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BiographyKippie Jeremiah Moeketsi
Moeketsi was born on 27 July 1925. As a young boy, he watched and listened to his older brothers playing jazz instruments, thus, influencing his musical taste…
The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa by Riashnee Pather
Introduction Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three Conclusion Bibliography Primary Sources
Kenyan runner Yobes Ondieki becomes the first man to run 10,000 metres in less than 27 minutes.
A United Nations eight-man committee with instructions to investigate conditions in the Mandated Territory of South Africa is r
Liberian President Samuel K Doe becomes virtual prisoner in presidential mansion as rebels besiege Monrovia and Doe’s 500-man s
Ethiopian King Haile Selassie urges his countrymen to fight to the last man against the invading Italian army.
A young man on horseback races through the streets of Stellenbosch shouting “Victorie! Victorie!” – the sign that the burgher
Jack Hindon (44), the man after whom the SA medal for outstanding service is named, dies in Pretoria.
Karl Gottlieb Mauch, purported to be the first man to discover gold in SA, is born in Stetten
A limpet-mine explosion kills a man outside a crowded centre in Northcliff, Johannesburg. Police suspect that the victim was ca
President Swart appoints a one-man commission, Mr Justice J.H. Snyman, to inquire into the riots in Paarl, CP.
Clashes among local militias, a rebel group and the Ugandan army kills at least ninety people. The victims, many of whom had be
Aid arrives in Mozambique where flooding leaves as many as 700 people dead and destroys the homes and jobs of another 2-million
Italian opera star Luciano Pavarotti, hailed by many as the greatest tenor of his generation, dies in his home after a long bat
BiographyMolefe Pheto
Molefe Pheto grew up in Alexandra, Johannesburg. As a talented young boy who displayed many interests in the arts, he was sent to London to study music and…
BiographyAhmed Mahomed Cachalia
Ahmed Mohamed Cachalia joined the Satyagraha struggle in the Transvaal. He was an extremely wealthy man and was used to a life of luxury and comfort, yet he…
BiographyPatrick Chamusso
Patrick Chamusso will be remembered for his role in the bombing of Sasol’s Secunda power plant in the 1980s as a protest against the apartheid regime. But his…
The Cato Manor riots begin due to the ‘beer issue’ and the looming forced removals. Some sources claim that the riots began on
The old man and the sky: In memory of David Goldblatt, by Charl Blignaut, City Press, 2018-07-01
SPEECH BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA AT THE LAUNCH OF THE BOOK “MADIBA THE RAINBOW MAN” Bonteheuwel, 27 November 1997
The liner SA Vaal rescues a Johannesburg man, Joseph Honeywill, eleven hours after he fell overboard near the Canary Islands.
CNN reports that a 62-year-old South African man is being treated at a Pretoria hospital as a "probable SARS" case, a
Two Johannesburg paramedics, Adriaan Craukamp and Johan Erasmus, who abandoned a homeless man, who later died in the street, ha
The six-man Commission of Inquiry into security legislation, under the chairmanship of Justice P.I. Rabie, presents its report
The Group Areas Act and Community Destruction in South Africa - The Struggle for Cato Manor in Durban
BiographySydney Kumalo
It is appropriate that the final large scale work completed by Sydney Kumalo before his death is a three-metre high bronze figure of a Zulu "imbongi" or praise…