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EventSimon Mann pleads guilty in a Zimbabwean Court to attempting to purchase dangerous weapons
… Zimbabwe, Mann intended to procure arms to equip a group of mercenaries to overthrow the government of President Teodoro Obiang, allegedly on the instigation…
EventJ.M. Coetzee wins the Booker Prize
… languages. In 1968, he became an assistant professor of English at New York State University. A year later he began to write fiction, with his first book,…
EventPolice head admits to Khotso House bombing
… House on 31 August 1988. The building was the headquarters of the South African Council of Churches(SACC) and housed a number of other progressive … as an…
Chapter 1 - Striking a balance between Tribalism and Christianity
… GUMEDE’S BIRTH AND CHILDHOOD Josiah Gumede, who for much of his formative years offers no apology for his close … William and three or more sisters, the…
EventWW2 veteran Job Masego dies
… Springs, Transvaal (now in Ekurhuleni Municipality), after being struck by a train. Masego had been employed as a … he volunteered for service with the…
EventMother Teresa arrives in SA to establish a missionary home for HIV/AIDS sufferers
… home and joined the Loreto sisters, an Irish community of nuns, working in India. After teaching at St. Mary's High School, she left the mission to work in…
EventKitchener’s opinion on Concentration Camps
… dire conditions prevailing in the camps to the attention of the British parliament, resulting in the appointment of a Ladies' Commission (Fawset Commission)…
EventDouglas Portway, European-based South African artist, is born in Johannesburg
… Technical College and later taught at the University of Johannesburg. After his first solo exhibition in 1945 he … African to be awarded a travel grant from…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1930s
… 9 July, The Executive of the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) meets in Durban … 1930 J.T. Gumede is voted out of office as president for being too close…
EventPieter Willem Frederik Wenning, SA painter, is born in The Hague, Netherlands
… a special liking to the Cape; which became the subject of most of his paintings. In1916, Wenning moved to the Cape, became a … gone due to the area…
ArchiveLong live Ruth First by Gavin Williams, 17 August 2019
… for Ruth First, after she was assassinated on the streets of Maputo by South African agents, Ronald Segal, another … forceful, efficient and often impatient…
PlaceBloukrans Bridge Rest Camp, Southern Region
… span arched bridge, located in the Southern Cape region of South Africa . The bridge is one of three commissioned on the so called ‘ Garden Route ’ to … each…
EventChad gains its independence
… to make Chad a French protectorate – under the command of conqueror Rabih al-Zubayr, the Kimgdoms of the Kanem-Bournu, Baguirmi and Ouaddai fought…
PlaceMvezo, Eastern Cape
… Mvezo is a small Village on the banks of the Mbashe River, not far from Mthatha in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. The Village is mainly known as being the…
Event11 die when the South African Defence Force (SADF) opens fire on negotiators in Sebokeng
… The unbanning of the South African liberation movements on 2 February 1990 … was an important milestone, which signalled a shift from being covert…
EventThe first British Settlers arrive in Algoa Bay
… arrived in Algoa Bay, (now Port Elizabeth) on board of twenty-one ships, the first being the Chapman. They numbered about 4500 and included artisans,…
EventEllis Park soccer stampede kills 43
… year old Sphiwe Mpungose were under the fatalities. Nine of the injured remained on the critical list. The stadium has a capacity of 60,000 but eyewitnesses…
EventThe Neptune, with 288* convicts on board, enters Simon’s Bay, with strong resistance from Cape inhabitants
… in Simon's Bay (now Simonstown) in the Cape, after being met with a furious city population in Table Bay. In … Lord Grey intended to establish a penal colony…
"We have Decided to Liberate Ourselves": Address to the Royal Commonwealth Society by O. R. Tambo, London, 23 June 1986
… eight months ago to the day, in Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas, Heads of State and Government of the Commonwealth countries … of that country's problems…
Full speech - Mamphela Ramphele: Rekindling the South African dream
… to invite you to join me on a journey to build the country of our dreams. I ask those of you of my generation: let us cast our minds back to the … when we…
EventSouth Africa deports Donald “Dolan” Acheson
… deported from South Africa on the 31 March 1991, having being fingered as the triggerman in the assassination of Namibian lawyer Anton Lubowski. Acheson was…
ArticleSouth Africa needs a national holiday on 16 November to acknowledge its indentured
… AND CIVIL SOCIETY ABOUT A MONUMENT AND SOME KIND OF OFFICIAL RECOGNITION OF THE ARRIVAL DAY OF INDENTURED LABOURERS SINCE THE 1990S. … and therefore lies at…
ArchiveSoldiers without reward- Africans in South Africa's wars
… To recount the part played by the African peoples of South Africa in the wars that have been fought by South … and brave things. With a number of bullets in…
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid by Dr Peter Alegi
… Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid: A Preliminary Study of Albert Luthuli, 1920s-1952s Dr Peter Alegi, Department of … the muscular Christian value of …
EventSouth Africa allowed to compete in the Olympics again
… After being banned from the Olympic games for 21 years, the …
ArchiveThe Mandela I knew by Saths Cooper, 6 December 2013
… to 1982 I got to know him intimately and had the advantage of interacting with him on a daily basis. These were less … best and worst in ourselves to emerge…
PlaceMauritania
… Mauritania, Country on the Atlantic coast of Africa. Culturally it forms a transitional zone between the Arab-Amazigh (Berber) populations of North Africa…
Imijondolo
… a shack or informal housing), is Omar Badsha's second book of photographs. Badsha's groundbreaking book documents how … radically different life in the…
PlaceHout Bay Museum
… cottage style museum is a hidden treasure with collections of Hout Bay’s history that goes back to 1652. When the Dutch … to ‘Wood Bay’ in Afrikaans). Soon…
PlaceAluin Krantz West, a Farm Near Alexandria
… Located in the Sundays River Valley, in the District of Cacadu District Municipality, Eastern Cape. Aluin Krantz … elevation Above Sea Level is; 199 metres…