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EventTielman Roos dies after a long illness
… a long struggle against ill health. He was instrumental in the formation of the Pact Government in 1924 and in South Africa's withdrawal from the gold…
EventProf. Sibusiso Emmanuel Bengu is born
… The first national minister of education in South Africa's Government of National Unity (GNU), Prof. Sibusiso Mandlenkosi Emmanuel Bengu was born in Kranskop…
EventRaymond Arthur Dart is born
… Anthropologist, Professor Raymond Arthur Dart, is born in Brisbane, Australia. Raymond Dart discovered the Taung Child skull fossil near Taung in North West,…
EventAndries Pretorius, Pretoria founder reburied
… Andries Pretorius after whom Pretoria was named, died in 1853 at his Magaliesburg home. His body was later exhumed and reburied at Heroes' Acre in Pretoria…
ArchiveBuilders of the nation: 5: South Africas fir
… of original Food and Canning Workers Union formed in 1941 in Cape Town. Photographs and history of artisans in South Africa. Artwork of the new South African…
PlaceOld Post Office, Rissik Street, Johannesburg
… and the Rissik Street Post Office is one of them. Built in 1897, it’s among the city’s oldest surviving buildings and was named a national monument in 1978…
PlaceGouritsrivier, Near Mossel Bay
… Hieronimus Cruse, -who first crossed it from East to West in 1667 after he had gone by sea to Mossel Bay . Cruse found … of the coast by the Netherlanders…
Document 65 - Minutes of the meeting of the Workers’ Party of South Africa. Johannesburg Branch held at 90 President Street, Johannesburg, Friday, 24 July 1936 at 8 p.m.
… New International. Com Kahn reported on the Spartacus Club in the absence of the Secretary, Com Freislich. The next … Himself and Com Dladla after attending…
Document 95 - “Welcome The All-African National Convention! African National Convention Must Mark Beginning of National Liberation Movement”, South African Worker, 27 June 1936
… encroachment upon the oppressed African people, expressed in the anti-native laws passed during the recent session. It … movements, the imposition of poverty…
PlaceAdderley Street, Cape Town
… from the foreshore to the foot of Government Avenue . In 1850, its name was changed to Adderley Street in honour of Charles B Adderley, a British member of ……
An open letter from Desmond Tutu to Aung San Su Kyi, 7 September 2017
… profound sadness about the plight of the Muslim minority in your country, the Rohingya. In my heart you are a dearly beloved younger sister. For … for…
PlaceMbotyi, Eastern Cape
… the legendary Double Falls and Cathedral Rock. Mbotyi in Pondoland, on the Eastern Cape coastline, were is still wild! Situated in a wilderness area at the…
EventThe fall of the fortress town of Tobruk
… had allowed the defences of the town to deteriorate in that he had neglected to order maintenance of fortified … siege. By 20 June 1942 the Allied forces…
EventForces loyal to Zambian president Frederick Chiluba quash a coup by a handful of disgruntled military officers, arresting nine men including the captain who said an angel told him to overthrow the government
… In October 1997, the soldiers broke into an arms depot, … 9 A.M., a military commander announced on another station in the complex that the coup had been…
EventBheki Mlangeni, ANC human rights lawyer of Soweto, is killed by a walkman bomb meant for Dirk Coetzee.
… a lawyer working for the African National Congress (ANC) in the 1990s. He and former police Captain Dirk Coetzee had … commander of the unit before he left…
EventCheryl Carolus is born
… Former South African High Commissioner in London, political activist and Chief Executive Officer of Tourism South Africa, Cheryl Carolus, was born in…
EventPretoria receives city status
… achieved official city status. The city was established in 1855 by Marthinus Pretorius, a leader of the Voortrekkers … a hero of the Voortrekkers after he…
EventDavid Kitson released
… sabotage. Kitson, an engineer by profession, was sentenced in December 1964 for his part in the early sabotage campaigns; for furthering the aims of … her…
EventANC makes demands changes to facilitate democratic elections
… (NEC) presents five demands to be met during the year in order to facilitate South Africa's first democratic … elections. These are the resumption of…
EventChief Mhlabunzima Maphumulo is shot dead
… stalwart, Chief Mhlabunzima Maphumulo, was gunned down in the driveway of his home in Pietermaritzburg. Maphumulo was a chief from … the assassins were paid…
EventThe Ncome Museum is opened
… The Site is named after a nearby river known as Ncome in isiZulu and Bloedrivier in Afrikaans and witnessed a major confrontation between the … a re…
EventSouth Africa mandated to govern South
… League of Nations, the world body formed after World War 1 in 1919, afforded South Africa a mandate to govern South-West … the well-being and development of…
EventSouth African Police (SAP) is founded
… In 1913 the Police Bill and Defence Bill were both enacted … Resistance campaign erupted on the Witwatersrand and in Natal (kwaZulu Natal). The police force…
EventSouth African History Online goes live
… two years later. Since then SAHO has popularised history in South Africa and become the largest independent history education and research institute in the…
EventJoseph Engenas Lekganyane, founder of the Dove branch of the ZCC, is born
… Thabakgone Mamabolo, Pietersburg district (now Polokwane in Limpopo). Joseph was the fifth and favourate son of … and his advocate as his successor just…
EventJan van Riebeeck, the first Dutch governor of the Cape Colony, dies
… van Riebeeck died on 18 January 1677 at the age of 57 in Batavia, now Jakarta, Indonesia, in the former Dutch East Indies. He landed at the Cape in April…
PlaceAliwal North, Eastern Cape
… on the road to to East London. It was founded in 1849 and named by the Governor of the Cape Sir Henry … his victory over the Sikhs under Runjet Singh, at…
ArchiveThe State versus Nelson Mandela and others: extract of evidence from Govan Archibald Mbeki, Volume 28
… Extract of evidence from Govan Mbeki, in the Supreme Court of South Africa, before the Honourable Judge President Mr Justice De Wet, in the matter of the…
ArchiveThe State versus Nelson Mandela and others: extract of evidence from Lionel Bernstein, Volume 26
… Extract of evidence from Lionel Bernstein, in the Supreme Court of South Africa, before the Honourable Judge President Mr Justice De Wet, in the matter of…
ArchiveThe State versus Nelson Mandela and others: extract of evidence from Raymond Mhlabo, Volume 25
… Extract of evidence from Raymond Mhlabo, in the Supreme Court of South Africa, before the Honourable Judge President Mr Justice De Wet, in the matter of the…