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EventGovernment bans 20 Black leaders
… throughout South Africa, culminating in September 1973 at the Western Deep Levels mine at Carletonville, when 12 … fired on a crowd. Shortly afterwards it…
PlaceAllemanskraal or Aldam, Free State Province
… Village in the Willem Pretorius Game Reserve near the Sand River, 30 km from Winburg. The name is derived from the Allemanskraal dam, some 9 km to …
Cape Town Launch of A to Z of Amazing South African Women
… The Book Lounge and Modjaji Books are deilghted to invite you to the launch of the "A to Z of Amazing South African Women" text by Ambre …
EventArthur Robert Ashe Jr, prominent African American tennis player and vocal protester of apartheid, dies
… in 1973. This was after a number of refusals. He became the first black player to win a title-a doubles match-in the South African Open. During his career,…
EventSierra Leone gains independence from Britain
… West African state Sierra Leone fronts onto the Atlantic Ocean, and is flanked by Liberia and Guinea. The very earliest inhabitants of Sierra Leone were…
EventNelson Mandela announces he will not stand for re-election in 1999
… who was released from prison in February 1990, became the first democratic president of the Republic of South Africa in April 1994. His announcement would…
EventClarence Mlokoti is shot dead by hijackers
… while trying to take his car in Pimville, Soweto. The highjacking took place on Tuesday night while Mlokoti was … come back from their friend's house. While…
EventSpringboks wallop their Australian counterparts
… The Springbok rugby team, nicknamed Amabokoboko, national … of Nick Mallett, registered an important victory over the Australian team. The Amabokoboko beat…
EventJan van Riebeeck’s statue, presented by Cecil John Rhodes, is unveiled in Cape Town
… On 18 May 1899, a statue of the first European to settle at the Cape, Jan van Riebeeck, was unveiled. The statue stands on Heerengracht Street in Cape Town…
EventLady Diana Spencer is killed in a car accident in Paris
… known as Princess Diana was born in 1961. She married the Prince of Wales and heir to the throne of England, Charles, and became the royal Princess of Wales…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.10 No.1 1992
… Oliphant, Fragments of a dream by Zachoriah Rapola, The House of Raydon by Patrick Sekhula, Independence by EM … Gavin du Plessis, Diary From a Sanitorium by…
ArchiveBrothers and sisters of Chatsworth
… The flyer is aimed at the residents of Chatsworth, an Indian residential suburb in Durban and discusses the bus boycott by the Chatsworth community and the…
ArchiveGrahamstown and group areas: some facts
… Map showing the plan of the city of Grahamstown under the Group Areas. Also includes Map showing the proposed …
Denis Goldberg: Freedom Fighter and Humanist
… 1 A Marvellous Life! Denis Goldberg, South Africa and the World Chapter 2 Denis Goldberg and the Modern Youth Society Chapter 3 The Life of a Freedom Fighter…
PlaceRoodepoort Museum
… Set in the Roodepoort Civic Centre on Christiaan de Wet Road, the Roodepoort Museum capably covers Roodepoort’s long and … in 2006 due to budgetary…
EventSouth Africa deports Donald “Dolan” Acheson
… is purported to have been deported from South Africa on the 31 March 1991, having being fingered as the triggerman in the assassination of Namibian lawyer…
EventMangosutho Buthelezi reveals his daughter died from HIV/Aids
… his son, Prince Nelisuzulu Benedict Buthelezi, died from the same disease on April 29. Buthelezi's openness about circumstances leading to the death of his…
EventRashaad Staggie shot dead
… A march organised by the Cape Town-based Muslim organisation, People against Gangsterism and Drugs (PAGAD), resulted in the killing of a highly suspected…
EventPublic places of recreation for whites only, are proclaimed
… areas were proclaimed in accordance with provisions of the Group Areas Act of 1950. Following the proclamation, blacks were prohibited from entering these…
EventStander gang hits 3 banks
… On 19 January 1984, the Stander gang robs three banks in less than an hour in the Johannesburg city centre. The Stander gang was a group of three men led by…
Liberal Opinion/Reality
… Liberal Opinion (1961-1968) was published by the Liberal Party of South Africa which was established in 1953 by Alan Paton, after the National Government had…
PlaceCora Terrace Houses (1,3,5,7,9,11), Port Elizabeth
… This beautiful Georgian home was built in the 1850’s to house soldiers guarding the port of Port Elizabeth. Situated in picturesque surroundings, you can…
PlaceOld Municipal Offices, Berlandina Street, Roodepoort
… The building was designed by Charles Hosking and was completed in 1906 as the first permanent offices for the new Roodepoort-Maraisburg municipality. It was…
EventEnoch Mgijima dies
… Enoch Mgijima (Mgizima), Fingo prophet of the Israelites sect in the Eastern Cape, died in Ntabelanga, Queenstown. His … followers, believing Enoch's claim…
EventApartheid leader P. W. Botha Resigns
… and, on this day he announces his intention to resign the National Party presidency while remaining State … colleagues and leads to an internal succession…
EventNigeria cuts its diplomatic missions
… Faced with growing international debt, the Nigerian government announced that it would cut its … this measure would save it from further economic decline…
EventLibrary and clinic names are changed in Pretoria
… The name of the Mid-City Library (Sammy Marks), city library of Pretoria, … was changed to Es'kia Mphahlele Community Library and the Sammy Marks Clinic to…
EventAmina Lawal is freed
… The Nigerian Islamic Appeals Court freed Amina Lawal, a young woman sentenced to death by stoning by the Bakori Sharia court in the Katsina Islamic state of…
EventAfrikaans author, Lulu Latsky is born
… books, mostly for children, was born in Carnarvon, in the Karoo region of South Africa. Latsky was known for her … writing paper. From 1943 until 1950 or…
EventPrince Eugene Napoleon is killed during Anglo-Zulu War
… The 22-year-old Prince Imperial of France, Eugene Louis Jean Joseph Napoleon, who studied in England at the Royal Military Academy and joined the British…