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Christoffel (Stoffel) van der Merwe, former South African minister of Education, is born.
Minutes: Vergadering van die AG-Werkgroep op 19 en 20 Maart, 1987, Kaapstad
Minutes, written in Afrikaans, of a meeting of the AG-Workgroup held in Cape Town.
ArchiveRavan Worker Series: The Sun Shall Rise for the Workers (Ilanga Lizophumelo Abasebenzi).
ArchiveWat kom na apartheid? UOVS verdedig vryheid van spraak (Article written in Afrikaans)
The United Nations Secretary-General, Dag Hammarskjold, visits South Africa from 6-12 Jan.
EventDaisy de Melker is hung for poisoning her two husbands and her son.
Daisy De Melker was a nurse believed to marry men, only to kill them for financial gain. She married three times and killed two of her husbands and her son…
Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr de Waal, advocate, politician and author, is born in Stellenbosch.
The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa: Chapter Two - By Riashnee Pather
From the book: The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa - by Riashnee Pather Chapter Two For many the 1940's have been…
EventFormer City Press Editor Mathata Tsedu's son is found burnt beyond recognition in the boot of his car
The remains of Avhatakali Netshusaulu, accountant and son of the former City Press editor Mathata Tsedu, were found in the boot of his car after he had been…
BiographyFani Mkhize
Fanio (also documented as Fanozi and called Chicken Man) Mkize was born in 1950. When Mkize was retrenched from Clover Dairies he earned a living dealing in…
BiographyBishop Mmutlanyane Stanley Mogoba
Stanley Mmutlanyane Mogoba was born on 29 March 1933 outside Polokwane, Limpopo. He was the last born in a family of six. His father Reuben Tshomoko Sethulane…
BiographyJames Kantor
James Kantor was born on 26 February 1927 in Johannesburg to Abraham Kantor, a lawyer and Pauline ‘Polly’ (Braude) Kantor. James Kantor was one of Johannesburg…
Zoltan Borbereki-Kovaks, S.A artist, is born in Ronaszek, Hungary. He settled in SA in 1950.
ArticleColonial history of Bloemfontein
… of permanent water sources, was the hunting grounds of the San at the beginning of the 19th century. However, other … permanent water sources, was the…
BiographyDr. Frene Noshir Ginwala
Dr Frene Noshir Ginwala was born on 25 April 1932 in Johannesburg in what was then the Province of the Transvaal (now Gauteng Province). Her politics would be…
BiographyRick Turner
Rick Turner [Richard Albert David Turner] was a charismatic political philosopher and theorist who was also an activist and educationist. He was highly…
BiographyHoward S. Ngcobo
Howard S. Ngcobo was born in 1923 in Natal, he studied law for one year at the University of Natal and by correspondence with the University of London. He…
BiographyJulius Tokoti Mangcotywa
Julius Tokoti Mangcotywa (61) was from Sterkspruit in the Eastern Cape. He began working for Lonmin around 2008. On 16 August 2012 he was killed at scene 2…
BiographyJaneveke Raphael Liau
Janeveke Raphael Liau (47) was from Likolobeng Ha Monyane, Maseru in Lesotho. He started working for Lonmin in 2003. On 16 August 2012 Janeveke was killed at…
Yusaf Ahmed Cachalia
Born in 1915 and restricted to Johannesburg by the apartheid government. A leading figure in the South African Indian Congress in the 1940s and 1950s; he was…
ArchiveAn African woman: unite in a common ideal: the total liberation of Africa
Cream, orange and black poster. Title in three languages. Artwork of women, holding guns, over a map of Africa. Pan-African Women's Organisation, Luanda,…
Digging deeper into our history by Nicole Mccain (News24), 13 September 2016
… 12 000 items, ranging from leather clothing worn by the San thousands of years ago, colonial dresses and shoes, and … 12 000 items, ranging from leather…
ArchivePE pioneers sea farming in SA 1987 - 1991
ArchiveSA losses le to talk - Castro 1988 -1989
ArchiveSA troops capture latest Red weapons 1984
ArchiveSanctions out 'in spite of SA raids' 1981 - 1982
ArchiveAngola in protest to UN on SA 'incursions' 1977 - 1980
EventDjibouti and Cote d' Ivore strengthen diplomatic ties with SA
Following a visit to Nigeria by the state president, F.W. de Klerk, and his foreign minister Roelof "Pik" Botha a number of other African countries announced…
EventP.W. Botha becomes SA's first Executive President
South Africa's Prime Minister since 1978, P.W. Botha, was unanimously elected by eighty-eight members of the Electoral College to the office of first executive…
EventSA's first official commercial airline service is launched
Major Allister Mackintosh Miller secured a government subsidy and introduced the first official commercial air service in South Africa under the name of Union…