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EventPoqo members arrested
… Tshweni's men charged at the police, resulting in the death of seven attackers with three constables seriously …
EventPalaeontologist Mary Leakey discovers one of the oldest hominid skulls in Tanzania
… head of excavation at Olduvai, and after her husband's death, began to train her son, Richard, in the field. …
EventNovelist and historian Bessie Head is born
… learners in various schools in South Africa. Her untimely death in 1986 cut her career short. Some of her material was …
EventSharpeville Deputy Mayor killed
… The Deputy Mayor of Sharpeville, Sam Dlamini was hacked to death by a group of youths, and doused in petrol and burned. …
EventJournalist and anti-apartheid activist M.P. Naicker dies
… on a flight from London to Berlin. At the time of his death Naicker was also a journalist for the ANC journal …
EventSASO leader, Abram Tiro is assassinated
… investigation into the circumstances surrounding his death. …
EventClarence Mlokoti is shot dead by hijackers
… He was rushed to Lesedi clinic where he died. Mlokoti's death, which came at the time when South Africa was bidding …
EventBrett Kebble, SA millionaire and director of mining companies, linked to several cases of alleged fraud, is born
… car on the way to dinner with his business associates. The death of Kebble opened a can of worms exposing corruption in …
EventHamilton Naki, a laboratory assistant to cardiac surgeon Christian Barnard, dies
… surgery work on animals quite effortlessly. After his death, it was claimed that he had assisted Dr Chris Barnard …
Descom Bulletin
… under the custody of the security police. It was after his death that with the increase of political prisoners that …
EventLady Diana Spencer is killed in a car accident in Paris
… tumultuous marriage ended in 1996. At the time of her death they had two sons. A year later, Diana got involved …
![Freddie Mercury [Bulsara], singer and songwriter, is born in Zanzibar, Africa.](/sites/default/files/styles/saho_medium/public/event_pics/Freddie%20Mercury.jpg?itok=Vuq6ADKe)
EventFreddie Mercury [Bulsara], singer and songwriter, is born in Zanzibar, Africa.
… just admitted to having the disease the day before. His death made him even more popular with Queen’s music sales sky …
EventEthnic violence in Rwandan capital Kigali is spreads throughout the country
… of the Tutsis. The genocide followed the day after the death of the Rwandan president, Juvénal Habyarimana. …
ArchiveThe West African Kroomen and their link to Simon’s Town by Joline Young
… amidst the lushness of palm trees and gentle streams. [iv] There were five chief villages, namely the Kruber, Little … took their lives by drowning or…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Buitenkant Street, Cape Town
… was the "mother" of this Church. This lady, after the death of her parents, decided to honor their memory in an … their home. Miss Hertzog, died at the age…
PlacePaul Kruger’s House, 60 Church Street West, Pretoria
… His wife continued to live there however, until her death on 20 July 1901. After her death it was used by the British Military Police until 1904 …
BiographyBenjamin Magson Kies
… and theorist from about the middle of the 1930s until his death in 1979. His major contribution as an activist was to …
BiographyKasturba Gandhi
… was in Sabarmati prison, Gandhi started a “fast unto death” to protest the newly proposed Indian constitution. It …
ArchiveChapter 12 Hangings by Denis Goldberg
… prison known as Beverley Hills, gallows’ humour for the death-cells. It was an awful place, with about 150 hangings a … every week. There were some of our…
ArticleThe Zulu kingdom and the colony of Natal
… and move eastwards to the royal kraal. The left or Number IV Column, commanded by Brevet Col Sir H. Evelyn Wood, …
EventSACTU launches a national potato boycott.
… including one case in which a worker had been beaten to death in 1944. In support of these workers, the South African …
EventMaria Groesbeek is hanged for the murder of her husband, Christian Buys
… refusal to grant her a divorce. After being sentenced to death by hanging on November 1969, Groesbeek was executed on …
EventThe ‘Hospital and Lunatic Asylum’, the first civilian hospital in Cape Town, is opened
… in 1845, and practiced medicine in Wynberg until his death in 1864. …
EventBhambatha becomes chief
… people. Bhambatha succeeded to the throne after the death of his father and uncle, at the age of 25. He quickly …
EventDennis Brutus is born
… the South African Sports Hall of Fame. At the time of his death in 2009, he had published 14 books. He is regarded as …
Event”Unknown” White man is hanged in Pretoria
… the rape of a White woman, three Africans who were given death sentences for the murder of Mr. Emile Ugo Fanton on 25 …
EventJoseph Engenas Lekganyane, founder of the Dove branch of the ZCC, is born
… successor just before he died in 1972. After his father's death, Joseph claimed leadership of the church. The position …
ArticleThe International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF)
… issued a statement from Lusaka denying involvement in his death, and praised his contribution to the struggle. Victoria … defendants, all of who faced…
ArticleThe following is a list of 43 names of those killed in the stampede at a soccer match at Ellis Park stadium
… The 43 spectators were crushed to death when fans forced their way through gate four in the …
ArticleRemembering and Celebrating South Africa’s Iconic LGBTQI+ Women
… will “cure” her of her sexuality. Following Simelane’s death, her family worked with the University of KwaZulu-Natal … South Africa” (ISSA), which she…