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ArticleTimeline of South African photographic books and exhibitions 1958 - 2003
Timeline 1958 The photographer, Peter Magubane, is the first black South African to win the Press Photo of the Year Award. Albert Newall re…
Mines of the beloved country: Through the mind of a photographer and essayist by J Brooks Spector (Daily Maverick), 5 November 2012
Back in the mid-1970s, when the writer was still feeling his way along the dark moral landscape that was South Africa, a South African colleague insisted we…
EventNational Heritage Day celebrates South African cultural diversity
National Heritage Day is one of the newly created South African public holidays. The day was previously known as Shaka Day, and was celebrated in kwazulu/Natal…
EventLondon hosts an international conference on the protection of the African elephant and rhinoceros
On this day in history, and international conference was held to implement legislation to protect the African elephant and rhinoceros. This is because due to…
EventItalo-Ethiopian Treaty of 1928 is signed
On 2 August 1928, Italy signed a twenty-year treaty of friendship with Abyssinia (now known as Ethiopia). In the treaty, which was called the Italo-Ethiopian…
EventThe Azanian People’s Organisation is formed
The Azanian People's Organisation (AZAPO) was formed at an inaugural conference in Roodepoort, near Johannesburg. The organisation was based on the philosophy…
EventAPLA burns down farm house in Fouriesburg
The Pan Africanist Congress 's military wing, the Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA) burnt down the farm house of Edmund Middleton of Fouriesburg on 10…
EventButhelezi says Zulus would continue carrying cultural weapons
At a meeting held in Ulundi, Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) leader Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi warns that the deals struck between the African National Congress …
EventApartheid bomb kills Zimbabwean and injures six ANC members
On 10 January 1988, Mr Obed Amon Mwanza, a Zimbabwean, was killed and six African National Congress (ANC) members were injured when the truck in which Mwanza…
EventFreedom of press is established at the Cape
The freedom of the press was established in the Cape Colony through the efforts of journalist John Fairbairn, founder of The South African Commercial…
EventRailway line between Cape Town and Beira in Mozambique is completed
On 6 October 1902 the 3200km long railway line between Cape Town, South Africa and Beira in Mozambique was completed. The construction of the Beira Railway to…
EventForced removals at the Crossroads informal settlement
Numerous attempts were made by the local government to clear informal dwellings at Crossroads in close proximity to the Cape Town International airport. The…
EventThe Government Gazette publishes a Proclamation that dissolved KaNgwane Legislative Assembly
The Government Gazette published a Proclamation by which the forty-two member KaNgwane Legislative Assembly was dissolved. Together with the Ingwavuma…
EventThe Congo Free State is established by King Leopold of Belgium
On 2 May 1885, the Congo Free State was established by King Leopold II of Belgium. Congo was a large region in central Africa that had been able to resist…
Foreword
This report reproduces the papers presented at a Symposium held to mark the fortieth anniversary of the founding of the Anti-Apartheid Movement. They sparked a…
EventFirst day of office for Mboweni as Governor the SA Reserve Bank
The former minister of labour, Tito Mboweni, was appointed governor of the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) to replace Dr Chris Stals. Mboweni, the first…
ArchiveRemembering Hugh Masekela: the horn player with a shrewd ear for music of the day by Gwen Ansell (The Conversation), 23 January 2018
Trumpeter, flugelhorn-player, singer, composer and activist Hugh Ramapolo Masekela has passed away after a long battle with prostate cancer. When he cancelled…
Hugh Masekela: the horn player with a shrewd ear for the music of today, not yesterday, 29 October 2017
When trumpeter, flugelhorn-player, singer, composer and activist Hugh Ramapolo Masekela cancelled his appearance at the recent Johannesburg Joy of Jazz…
EventThe four corner stones of the castle (Kasteel de Goede Hoop) at the Cape are laid
On 2 January 1666 the four corner stones of the Castle of Good Hope (Kasteel van Goede Hoop) at the Cape were laid by Zacharias Wagenaer, Johan van Arckel,…
EventBettie Cilliers, famous SA painter, is born
Bettie Cilliers-Barnard, famed SA painter and mother of actress Jana Celliers was born in Rustenburg, Transvaal. Though Cilliers-Bernard was at one time one of…
EventSkipper Bertie Reed passes away
Stanley John (Bertie) Reed (63), international sailing legend and one of the most popular skippers in single-handed racing around the world, died at his home…
PlaceMkhambathi Nature Reserve
Situated on the coast of north-eastern Pondoland, the Mkhambathi Nature Reserve,, offers visitors 7 720ha of open grasslands, dotted with indigenous forest…
PlacePretoria Boys High School
This school was declared a National Monument. Pretoria Boys High School, also known as 'Boys High'. It is a public, tuition charging, English medium boys high…
EventBreyten Breytenbach was born on this day
Breyten Breytenbach was a South African writer, poet, and painter. He became internationally well-known as a dissident poet and vocal critic of South Africa…
EventNigeria imposes sanctions on South Africa, and implements a total trade boycott
On 11 April 1961, Nigeria imposed a trade boycott on South Africa, due to objections against South Africa's apartheid policy. In early 1960, Nigeria had…
EventCommittee of Ten wants election of a new community board
The 'Committee of 10' formed by prominent Soweto residents, issued a programme for the election of a new community board to have total autonomy in Soweto,…
EventFirst World Haemophilia Day
World Haemophilia Day was first celebrated in 1989 to increase awareness of haemophilia and to bring the needs of those affected by the disorder to the…
EventPolitical parties call for Constitutional changes
Political parties in parliament tabled more than 300 amendments to the constitutional legislation. The New National Party (NNP) strove for the insertion of a…
EventA fire in a boarding school in Kenya kills fifty-eight boys and seriously injures twenty-eight others
More than 50 teenage boys died when their dormitory caught fire in a secondary school near Nairobi, Kenya. The raging fire is reported to have spread quickly…
PlaceUniversity of Fort Hare, Alice- Eastern Cape
Parliament, Thursday, 9 October 2025 – The Select Committee on Education, Sciences and the Creative Industries has noted with sadness the violent protests at…