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Anglo-Boer War 2: In Bethlehem, OFS, a Black man called Frans is tried by the British, found guilty, sentenced to death and h
… Anglo-Boer War 2: In Bethlehem, OFS, a Black man called Frans is tried by the …
Closure of more than seventy Black schools, mainly in the Cape Province, is ordered by the government following five months of
… Closure of more than seventy Black schools, mainly in the Cape Province, is ordered by the government following …
A consortium of Black investors takes over African Life from Southern Life at R160 million. (Beeld, 2 Feb 2004. Vandag in die o
… A consortium of Black investors takes over African Life from Southern Life at R160 million. (Beeld, 2 Feb 2004. Vandag in die o …
A new Black daily paper, promising to expose political ills, appears in Johannesburg. The Sowetan has the same format as the ba
… A new Black daily paper, promising to expose political ills, appears in Johannesburg. The Sowetan has the same format as the ba …
ArchiveLetter from Sipho Buthelezi, Secretary General of the Black Peoples Convention, to Clemens Kapuwo
… Letter from Sipho Buthelezi, Secretary General of the Black Peoples Convention, to Clemens Kapuwo, supporting the people of Namibia in their struggle ……
EventSA artist Ernest Methuen Mancoba is born
… South African artist Ernest Methuen Mancoba was born in Boksburg, Transvaal. He left for Paris to further his studies in 1938. Mancoba never returned to live…
EventSA sugar magnate Sir Hulett is born
… Natal planter, industrialist and politician, was born in England and came to South Africa in 1857 at the age of 19. Hulett pioneered the country's … sugar…
EventSA cartoonist, Daniel Cornelis Boonzaaier is born
… Daniël Cornelis Boonzaaier was born at Patatsrivier in the Cape Province in 1865. Boonzaaier became famous for his caricatures and political cartoons. He…
ArticleThe Ndebele in history
… more reliable of the two. Both Fourie and Van Warmelo are in agreement that, despite the fact that the Ndebele settled … while, at the same time, serving…
EventJohn Koenakeefe Mohl, SA artist is born
… of Artists Under The Sun, was born at Dinokana village in Lehurutshe, Western Transvaal (now North West Province). A break in Mohl’s career came when he was…
Black Renaissance Convention, St.Peters Conference Centre, Hammanskraal, 13th-16th December 1974
… to reconvene conferences that promote political rights for Black people in South Africa. … Black Renaissance Convention, St.Peters Conference Centre, …
ArchiveBlack Renaissance Convention, St.Peters Conference Centre, Hammanskraal, 13th-16th December 1974
… to reconvene conferences that promote political rights for Black people in South Africa. … Black Renaissance Convention, St.Peters Conference Centre, …
EventSA President Nelson Mandela to step down
… On 7 July 1996, in a television broadcast President Nelson Mandela confirmed … the rumours that he would not stand for re-election in 1999. This is in…
EventAnnesu de Vos, SA poet, is born.
… Annesu de Vos was born in Johannesburg on the 5 August 1964. She is well-known as the youngest published poet in South African literature history. When she…
EventSA withdraws from the International Labour Organisation
… In February 1964 the International Labour Organisation (ILO) voted in favour of the suspension of South Africa from its Annual … Africa declined to withdraw,…
EventSA artist, Daniel Sefundi Rakgoathe is born
… February 1937, Daniel (D an) Sefundi Rakgoathe was born in Randfontein in the then Transvaal province. Rakgoathe went on to be the first full-time student…
EventFormer SA Cricket Captain, Hansie Cronje, dies
… Cricket Captain, Hansie Cronje, died along with two pilots in a Hawker Siddeley 748 - 372 aircraft which crashed into the Outeniqua Mountains in the Southern…
EventPrime Minister opens SA's first atomic reactor
… for research and the production of isotopes, useful in several fields. Nuclear power would be used for peaceful … A secret project was begun by the Atomic…
ArchiveRepression Monitoring Group Final Report: Report Presented at the Black Sash National Conference 1992
… Monitoring Group Final Report: Report Presented at the Black Sash National Conference on 6 March 1992 discussing … deaths, regional trends, tribal and…
EventPrime Minister opens SA’s first atomic reactor
… for research and the production of isotopes, useful in several fields. Nuclear power would be used for peaceful … A secret project was begun by the Atomic…
EventMugabe is refused accommodation by 2 SA hotels
… The Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, who arrived in Pretoria for the 10th anniversary of a free South Africa … and the inauguration of President Thabo…
ArchiveThe Beginning of it all: Paper presented at the Black Sash National Conference 1966
… The Beginning of it all: Paper presented at the Black Sash National Conference at Cape Town on 18 October … Wilberforce, Samuel Johnson, origins of racial…
ArchiveViolence Now: Haphazard or Orchestrated?: Paper Presented at the Black Sash National Conference 1991
… Now: Haphazard or Orchestrated?: Paper Presented at the Black Sash National Conference on 2 March 1991 discussing … homelands, tribalism, detention and…
EventJohn Vorster says SA will welcome Maoris
… John Vorster said that South Africa would welcome Maoris in New Zealand rugby teams. The presence of Maoris, a … contrary to South Africa's policies of…
ArticleWomen’s Revolts in Natal: 1959
… think of the women who retaliated against the oppression in honour of their families and well-being. Colonialism and … year, leaving their families at home…
EventSA Prime Minister H. F. Verwoerd stabbed to death
… 1961, at the Rand Easter Show, where he was shot twice in the face. Verwoed was sitting at his desk in the House of Assembly when Tsafendas attacked him with…
EventIsmael Mahomed became first black judge appointed to the Supreme Court of South Africa
… Judge Ismael Mahomed became first black judge to be appointed to the Supreme Court of South … African government and liberation movements were engaged in…
EventSA sprinter Oscar Pistorius reaches the final
… speed and tenacity to surge from last to victory in a world record 23.42sec for double-amputees at the Athens … Paralympic experience. "I've never been so…
ArchiveProfile of a Death Row Prisoner: Paper Presented at the Black Sash National Conference 1989
… Profile of a Death Row Prisoner: Paper Presented at the Black Sash National Conference on 4 March 1989 discussing … of the Death Penalty, statistics of…
EventSA Corps of Military Police is reorganised
… E.D. This step improved discipline and assured uniformity in procedure. The Military Police was to maintain discipline … Provost Companies of the Corps…