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EventPeter Lindenberg, South Africa’s powerboat champion
… 1989 World Powerboat Series.[iii] Peter won the Maccabi Sports Award on three occasions. He competed in the South … Peter has also been awarded the State…
BiographyBaden Powell
Baden Powell or BP was born Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden Powell was born on the 22 February 1857, the son of Professor Baden Powell, of Oxford University. His…
ArticleLearning about history through people: oral history
… churches, buildings, bioscopes, entertainment centres, and sports facilities. We had a variety of different shops owned … around us: at home, at school, on…
BiographySakumzi (Saki) Justice Macozoma
Please note: This biography is a modified extract from the following source: Gastrow, S. (1992) Who`s Who in South African politics Number 4.p.67. If you would…
EventPeter Scott, South African alpine skier is born
… Canada. [vii] End Notes [i] Peter Scott, http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/sc/peter-scott-3.html … (13 March 2017). ↵ [ii] Peter Scott, http:…
BiographyLouis Luyt
Louis Luyt was born on 18 June 1932, and grew up in modest circumstances in the Karoo. In the 1940s Luyt was employed as a railway clerk. During his rugby…
BiographyJim Bailey
James Richard Abe Bailey was born in London on 23 October 1919. Bailey was the son of Randlord Sir Abe Bailey and Lady Mary Bailey. He grew up on a country…
ArticleSouthern Methodist University Partnership Project - 2012 submissions
… and likes spending his time with his dogs or playing sports. Project: PEBCO 3 and the TRC Virginia Boswell … at Southern Methodist University, studying…
EventTrade unionist, Barend Erasmus dies
… about sport, Erasmus founded the Johannesburg Municipal Sports Club. He was a member of South African Council of … with disciplinary measures of the…
BiographyTeboho MacDonald “Tsietsi” Mashinini
Teboho MacDonald "Tsietsi" Mashinini was born on 27 January 1957 in Central Western Jabavu, Soweto. Mashinini was the second son of Ramothibi, a lay preacher…
EventAndre Botha, South Africa’s bodyboarding champion saves a life
… End Notes [i] David van Lill, Van Lill’s South African Sports Trivia (Cape Town: Zebra Press, 2005), p. 237. ↵ [ii] David van Lill, Van Lill’s South African…
EventLouis Raymond, an Olympic tennis singles gold medalist is born
… 2015). ↵ [iii]David van Lill, Van Lill’s South African Sports Trivia (Cape Town: Zebra Press, 2005), p. 199. ↵ [iv]David van Lill, Van Lill’s South African…
BiographyHenry ‘Mr Drum’ Nxumalo
Henry Nxumalo was born in 1917 at Mvutshini, Margate, in what was then Natal Province. The first child of Lazarus and Josephine Nxumalo, he attended the…
BiographyJackson Mthembu
Jackson Mthembu was born in June 5th,1958 in Witbank. He grew up in Kromkrans, a reserve for Black people between Hendrina and Carolina in the then Transvaal,…
BiographyDawid (Dawie) Jacobus De Villiers
Dawie de Villiers was born on 10 July 1940 in Burgersdorp, one of three children of Elsa and Coenie de Villiers. Dawie’s father was a railway clerk, organiser…
BiographyRev George Wauchope
Rev George Wauchope was born in South Africa. He joined the South African Student Organisation (SASO) while studying at the University of Fort Hare in the…
ArticleFootball in South Africa
… an atmosphere sustained by popular discourse and improving sports coverage in the Black press. Matches between Indians, …
BiographySewsunker ‘Papwa’ Sewgolum
“Papwa” Sewsunker Sewgolum was born in 1930, into a family of poor sugarcane labourers in Natal. He started working at an early age, and as a young boy,…
BiographyFrederik Willem de Klerk
Frederik Willem de Klerk was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) on 18 March 1936. F.W. de Klerk grew up in a political family, with both his father…
BiographyFrank Alexander Landman
… as with Dennis Brutus and Joe Newton in the South African Sports Association [v] . He campaigned for a robust …
ArticleInternational Rugby World Cup Timeline 1983-2011
… the first time, following the end of their international sports boycott due to the apartheid regime. South Africa wins …
EventSA’s Fifa membership reinstated
… races from representing South Africa in international sports. SAFA managed to retain its membership of Fifa by … government intervention to keep racial…
BiographyBantu Holomisa
Major General (Retired) Bantubonke (Bantu) Harrington Holomisa was born on 25 July 1955 at Mqanduli, Transkei, the son of the late Chief Bazindlovu Holomisa…
EventThe South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee is founded
… representative body in place of the 'white' South African Sports Association (SASA). SAN-ROC opposed all racial sport …
EventNizaam Carr, the South African rugby player is born
… of South Africa in June 2016.[x] Nizaam initiated the Cape Sports Academy in Athlone, which is a youth sports academy motivating children through sport.[xi]…
ArticleUnited Nations and Apartheid Timeline 1946-1994
… adopted resolution 2775 D (XXVI) calling for a boycott of sports teams selected in violation of the Olympic principle … Ad Hoc Committee to prepare a…
PlaceState President Swart Park, Bloemfontein
… Park. The President Swart Park forms the focal point for sports activities. The Free State Stadium is situated, in the …
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at the football banquet Pretoria, 1 March 1996
… Africa's most popular sport. Your conduct on and off the sports field and the team building spirit have been … nations of the world for excellence in…
EventFormer Tennis player, Kevin Curren, is born in Durban
… United States of America. He obtained a BCom degree in sports management at the university and also began his tennis …
EventSA is banned from the Olympic Games
… Following Prime Minister J. B. Vorster's relaxed sports policy, a committee of the IOC visited SA in …