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A car bomb explodes in Durban, killing five and injuring twenty-seven people.
Joe Gqabi, chief ANC representative, is killed in Harare by a car bomb.
Poqo and Rural Resistance in the Transkei, 1960 - 1965 by Tom Lodge
The COSATU building in Johannesburg is seriously damaged by two bomb blasts.
BiographyJeanette Eleanor Kasrils
Eleanor Kasrils was born in Scotland in 1936. She came to Durban as an infant. In March 1960, Ronnie Kasrils, later, her husband, visited Durban, to visit his…
EventAn ANC car bomb directed at the headquarters of the Wits Command, Johannesburg, kills one person and injures 68
On 30 July 1987, a car bomb was detonated outside the headquarters of Witwatersrand Command army base in Quartz Street, Johannesburg. The attack was executed…
BiographyLeigh Davids
Leigh Davids was born on 25 March 1979 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. She was a transgender woman, and a prominent activist, who focused on the…
BiographyFanele Mbali
Fanele Mbali was born on 1 December 1937 in a village called Eqolweni. Mbali’s father, Charlton Babana Mkhonto and his brother William Ntozakhe decided on the…
BiographyMarcus Solomon
Marcus Solomon was born in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, on 27 January 1939. His father, a waiter by profession, was a Hindu born of Tamil parents from Sri Lanka,…
BiographyMaggie Bopalamo
The life of Maggie Bopalamo tracks the history of the Rustenburg area in a remarkable fashion. From humble beginnings, she climbed the educational ladder to…
EventSouth African Lawyer and African National Congress (ANC) member, Albie Sachs is seriously wounded by a car bomb in Maputo
A prominent White South African Lawyer and African National Congress (ANC) member, Albie Sachs is seriously wounded by a car bomb in Maputo. The ANC and…
BiographyHenry Mshololo
Mshololo was born at Umzinyathi, Zululand. As a young boy he carved utilitarian objects such as wooden spoons and meat platters. One of his special interests…
Rocky Malebane-Metsing
Rocky Malebane-Metsing was born in Rustenburg in 1949, attending schools in the area until he matriculated. After completing his schooling, Malebane…
BiographyVusumzi (Vusi) Linda Make
Vusimuzi Linda Make was born in Boksburg in 1934, the son of a priest, and later moved to Evaton.the son of an African Methodist Episcopal minister,Make grew…
BiographyThomas Benjamin Davis
Thomas Benjamin Frederick Davis, the son of Thomas Leipold, a fisherman, and Jemima Davis was born in April 1867 in Jersey, Channel Islands, a British Crown…
”Mr X. Tells of Bomb Planning by Rivonia Men”, Pretoria News, 11 December 1963
One person is killed in a bomb explosion at the home of Chris Hani.
One person is killed in a bomb explosion at the home of Chris Hani.
The Commissioner of Police reports a wave of bomb attacks on major government installations.
Mafeking is established within close proximity of Barolong Boo Ratshidi capital, Ga-Ratshidi.
ArchiveWat kom na apartheid? UOVS verdedig vryheid van spraak (Article written in Afrikaans)
BiographyNandisile Thoko Mpumlwana
Nandisile Thoko Mpumlwana (nèe Mbanjwa) was born in Melmoth, Zululand, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). A co-founding member of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM…
BiographyMono Badela
The biography below is from a tribute to Badela written by Prof Guy Berger, the head of the department of Journalism and Media Studies at Rhodes University …
BiographyVivian Fitzsimons
For many south africans, the name Fitzsimons will always be linked to snakes - to their diversity and the treatment of their venomous bites. Rightly so, as…
BiographyMpush Makambi
Mpush Makambi was born in 1967 in Mdantsane, Eastern Cape. At school, Makambi was sporty but boxing was his first love. He turned professional in 1983 with a…
EventTshifiwa Muofhe, a Lutheran Church elder suspected of complicity in the Sibasa Police Station bomb blast, dies in police custody
In October 1981 Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) operatives bombed Sibasa Police Station in independent Vendaland. Several policemen were killed in the attack. The…
BiographyBilly Nair
Billy Nair was born in Ansonia Lane (now Lacey Road), Sydenham, Durban on 27 November 1929. He was one of five children born to Parvathy and Ittynian (Kisten)…
BiographyJomo Kenyatta
Jomo Kenyatta was born Kamau to parents Moigoi and Wamboi ”” his father was the chief of a small agricultural village in Gatundu Division, Kiambu District ””…
BiographyDoe Molefe
Doe Molefe was born in 1950 in Dukathole, Germiston. Molefe began making highly original post-boxes at an early age. He is currently self-employed, running a…
ArchiveVastenaktie: om het recht van de zwaksten
Red, white, grey and black poster. Artwork of a homeless man drinking from a bowl. Netherlands fundraising poster.