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The largest three-day stay-away (5-7 June) in SA’s labour history up to this time starts, because of Black opposition to the La
An Egyptian man identified as a key suspect in the 1993 World Trade Centre bombing is flown to the United States to face charge
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
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The 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…
Sibudu 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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
BiographyAdvocate George Bizos
George Bizos was born in 1927 in Vasilitsi, near Koroni in the south of Greece. During World War II, when the Germans occupied Greece in 1941, the young Bizos…