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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
ArticleThe African Mine workers strike of 1946
Introduction The strike by some 76,000 black miners in 1946 was one of the most significant examples of industrial action by black workers in South Africa…
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…
ArchiveGeneral Programme: 100 Years of the South African Communist Party: Debating Lineages of Socialism in Africa
The SA rugby team beats the British 26-12 in the first test of the series. S.C. Louw scores SA’s 100th try.
Swimmer Penny Heyns of SA sets four world records in just two days in the 100m and 200m breaststroke in South California, USA.
The 600-ton cargo ship The Duke of Northumberland, en route from Madras to London, is wrecked near Cape Agulhas, CC. No lives a
Paul Nash equals the world record for the 100-metre sprint when he clocks 10 seconds at a meeting in Krugersdorp. He also runs
The results of an opinion poll indicate that more than 160 000 White South African adults plan to leave the country within the
BiographyThomas Mbeki
Little is known of his background except that he was Xhosa-speaking and born about 1900. About 1924 he enrolled in the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA)…
The Dutch and the Khoisan
… were delegated to slaves and servants. By the end of the 1600’s the greatest part of the Western Cape was under Dutch …
BiographyBenjamin Ulenga
Benjamin (Ben) Ulenga was born in Owamboland. His father was a labourer, who from age 16 or 17 had to leave Owamboland to work on various English, Dutch,…
BiographyGordon Sprigg
Early Life John Gordon Sprig was born in Ipswich, England in 1830, the son of a pastor. He schooled at Ipswich and at other private schools before taking up…
BiographyStephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger
Paul Kruger is believed to have been born on 10 October 1825 on his grandfather's farm, Bulhoek, in the Cradock district, near the present day town of…
BiographyLord Kitchener
Best known for his famous recruitment posters bearing his heavily moustachioed face and pointing hand over the legend, "Your country needs you", as secretary…
BiographyKaizer Motaung
Kaizer Motaung was born on 16 October 1944 in Orlando East, Soweto, a township South West of Johannesburg. Motaung began playing soccer at a young age and…
BiographyNicholas Hlobo
Born in 1975 in Cape Town, Nicholas Hlobo grew up in a Xhosa family and attended university at the former Technikon Witwatersrand. Though originally planning…
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…