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ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1960-1969
Indian South Africans Timeline: 1960-1969 1960 19 February, Dr Monty Naicker called for strength in resistance, citing the example of Patrice Lumumba of…
BiographyRaymond Basil van Staden
Raymond Basil van Staden was born on 27 January 1961 at the coastal town of Amanzimtoti in KwaZulu-Natal. He studied Security Management, Forensic…
Aaron Khoza
Mr Aaron Khoza,aged 35,from Kagiso was detained on 9 December 1976 in Krugersdorp in terms of section 6(1) of the Terrorism Act. He was transferred to…
Ntombikayise Priscilla Ngocobo (née Khubeka)
Ntombikayise Priscilla Ngocobo (née Khubeka) lived in KwaMashu, a township to the north of Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) and was affiliated with the…
BiographyShapurji Jivanji Randeria
Shapurji Jivanji Randeria was born at Rander in the Surat district in India in 1880. He arrived in South Africa in 1900. He had passed the senior book-keeping…
BiographyGilbert Hani
Gilbert Hani and Jacob Mpemba,prominent ANC [African National Congress] leaders and strong opponents of Kaizer Matanzima and the Bantustan policy, were…
BiographySolomon David Lion
Solomon David Lion’s father, Edward Lion, was expelled from Basutoland to the Union after his religious sect was banned. The Sechaba-sa-Batung community…
BiographyNancy Graham Dick
Nancy Dick was born in Durban, South Africa and was brought up in Cape Town. She was one of four daughters. Her father was a proponent of the Cape liberal…
PlaceGouda, Cape Winelands
… Farms in the District. Gouda has found itself back on the map by erecting, forty-six 3 MW Acciona Wind power Turbines. …
ArticleA History of South African Literature, timeline 1824-2005
… to worldwide fame. The novel put South Africa on the map of international politics by making visible to Western …
BiographyMargaret Roach Killie Campbell
Margaret Roach Campbell (Killie Campbell) was born at Mount Edgecombe on 9 September 1881, the second of four children of the Natal senator and sugar magnate,…
BiographyMolly Fischer
Susanna Johanna Fischer (nee Krige) was born on the 23rd of February, 1908 on the family’s smallholding in Silverton, near Pretoria. Her father, P.S. ‘Tottie’…
BiographyFort Calata
Fort Calata was born on 5 November 1956. Fort’s grandfather, the Reverend Canon James Arthur Calata, was the Secretary General of the African National Congress…
BiographyDavid Hemson
David Hemson was born on 18 July 1945 in Durban, Natal. His father was a serviceman and by default Hemson was granted British citizenship. Hemson grew up in a…
BiographyNjabulo Simakahle Ndebele
Njabulo Simakahle Ndebele was born on 4 July 1948 in Johannesburg to Nimrod Njabulo Ndebele and Makhosazana Regina Tshabangu. Ndebele completed his matric at…
BiographyWilliam Cock
In 1849, Cape Town lived up to its reputation for giving visiting vessels a rousing reception. But this was a reception with a difference; it was in fact a…
ArchiveSA Air Force operation, Keep out of it or our planes will hit back, by Chris Olckers and Jose Caetano, Rand Daily Mail, 24 May 1983
"We are of the World and the World is with Us": Address on Receiving the Degree of Doctor of Laws Honoris Causa from the Jawaharlal Nehru University by O. R. Tambo , New Delhi, 9 May 1986
ArchiveReview of Kora: A lost Khoisan language of the early Cape and the Gariep (Unisa Press), by June Bam-Hutchison (Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town)
There have always been general assumptions that the KhoeSan people (‘Khoe’ is the correct spelling) are extinct and that their languages at the Cape died out…
BiographyJohn Thomas Baines
SA Painter John Thomas Baines was born on 27 November 1820 in King’s Lynn, Norfolk, England (often reffered to as Thomas Baines). His father was a master…
BiographyChief Maqoma
"Without question Maqoma was the most renowned Xhosa chief in South Africa's 19th-century frontier wars.Born in 1798, he was the Right Hand Son of Ngqika, King…
BiographyEdward Clark Churchill Mace
Edward Clark Churchill Mace was born in Leicester, England, 1863. He emigrated to Australia when he was eighteen and made a fortune from mining. Rendered…
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…
BiographyClements Kadalie
Clements Kadalie was born in April 1896 in Nkhata Bay District at Chifira village near the Bandawe Mission Station in Nyasaland, presently Malawi. He was the…
BiographyLeo Rbc Francois
Leo Francois Rbc was born in Chemnitz, Germany, 1870. Francois, a long serving President of the NSA, was a protagonist with SASA in his quest to unite the…
BiographyDr Nomava Eslinah Shangase
Nomava Eslinah Shangase was born in Pondoland on 9 May 1931. Shangase qualified as a nurse at King Edward Hospital in Durban. As a nurse, in South Africa, she…
BiographyLennox Sebe
Lennox Sebe was born on 26 June 1926. He completed his matric at the Lovedale College. Upon his completion he went to attend a teachers college. Sebe had a…
BiographySifiso Nkabinde
Sifiso Nkabinde was born in 1960 in Richmond, KwaZulu-Natal. His father was a policeman and a local chairman of Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP). Nkabinde attend…
BiographyFezekile Ntsukela Kuzwayo (Khwezi)
There's still much not known publicly about Fezekile Kuzwayo. Unfortunately, the event that she is best known for is the Jacob Zuma rape case. It is from the…
BiographyPhilemon Masinga
Philemon Masinga or ‘Chippa’ as he is affectionately known by thousands of soccer lovers was born on 28 June 1969 in Klerksdorp, Western Transvaal (North-West…