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EventZulu army returns to Nongoma
… The Zulu army ordered to arm by Col. Bottomley to assist the British during the Anglo-Boer War, marched back to Nongoma. Two Zulus were … Cloete, P.G. (2000)…
EventSt. John Broderick claims concentration camps are improving
… The British Secretary for War, St. John Broderick, told the House of Commons that every effort was made to improve conditions in concentration camps in South…
ArchiveMy Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… must hold fear for our leaders. They must feel always that the people are with them. And the people for their part must nurture and cherish their leaders…
EventSandra Reynolds, a South African tennis champion is born
… in Bloemfontein, Free State.[i] Reynolds was nicknamed the “Grace Kelly” of South African tennis.[ii] She claimed the South African women’s singles titles in…
EventNumber of banned persons in South Africa totals 936
… When the system of apartheid was implemented in South Africa in … in all aspects of South African society. Apart from the legislation implemented to ensure…
PlacePampierstad
… or Tswana word meaning Help/Assistance) was established in the former homeland of Bophuthatswana in the late 1960's. It was located 31 km North-West of Jan…
EventNelson Mandela is born
… Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born on 18 July 1918 in the small village of Mvezo , in the district of Qunu near Umtata , Transkei (now known as … Oliver…
EventMK hero cadre Solomon Kalushi (Khala) Mahlangu is executed
… Solomon Kalushi (Khala) Mahlangu was executed by the Apartheid regime for being part of an abortive attempt by … (ANC) members to smuggle weapons and…
EventUS Secretary of State Cyrus Vance travels to South Africa to promote transition to black rule in Namibia
… South Africa had seized the German territory (then known as South-West Africa) during World War I and retained it after the war under a League of Nations…
EventWinnie Mandela is banished to Brandfort
… of imprisoned ANC leader, Nelson Mandela, was banished to the dusty Afrikaner dominated town of Brandfort in the Free State where she was unceremoniously…
EventIan Smith of Rhodesia and Henry Kissinger meet in Pretoria
… Rhodesia. South African Prime Minister B.J. Vorster joined the final stages of the talks. Towards the end of 1974, Vorster, backed by President Kenneth…
EventMuziwendoda Mdluli, National Intelligence Agency (NIA) security chief is found dead
… chief, was found dead in his car parked near the Botanical Gardens in Pretoria, with a bullet wound to the head. Mdluli is rumoured to have told his lover,…
ANC officials and staff to visit Usindiso Ministries as part of Mandela Day Celebration, 16 July 2010
… The ANC Official and staff together with the Gift of the givers will today, Friday, 16th July 2010, visit Usindiso …
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.2 No.3 Apr-Jun 1958
… Even We. Cartoon, David Marais. The Fight is on, Rev. Joost de Blank, Archbishop of Cape Town. The Widow of the Reserves, Phyllis Ntanala. Bethal Case-Book,…
PlaceSacramento Cannon, Cape Recife
… This bronze artifice, cast by the Bocarro family, also known as the Miracle Cannon , was salvaged in May 1977 from the Shipwreck site of the Portuguese Ship-…
PlaceLeinster Hall, 7 Weltevreden Street, Gardens
… Leinster Hall was built in the 1850s by Sebastian Hofmeyr on a plot of land that previously formed part of the farm Weltevreden. The outbuildings date from…
PlaceLions Head, Mt.
… is between Table Mountain and Signal Hill , adjacent too the Twelve Apostles Mountain Range , in Cape town. The best thing about the Lion’s Head hike is…
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 … cartoons. He came to Cape Town in 1882…
EventJoyce Barker, SA soprano, is born in Mooi River, Natal.
… On 6 June 1931 Joyce Barker was born at Mooi River in the Natal Midlands. At the age of nineteen she started training under Daisy Holmes … in Durban. Barker…
EventCriminal Law Amendment Act No 8 commences
… On 4 March 1953, the Criminal Law Amendment Act No 8 commenced. This act made … by a three-year gaol (prison) sentence, and prohibited the offer or…
EventDeath sentence for Rapists
… were sentenced in Klerksdorp to be hanged to death for the rape of a Black woman, Ginny Gotsoine in February 1985. Two other White men in the same case were…
PlaceFort Beaufort
… Initially the division of Fort Beaufort fell under the district of Albany, and was proclaimed a separate … on 8 March 1848. At that stage its area also…
EventNelson Mandela celebrates his 90th birthday.
… Nelson Mandela's name resonates with the struggle for independence and social, economic, political and institutional rights of Black people. The…
EventMolly Blackburn, political activist and civil rights campaigner is killed in a car accident
… Molly Blackburn was a political activist who joined the Black Sash in 1955. She later left black Sash when she felt that the group was not very active. She…
EventHastings Banda, former president of Malawi, is born.
… Hasting Kamuzu Banda was the leader of Nyasaland which became Malawi in in 1964, with … president. Banda was born in Kasungu and went to study in the US and…
EventSophiatown residents are forcefully moved to Soweto
… It was in the early hours on 9 February 1955 when around 2 000 … armed with guns, knobkerries and rifles, forcefully moved the families of Sophiatown to…
EventDarrell Roodt was born on this day
… Darrell Roodt was born in Johannesburg. Growing up during the height of Apartheid South Africa, he always used the art of film to condemn the racially…
Establishment of Food Committee
… In the 1940s, as a result of the Second World War , the South African economy was very weak.Unemployment and food …
PlaceMandela House
… The Mandela House Museum in Soweto is housed in what was once the home of Nelson Mandela , the World's most famous political prisoner and South Africa's ……
EventBlacks are making bonfires of their “passes” in Johannesburg
… of their reference books in Johannesburg. Their action was the latest gesture of defiance against the pass laws. During the weekend, the suspension of pass…