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BiographyElijah Nkwenkwe Loza
Elijah Nkwenkwe Loza was born in 1918 near Alice in the Ciskie,where his father was tribal headman.After completing secondary education, he went to Cape Town…
BiographyThomas Titus Nkobi
Thomas Titus Nkobi was born in 1922, the son of a taxi driver, he grew up in Johannesburg. Member of the national executive committee of the African National…
BiographyDr. Phuthuma Seoka
Dr Phuthuma (also documented as Phutuma and Phatuma) Seoka was born in 1922 in Modjadji near Duiwelskloof, Lebowa. Seoka left school in Standard VI and spent…
BiographySelby Themba Ngendane
Selby Themba Ngendane was born about 1929 in the Eastern Cape and attended Fort Hare, where he was active in the African National Congress Youth League during…
BiographyCecil Sols
Cecil Sols worked as a freelance photographer with a collective of social documentary photographers in the 1980s to early 1990s, helping to expose the…
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 …
PlaceWinterton, Kwa Zulu-Natal
… of farming in the Area, including a unique Gallery of San paintings. And the Drakensberg Boys’ Choir, based in the … but well worth a visit for its insight…
BiographyPixie Benjamin
Pixie Benjamin was a strong anti-apartheid political activist and prisoner banned from South Africa during Apartheid. She endured harsh punishment under…
EventUN Special Committee on Apartheid urges a boycott of all SA racist sporting organizations
The United Nations Special Committee on Apartheid urged a boycott of all South African racist sporting organizations and supported the African bloc’s proposal…
EventSA Prime Minister, B.J. Vorster reveals that SA scientists have succeeded in developing a new process for uranium enrichment
The Prime Minister, Balthazar Johannes Vorster announced in the House of Assembly in Cape Town that South African scientists have succeeded in developing a new…
EventSA to be admitted to the African Games provided that competitions in SA are held without racial discrimination.
The Secretary-General of the Supreme African Sports Council, Jean-Claude Ganga, said he would admit white South Africans to the African Games provided that…
EventHealth officials launch an intensive campaign to find the origins of an outbreak of Ebola fever in Uganda.
Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever (EHF) is a serious and aggressive disease characterised by severe flu-like symptoms, vomiting, diarrhoea, headaches, haemorrhaging and…
Health officials launch an intensive effort to find the origins of an outbreak of Ebola fever in Uganda.
C. Louis Leipoldt (66), SA author, poet, physician and connoisseur of the SA culinary art, dies in Cape Town.
C. Louis Leipoldt (66), SA author, poet, physician and connoisseur of the SA culinary art, dies in Cape Town.
Warring factions in Rwanda agree to form an interim government in an effort to halt bloodletting in Kigali.
EventSADF’s 31 Battallion is disbanded
… Province. This Battalion was composed primarily of the San (Bushmen) battalion who had been deployed in South …
ArchiveInventaries van stukke gevind en op beslag gele deur Luitenant J. I. De Waal op 1977-10-19 in the Kantoor van die South African Students movement te Lekton Huis Nr 505, Wandererstraat 5, Johannesburg
An inventory of items found in the offices of the "South African Students Movement" and submitted as evidence by Lieutenant J L De Waal on 1977-10-19.
Speech by President Nelson Mandela on being awarded an honorary doctorate by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Speech by President Nelson Mandela on being awarded an honorary doctorate by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
BiographyFrances Herman Gow
Frances Herman Gow was born in 1887 in Cape Town, the son of a Coloured mother and an Afro-American father. He was educated in America and became a Bishop of…
BiographyLucas Seage
Lucas Seage was born on 02 November 1956 in Newclare, Johannesburg. Seage attended Barolong High School in Gaborone, Botswana and then Damelin College in…
BiographyShaun Maclean Pollock
Shaun Pollock was born on 16 July 1973 in Port Elizabeth and moved to Durban at the age of five. Born to a cricketing family, his father Peter and Uncle Graeme…
BiographyThabiso Johannes Thelejane
Thabiso Johannes Thelejane (55) was from Pabellong, Matatiele in the Eastern Cape. He began working for Lonmin in October 2011. On 16 August 2012 Mr Thelejane…
BiographyDJ Ready D (Deon Daniels)
Deon T Daniels aka DJ Ready D, was born in District Six, Cape Town on 11 December 1968, before the residents there were forcibly removed. Ready D and his…
BiographySir George Grey
George Grey was the only son of Lieutenant-Colonel Grey of the 30th Foot. His father was killed at the sack of Badajoz in the Peninsula War, eight days before…
BiographyGeorge Hallett
George Hallett was born in 1942 District Six, Cape Town. He then moved to Hout Bay, Cape Town to live with his grandparents. Thereafter he moved to live in…
BiographyAdvocate Israel “Isie” Aaron Maisels
Advocate Israel “Isie” Aaron Maisels was born on 19 November 1905 in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng), South Africa. His father, Henry Maisels, had come…
BiographyArthur Albert Hugh Adams
Albert Adams was born At the Crown Gold Mine near Johannesburg on 23 June 1929. Adams was a child of Indian and Cape Coloured parents. His father had emigrated…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 3 - Politics and Consciousness in Cape Town Communities, 1980-1985 by Sean Field
From the book: Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid commissioned by The Department of Education Anti-dangerous work. This organisation happened in the…