EventGeorge Walker, co-discoverer with George Harrison of the gold reef of the Witwatersrand, dies in poverty in Krugersdorp.
It is widely accepted that the gold reef on the Witwatersrand was discovered by George Harrison. What has always been disputed is that English born, George…
EventWomen Draw up a Petition against Pass Laws
Black women in what was then the Orange Free State protested when they were included in Pass legislation previously reserved for African men only. The…
PlaceIxopo, Kwa-Zulu Natal- Midlands
Ixopo, immortalized in Alan Paton’s: “Cry the Beloved Country” is the main centre of the Southern Midlands. Although originally named: ‘Stuartstown’, the…
EventSoldiers die from gas leak at Naval base in Durban
On 17 February 2017, six people were killed and more than a dozen injured at the Salisbury Island Naval base in Durban. Three of the six people involved were…
EventThe British attack in the battle of Colenso
During Anglo-Boer War 2, the British troops under General Redvers Buller launched a frontal attack in the Battle of Colenso with the intention to relieve the…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.3 No.3 Sep-Oct 1980
Contents and Contributors Poetry: Mafika Gwala, Nkos'omzi Ngcukana, Ellinor Joosten, Roy Joseph Cotton, Mogambery Isaac, benjlanga, Chirwa P. Chipeya, Morena…
PlaceAthenaeum building, Belmont Terrace, Port Elizabeth
The building dates from the late Victorian period and has impressive neo-Classical elements. Its two sections were opened in 1896 and 1901 respectively, and it…
EventFormer City Press Editor Mathata Tsedu's son is found burnt beyond recognition in the boot of his car
The remains of Avhatakali Netshusaulu, accountant and son of the former City Press editor Mathata Tsedu, were found in the boot of his car after he had been…
ArticleHIV/Aids in South Africa timeline 1940s-2009
1940s The oldest Human Immunodeficiency Virus-2 (HIV-2) jumps from animals to humans, according to a Washington-based study in May 2003. Some sources say…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the Occasion of the 107th Anniversary of the African National Congress presented by ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa, 12 January 2019
Comrades and Friends Fellow South Africans, This year, the African National Congress celebrates 107 years of exist-ence. We celebrate this momentous…
EventKing Williams Town schools are closed in commemoration of Victoria Mxenge
On 1 August 1986, students of Lamonville high school, as well as students from other schools refused to attend classes near King Williams Town. The students of…
Nqutu, Kwa-Zulu Natal
The name being of Zulu origin derived from 'insquthu'- meaning a flat-topped vessel, descriptive of a nearby hill from which the village takes its name. It is…
EventSmugglers of military recruits in court
Twelve people (eleven men and one woman) appeared in the Pretoria Magistrate's Court after being accused of smuggling military recruits out of the country. It…
EventSiege of Kimberley is raised
During the Second Anglo-Boer War between the two Boer republics and Britain, Gen. French relieved Kimberley after a siege of 123 days. Despite numerous…
EventGandhi leads a march from Newcastle into the Transvaal to defy the Immigrants Regulation Act of 1913
Hundreds of men, women and children led by Mahatma Gandhi marched from Newcastle, Natal Colony (now KwaZulu Natal) into the Transvaal to purposefully defy the…
EventGeneral Lord Roberts marches on Pretoria
In the middle of the South African War II (Anglo-Boer War II), General Lord Roberts left Bloemfontein and began the 'March to Pretoria' with nearly 44,000 men,…
ArchiveThe National situation, an address delivered at the Edendale Conference of the All African Convention
The address opens with a description of three major landmarks of the year, namely;The first, the Treason Trial, which began on 5 December 1956 where 156 people…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 4 Essay Questions and Answers
Shaka Zulu Legacy Essay questions on Shaka Zulu’s legacy will be asked as 8-mark questions where students have to use sources to answer the question. The…
EventMore than a dozen people are killed, including seven children, in Kwamakhutha Massacre
From 1976 to 1996, political violence in KwaZulu Natal led to 11 700 deaths and the displacement of up to 500 000 people. The organization and savagery of the…
ArchiveThe West African Kroomen and their link to Simon’s Town by Joline Young
The first Kroomen to be employed by the British Navy in Simon’s Town arrived on the HMS Melville in 1838. [i] Their date of arrival was telling, having…
PlaceKilnerton Training Institution
Kilnerton Training Institution fondly called: 'KTI', during the Sixties was undoubtedly one of the premier Black schools of its time. Reflecting on the impact…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on the occasion of his acceptance of an honorary doctorate of the University of Stellenbosch Stellenbosch, 25 October 1996
Speech originally delivered in Afrikaans Mister Chancellor; Mister Vice-Chancellor; Members of the University; Honoured Guests; Ladies and Gentlemen, …
Chief Albert Luthuli and the ‘gospel of service’ by Raymond Suttner (Daily Maverick), 12 March 2014, South Africa
Luthuli told the Natal ANC in 1949: We cannot say that Africans are accepting fast enough the gospel of service and sacrifice for the general and larger good…
Land mine kills 6 in South Africa by Sheila Rule (New York Times), 16 December 1985
JOHANNESBURG, Dec. 15— The South African Army reported tonight that six people were killed and five people seriously wounded when a light truck set off a land…
Message to the Rally to Relaunch the ANC Women's League by O. R. Tambo, Durban, 9 August 1990
I salute you all from a land far away on this great occasion, the relaunch of the African National Congress Women's League. I should have been with you, but…
My Spirit Is Not Banned - PART 2 by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
From the book: My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner Factory work After my children were born I started working again, but now I…
EventTsafendas, murderer of South African Prime Minister Hendrik F. Verwoerd in 1966, dies
Dimitri Tsafendas, murderer of South African Prime Minister Hendrik F. Verwoerd in 1966, died at the age of 81 at the Sterkfontein psychiatric hospital on the…
EventThe last conventional battle of the South African War ends
The last conventional battle of the South African War (1899-1902), the battle of Dalmanutha (Bergendal) ended. The battle ended six days after it broke out on…
Say It out Loud - Protest against the Women’s Enfranchisement Act, and the Franchise Amendment Bill, 1931
From the book: Say It out Loud by Mohamed Adhikari Protest against the Women's Enfranchisement Act, and the Franchise Amendment Bill, 1931 1 The above two…