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… The first grant of land in Table Valley is registered in the surveyor’s office in Table Bay in the name and favour of Hieronymo …

… Act no 90 of 1967 commences, according to which the minister of mining no longer chairs the board on atomic energy. The …

… Muller, C.F.J. (ed)(1981). Five Hundred years: a history of South Africa; 3rd rev. ed., Pretoria: Academica, p. 442 … J.C. Smuts appoints Dr H.J. van der Bijl to the post of Director General of War Supplies, making him, next to Sm …

… Former first-lady of SA and ex-wife of FW de Klerk, Marike de Klerk, is found murdered at her …

… Kwame Nkrumah, first premier and later president of Ghana (formerly Gold Coast) is born. He is seen by many as the father of Pa …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 2, p. 10. … Sir David Baird, British general in command of the force sent to occupy the Cape of Good Hope in 1806 and later acting governor …

… grave concern on World AIDS Day about the growing number of AIDS orphans in SA, many of whom who are raised …

… A volcano erupts in eastern Zaire, spewing a plume of ash and lava into the air about 40km north of the border crossing at Goma …

… The Ncome Monument project is unveiled at the site of the Battle of Blood River in 1838. The Monument was opened on 26 November …

… An Afrikaans poem of thirteen verses in near perfect Afrikaans by H.C. van de Berg and P.P. Hugo is published in De Vriend of B …

… WWI: At the end of the war, the Paris Peace Conference accepts the proposal to create the League of Nations. The League was eve …

… Oupa Gqozo, head of the Ciskei, claims to have put down the second coup attempt in the space of two weeks, with the assistance …

… Buller, are defeated by the Boers under Botha at the end of the three-day battle of Vaa …

… Rwanda frees more than 22 000 detainees, most of whom were held in connection with the 1994 massacre of some 800 000 ethnic Tut …

… Makhaya Ntini, bowler of the SA cricket team, is found guilty of raping a student and is replaced in the SA World Cup team …

… An amount of R1.3m is paid out in compensation to thirty-two South African seamen who lost fingers as a result of frostbite inc …

… The house of Paul Kruger in Church Street West is declared a national monument. At the death of mrs Kruger it was used as polic …

… Makhaya Ntini, bowler of the SA cricket team, is found guilty of raping a student and is replaced in the SA World Cup team …

… A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, … Ernest Mabaso, chairman of the ANC Zola Branch and member of the Soweto Civic Association, is shot dead as he is …

… who has ruled Zaire for more than 30 years, looting it of billions of dollars, flees the capital city as rebe …

… How and why a small ANC of (S.A.) clique decided to make a public emergence at this time and state in the development of our situation …

… Hon Minister Sicelo Shiceka;  Hon Premier Kiviet;  Members of the Provincial Executive present;  Mayors of OR Tambo and Ingquza Hill Municipalities;  Hon Mayor OR Tambo District Municipality;  Hon Mayor of Ingquza Hill Local Municipality Cllr W Ngozi;  NHC CEO …

… Photography is the common language of modern history. It’s everywhere; and everyone, in some … with more skill and force than the International Center of Photography when in peak form, which is the form it’s in for “Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday …

… Ministers, Distinguished Guests, Brothers and Sisters of Rwanda, We bring the greetings of the people of South Africa. The people of South Africa … The organisation from which I come, the African National Congress is 88 years old this year. From its foundation, it …

… I sit in the half-empty carriage and page through one of his first photographic essays,  Imijondolo: A photographic … in South Africa  (1985). Despite the grim subject matter of the work – the impending forced removal of a community of … in the 1970s had a hand in the revival of the Natal Indian Congress. He was also elected as the first general secretary …

… Chief Justice Sandile Ngcobo and Mrs Ngcobo, Speaker of our National Assembly, Honourable Max Sisulu and Mrs … your distinguished delegation. The Government and people of South Africa extend their warm and fraternal greetings, … the headquarters of our ruling party, the African National Congress, over 30 years. Many of the strategies and tactics …

… Summarised report of points of agreement between South Africa and Angola/Cuba with regard to the withdrawal of Cuban and South African troops in Angola and the time … Summary of points of Agreement and others discussed at the South African and …

… great honour for me to bring my personal greetings to one of the most significant Christian communities in our land. My … both in the physical and spiritual sense. The environs of Umtata are not only my humble origins. It is here that my … In the founding and evolution of the African National Congress, the religious community played a central role. We …

… Fighting Talk - a monthly journal for democrats …

… Fighting Talk - a monthly journal for democrats …