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EventBoers occupying Magagabe Hill shell Rhodesian positions at Basuto Kop
The action that culminated with the Boers shelling Rhodesian positions at Basuto Kop on 16 February 1900 can be traced in part by Rhodesian fears that the…
EventSouth African Committee investigates the Jameson Raid report
The Jameson Raid of 1895 did tremendous harm to the relationship between the Boer Republics and the British Empire, as they viewed it as confirmation that…
EventFriedrich Engels, German philosopher, dies in London
German author, political theorist and philosopher, Friedrich Engels died in London on 05 August 1895 after a long battle with a throat cancer. The son of a…
EventChief Malaboch is taken prisoner
In April 1894, Chief Malaboch (Mmaleboho, Mmaleboxo) of the Bahananwa (Xananwa) people refused to leave his traditional mountain kingdom of Blouberg as ordered…
EventChristoffel Coetzee de Villiers (37), compiler of South African genealogical registers, dies
Location: back to this day in history search archive Christoffel Coetzee de Villiers was born on 10 March 1850 in Swellendam, in the Cape Colony (now Western…
EventThe introduction of new South African flag 1994
On 27 April 1994, South Africa introduced a new national flag, at the same time the country held its first democratic elections in which African National…
EventBlacks in South Africa protest against segregation
On the 300 anniversary of the arrival of Jan van Riebeeck in Table Bay, the African National Congress (ANC) and the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) at a…
EventFormer Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat is born
On 25 December 1918, Anwar al-Sadat was born at Tala District. al-Sadat was a graduate of the Royal Military Academy in Cairo. During the 1952 revolution which…
Mupia-Mupia Exhibition by Maurice Mbikayi
Mupia-Mupia is a Luba term that translates to "new and shiny". Maurice Mbikayi draws on this term as a concept working through the metamorphosis of ages, shape…
ArchiveBesoek van Mnr Clark aan Suid-Afrika en Suidwes-Afrika: 10-13 Junie 1981
Report, signed by Minister R F Botha and written mostly in Afrikaans, of the visit of Mr W P Clark of the United States of America, to South Africa and South…
ArchiveReport on Black Workers Project
The Black Workers Project emanated out of a resolution taken at the 3rd General Students Council. The purpose of the project was to serve and protect the…
ArchiveAPDUSA Bulletin 1: Dont vote!
This pamphlet aims to plead to those involved in the liberatory movement to consider carefully before taking the decision to vote or to boycott for their new…
PlaceWestoe, Westoe Road, Mowbray
The property was originally granted to Francois Pieter de Necker in 1785 and formed part of the Farm Coornhoop. The House, Built in a Cape Dutch style and…
EventThe North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) is founded.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation was formed at the end of World War II. European countries needed insurance and security against The Soviet Union…
EventAbram Fischer fails to arrive in court
Abram Fischer, Q.C., standing trial under the Suppression of Communism Act, fails to arrive in court, forfeits his bail and disappears. He went underground and…
EventConstruction on the Aswan Dam starts in Egypt
The building of the world famous High Aswan Dam, which was also known as Saad el Aali in Arabic was started in Egypt. The Dam contained 18 times the material…
EventMohammed Valli Moosa is born in Johannesburg
Mohammed Valli Moosa, born in Johannesburg on 9 February 1957, was a political activist and served as Minister of Environmental and Tourism Affairs in South…
EventGamal Abdel Nasser becomes premier of Egypt
Col. Gamal Abdel Nasser, an Arab nationalist, became premier of Egypt following a military coup. Under his leadership Egypt continued its participation in the…
EventA Day of Prayer Called by the NIC
A Day of Prayer, called by Natal Indian Congress (NIC), was widely observed. Indian businesses were closed at 1pm, and many Indians took a resistance pledge…
EventSculptor Lucas Sithole is born in KwaThema
Lucas Sithole, renowned South African sculptor, was born in KwaThema, Springs, Transvaal (now Gauteng) to a Zulu father and a Swazi mother. He created more…
EventMalan introduces Asiatic Bill
Daniel F. Malan, the then minister of the Interior, announced the introduction of the Areas Reservation and Immigration and Registration Bill also known as the…
EventCedric Mayson is charged with treason
Cedric Mayson, former Methodist Minister who was banned for five years in 1977 and detained on 27 November 1981, appeared before the Pretoria Supreme Court on…
EventVorster appoints a Commission of Inquiry
Prime Minister John Vorster appoints a Commission of Inquiry under chairmanship of Justice H. J. Potgieter of The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court to…
EventAzanian People’s Liberation Army kills three policemen in Katlehong violence
Three South African Police members are killed and three wounded when their vehicle is attacked using AK-47 rifles and 9 mm pistols. These are actions taken by…
EventOscar Nominations are announced
The first Oscar nomination for a South African film Yesterday in the Best Foreign Language category, was announced by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and…
EventANC makes second submission before TRC
An African National Congress (ANC) delegation of 20 members, led by Deputy President Thabo Mbeki, made the party's second major submission to the Truth and…
EventNatoo Babenia is born
Natoo Babenia, a political activist first in India, resisting British rule and later in South Africa against the Apartheid government, was born at Coedmore…
EventPrime Minister of Transkei George Matanzima is born
George Mzimvube Matanzima, younger brother of Kaiser Matanzima and prime minister of the Transkei in 1979 and 1987, was born in Qamata, Transkei. The…
PlaceCoerney, Port Elizabeth
Coerney is a River and Railway station 64 km North of Port Elizabeth, on the route to Rosmead, situated in the Sundays River Valley in Sarah Bartman District…
EventWorld Press Freedom Day
According to UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation), the objective of World Press Freedom Day is “to evaluate press freedom…