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BiographyJoseph Ramapulane Maseko
Soweto based artist, Joe Maseko, died in Johannesburg in May 2008 at the age of 71. Maseko is best known for his vibrant paintings of township scenes.
D.I.V.I.D.E. And Rule; South Africas Bantust
… A2 litho poster blue, orange, white; map showing Bantustans; text: Apartheid: 70% of the …
BiographyLucas ‘Masterpieces’ Moripe
The Atteridgeville Super Stadium was renamed the Lucas 'Masterpieces' Moripe Stadium after the legendary Pretoria soccer player. This followed a meeting…
Speech by Oliver Tambo at the 50th session of the OAU Coordinating Committee for the liberation of Africa, Harare, 13 May 1988
It comes to light that thousands of unwitting South African women, who lost their ID documents in the past, may be married ille
Statement by ANC President Nelson Mandela at the Luncheon given by the Prime minister of Finland, Mr. Esko Aho Helsinki, 22 May 1992
Report of a Deputation from the ANC and Congress of Urban Advisory Boards to the Minister of Native Affairs, May 15-17,1939
A bomb explodes in the elevator of the building in the centre of Cape Town, which houses the President’s Council. One man is ki
An Egyptian man identified as a key suspect in the 1993 World Trade Centre bombing is flown to the United States to face charge
Oration of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Official Funeral of Stella Nomzamo Sigcau, Qaukeni, Eastern Cape, May 16, 2006
The United Party leader, Sir de Villiers Graaff, tells its Free State Congress that the Party rejects the idea of one man, one
Bartolomeu Dias, Portuguese discoverer of the Cape of Good Hope, drowns at sea. The date is given as 24 May in another source.
As voting starts in Algeria, at least eight people are killed and twenty kidnapped. There are fears that this may slow down the
Oliver John (Jack) Hindon (44), the man after whom the SA Jack Hindon medal for outstanding service is named, is born in Scotla
WWII: East Africa. Caught between a pincer movement of the 11th and 12th African Divisions, the Abyssinian town of Soddu is cap
Bartolomeu Dias, Portuguese discoverer of the Cape of Good Hope, drowns at sea. The date is given as 29 May in another source a
Business Day reports that President Botha declared in the House of Representatives in May that the ban on the ANC could not be
A May Day rally is addressed by President Mandela at Umlazi. He is escorted from the stadium in an armoured car when shots are
The Star reports that a police sergeant was shot dead in Osizweni township at Newcastle, Natal, by a man armed with an AK-47 ri
Fires in Cape Town and the Western Cape are ‘out of control’. A woman and two teenagers have burnt to death in Khayelitsha, Cap
Sir George Cathcart, governor and commander-in-chief at the Cape (31 March 1852-26 May 1854), is defeated when he attack Moshes
More than twenty-five people die in action by the SAP and SADF when residents of the Old Location, Windhoek, resist forced remo
Sir David Gill (70), royal astronomer at the Cape and first man in South Africa to photograph the moon, dies in Cape Town.
For the first time in the history of the South African Police Force (SAP) policewomen are enlisted as full members of the force
BiographyGeorge Gangen Ponnen
Gangen George Ponnen was born on 1 June 1913 in the district of Rooikopjes near Durban, in the then Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). His father Ponnen, born in…
Membathisi Mphumzi Shepherd Mdladlana
On 12 May 1952 Shepherd Mdladlana was born in Keiskammahoek in the Eastern Cape. He has been South African Minister of Labour since 1998 and is a member of the…
BiographyRoy Padayachie
Radhakrishna Lutchmana "Roy" Padayachie was born on 1 May 1950. He attended Tagore High School in Clairwood, Durban and then went to study for a B.Sc. degree…
The Non-Bantu Languages of North-Eastern Africa by A.N. Tucker and M.A. Bryan
BiographyAlois Mate
The Makoba’s Council was described as ‘a powerful and dangerous group of tribesmen.’ Alois Mate was considered to be ‘the brains of the Council although he…
Qonda Hoho
Qonda Hoho was born 1956 in Bowden village Lady Frere(Eastern Cape).An MK operative who who was shot dead during a shoot-out with members of the SAP on 4…