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Archive’Forget About Forgetting about Our Demands’ Say Women Teachers by SPEAK, 1990 – 1994, Johannesburg
General Jan Smuts leaves Cape Town for London to attend the world economic conference.
Jonkheer Gerard Beelaerts van Blokland arrives from the Netherlands in Simonstown as solicitor-general.
Willem Adriaan van der Stel, governor at the Cape, is recalled to the Netherlands.
Jonkheer Gerard Beelaerts van Blokland arrives from the Netherlands in Simonstown as solicitor-general.
Willem Adriaan van der Stel, governor at the Cape, is recalled to the Netherlands.
Jan Gysbert Hugo Bosman (85), composer of the first Afrikaans lieder (art songs), dies.
Sam Shaffishuna Nujoma, first president of Namibia, is born in Ongandjera, South West Africa.
The Van Riebeeck school hostel, built by the Afrikaans community in Kenya, is inaugurated.
Former Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith is suspended from Zimbabwe’s parliament for one year.
The African National Congress and the Pan-Africanist Congress is banned in South Africa.
Ian Smith announces that he is ready to yield to majority rule in Rhodesia.
Britain calls for United Nations sanctions against rebellious Rhodesia, including ban on oil shipments.
ArchiveLearn with Dawn - you too, countryman can be a freedom fighter: sabotage of railway systems
WW1: Gen. Jan Smuts is appointed commander of the Allied forces in East Africa.
Daniël Hermanus (Dan) Pienaar is appointed to command the First South African Infantry Brigade.
General Johan van der Merwe resigns as Police Commissioner. General George Fivaz succeeds him.
The KWV (Koöperatiewe Wijnbouwers Vereniging van Zuid-Afrika)is founded in Paarl, Western Cape.
EventWalter Sisulu secretly attends a meeting at the house of George Xorile with F. Van Rensburg
On 11 January 1963, African National Congress (ANC) member, Walter Sisulu attended a secret meeting at the house of George Xarile together with F. Van Rensburg…
BiographyDr. Hans Merensky
Dr Hans Merensky was born on 16 March 1871 in Botshabelo. His father was the famous missionary and writer, Alexander Merensky. Hans studied geology and mine…
BiographyRobert Hodgins
"For me, it is very simple. The act of painting at a particular moment is able, for reasons I neither understands, nor even try to understand, to open up the…
BiographyThelma Gutsche
Thelma Gutsche was born in 1915 in Somerset West, Cape Province to Dr. And Mrs. J Gutsche. Gutsche did not attend formal schooling but received private…
BiographyVera Gow (Adams)
Vera Gow was born on 14 February 1942 in Cape Town. Her primary school years were spent near Evaton in the Free State Province where her father was Dean of the…
BiographyMary Eveline Fincken
Mary Eveline Fincken was born on 27 April 1882 in Hoyland, Yorkshire, England. She was the eldest daughter of Christopher William Fincken and his wife. She was…
BiographyNgoako David Thebehali
David Thebehali was born on 3 June 1938 in Orlando East, Soweto. His parents were among the earliest residents of Soweto. From 1945 to 1952 he was a pupil at…
BiographyRita Alice Ndzanga
Rita Ndzanga was born on 17 October 1933, the third child of Isaac and Alina More in a village called Mogopa near Ventersdorp, western Transvaal (now North…
BiographyMichiel Hendrik Nesser
Michiel Hendrik Nesser was born on 28 July 1874 in Lusaskop, Philipstown. He received informal teaching from his father. Nesser was a great reader and his…
BiographyJackson Lehupa
Jackson Lehupa (48) was from Mount Fletcher in the Eastern Cape. He began working for Lonmin around 2007. On 16 August 2012 Mr Lehupa was killed at scene 1,…
BiographyPatrick Mosell Molaoa
Born in Johannesburg in 1925, he grew up in Alexandra Township and attended schools in Basutoland, Johannesburg, and Kimberley until matriculation. He was one…
PlaceBerg River
… He was sent by Governor Jan Van Riebeeck to trade with the San for meat. Mr. Gabbema named the river The “Groot Berg …