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EventA South African Defence Force Capt. Wynand du Toit is captured in Angola
… unit evacuated successfully. According to sources this mission was part of an operation to confirm the existence of … National Congress (ANC) and South West…
PlaceMjanyana Hospital
… Propagation of the Gospel on Foreign Parts established a mission station and lazaretto there, from that developed a …
9. In search of better employment
… begs to bring the following few lines to thy honour's presence hoping thereby not to intrude into thy honour's precious time. I am an Indian young man who…
ArchiveCelebrating 200 years of the South African Astronomical Observatory by Karel van der Vyver (Daily Maverick), 16 October 2020
… observatory ahead of the celebrations. A short history On 20 October 1820, word reached the Cape from Britain for the … surveys and challenging experiences…
ArticleAbout South African History Online (SAHO)
… About Mission & Values Projects Education & Internships Conferences … universities, media, and the general public. In 2018, SAHO's founder, Omar Badsha ,…
EventRudolph Lewis, South African road racing cyclist is born
… on 12 July 1887 in Pretoria.[i] Rudolph was South Africa’s second world class athlete after Laurens S Meintjes.[ii] He represented South Africa at the 1912 ……
PlaceColigny, North West Province
… who was killed in the Massacre of Saint Bartholomew’s Day (24 August 1572) in Paris. At first sight, Coligny … about two kilometers out of Town. A Monument…
Remembering Sol Plaatje as South Africa’s original public educator (The Conversation), 05 October 2016
… was born 140 years ago in what is today South Africa’s Free State province. When he was 40 years old, he published … 15 when he was appointed as “pupil…
Bonani Africa 2010 Awards
… Nthabalala Village, Limpopo , Santu Mofokeng, Let’s talk... and Oupa Nkosi, Black Diamonds Honourable mentions …
Speech at the Funeral of M.P. Naicker, London by O. R. Tambo, 8 May 1977
… land of his birth - South Africa... He died whilst on a mission on behalf of our movement. Like those forces that …
EventSolomon Kalushi Mahlangu is born
… of Pretoria. Mahlangu left the country to join the ANC's military wing in exile in October 1976 after the student … and Mozambique. He returned to South…
EventLuthuli Combat Detachment crosses the Zambezi
… Sizwe (MK) operatives, and the Zimbabwean African People’s Union (ZAPU) guerrillas, crossed the Zambezi River from the … Africans in different sections of…
EventPolice head admits to Khotso House bombing
… Khotso House as an attack on the heart of the Church, its mission and being.” Click here for van der Merwe's TRC statement. Click here for de Klerk's TRC…
EventPAC leader Robert Sobukwe is born
… age by his oldest brother. His earliest education was at a mission school in Graaf Reinet. After completing Standard 6 … teaching post. On 21 March 1960, at…
ArticleCosatu timeline
… that they cannot take the peoples votes for granted. 17 – 20 September: The 4th COSATU Central committee meeting … workers. This would in earnest launch…
ArticleBoipatong massacre - 17 June 1992
… visited the grieving families in Boipatong. Then on 20 June 1992 state President F.W De Klerk visited Boipatong … President FW De Klerk in his vehicle…
ArticleIndian South Africans Timeline 1910-1919
… Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi supports the African People's Organisation's (APO) resolution to declare the day of … and has at its aim to fight the infamous £3…
ArticleThe Durban strikes and the resurgence of the trade union movement in 1973
… apartheid by the late 1980s. From the beginning of the 20 th century Black workers in South Africa made many … Steve Biko and the Black Consciousness…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), King George Hotel, Athens, 24 February 2005.
… AU development programme, the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD). This programme was initiated by the … made the commitment that: "The New…
EventHarry Hart, a South African athletics champion is born
… (20 April 2017). ↵ [ii]Kovsie Camaraderie, … (20 April 2017). ↵ [iii]David van Lill, Van Lill’s South African Sports Trivia (Cape Town: Zebra Press, 2005), p…
EventOliver Kgadime Matsepe, Northern Sotho writer and poet dies in Tafelkop, Groblersdal district.
… Matsepe is a novelist and poet who was twice awarded the S.E. Mqhayi Prize by the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir … on 22 March 1932. He received his…
Archive’Operation Mayibuye.’ Document found by police at Lilliesleaf Farm, Rivonia, 11 July 1963.
… of communication in the area, the location of trading stations and chiefs and headmen`s kraals. air fields and air strips in the areas. Selection … -…
ArchiveThe 16th of December in South Africa by Wolfram Kistner
… history as a source of divine revelation manifesting God’s relation to his people and his will for the future of this … book is an attempt to arrive at a…
ArchiveEleanor Kasrils: From Detainment to National Liberation by Nathan Greenhaw
… one such resistance fighter detained under the government’s cruel and authoritarian legislation. After aiding her … at Fort Napier, Pietermaritzburg, during…
Cable to the United Nations Opposing Incorporation of South-West Africa, by Dr. A. B. Xuma, January 1946
… Only 40 per cent African Children accommodated in mission schools. 95 per cent Africans are imprisoned under …
EventThe first Non-White South African Table Tennis team participates at the World Championship
… South African government and it would have been almost a mission impossible to get them passports as a team. The teams … executive lifts the Football…
EventRichard J. Goldstone, former Justice of the Constitutional Court of SA, is born
… Rwanda. In 2009, he was appointed to head a fact-finding mission to Israel to investigate violations against … international human rights law with regard to…
EventSecurity Council examines violence in South Africa
… South Africa from the Charge D'affaires of the permanent mission of Madagascar to the United Nations the Security … Congress President Clarence Makwetu and…
EventTRC releases documents revealing plot to kill UN Secretary
… the world what might have transpired prior to Hammarskjold's death. The documents were disclosed in TRC meetings with … Executive and the CIA to "Operation…
ArticleThe Berlin Conference
… This changed as a result of King Leopold of Belgium’s desire for personal glory and riches and b y the mid-19th … for exploration, trade, and settlement. In…