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ArchiveInterview with Duma Nokwe
Oral interview with Duma Nokwe (1927-1978) who was Secretary-General of the ANC from 1958 to 1969. Born to working class parents in Evaton, he studied at St…
TRAC (Transvaal Rural Action Committee) Newsletter, 1983 - 1990
TRAC, the Rural Action Committee, established in 1983 as a project of the Black Sash, published this Newsletter with the intention of giving communities under…
EventThe first Indian people, 197 men, 89 women and 54 children, arrive in Natal
The first Indian people in South Africa are reported to have arrived on board the Truro from Madras to work in the sugar cane plantation in Port-Natal. The…
EventMarie Vogts, botanist and pioneer of the Protea industry, dies in Stellenbosch
Marie Vogts was a botanist who specialised in the Protea plant. She obtained a PhD in 1971 with a thesis on autecology and a variation of the King Protea …
Zindzi Mandela is born
Zindziswa (Zindzi) Nobutho Mandela, second daughter of African National Congress (ANC) leader Nelson Mandela and his second wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela was…
EventSAFCA distances itself from boycott of South African goods
The South African Federation of Consumer Associations (SAFCA) issued a statement distancing itself from a body called the South African Consumers Association …
EventGovernor-General Sir Patrick Duncan dies
Governor-general of the Union of South Africa, Sir Patrick Duncan, died in Pretoria at the age of 72. He came to South Africa as Sir Alfred Milner's private…
EventSouth African refugees leave Lesotho
The Lesotho government announced that an undisclosed number of South African refugees have decided to leave Lesotho voluntarily. Most of the refugees belonged…
EventFather Smangaliso Mkhatshwa served with restriction order
A year after the 1976 Soweto Student Uprising, the former Secretary of the South African Catholic Bishops' Conference (SACBC) and Tshwane Metropolitan Council…
EventSA is suspended from World Meteorological Organization
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO), which was created to facilitate international cooperation in the establishment of meteorological and related…
EventPresident FW de Klerk tells Parliament that South Africa had constructed six nuclear fission devices
On 24 March 1993; South African President F.W. de Klerk announced the existence of a South African nuclear programme as well as the fact that the Apartheid…
EventFirst formal school opens at the Cape
Jan van Riebeeck, commander at the Cape, wrote in his diary that a school for slaves has been started. Sick-comforter Pieter van der Stael was the first…
EventMakgatho Mandela dies
Former president Nelson Mandela's only surviving son, Makgatho Mandela, died of HIV/AIDS in the Linksfield hospital in Johannesburg. His father put up a brave…
EventMorgan Tsvangirai is cleared of Treason charges
The Zimbabwean opposition leader of the Movement for Democratic Change, Morgan Tsvangirai, was charged with treason for allegedly plotting to kill President…
EventSA athlete Ernst van Dyk is hard done by at Paralympic games
Wheelchair-bound South African athlete, Ernst van Dyk, was cut off from a certain gold medal by the Mexican Saul Mendoza during the 1 500m race at the Athens…
EventFrancois Botha wins International Boxing Federation (IBF) title
South African heavyweight boxer, Francois (Frans) Botha, nickamed the "White Buffalo," secured a victory in a split decision against Germany's Axel Schulz to…
EventThe UN Security Council condemns all violations of its embargo against South Africa
In 1963, the Security Council called upon states to stop the sale of arms to South Africa, and repeated the call in 1970 and again in 1972. It was however only…
EventHenry Olonga, Zimbabwean Cricketer is born
Henry Khaaba Olonga was born in Lusaka, Zambia, to a Kenyan father and a Zimbabwean mother. The family moved back to his father’s homeland, Kenya, before…
EventAn inquest into the death of Ernest Dipale finds no-one criminally liable for his death
An inquest into the death of Ernest Dipale, who had died in custody at the Johannesburg Security Police headquarters, John Vorster Square on 8 August 1982,…
EventWorld No Tobacco Day is observed
World Tobacco day was declared by the World Health Organization in 1987. The day is observed by abstaining from tobacco for a period of 24 hours around the…
EventA ferry carrying 200 passengers capsizes near the coastal town of Robersport in Northwest Liberia
A ferry carrying close to 200 passengers capsized in Robersport, Liberia on 14 December 2002. The passengers were returning from the funeral of a well-known…
Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism commissioned by The Department of Education
Turning Point 2 focuses on the imposition of colonialism and explores its impact on African societies. Colonialism is often viewed as an overwhelming force…
A Place of Freedom
Phoenix represented an island of freedom in a society that moved from informal segregation in the early years of the twentieth century to full-blown apartheid…
EventThe UDF launches the Million Signatures Campaign and by October collect just under 400 000 signatures.
On 22 January 1984, amidst the Apartheid government’s constitutional reform plans, the United Democratic Front (UDF) embarked on an ambitious campaign to…
PlaceNoupoort
Noupoort is a town in the Eastern Karoo region of South Africa. With the start of the Railways in Noupoort nearly all the personnel were English speaking and…
PlaceMandela Capture Site, Howick in Kwa Zulu Natal
"To see this sculpture of Mandela!" Visit the Capture Site between Nottingham Road and Howick in KwaZulu-Natal. In 2012, to mark the 50th anniversary…
PlacePort St. Johns
The wildness of the Coast of the Eastern Cape, with its deep Gorges and impenetrable Forests, mangrove Swamps and the primitive force of freak waves that have…
PlaceThe Randjeslaagte Beacon, Parktown Johannesburg
.This Beacon marks, the Northern Boundary of the Farm “Randjeslaagte" on which Johannesburg was laid out in 1886. The Randjeslaagte Beacon stands in Boundary…
PlaceHouse Schoch, Boschdal, District of Rustenburg
The building is the oldest existing dwelling in the immediate vicinity of Rustenburg. Designed in a neo-classical idiom, it was erected for William Robertson…
PlaceOlivedale , Randburg
The Property was purchased in 1940 by a Dutch diamond trader known as Messias, who had a House erected upon it. During WWII Italian prisoners of war were used…