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ArticleBecoming human in southern Africa
Human settlement in South Africa Modern humans have been inhabiting South Africa for more than 100 000 years. As a matter of fact, the Cradle of Humankind, or…
BiographyKing Faku ka Ngqungqushe
King Faku ka Ngqungqushe was born around 1780 at the Qawukeni Great Palace near a small town called Lusikisiki in the Mpondoland region, which is in the north…
BiographyShadrack Fuba Zibi
Chief of the Mbuto (Mbuthweni) section of the Hlubi group of tribes, was the son of Fuba III and the grandson of Zibi II. He was educated at Love dale…
President’s budget debate, opening address by President Nelson Mandela (’100-days speech’) Cape Town, 18 August 1994
EventThe 4 x 100m men’s relay team win the gold medal for SA at the Olympic Games in Athens
The South African squad of Roland Schoeman, Lyndon Ferns, Darian Townsend and Ryk Neethling clocked 3 minutes and 13.17 seconds to triumph over the Netherlands…
South African companies donate twelve tons of food worth R100 000 to "the people of Moscow".
President Nelson Mandela makes a major policy speech in Parliament to mark his first 100 days as president.
Maria Elizabeth Rothmann (MER), Afrikaans author, dies in Swellendam, CP, thirteen days after her 100th birthday.
The Security Police raid more than 100 homes throughout the country in a search for illegal political literature.
Salisbury announces that Rhodesian troops have captured and occupied the town of Mapai, 100km inside Mozambique.
ArticleSettler Colonialism and Afrikaner Nationalism
The rise of Afrikaner Nationalism like Capitalism and African Nationalism profoundly shaped the history of the country, and continues to influence the…
PlaceGraskop, Mpumalanga
Graskop is a small Forestry Town, perched on the edge of the Drakensberg Escarpment, a region of Mpumalanga. Graskop is only a few minutes drive from a number…
George Hobson (55), SA author of mainly animal stories, dies in Cape Town. Nuusdagboek: feite en fratse oor 1000 jaar, Kaapstad
A 1000-strong search party finds the body of the Prince Imperial of France, Louis Napoleon, who was killed when Zulu warriors a
Lord Robert Stephenson Baden-Powell, British hero during the siege of Mafeking (1900) and founder of the Boy Scout movement in
Declaration by about 1,500 Mayors calling for the release of Nelson Mandela and all other South African political prisoners pub
Several University of Cape Town students are injured and eighteen arrested during a 1000-strong picket in De Waal Drive in Cape
Following the and the protest at Langa, roughly 1,500 Blacks are detained by the South African police in Cape Town.
BiographyWinnie Madikizela-Mandela
… permitted to visit her husband in jail. She travelled 1400 kilometres from Johannesburg to Cape Town for the …
Prehistory: Pre colonial farmers in Gauteng
Prehistory of Southern AfricaFarming people did not inhabit the Greater Johannesburg region until the Late Iron Age. Then, beginning in the 15th century,…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 3: The Scramble for Africa: late 19th century
The colonisation of Africa was part of a global European process reaching all the continents of the world. European colonisation and domination changed the…
BiographyKobera Manual
Aunty Kobera Manual of Ocean View died at the age of 98 on Wednesday 27 July 2016. In 2009 I interviewed her at her home in Ocean View, when she shared some…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2012
Mangaung 8 January 2012 Your Excellencies Heads of States and Government, Former Presidents of the ANC, Isithwalandwe Nelson Mandela at home and Comrade…
About 100 White sympathisers join evicted Black squatters in a passive protest against the demolition of shanty dwellings outsi
Pedi Chief Sekhukhune’s followers send a force of 140 against Chief Kgolane and his followers in their stronghold, Masehleng. K
Fighting between Nigeria’s Hausa and Yoruba tribes leaves 100 dead in Lagos. (2004). Yesterdays, Pretoria News, 18 October.
The South African Government grants diplomatic immunity and privileges to about 100 UN, Commonwealth, European Community and OA
Martin West, lieutenant-governor of Natal, appoints a location commission to investigate into the problems caused by about 100
The possessions of Piet Retief and about 100 men who were murdered in February by Dingane, is auctioned.
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