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EventGreat Trek Centenary Celebrations commence
The Great Trek was a migration that took place between 1838 and the 1840s, and involved the Boers leaving the Cape Colony and settling in the interior of South…
11. A Brahman seeks work in Natal
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai M. R. K. Sastrie, who was working as an…
PlaceHarbour Board Building, Port Elizabeth
Known popularly as the 'White Building'. The old Harbour Board Building was used for 70 years for harbor administration by the South African Railways and…
Event7 People are killed during a SATS strike
Seven people were killed and about sixty-seven injured when about 800 striking South African Transport Services (SATS) workers, on their way to a union meeting…
PlaceFirst Raadsaal
Click on image to enlarge The oldest remaining building in Bloemfontein, the First Raadsaal is part of the National Museum. The modest building of dung floors…
Preface
This study of "protest art" in South Africa for the period 1968 to 1976 presented me with several difficulties of research in relation to decisions regarding…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the SA-Mali Project Fundraising Dinner, Cape Town International Convention Centre, Cape Town: 8 April 2005.
Premier of the Western Cape, Ebrahim Rasool, Honourable Minister and Chairperson of the Timbuktu Manuscripts Trust, Essop Pahad, Honourable Minister of Arts…
PlaceBourke's Luck Potholes
This natural water feature marks the beginning of the Blyde River Canyon. The potholes were named after Tom Bourke, a gold-digger who staked a claim in the…
PlaceGrey College Complex, Bloemfontein
The main Grey College Building was designed by Architect WH Stucke, and its cornerstone was laid by President Reitz on 16 May 1894. Hamilton Hall was designed…
EventDay of the African Child
The 16th of June is commemorated each year as the Day of the African Child. This commemoration was adopted on 16 June 1991 to honour those who had laid down…
EventGerman South West Africa is put under South African administration
After the completion of World War One's Treaty of Versailles, German South West Africa was declared a mandate of the new international peace-keeping body, the…
Statement "Algeria honours Chief Luthuli" by Oliver Tambo, 30 November 1964
From: South Africa Freedom News, Dar es Salaam The University of Algiers has conferred an honorary Doctorate of Literature on Chief A.J. Luthuli, President…
EventTwo prisoners sentenced to death for sodomy
Claas Blanc and Rijkaert Jacobsz were two prisoners on Robben Island who had been accused of ‘mutually perpetrated sodomy’ according to trial records from the…
PlaceEmoyeni, Parktown, Johannesburg
Emoyeni, the ‘Place in the Air’ in Nguni, is located on the highest point, of the highest ridge in Parktown, keeping its original name through the decades…
EventStompie Seipei’s murderer goes to jail
The Rand Supreme Court sentences Jerry Richardson to death for the murder 14-year-old Stompie Seipei. Stompie Seipei was a child activist and member of the…
Chapter 12. The General Strike Of 1931 - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
The worldwide depression, which started in 1929, had a serious effect on South African economic life. By 1930, industrial production, which was only in its…
New tactics in the revolt
Reaction Takes the Offensive After the first attempted march on Johannesburg on 4 August, and the partial stay-at-home which kept at least 60 per cent of the…
EventPresident F.W. de Klerk announces withdrawal of Internal Stability Units (ISU)
On 1 February 1994 President F.W. de Klerk announced the withdrawal of the Internal Stability Units (ISU) from the East Rand townships of Kathlehong and…
EventNelson Mandela condemns the Lockerbie bombing, the first mass killing of Americans by terrorists
Nelson Mandela issued a statement condemning the Lockerbie bombing and loss of life that occurred as a result. The bombing killed all 243 passengers, 16 crew…
EventNelson Mandela meets President P.W. Botha to begin negotiating the end of apartheid
On 5 July 1989, African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela met with President P.W. Botha at Tuynhuis. At the time, Mandela was still imprisoned at Victor…
EventDavid Livingstone “discovers” Lake Nyasa
Born in Scotland in 1813, Livingston was a renowned explorer, doctor and missionary. Of course, he is most remembered for his exploits as an explorer. In 1858…
EventAnglo American announces switching of main listing to London
Anglo American Corporation, founded in 1917 by Sir Ernest Oppenheimer to exploit the gold fields of the East Rand, announced that it intended to transfer its…
EventBotha found Guilty
George Magistrate Victor Lugaju found former President P.W. Botha guilty of contempt for repeatedly ignoring subpoenas to testify in public before the country…
EventRashaad Staggie shot dead
A march organised by the Cape Town-based Muslim organisation, People against Gangsterism and Drugs (PAGAD), resulted in the killing of a highly suspected drug…
EventBomb meant for Kangaroo Court judge, May Ledwaba kills sleeping William Ledwaba
William Ledwaba (16) was killed during a bomb attack on his home in Atteridgeville, Pretoria. In evidence furnished before the Amnesty Commission of the Truth…
PlaceHazyview
A Village that is inundated with History and very quicky being modernized but will always keep it's charm! The name "Hazyview" aptly describes the hazy,…
PlaceGrabouw
A Post Office was opened at Palmiet River on 1 January 1846, and was probably located at a ford where a small bridge, known as Oude Brug, had been built in…
PlaceBoksburg, the Witwatersrand
The Town of Boksburg was founded in 1887 as the Administrative Centre of the East Rand. It is the second oldest Town on the Witwatersrand. Boksburg was an…
Secret Ballot
This play is ‘A Protest Theatre And Political Satire Farce’. It follows the exploits of 5 members of ‘The Brotherhood’. This here organization is one designed…
EventThe Ben Schoeman freeway is opened
The Ben Schoeman N1 freeway between Johannesburg and Pretoria, named after the then minister of transport, was opened on this date. In the forty years of its…