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PlaceOudtshoorn, Western Cape
… environment. It was once the indigenous Home of the Koi-San people and the rock paintings on the walls of the Caves …
PlaceAmikoob, a Plain in the Willomore Area; (Vogelstruisleegte)
… people who roam the Karoo, are the descendants of the San (Bushman) and Khoi who are Ancient People who roamed …
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…
PlaceKwaxolo Cave Adventures, South Coast
… taken on a journey back in time as they view the ancient San rock art that depicts the area’s rich cultural heritage . … South Coast, were once open-rock…
BiographyJeremiah Baden Leeuw
Jeremiah Baden Leeuw was born in 1932. Originally a member of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL), Leeuw was one of the group of Africanists…
BiographyDebi Singh
He was born in 1913 and became a teacher and later a farmer near Durban. As secretary of the Anti-Segregation Council in the mid-1940s he was instrumental in…
BiographyValliamma Munuswamy Mudaliar
The participation of women passive resisters was a key element of the Satyagraha Campaign of 1913 - 1914. Angered by the Supreme Court judgement in March 1913,…
BiographyPumzile Sokanyile
Pumzile Sokanyile (48) was from Mdumazulu Location, Ngqeleni in the Eastern Cape. He started working for Lonmin in 2001. On 13 August 2012 Mr Sokanyile was…
BiographyThembelakhe Mati
Thembelakhe Mati (50) was from Ntabankhulu in the Eastern Cape. On 13 August 2012 Mr Mati was killed after he was shot in the leg. Initially the state…
Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert: Former Leader of the Opposition in the Whites-Only Parliament, and co-founder of Idasa interviewed by Rupert Taylor and Adam Habib, 24 March 1998, Johannesburg
Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert 24/3/98, Johannesburg Former Leader of the Opposition in the Whites-Only Parliament, and co-founder of Idasa interviewed by…
PlaceTsitsikamma National Park, Eastern Cape
… to a variety of animal and bird life. The original Khoi San people traversed the Coastline in harmony with nature – …
Document 4 - ‘Our Annual Conference - An Inspiring Gathering’: report in the ‘South African Worker’
Dear Prime Minister, YOUR people more than any other section of the white community must surely know in the very core of their beings, if they were unaware…
BiographyMuntu Myeza
Muntu Myeza was born on 3 December 1950 to Jacob and Julia Myeza in Natal where he also did his early education. Myeza attended part of his senior high school…
BiographyElsie Nair
Elsie Nair (nee Goldstone) was born in Newcastle, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) in 1927. After completing her primary school education, she joined her mother who…
PlaceuKhahlamba Drakensberg Park
… of paintings in Africa South of the Sahara , made by the San people over a period of 4,000 years. The rock paintings … and human beings. They represent the…
BiographyZwelinzima Joseph Vavi
Zwelinzima Joseph Vavi was born on 20 December 1962 on a farm in Hanover, Northern Cape. His father was a mineworker. Vavi has four brothers and seven sisters…
BiographyJob Shimankana Tabane
Job Shimankana Tabane (largely known as Cassius Make, his alias name) was born in Maile village (Diepkuil) just outside Rustenburg on 6 December 1942. Tabane…
BiographyAlan Keith Brooks
Alan Keith Brooks was born on 18 May 1940 in Bristol, United Kingdom. His father was a doctor by profession. His family moved to Southern Rhodesia (now…
BiographyDiana Ferrus
Internationally renowned South African poet, writer, and activist for marginalised groups, Diana Ferrus, was born on 29 August 1953 in Worcester, Cape Province…
BiographyBaldwin ‘Ben’ Sipho Ngubane
Dr Baldwin ‘Ben’ Sipho Ngubane was born on 22 October 1941 at the Inchanga Roman Catholic Mission in Camperdown, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal - KZN). He…
EventPatrice Emery Lumumba, first Prime Minister of an independent Congo, is born
A member of the Tetela ethnic group, Patrice Emery Lumumba was born in the Katakokombe region of the Kasai Province of Belgian Congo. Lumuba became involved in…
ArchiveAn Interview With F.W. De Klerk, the Last Apartheid President of South Africa by Nicolas Rossier
21 years ago, leading anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela was released by South African President F.W. de Klerk after spending 27 years in prison. His…
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