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EventWhite women achieve suffrage in South Africa
The roots of White women's suffrage in South Africa began with the founding of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in 1899. The goal of this…
EventTutu is outraged by De Klerk’s denial of responsibility for apartheid’s atrocities
National Party (NP) leader F W de Klerk's failure to accept that the former NP government's policies had given security forces a licence to kill was…
“Let Me Live - Letter to a European”: June 1946
"let Me Live - Letter To A European": June 19468 Dear friend, I am addressing this letter to you in the hope that you would read it with sympathy and…
ANC ‘Military High Command’ Leader Interviewed
From the "Focus on Africa" program BBC World Service 4th July 1986 South African police today launched a campaign to fight a spate of urban bombs. There have…
ArchiveGovernment Commissions of Enquiry
Press Digest. Compilation of press comments and editorials on 1) the van Wyk de Vries Commission of Enquiry into Universities and student affairs and 2) The…
EventGraça Machel is born
Graça Machel, political activist and champion of children's rights, widow of Samora Machel and wife of former President Nelson Mandela, was born in Gaza,…
EventANC attack on Booysens Police Station
African National Congress (ANC) insurgents launched a rifle, rocket and grenade attack on Booysens Police Station Johannesburg. Pamphlets were scattered…
EventJB Marks is born
John Beaver (JB) Marks, teacher, trade unionist and political activist was born in Ventersdorp, Transvaal (now North West Province) on March 21 1903. He was…
EventHenri Edouard Prosper Breuil (84), French archaeologist who did research with Dr Robert Broom in SA, dies in Paris
Professor Henri Breuil came to South Africa as a part of a six year trip across Southern Africa with a mission to examine rock shelters and rock art. Most of…
EventHelen Suzman condemns the Immorality Act in Parliament
On 23 February 1962, a member of Progressive Party Helen Suzman condemned the Immorality Act, saying that the law was bringing misery and deprivation in its…
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 1963 it merged with the island of Zanzibar. Following the…
EventOAU Council of Ministers decide to reject dialogue with South Africa
On 20 June 1971, at the meetings of Organization of African Unity's (OAU) Council of Ministers, dialogue with South Africa was firmly rejected. This was due to…
EventBram Fischer is sentenced to life imprisonment
Bram Fischer, the former political activist was arrested in 1964 for being a member of the illegal organisation Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA). He was…
EventResumption of talks
African National Congress (ANC) President Nelson Mandela accepted an invitation for urgent talks with State President F.W. de Klerk on political violence…
EventChief Mhlabunzima Maphumulo is shot dead
The president of the traditional leaders organisation CONTRALESA and African National Congress (ANC) stalwart, Chief Mhlabunzima Maphumulo, was gunned down in…
EventThe National Union of Mineworkers start South Africa’s longest wage strike
South Africa's longest and biggest strike was organised by the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), led by Cyril Ramaphosa. At the time it was the second…
EventMarais Steyn dies
Former senior opposition and government politician Marais Steyn, died of heart failure at the age of 83 in Stellenbosch. His political career started in 1948,…
EventBritish presents final Peace proposal
Two British peace negotiators, Lord Alfred Milner and Lord Horatio Kitchner, presented the British final peace proposals to the Boer negotiators after the…
EventFormer Chief of the South African Defence Force (SADF), General Jannie Geldenhuys is born in Kroonstad
Johannes Jacobus Geldenhuys (Jannie), Chief of the South African Defence Force (SADF) and member of the State Security Council, was born in Kroonstad, Orange…
EventGrammy Award winner Miriam Makeba is born in Johannesburg
Miriam Zenzile Makeba was born in Johannesburg on 4 March 1932 to a Swati mother and a Xhosa father. Her mother was a sangoma and a domestic worker while her…
EventStanley Bongani Nkosi, SA artist, is born in Newcastle, Natal
Stanley Bongani Nkosi was born on 25 November 1945 in Newcastle, Natal (now kwaZulu Natal). When Nkosi was three years old his family moved to Dukathole near…
EventJohn “Shoes” Moshoeu was born on this day
On this day the South African and International soccer player was born in Diepkloof, Soweto. One of the most successful players to have ever played the game…
PlaceAchab se Berg, Northern Cape
Hill 23 km East of Aggeneys and 34 km from Pofadder, in the Northern Cape of South Africa. The name is taken from the Farm Achab. Aggeneys the Town was founded…
PlaceWoolsack House, Rondebosch
Woolsack Drive is next to Rosebank and is located in City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. Woolsack Drive has a length of 0.02 kilometres. This…
ArchiveNUSAS talks to the ANC
Subtitled: Reportback on meeting between the National Union of South African Students and the African National Congress held from Sunday, 31 March to Tuesday,…
The African Element in Gandhi by Anil Nauriya
Many books have been written on Gandhi’s twenty-one years in South Africa, the birth of Satyagraha and the transformation of Gandhi from a lawyer-servant of…
EventDr Ernst Gideon Malherbe, SA educationist, is born in Luckhoff, OFS.
Dr Ernst Gideon Malherbe was born on 8 November 1895 at Luckhoff. He studied at the Stellenbosch University and the University of Columbia and was a founding…
EventRuben Xulu is born
South African artist Ruben Xulu was born in Hlabisa, Natal. Xulu, born deaf, began carving with Bernard Gcwensa at Hlabisa mission station and embarked on a…
EventGeneral Laws Amendment Bill is passed
A Bill affecting state security, called the General Laws Amendment Bill, was passed in parliament despite rejection from the opposition parties and severe…
EventFlash floods kill at least 73 people in the Marrakesh region of Morocco
Violent overnight storms triggered flash floods in the Marrakesh region of Morocco. The storms overflowed three rivers Gigaya, Ourika and Gamat. The floods…