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The Legal Veneer
… From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the … government always had an obsession with projecting itself to the outside world as a…
Invitation: BikoHausen - Steve Bantu Biko and Karlheinz Stockhausen in Johannesburg, 1971
… Meyburgh, Jannous Aukema (Editing) At the end of a working lecture tour to South Africa in March 1971, the composer Karlheinz … E: Benjamin.Keuffel…
PlaceMilnerton
… Milnerton on 22 September 1904. Then the area began to grow steadily. Today, Milnerton has become one of the … oldest of the suburbs along the northern Table…
EventSouth African cricket player Aubrey Faulkner, great all-rounder in the early 20th century, is born
… George Aubrey Faulkner (1881 - 1930) was in his day a dominating figure in South African cricket, one of the … the First World War he served with distinction…
EventThe last ‘Peru and Bala’ show is hosted on Lotus FM
… ‘Peru and Bala’ is a comedic duo played by Vikash Mathura and Ray Maharaj, which … They produced no less than 850 episodes for Lotus FM over a period of 17…
The Unsung Hero of South African Photography
… liberating. With its exploration of blackness as a lived, if banal and mundane experience (just as it is with … was born, namel South Africa. “While…
The Unsung Hero of South African Photography
… liberating. With its exploration of blackness as a lived, if banal and mundane experience (just as it is with … he was born, namel South Africa. “While…
ANC hits back at Jimi Matthews
… taken by SABC COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng. These include a ban on showing violent protests and featuring newspapers. … act. “We would have expected better conduct…
PlacePrince Alfred's Guard Museum, Port Elizabeth
… Prospect Road, was formed through the amalgamation of a Military Museum formerly housed in the Donkin Reserve … Guard Regiment. In 1856, the Prince Alfred's…
Amulets & Dreams by Omar Badsha and Guy Tillim
… etched on children's foreheads, fashioned into amulets to ward off the eyes of war, for the peace to come. Dreams crept through hedges of thorn and men with …
PlaceLanglaagte Deep Residential Village, Johannesburg
… In 1886 Hans Sauer, who combined a medical practice with prospecting on Cecil Rhodes’s behalf, was guided from Ferreira’s Camp to the main group of gold…
PlaceTogo
… Togo is a country of western Africa. Lomé, the capital, is situated … 1922 the League of Nations then; assigned eastern Togoland to France and the western…
EventArchbishop Owen Cardinal McCann becomes South Africa’s first cardinal.
… campaigning against Apartheid. In 1976, in an open letter to the Government, he made a particularly strong attack on its racial segregation policy ……
EventTanganyika becomes a member of the UN
… On 14 December 1961, Tanganyika became a member of the United Nations(UN) and two years later, in … and Zanzibar) their membership status at the UN changed…
EventSA rugby team plays and wins the first test match against Ireland
… significant, as Errol Tobias was the first black player to start a test match in South Africa during this game. South Africa, … at: southafrica.info …
EventOliver Tambo returns from exile
… President of the African National Congress (ANC), returns to South Africa after going into exile nearly thirty years … liberation movements in 1961 Tambo was…
EventAttempted coup in Equatorial Guinea sees fifteen arrested
… The day before, on 7 March, Zimbabwean authorities seized a US-registered cargo plane at Harare carrying 64 suspected … that the men were mercenaries from…
EventMax the gorilla is shot
… A mountain gorilla, Max was shot and wounded as he grappled … ducked inside the gorilla's night room and came face to face with Max. Max was feeling quite…
EventThe Second General Election is held in the Union of SA
… point at issue was whether South Africa should continue to support Britain's war effort and the results was a clear indication of the growth of Afrikaner…
EventBhambatha becomes chief
… became chief of the AmaZondi people. Bhambatha succeeded to the throne after the death of his father and uncle, at the age of 25. He quickly established…
EventJosephine Wood, founder of the South African Library for the Blind, is born in Grahamstown
… School for Girls in Grahamstown, Wood was trained as a teacher. In 1919 Wood began her work with the blind community. She started a small library for the…
EventSouth African Police (SAP) is founded
… enacted and the authorisation for the establishment of a national police force was given. The South African Police (SAP) was the successor to the police…
EventEdgar D. Ngoyi, South African ANC leader who spent seventeen years on Robben Island, is born.
… active in the African National Congress (ANC) as a member of the ANC Youth League in the 1950s. After the … ANC in 1960, Ngoyi went underground where he…
PlaceAlbany, Eastern Cape
… Somerset. He was promoted full General in 1814, elevated to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Howden in 1819, and to the Peerage of the United Kingdom under…
EventSibongile Khumalo was born on this day
… 1994 Inauguration.[1] She has also treated South Africans to a number of critically acclaimed performances, including “The … album, Ancient Evenings, is…
EventJohn Kani was born on this day
… at Newell High School and his love for theatre led him to work with several drama groups in the New Brighton area … 1975.[1]His numerous other involvements…
ANC mourns the passing on of Mama Regina Nzo, 27 September 2011
… exile with her husband in 1964 for 26 years. She returned to South African in 1990 and worked for ANC Womens League. Her contribution will be a source of…
Not in My Neighbourhood Documentary
… themselves into ‘World Class’, Global City status, we have to ask ourselves, “at what cost”? " Not in My Neighbourhood … Documentary (running time 37:00 min)…
ArchiveChristian principles and race problems by Jan H. Hofmeyr
… This was the first lecture in a series of the Hoernle Memorial Lectures delivered by Jan H. Hofmeyr, who was subsequently a student of Professor Hoernle at…
ArchiveChristian principles and race problems
… This was the first lecture in a series of the Hoernle Memorial Lectures delivered by Jan H. Hofmeyr, who was subsequently a student of Professor Hoernle at…