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Janet Burnside Soga
Janet Burnside Soga was born on 18 March 1827 in Hutchesontown, Glasgow. She was the eldest daughter of Alan Burnside and Isabelle Kirkland. The 1851 Scots…
A young Pretoria couple starts legal action against 1 Military Hospital for at least R800 000 for trauma and shock, when a doct
BiographyJohn Thomas Baines
SA Painter John Thomas Baines was born on 27 November 1820 in King’s Lynn, Norfolk, England (often reffered to as Thomas Baines). His father was a master…
ArticleKingdom of Kongo 1390–1914
… and Its Transformation in the Kingdom of Kongo: 1491-1800” in The Journal of African History, Vol. 50, No. 1 … and Its Transformation in the Kingdom of Kongo…
Documents, speeches and articles relating to From Union to South African Republic 1900-1976
Afrikaans Community 1652-1795
Jan van Riebeeck was sent to the Cape to establish a station at which ships of the United Dutch Chartered East Indian Company could obtain fresh vegetables and…
Contact, conflict and dispossession on the Cape eastern or northern frontiers in the nineteenth century
… arriving in the area north of the Orange River after 1800. They explored areas that the Cape Colony did not know …
Archive100 years poorer
EventQueen Mother Elizabeth turns 100
Queen Elizabeth, British Queen Mother, celebrated her 100th birthday with thousands of people lining up in the streets of London to cheer her. The Queen Mother…
BiographyWilliam Henry Beaumont
William Henry Beaumont was born in India on 24 February 1851. His father was a Lieutenant Colonel of the 23rd Madras Light Infantry. Beaumont attended…
BiographyWalter Ernest Stanford
Walter Ernest Mortimer Stanford was born on 2 August 1850 in Alice. His grandparents were part of the 1820 settlers. His father, William Stanford was born in…
BiographyChief Malebogo
Malebogo (Kgalusi Seketa Masilo Ratshatsha Malaboch) was chief of the Bahananwa chiefdom, a group of the Tswana peoples. Lebogo led the Bahananwa to the…
BiographyRobert Moffat
Robert Moffat was born on 21 December 1795 in Ormiston, East Lothian, Scotland. His parents were not wealthy. He was father-in-law to the missionary-explorer,…
BiographyMokgadi Caster Semenya
Mokgadi Caster Semenya was born on 7 January 1991 to her parents Dorus and Jacob Semenya. She was born in Ga-Masehlong, a village near Polokwane. As a child,…
BiographyDr. Walter Benson Rubusana
Walter Benson Rubusana was born on 21 February 1858 at Mnandi in the Somerset East district of the then Cape Colony. His father was a senior councillor …
President's budget debate, opening address by President Nelson Mandela ('100-days speech')
EventThe first 1820 British Settlers arrive in South Africa
After the Napoleonic wars, Britain experienced a serious unemployment problem. Therefore, encouraged by the British government to immigrate to the Cape colony,…
Archive1,000 pounds smash fascism fund
White poster with black lettering and artwork. Six point communist programme for the home front. Year 1941 pencilled in. Artwork of a raised fist. Issued by…
BiographyPambani Jeremiah Mzimba
Pambani Jeremiah Mzimba was born in the 1850s at Ngqakayi in the Eastern Cape. His father, Ntibane Mzimba, was educated in Lovedale and became a deacon in the…
EventState of Emergency enters 100th day
Location: back to this day in history search archive The state of emergency entered its 100th day after it was announced on July 20. P W Botha in an attempt…
ArticleBlack Concentration Camps during the Second Anglo-Boer War, 1900-1902
While the two main forces in the Anglo-Boer War 2 were White, it was not an exclusively White war. At least 15 000 Blacks were used as combatants by the…
1,000 dervishes are massacred by British troops in Somaliland
1,000 dervishes are massacred by British troops in Somaliland.
BiographyRev. Mangena Maake Mokone
Reverend Mangena M Mokone was born at Bogaga, Sekhukhuneland (Transvaal) in 1851. His mother was daughter of Sephate and was from a royal lineage. In 1863, his…
ArchiveNightwatchmen - employers offer R17.00 a week
Archive1000s children live on the street: why?
Stamp of Molo Songololo Community House, Salt River. Multicoloured poster. Artwork of children playing and sleeping in the streets.
ArchiveFort Hare rector expels 1500 terrorist stud
The Treaty of Amiens, March 25, 1802
EventPolitical violence claims 100 lives in KZN
About 100 people were declared dead as a result of the political violence that continued in KwaZulu-Natal. The political violence rages on in spite of the…
Women under indentured labour in colonial Natal, 1860-1911 by Jo Beall
From the book: Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945 edited by Cherryl Walker To Protector of Indian Immigrants, 27th June 1916. Dear Sir, …
Nicholaas Frederic de Waal
Born in Rotterdam in 1853, De Waal was the son of a banker who received a commercial education in Brussels and studied law. He travelled to Europe and America…