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Zimbabwe acquits sixty-six of the suspected mercenaries of weapons offences charges but finds Simon Mann guilty of attempting t
Robert Mangaliso (Wonder) Sobukwe, Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC) leader who was imprisoned and under house arrest for many year
The Sunday Independent reports that the special mixture prescribed by Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, the minister of health, for fig
The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa: Chapter One - By Riashnee Pather
From the book: The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa - by Riashnee Pather Chapter One Before embarking on an…
Mandela: Man, Legend And Symbol Of Resistance by Alan Cowell (The New York Times), September 5, 1985
Karl Gottlieb Mauch, the first man to discover gold in SA, is born in Stetten, Wurtemberg.
The notorious ‘Panga Man’, who robbed and raped numerous people, is arrested. He was later executed.
The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa: Chapter Three - By Riashnee Pather
From the book: The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa - by Riashnee Pather Chapter Three 1945 marked a decisive…
The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa: Chapter Two - By Riashnee Pather
From the book: The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa - by Riashnee Pather Chapter Two For many the 1940's have been…
Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang attends the 2nd National Health Providers’ Prayer Day, which is intended to take care
Passive Resister reports that hundreds of (Passive) Resisters have appeared before court some on as many as five different char
Joshua Mqabuko Nyangolo Nkomo, considered by many to be the true hero of the Zimbabwean independence struggle, returns to Harar
WW 2: Japan surrenders unconditionally, bringing to an end a war in which millions of people, and many South Africans, were kil
Joshua Mqabuko Nyangolo Nkomo, considered by many to be the true hero of the Zimbabwean independence struggle, returns to Harar
The historical manor Leeuwenhof in Cape Town, which later became the official home of the Cape Province administrator, is bough
Thousands of Liberian war refugees, many ill after a week at sea, are refused admission to the Ghanaian port of Takoradi.
An airliner carrying seventy-nine people crashes into residential blocks as it prepares to land at Nigeria’s Kano airport, kill
Simon Mann, arrested in Zimbabwe, writes a letter pleading with associates, including Sir Mark Thatcher, to get him out of pris
The Weekly Mail reports that allegedly twenty people have died in taxi feuds in 1989 and many more seriously injured.
Mary Agard (Mamie) Pocock, algologist and botanist, who is commemorated in many plant names, is born in Rondebosch, Cape Town.
EventSouth African man sets record for world's deepest dive
South African engineer, Nuno Gomes, entered the Guinness Book of Records for mankind's deepest dive ever on 13 June 2005. Gomes'318.25m plunge beat the record…
BiographyRaymond Ackerman
Please note: This biography is a modified extract from the following source: Bell, P. (1999) “Raymond Ackerman” from They Shaped our Century: The Most…
The eastern portion of Peelton is incorporated into the Transkei, against the wish of many of the inhabitants. South African ci
Anglo-South African driver Pat Fairfield dies of injuries sustained in a crash in the Le Mans 24 Hour race in France.
A Day of Prayer, called by NIC, is observed very widely. Indian businesses are closed at 1 pm, and many Indians take a resistan
Andries Dreyer, archivist of the Dutch Reformed Church, is ordained as missionary of the congregation in Cape Town for the Hano
WWII: The Second Battle of El Alamein, in which many SA soldiers took part, commences with a thousand-gun barrage. The opening
Simon Mann is sentenced to seven years in jail by a Zimbabwean court on weapons charges. The two pilots get sixteen months
Bertie Reed (63), for many years a Springbok and international sailing legend and one of the most-popular skippers in single-ha
BiographyHerbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo
Herbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo was born in Edendale, Natal on February 26th, 1903. He was the second son to Ezra and Sardinia Dhlomo. Ezra came from a line of…