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Address by President Nelson Mandela to the interfaith commissioning service for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Cape Town, 13 February 1996
The Right Honourable Rev. Desmond Tutu, Chairperson of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Members of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission; …
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at the unveiling of the monument to Enoch Sontonga on heritage day Johannesburg, 23 September 1996
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at the banquet in honour of the Prime Minister of Norway Cape Town, 12 February 1996
Speech delivered by President Nelson Mandela at the launch of the Chris Hani Memorial Water Supply Scheme Project Sabalele, 9 April 1996
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at the state banquet in honour of Queen Margrethe of Denmark Cape Town, 20 February 1996
Gill Marcus, manager of Spoornet, former deputy governor of the SA Reserve Bank and deputy minister of Finance (1996-1999), is
(Sidney) Robey Leibbrandt, SA Olympic boxer in 1936 who was later condemned to death (but reprieved) because of his Nazi sympat
The first person to be banned under the 1976 Internal Security Act, Fatima Meer, is banned again for a further five years.
Anglo-Boer War 2: Steinaecker’s corps’ prisoners taken on 21-07-1901 at Bremersdorp by Boer General Tobias Smuts, are tried and
The Waratah, passenger ship that disappeared mysteriously in 1909 with 211 passengers on board, leaves Durban on her way to Cap
Sonarand video images of the SS Waratah, that disappeared mysteriously in 1909 with 211 passengers on board on her voyage from
Lord Robert Stephenson Baden-Powell, British hero during the siege of Mafeking (1900) and founder of the Boy Scout movement in
Document 69 - We Must Learn New Methods of Work”, Congress Voice, issued by the Emergency Committee of the A.N.C., 2, 2, May 1960
Fidel Castro, president of Cuba since 1976 who authorised the intervention of Cuban troops in the Angolan Civil War, is born.
Balthazar Johannes Vorster, Prime Minister of South Africa and leader of the National Party from 1966 to 1978 and State Preside
The UN ban on Rhodesian import and export, introduced on 16 December 1966, is expanded to include all trade with Rhodesia.
South Africa concedes that almost two million Black people have been relocated since 1960, but maintains that only 456,860 were
Israel Isaac (Lippy) Lipshitz, SA sculptor is born in Plungian, Lithuania. His father emigrated to SA in 1904 and was joined
Balthazar Johannes (John) Vorster, premier (1966-1978) and state president (1978-1979) of SA, is born in the district of Jamest
Daniel Ferdinand (Danie) Bosman, pioneer and composer of light Afrikaans music, is born. He died on 27 May 1946, in Muizenberg,
Bosman de Ravelli (Jan Gysbert Hugo Bosman), concert pianist and composer of the first Afrikaans art song in 1908, is born. H
BiographyMargaret Gazo
Margaret Gazo was born on 1 January 1918. She was one of the organisers of the Women's March to the Union Buildings. The women were protesting against the…
BiographyJune Rose Nala
June Rose Nala was born in Durban, Natal. She graduated from the Workers College at Ruskin College, Oxford. Before becoming active in the Natal trade union…
BiographyFrederick John Harris
Frederick John Harris was born in 4th of July in 1937. He was a teacher, a member of the executive committee of the Liberal Party In 1962 in the Transvaal, as…
ArchivePolice station operations, 1986, Judge: Abundantly clear Marion Sprag is guilty, Citizen, 4 November 1986
Erick Mabaso
He was a student revolt casualty of 1976.
BiographyBenjamin Magson Kies
Benjamin Magson Kies Introduction Benjamin Magson Kies was an important South African political activist and theorist from about the middle of the 1930s…
BiographyJustice Sfiso Mkame
Justice Sfiso (called Sfiso) Mkame was born on 3 May 1963 in Durban. As a child Mkame drew on sand walls. In Standard 1 he did handicrafts and drawing at…
BiographyMafabela Jacob Mafobela
Mafabela Jacob Mafobela was a victim of the 1960 Sharpeville killings
BiographyLevi Mabe
Levi Mabe was one of the six, alongside Jeremiah Mabe, accused of various offences arising from conflict in Mabieskraal (Pilansberg), Rustenburg District,…