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A twelve-second earthquake kills 1,460 in Orleansville, Algeria. A week later another quake topples the few remaining buildings
More than 1000 people are reported drowned or missing when an Egyptian ferry sinks in the Red Sea.
EventDr Wilson Carswell, medical adviser to the government’s Aids unit, says about 100 000 South Africans are infected with HIV
On 21 May 1991 the medical adviser to the government, Dr Wilson Carswell made the shocking announcement that 100 000 South Africans are infected with the Human…
The Centenary Celebration of the February Revolution 8-12 March 2017
In 1917 ordinary workers and rank and file soldiers overthrew the Tsarist autocracy that had been in power in Russia since the late 1400s. This became known as…
ArticleAfrica Timeline
… conquests such as Gao were made under his rule. 1300 CE – 1400 CE The Luba people near Lake Kisale in Central Africa … The region controlled the island by…
A major stay-away starts (5 and 6 November). 500 000 workers and 400 000 students stay away.
Joseph-Désiré Mobutu’s troops kill over 100 students during a demonstration in the Congolese capital Kinshasa.
Terrorist bombing of a bus in Nairobi, Kenya, kills twenty-seven people and injures about 100.
Riot police arrest more than 400 anti-apartheid protesters in downtown Cape Town, South Africa.
The United Arab Republic (Egypt and Syria) has ordered the mobilisation of 100,000 reservists.
More than 400 people are massacred in four villages in Algeria during the country’s insurgency.
BiographyEmily Hobhouse
In 1899 Emily Hobhouse was appointed secretary of the South African Conciliation Committee, which was a group that opposed the British government policy…
BiographyStephen Mini
He was an early leader of the African National Congress (ANC), serving at times as head of the House of Chiefs. He was also among the first leaders of the…
ArticleGrade 6 - Term 2: Explorers from Europe find southern Africa
Great Zimbabwe When Mapungubwe was abandoned, it was to the benefit of Great Zimbabwe. The cultural, political and economic power in the area shifted to…
A strike by Black municipal workers in Johannesburg ends when police supervise the removal of over 1,000 dismissed men.
Harold (Ralph) Henning, SA golf player, is born in Johannesburg. Nuusdagboek: feite en fratse oor 1000 jaar, Kaapstad: Human &a
Harold (Ralph) Henning, SA golf player, is born in Johannesburg. Nuusdagboek: feite en fratse oor 1000 jaar, Kaapstad: Human &a
Anglo-Boer War 2: An extraordinary ZAR Government Gazette is published, containing Act no 5 of 1900, allowing for the reorgan
ArchiveVergardering van die Werk Komitee van die Staatsveiligheidsraad in die Uniegebou, Pretoria, op 14 Januarie 1980, om 14h00
Minutes of a meeting of the State Security Council Works Committee, held in Pretoria on 14 January 1980 in which
PlaceRorke's Drift, KZN
Rorke's Drift, situated 46 km South East of Dundee, on the Battlefields Route. Is the site of one of the most famous battles of the Anglo-Zulu War. Years later…
BiographyLord William Waldegrave Palmer Selborne
Lord William Palmer, the second Earl of Selborne was born in 1859. He studied history at the University of Oxford. He was Under-Secretary for the Colonies from…
Over 400 Kikuyu suspected to be part of the Mau Mau movement are arrested in Kenya
John Akii-bua, 400-metre hurdler who won Olympics-gold in 1972, is born in Uganda.
BiographySchalk Burger
General Schalk Willem Burger was born on the 6 September 1852. At the age of 21 he worked as a clerk at Lydenburg in the office of the field coronet. During…
The Settler Economies: Studies in the Economic History of Kenya and Southern Rhodesia 1900-1963 (African Studies) by Paul Mosley
Minister of Safety and Security, Sydney Mufamadi, visits violence-torn KwaZulu/Natal. He states that 1000 extra troops and poli
Anglo-Boer War 2: General Lord Methuen buries Combat-General De Villebois-Mareuil with full military honours. 1500 men of the L
A silent procession of nearly 1000 people, led by religious leaders, file through the streets of Durban to express their opposi
Portuguese and Rhodesian soldiers are accused in a UN report of torturing and killing over 1,000 Africans in Mozambique during
BiographyAshley La Grange
"My guiding principle is to work hard and live within my means. My father died when I was seven and my mother’s inheritance was embezzled, so she had to work…