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PlaceThe Owl House
The Owl House is a Museum in Nieu-Bethesda, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Helen Martins, an outsider or self-taught Artist and Owner of Owl House, turned her…
PlaceOttery
Ottery was probably established in 1904 as a residential suburb of Cape Town. The railway line from Maitland reached Ottery on 1 February 1904. It was…
EventThe first successful non-direct blood transfusion is carried out
On 27 March 1914, Belgian doctor Albert Hustin conducted the first non-direct transfusion, using sodium citrate as an anticoagulant. Initially, blood…
EventCricketer Omar Henry born
Omar Henry was born in Stellenbosch on 23 January 1952.[i] In 1987, at the age of 34, Henry became the first South African cricketer of colour to be selected…
EventFormer SA Cricket Captain, Hansie Cronje, dies
On 1 June 2002 the former South African Cricket Captain, Hansie Cronje, died along with two pilots in a Hawker Siddeley 748 - 372 aircraft which crashed into…
EventThe Biafran War erupts as Nigerian forces invade the Republic of Biafra
Nigeria was created by the British without consideration of the country’s ethnic diversity. It has never truly integrated as one country. It served the British…
EventFour political detainees escape from Pretoria Central prison in one of the most dramatic escapes in SA history
Four political detainees: Harold Wolpe, a listed Communist arrested on the Bechuanaland border; Arthur Goldreich, caught in the Rivonia raid; Moosie Moolla,…
EventPresident Vorster challenges Dr Rhoodie
In a lengthy statement, President B.J. Vorster challenged Dr. Eschel Rhoodie to release any document that would implicate him in the Information Affair. He…
EventThe French Foreign Legion is founded
The elite French Foreign Legion was founded by King Louis-Philippe as a military unit to support the conquest of Algeria, which the French had invaded the…
EventLocal government elections thrown in disarray
The Constitutional Court's ruling against the use of decree powers by President Nelson Mandela, threw the preparations for the local elections scheduled for…
EventSan involvement in the Battle of Chrissiesmeer
The Battle of Chrissiesmeer (Lake Chrissie) during Anglo-Boer War 2 started with an attack by General Louis Botha on the British forces under General Smith…
EventUniversity of Pretoria is established
On 10 February 1908 a new department of the Transvaal University College (T.U.C.), situated in Johannesburg, started its classes in Kya Rosa, a house in…
EventElsa, the lioness made famous by Joy Adamson’s book Born Free, dies in Kenya
Elsa the lioness was one of three orphaned lions whose mother was killed in self defence by George Adamson. Adamson was a wildlife conservationist based in…
EventExpress train derails in Ethiopia, killing an estimated 400 people
An express train carrying seven cars and an estimated one thousand people destined for Addis Ababa, derailed when it reached a curve 125 miles east of the…
PlaceTable Mountain Water Supply
Table Mountain is probably one of the most famous iconic landmarks of the world and dominates much of the picturesque, Cape Peninsula. Extending for 2km from…
Document 109 - G. H. Gool and J. A. La Guma, “Appeal of the National Liberation League for a National Convention of the Subject Peoples of South Africa”, The Liberator, September 1937
From:South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew FELLOW NON-EUROPEANS, Business men, Professionals,…
ArticleNon-European Unity Movement (NEUM)
This article was written by Baruch Hirson A Short history of the Non-European Unity – An insider's view Where is the Non-European Unity Movement? The Non…
Milton Obote by Angela Thompsell updated 28 February 2016
Apollo Milton Obote (some say Milton Apollo Obote) was the 2nd and 4th President of Uganda. He first came to power in 1962 but was ousted by Idi Amin in 1971…
Appeal for action against Apartheid - Statement issued jointly by Chief Albert Luthuli and Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr,10 December 1962
Joint statement by Chief Albert J. Lutuli and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1962 In 1957, an unprecedented Declaration of Conscience was issued by…
PlaceDurban, Kwa-Zulu Natal
Durban is South Africa’s third-largest City and one of the fastest-growing urban Areas in the World. It's Port is the busiest in South Africa and also one of…
To fully reconcile The Boer War is to fully understand the ‘Black’ Concentration Camps by Peter Dickens (The Observation Post),
Two different current Narratives refugeesTo many Afrikaans speaking white people in South Africa the narrative of what in South Africa is called ‘The 2nd…
PlaceGhana
Before March 1957 Ghana was called the Gold Coast. The Portuguese who came to Ghana in the 15th century found so much gold between the rivers Ankobra and the…
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1910-1919
1910 - 1919 1910 January 1, Indian Opinion reduced in size for financial reasons. January 6, Rev. Charles Phillips and J C. Gibson had an interview with…
ArticlePan Africanist Congress timeline 1959-2011
In 1959 the Africanists broke away from the ANC and formed the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC). The histories of these two organisations are inextricably linked…
Say It out Loud - A letter to the Coloured People of South Africa
From the book: Say It out Loud by Mohamed Adhikari Albert Lodge, Mount Street, Cape Town, 31 May 1910 The inauguration of the Union of South Africa…
EventThe Afrikaans Protestant Church, a breakaway faction of Dutch Reformed Church, is formed
Horrified by apparent infiltration of the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) by non-whites, right-wingers formed their own Church for white Afrikaners only. This…
The Final Prize: My Life in the anti-apartheid struggle by Norman Levy
My Life in the anti-apartheid struggle by Norman Levy Norman Levy entered liberation politics during the 1940s, finding his niche in the left wing of the…
EventWilhelmina Johanna (Wilma) Stockenström is born
Wilma Stockenstrom is a significant and gifted female Afrikaans writer, whose work has been translated into several other languages. Wilma studied Drama at…
EventLuthuli Combat Detachment crosses the Zambezi
The 'Luthuli Detachment', made up of units of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) operatives, and the Zimbabwean African People’s Union (ZAPU) guerrillas, crossed the…
EventGoldstone Commission investigate the Bisho Massacre
At the request of President F. W. de Klerk, the commission of inquiry, headed by Judge Richard Goldstone, started the investigation into the Bisho massacre. In…