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EventPhilip Rabinowitz, Polish born South African centenarian, sets a new world record by running the 100m in 28.7 seconds.
Philip Rabinowitz, Polish born South African centenarian, sets a new world record by running the 100m in 28.7 seconds. Owing to a power failure the time is not…
BiographyPrincess Magogo
Princess Magogo was born in 1900, the daughter of the Zulu King, Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo (1868 – 1913) and Queen Silomo. In 1926 she married King Mathole…
Wellington Mlungisi Tshazibane
Mr Wellington Tshazibane,aged 30,an employee of the De Beers-Lesotho Mining Company,was detained on 9th December 1976 at Rand Airport,Johannesburg.He was held…
PlaceMapungubwe
… gold from this burial amounted to 7 503 ounces. In the 1400's it appears that all the citizens of the kingdom left …
A total extinction confidently hoped for: the destruction of Cape San society under Dutch colonial rule, 1700–1795 by Mohamed Adhikari (Journal of Genocide Research (2010), 12(1–2))
BiographyDaniel William Alexander
Daniel William Alexander was born on 23 December 1883 in Port Elizabeth, the son of a West Indian father and an African mother. Ordained as an Anglican…
BiographyDorothy Ruth Boxall
Dorothy Ruth Boxall was born on 19 July 1895 in King William's Town, Eastern Cape, South Africa. She dedicated herself to the promotion of music in South…
The International Committee of the Red Cross reports that more than 400 people were wounded in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, at the wee
An Egyptian munitions ship, Star of Alexandria, explodes at the dockside in Bone, Algeria. 100 die, 160 are injured, and $20 mi
Statement of the National Executive Committee of the ANC delivered by President Jacob Zuma at the 100th anniversary of the ANC
More than 100,000 persons attend a rally in Durban addressed by Nelson Mandela, who urges his followers to end the factional wa
The first of more than 100 persons to die during the ‘Seven Day’s War’, is murdered outside Pietermaritzburg. About 30,000 peop
£100 000 worth of gold that went missing on the Cape Town Castle, is found near the ship’s engine room in Durban.
Frans Erasmus (38), Springbok prop of Eastern Province, is killed in a car accident, 100 m from the place where his wife was ki
Document 100 - “15th Anniversary of 1922 Rand Strike: Communist Party Calls Mass Demonstration to Commemorate”, South African Worker, 27 February 1937
About 100 local businessmen, led by John Magolego, agree to organise Mapogo a Mathamaga on the day after the burial of the eigh
An American post-graduate student, Amy Elizabeth Biehl, 26, is dragged from her car by a 100-strong mob of youths in Guguletu,
Roland Schoeman, Lyndon Ferns, Darian Townsend and Ryk Neethling win the first gold medal for SA for the 4 x 100m relay at the
The death toll in the ambush of a refugee train by Angolan rebels rises to 252 after rescue workers identify 100 more bodies.
Roland Schoeman, Lyndon Ferns, Darian Townsend and Ryk Neethling win the first gold medal for SA for the 4 x 100m relay at the
The death toll in the ambush of a refugee train by Angolan rebels rises to 252 after rescue workers identify 100 more bodies.
At least forty soccer fans die and 100 are injured as they flee fighting between rival team supporters at a stadium near Orkney
Executive summary of the statement of the National Executive Committee of the ANC delivered by President Jacob Zuma at the 100th anniversary of the ANC, Mangaung 8 January 2012
Your Excellencies Heads of States and Government, Former Presidents of the ANC, Isithwalandwe Nelson Mandela at home and Comrade Thabo Mbeki, Former Heads of…
BiographyMoritz Isaac ("Manu") Herbstein
Manu Herbstein was born in 1936 in Muizenburg in the Western Cape. He graduated from the University of Cape Town with a B.Sc in Engineering in 1958. From 1959…
BiographyBaden Powell
Baden Powell or BP was born Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden Powell was born on the 22 February 1857, the son of Professor Baden Powell, of Oxford University. His…
BiographyAllerley Glossop
Allerley Glossop was born in Twickenham, England,1872. She came to SA in 1900 after the demise of the Sphinx Studio in London, where she had taught. She farmed…
BiographyJames Mata Dwane
Dwane was born in the Eastern Cape in 1848 and was raised as a Wesleyan. Ordained as a minister in 1881, he proved to be a man of great ability and strong…
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