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ArchiveAmandla!Maatla!: en film om sydafrikansk ungdom
Amandla! Maatla! : a film about South African Youth made in Sweden by Magnus Bergmar and Kjell Soderlund in 1984A colour poster, advertising the release of…
ArchiveAantaal lidmate niks om oor te kraai
ArchiveDie ekumeniese beweging - om die een heid
BiographyMzwakhe Mbatha
Mzwakhe Mbatha was born in 1935 near Umnini Holiday Camp, Natal. Mbatha left school in Standard II. As a young boy he carved utilitarian objects such as…
BiographyBenjamin Mzimkulu Macala
Benjamin Mzimkulu Macala was born on 21 April 1937 in Bloemfontein. As a young boy Macala tended cattle on a farm in the Orange Free State and passed the time…
Willem E. Bok (57), government commissioner after whom Boksburg was named, dies in Jeppestown, Johannesburg.
The ticking time bomb of Swaziland By Terry Bell, Cape Town 19 April 2015
Harry Dudley (Brom) Bromfield, SA cricket player in 9 tests, is born in Mossel Bay.
A car bomb explodes outside the Krugersdorp magistrate’s court, killing three people and wounding 22.
Brian Duddy (55), victim of the Planet Hollywood bomb attack, dies in Cape Town.
The Alabama, remembered in the Cape song ‘Daar kom die Alabama”, starts its voyages.
Twenty-three people are injured in a bomb blast in a Wimpy Bar in East London.
WWII: Battle of North Africa ends with German surrender of Cap Bon in Tunisia.
Mandela’s membership of the Communist Party: what needs to be reassessed by Tom Lodge
The evidence that Stephen Ellis refers to about Mandela’s membership of the Communist Party is pretty definitive. It is based upon recollections of party…
A general amnesty is announced for Mau Mau forest fighters in Kenya. africanhistory.about.com
Spanish troops are pushed out of Morocco by Abd el Krim. africanhistory.about.com
Robert Gabriel Mugabe narrowly misses a second assassination attempt when a bomb explodes behind his limo.
BiographyZamokwake Samuel Gumede
He was born at Langkloof, Bergville District. As a boy he modelled cattle in clay. He attended the Langkloof Higher Primary School from 1962 to 1969. In…
BiographyMary Maria Burton
Mary Burton was born on 19 January 1940 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. One of three children of Molly and Peter Ingouville, Burton and her family moved around in…
EventRight wing Wit Kommando bombs academic's office
The office of a member of Prime Minister P.W. Botha's team, responsible for drawing up plans for a Southern African Constellation of States, Professor Jan…
Khela Ngobese
Ngobese was born in 1960 in KwaMashu but he later moved to Cator Manor Township outside Durban in KwaZulu Natal. He attended the Dumani Lower Primary School…
BiographyDenise Darvall
Denise Darvall achieved renown when on 3 December 1967, she became the donor in the world’s first successful human heart transplant, performed by Professor…
BiographyPandelani Jeremia Nefolovhodwe
Pandelani Jeremia Nefolovhodwe was born on 2 February 1947 in Folovhodwe village in the Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo). Nefolovhodwe then went to the…
BiographyJudge Albert Louis “Albie” Sachs
Albert Louis Sachs was born in Johannesburg in 1935. His father, Emil Solomon (Solly) Sachs, had arrived in South Africa from Lithuania at the age of six, on…
BiographyBheki Myeni
Bheki Myeni was born on 10 October 1954 in Hlabisa, Natal. Myeni's parents died when he was a young boy and he and his brothers moved to Matyana, a village…
BiographyThemba Daniel Mbongwa
He was born at KwaNobamba (Weenan), KZN. As a boy he herded sheep, cattle and goats and while looking after these animals he used to construct cows, birds and…
BiographyCyril Matamela Ramaphosa
Cyril Matamela Ramaphosa was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) on 17 November 1952. He is the second of the three children of Erdmuth and Samuel…
ArchiveThe Moral Problem of Winnie Mandela by Paul Trewhela (Dailymaverick.com), 6 April 2018, South Africa
First published by Spotlight.Africa Winnie Madikizela Mandela was not a safe pair of hands. True, life was far easier, calmer and less frightening and…