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Sir Thomas Cullinan (74), founder of the Premier Mine where the Cullinan diamond was discovered in 1907, dies.
The President of the Senate, Marais Viljoen, opening the 1976 Session of the Coloured Persons’ Representative Council, announce
Ray Alexander Simons, Interviewed by Steven Robins and Immanuel Suttner, 20 July 1993 and January 1996, Cape Town
Prof. Benedictus Kok, rector (1967) and chancellor (1976) of the University of the Orange Free State, is born.
Mission Stations - A-F
… number are now out hunting". BETHAL , Transvaal: DRCSAT 1906 BETHAL , Cape: see BETHEL , Stutterheim, Cape BETHANEEN … , also spelt BETHANIE , Rustenburg,…
BiographyLawrence Nkosi
Lawrence Nkosi was born in 1910. He was a factory worker and active trade unionist by the 1950s. In 1955 the Congress of the People and the drawing up of the…
ArchiveReport on Conditions Prevailing in the Winterveld- A Summary of a Series of Articles Prepared for the Pretoria News by Neil Jacobsohn Presented at National Conference 1976
Report on Conditions Prevailing in the Winterveld- A Summary of a Series of Articles Prepared for the Pretoria News by Neil Jacobsohn Presented at National…
BiographyFred Khumalo
Fred Khumalo was born on 4 August 1966 in Chesterville, Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), and grew up in Mpumalanga Township close to the industrial area of…
ArchiveVerdict Brought by Dr Wendy Orr and 43 Others Restraining the Police from Assaulting Detainees in Port Elizabeth Prisons: Report Presented at National Conference 1986
Verdict Brought by Dr Wendy Orr and 43 Others Restraining the Police from Assaulting Detainees in Port Elizabeth Prisons: Report Presented at National…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on the occasion of the president’s budget debate in the National Assembly 20 June 1996
Madame Speaker; Honourable Members; Ladies and Gentlemen. Tomorrow parliament rises for the winter recess. I am certain we will all agree that we have…
BiographyPitness (Stalwart) H. Simelane
Pitness Simelane was born in 1910. He was a leader of the African National Congress in Natal in the 1950s. As a teacher in the 1930s he helped establish high…
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…
BiographyNthato Harrison Motlana
Black business pioneer, community leader, altruistic medical practitioner, involved in several education initiatives, former secretary-general of the ANC Youth…
ArticlePass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
… in the Transvaal, led by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi , in 1906. This campaign was over, amongst other things, the …
BiographyGeorge Gangen Ponnen
Gangen George Ponnen was born on 1 June 1913 in the district of Rooikopjes near Durban, in the then Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). His father Ponnen, born in…
BiographySunny Girja Singh
Sunny Girja Singh was born in Cato Manor (uMkhumbane), Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), in 1939 to a working-class family. His father, Girjabaksh, came to…
EventSelf government is granted to the Transvaal
… government in Britain by the Liberal administration in 1906. Transvaal was followed by the Orange River Colony in …
BiographyPeter Becker
Peter Loubser Were Becker was born in Rivonia South Africa the youngest of the three sons of Harold Paley Becker and his wife, Anna Petronella Louw. Becker's…
BiographyEllen Phyllis Hellman
Ellen Hellmann was born in Johannesburg, South Africa on August 25, 1908. She was the daughter of Bernard Kaumheimer, who emigrated to South Africa from…
BiographyGünther Komnick
Günther Komnick was born in Insterburg in the former German province of East Prussia in 1929 into a cultured family of artists. He lived through the monumental…
BiographyIrma Stern
Irma Stern was born in 1894 in Schweizer-Reneke, Transvaal. She studied in Weimar and Berlin and had her inaugural exhibition in Berlin in 1919. On her return…
BiographyBonisile John Kani
Bonisile John Kani was born on 30 August 1943 in New Brighton, Port Elizabeth. He matriculated from Newell High School where he performed in numerous school…
BiographyEsther Barsel
Born in Raguva, Lithuania on 17 October 1924, Esther Barsel (nee Levin) came to South Africa in 1927 when she was three years old. She and her mother followed…
BiographyAshley James Kriel
Ashley Kriel was born on the 17 October 1966 to Ivy and Melvin Kriel. He has two sisters, Michel Assure and Melaney Adams. He grew up in Bonteheuwel, Cape Town…
ArchiveMinutes of the 42nd Annual Student Assembly of the National Union of South African Students, University of Natal, Durban, 3rd-14th July, 1966
Minutes of the 42nd Annual Student Assembly of the National Union of South African Students, University of Natal, Durban. 3rd-14th July, 1966. Includes…
BiographyBuyisile Patient (Billy) Mandindi
Buyisile Patient (Billy) Mandindi was born on 24 February 1967 in Guguletu, Cape Town. He completed a full-time diploma course in Fine Art at the Community…
BiographyMalusi Nkanyezi Gigaba
Malusi Nkanyezi Gigaba was born on 30 August 1971 at Eshowe, KwaZulu Natal. Gigaba is the second born to Reverend Jabulani Gigaba and Nomthandazo Gigaba. He…
ArchivePolice station operations, 1986, South Africa: Confessions of a Guerrilla, Time, 17 November 1986
ArchivePolice station operations, 1986, The making of a traitor, by Sarah Sussens, The Sunday Star, 9 November 1986
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