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Presidential Address To The Twenty-Second Conference Of The South African Indian Congress, Johannesburg, October 19, 1956
Statement Made In Court When Charged With 46 Other Passive Resisters under Riotous Assemblies Act, June 1946
Sir Seretse Khama, first president of Botswana (1966–80), dies in Gaborone, Botswana due to pancreatic cancer.
Nigeria’s 1986 Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, novelist, playwright and poet, is born in Abeokuta, south-western Nigeria.
Message To The People While Awaiting Sentence To Imprisonment In The Passive Resistance Campaign, June 27, 1946
Circular Letter To Trade Unions, Progressive Organisations, Democrats And Anti-Fascists by Yusuf Dadoo, June 10, 1946
Dear Sir/Madam, The Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Bill has become law. The already so weak and feeble democratic structure of South Africa has…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at the opening of the Columbus Stainless Steel Plant Middelburg, 8 February 1996
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at a state banquet in honour of Chief Justice Corbett 11 December 1996
New Year message by President Nelson Mandela broadcast by the South African Broadcasting Corporation 31 December 1996
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at the presidential and Premier Education Awards Ceremony Johannesburg, 23 November 1996
Speech by President Mandela at the banquet in honour of Queen Elizabeth II London, 11 July 1996
Thousands of Blacks stay-away to commemorate the anniversary of the outbreak of the 1976 Soweto upheavals.
Report on proceedings and resolutions of the Annual Conference of the African National Congress, January 4-5, 1926 [Extracts]
Event”Ghetto Act” or The Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act No 28 of 1946 is passed
The "Ghetto Act" was designed to curtail Indian property ownership in White areas in Natal. Natal was divided into controlled and uncontrolled areas. The…
Resolutions of the Eight National Conference of the South African Council of Churches, July 27-29, 1976
Resolutions of the South African Council of Churches, discussed at the Eighth National Conference, which includes the call for detainees to be charged or…
Chief Kaiser Matanzima announces in Umtata that the Transkei will become fully independent on 26 October 1976.
The dried Fruit Board is dissolved under section 26 of the Marketing of Agricultural Products Act, 1996.
Fulbert Youlou, first president (1960–63) of Congo (Brazzaville) is replaced by Alphonse Massamba-Debat, following a military
Anglo-Boer War 2: Boer General S.F. Oosthuizen dies of wounds received at Dwarsvlei on 11-07-1900.
Fulbert Youlou, first president (1960–63) of Congo (Brazzaville) is replaced by Alphonse Massamba-Debat, following a military
Fulbert Youlou, first president (1960–63) of Congo (Brazzaville) is replaced by Alphonse Massamba-Debat, following a military
Letter to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Trygve Lie from Alfred Xuma, 25 November 1946
Trevor Andrew Manuel, Minister of Finance of the RSA since 1996, is born in Kensington, Cape Town.
Address by President Nelson Mandela on the anniversary of the SOWETO Uprising on 16 June 1976 16 June 1994
Master of Ceremonies Honourable Ministers of the Government of National Unity Honourable Provincial Premiers and cabinet members Leaders of political…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of 1956 Women’s March: Union Buildings, Tshwane, 9 August 2006
Programme Directors, Ntombazana Botha and Barbara Creecy, Deputy President of the Republic of South Africa, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Your Excellency, Vice…
BiographyAbdullah Ibrahim
South African musician, Abdullah Ibrahim was born on the 9 October 1934 in Cape Town, South Africa. Born Adolph Johannes Brand, he converted to Islam in 1968…
BiographyChristiaan Neethling Barnard
Professor Chris Barnard led the team which performed the first human-to-human heart transplantation operation at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town. The son of…
BiographyKay Hassan
Kay Hassan was born in the Johannesburg township of Alexandra in 1956. His mother brewed traditional beer at a shebeen, defying apartheid laws and repeated…
BiographyCharles Nupen
Charles Nupen was born on 19 June 1950 in Durban. After starting a medical degree at the University of Natal, he switched to studying for a Bachelor of Arts…
BiographyHotep Idris Galeta
‘Cecil Galeta’ was born on 7 June 1941 and grew up in Cape Town, South Africa. However, he was more commonly known as Cecil Barnard; Barnard was his father's…