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Dr Albert Jan Jurie Wessels, author and founder of the Toyota motor company in SA, is born in the district of Boshof, OFS.
Oliver John (Jack) Hindon (44), the man after whom the SA Jack Hindon medal for outstanding service is named, is born in Scotla
The Star reports that a police sergeant was shot dead in Osizweni township at Newcastle, Natal, by a man armed with an AK-47 ri
Governor Willem Adriaan van der Stel lays the first bricks of an octagonal church, the tower of which still forms part of the G
Chapter 7. An Afrikaner Working Mother
Anna Sophia Swanepoel (Told in 1950) I was born on 2nd April 1893, on Tapfontein Farm, Edenvale district, Orange Free State. My father was a small farmer. My…
EventJoost Van Der Westhuizen, Springbok rugby scrum-half and captain, is born
Former rugby player Joost van Der Westhuizen was born 20 February 1971. Van Der Westhuizen was at the height of his career during the mid 1990’s and early 2000…
BiographyStrinivasa “Strini” Moodley
Strinivasa "Strini" Moodley was born on 29 October 1946 in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). He was the eldest child of Joyce Margaret and Narainsamy Moodley,…
The Federasie van Afrikaanse Kultuurvereniginge (FAK) is founded in Bloemfontein, with Dr N.J. van der Merwe as chairman.
EventEmily Chinea is the first woman to be officially executed in SA
Emily Chinea became the first woman in the Free State and South Africa to be officially executed after being found guilty of murdering her husband. The Star of…
SA forces attack an apartment block in Maputo, Mozambique, close to President Samora Machel’s suburban residence, injuring five
ArticleEuropean trading systems in the Middle Ages - fourteenth to sixteenth centuries
… the Trek Boers moved inland they began competing with the San, Khoikhoi and Xhosa for grazing land and water. Each … for the Europeans. Others fled further…
Political revolution between 1820 and 1835
… They raided areas outside of the Colony and captured San women and children as forced labourers. In 1828 the … Kora (or Korana) raiders were groups of Tswana…
Die Eerste Vryswartes Van Stellenbosch - 1679-1720 by Prof. J.L. Hattingh, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, 1981
[THE FOLLOWING IS A SUMMARY OF SECTION 3 OF THE ABOVE PUBLICATION, CONCERNING LOUIS VAN BENGALE - NOT A PROFESSIONAL TRANSLATION] THE FIRST FREE BLACKS OF…
Dumile Feni biography by Sophia Reuss
… work, and thus draw a connection between Dumile and the San people. Later in life, Dumile claimed his work was significantly influenced by San drawings in…
ArchiveThe Pan Africanist Congress exists to subvert the South African liberation struggle
African National Congress document produced by their provisional headquarters in Morogoro, Tanzania, regarding the subversion of the struggle by the Pan…
EventSA artist Tshela Matsoso is born
Leonard Tshela Mohapi Matsoso was born in Pimville, Soweto. Between 1962 and 1970, while still at school, Matsoso studied at the Jubilee Art Centre under Cecil…
BiographyGregoire Johannes Boonzaier
Born in Newlands, Cape Town in 1909 and lived most of his life at Onrus, Western Cape.The son of D.C. Boonzaaier (qv.), Gregoire pursued art against his father…
BiographyAdrian Leftwich
Adrian Leftwich grew up in Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape), in 1940 in a liberal Jewish family. His father was a doctor, and his mother gave…
Place!Khwa Nature Reserve, Yzerfontein
… knowledge and the development of skills to equip San to thrive in a rapidly changing Southern Africa . The Heritage of the San and its restitution,…
ArticleLegacy: A Timeline of HIV/AIDS by Carlos Motta
… Røed, who shared it with her daughter in utero. 1977 A San Francisco sex worker gives birth to the first of 3 … to the virus in Guinea-Bissau in 1966. 1980…
PlaceSA Army College, Roberts Heights, Pretoria
The main building of the SA Army College was designed in a so-called block-house style and its cornerstone was laid by Lord Kitchener on 12 June 1902. It…
PlaceSibudu Cave, North Coast near Ballito (can be spelt Sibhudu)
A Prehistoric Rock Shelter, above the uThongathi River has been declared a World Heritage site. “Sibudu Cave has been identified as having the qualities so…
EventField-Cornet Jan Potgieter’s commando burns Chief Sikhobobo’s kraal at Qulusini
Under orders from Commandant-General Louis Botha, Field-Cornet Jan Potgieter's commando burned Chief Sikhobobo's kraal at Qulusini, looted cattle and grain,…
EventField-Cornet Jan Potgieter's commando burns Chief Sikhobobo's kraal at Qulusini
Under orders from Commandant-General Louis Botha, Field-Cornet Jan Potgieter's commando burned Chief Sikhobobo's kraal at Qulusini, looted cattle and grain,…
The Story of PR Panther, the gold man of Indian politics in South Africa: Introduction - By Riashnee Pather
From the book: The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa - by Riashnee Pather Introduction There is so much that is not…
BiographyEmsley Manne Dipico
Emsley Manne Dipico, activist, politician and former Premier of the Northern Cape Provincial Legislature, was born in Greenpoint, Kimberley. Emsley Manne…
BiographyAchmat Dangor
Achmat Dangor, an award winning novelist and poet, was born in Newclare, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now known as Gauteng), South Africa in 1948. He lived with…
BiographyJacobus Wilhelmus Sauer
Jacobus Wilhelmus Sauer was born in 1850 at Burgersdorp in the Cape Colony. He did his education at the South African College in Cape Town. After completing…
EventOn 17th November 1921 Professor Richard van der Ross was born in Plumstead, Cape Town
On 17th November 1921 Professor Richard van der Ross was born in Plumstead, Cape Town. He completed his higher education diploma at the University of Cape Town…
BiographyVivian Fitzsimons
For many south africans, the name Fitzsimons will always be linked to snakes - to their diversity and the treatment of their venomous bites. Rightly so, as…