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![Freddie Mercury [Bulsara], singer and songwriter, is born in Zanzibar, Africa.](/sites/default/files/styles/saho_medium/public/event_pics/Freddie%20Mercury.jpg?itok=Vuq6ADKe)
EventFreddie Mercury [Bulsara], singer and songwriter, is born in Zanzibar, Africa.
… just admitted to having the disease the day before. His death made him even more popular with Queen’s music sales sky …
EventEthnic violence in Rwandan capital Kigali is spreads throughout the country
… of the Tutsis. The genocide followed the day after the death of the Rwandan president, Juvénal Habyarimana. …
EventPhambili Ka Ntloko, national organiser of AZAPO, is born
… boycotts and burning of structures following Steve Biko’s death. Ntloko completed his Matric while in prison, and was …
No.46 - Steve Biko by Hilda Bernstein, 1978, South Africa
… The Life of Steve Biko III - Black Consciousness IV - The Death of Steve Biko V - The Funeral VI - The Inquest VIII - …
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 93th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2005
… to achieve such equality in all government decision-making bodies. The first possibility our movement will have to … include: Popularising ward committees,…
Chapter III - The world outside
… on individuals, black and white, leading to injuries and death, sometimes in a kind of mindless violence. In 1963, the … bubbling with laughter before his…
57. The Agreement does not touch the root of anti-Asiaticism
… Indian Council, the total membership of these constituent bodies put together [does not exceed] a handful of Indians …
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt on Ranjith Kally's 'Memory Against Forgetting', by Ranjith Kally with Kalim Rajab, 30 January 2015
… to Oliver Tambo in Maseru, contemplating the coffined bodies of the victims of a raid by the South African Defence …
57. The Agreement does not touch the root cause of anti-Asiaticism
… Indian Council, the total membership of these constituent bodies put together [does not exceed] a handful of Indians …
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Buitenkant Street, Cape Town
… was the "mother" of this Church. This lady, after the death of her parents, decided to honor their memory in an … their home. Miss Hertzog, died at the age…
PlacePaul Kruger’s House, 60 Church Street West, Pretoria
… His wife continued to live there however, until her death on 20 July 1901. After her death it was used by the British Military Police until 1904 …
BiographyKasturba Gandhi
… was in Sabarmati prison, Gandhi started a “fast unto death” to protest the newly proposed Indian constitution. It …
Group Areas Act and Its Effects on Indian People in Natal, May 1956 by Dr Gangathura Mohambry (Monty) Naicker
… the Nationalist Party, prior to their coming to power in 1948, throws some light on apartheid and the non-European … Sub-Committee appointed by Dr Donges 50 …
ArchiveChapter 12 Hangings by Denis Goldberg
… prison known as Beverley Hills, gallows’ humour for the death-cells. It was an awful place, with about 150 hangings a … every week. There were some of our…
PlaceQueenstown, now known as Komani.
… Center for surrounding Farmers and smaller Towns. After 1948, and the beginning of the Apartheid era , the District …
EventSACTU launches a national potato boycott.
… including one case in which a worker had been beaten to death in 1944. In support of these workers, the South African …
EventMaria Groesbeek is hanged for the murder of her husband, Christian Buys
… refusal to grant her a divorce. After being sentenced to death by hanging on November 1969, Groesbeek was executed on …
EventThe ‘Hospital and Lunatic Asylum’, the first civilian hospital in Cape Town, is opened
… in 1845, and practiced medicine in Wynberg until his death in 1864. …
EventBhambatha becomes chief
… people. Bhambatha succeeded to the throne after the death of his father and uncle, at the age of 25. He quickly …
EventDennis Brutus is born
… the South African Sports Hall of Fame. At the time of his death in 2009, he had published 14 books. He is regarded as …
Event”Unknown” White man is hanged in Pretoria
… the rape of a White woman, three Africans who were given death sentences for the murder of Mr. Emile Ugo Fanton on 25 …
EventJoseph Engenas Lekganyane, founder of the Dove branch of the ZCC, is born
… successor just before he died in 1972. After his father's death, Joseph claimed leadership of the church. The position …
PlaceInkamana High School, Vryheid
Situated in the heart of the Zululand, Inkamana High School was started February 2 in 1923 as an intermediate School with only one class of grade 5 by…
PlacePilanesberg International Airport, North West
Pilanesberg International Airport is a small Airport located in Pilanesberg, in the North West Province of South Africa. This Airport is located close to Sun…
Biography of Mandla Langa by Carol Sale
… his ignorance of finances. She feels responsible for his death because she was unable to stay with him, as he became a … the Road to the City," published in…
ArticleThe following is a list of 43 names of those killed in the stampede at a soccer match at Ellis Park stadium
… The 43 spectators were crushed to death when fans forced their way through gate four in the …
ArticleRemembering and Celebrating South Africa’s Iconic LGBTQI+ Women
… will “cure” her of her sexuality. Following Simelane’s death, her family worked with the University of KwaZulu-Natal … South Africa” (ISSA), which she…
ArticleFatima Meer Timeline 1928-2010
… protests after the Soweto student protests and the death of hundreds Fatima Meer worked closely with South … following a stroke she suffered two weeks before…
Enuga S Reddy: Notes on meeting with Dr. Cassim Jadwat -1997
… "The South Africans had to close the exhibit." In 1948, the United Nations General Assembly was meeting in …
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Glossary
… the decades following the National Party’s takeover in 1948 agent provocateur, pl. agents provocateur – a person …