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Anglo-Boer War 2: Boer General S.F. Oosthuizen dies of wounds received at Dwarsvlei on 11-07-1900.
Zanzibar, a British protectorate since 1890 and now part of Tanzania, becomes an independent state within the Commonwealth.
EventFirst Indian workers arrive in South Africa
Sugar farming grew rapidly in the late 1800s in Natal as a result of very cheap “indentured labour” sourced from India. The first group of Indian workers…
BiographyJotello Festiri Soga
Dr Jotello Festiri Soga, the first South African of any race to obtain a degree in veterinary medicine, was born in 1865 at the Mgwali Mission in the then…
PlaceMiddle Campus, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch
… of Cape Town, incorporating buildings from the early 1800’s restored by famed architect Herbert Baker in the …
BiographyWilliam Cock
In 1849, Cape Town lived up to its reputation for giving visiting vessels a rousing reception. But this was a reception with a difference; it was in fact a…
ArticleA history of prison labour in South Africa
Prison labour has a particularly debatable history in South Africa. Historically, South Africa operated on the understanding that prisons were places of…
Passage to Natal - The Journey
Travelling conditions on the ships transporting workers from India were deplorable. The voyages were long, with the danger of disease breaking out, ever…
BiographySefako Mapogo Makgatho
Sefako Mapogo Makgatho was born at GaMphahlele, in the Pietersburg district in Transvaal (now Limpopo province) in 1861. He was the son of Chief Kgorutlhe…
Nelson Mandela leads 100 000 Blacks in Pretoria in a protest to end White rule.
Johan Botha wins the 800 m in Japan and becomes SA’s first indoor world champion.
Riots disrupt the general election in Cairo. Twenty-three die and 180 are injured.
Ten people die and 100 are injured in a train accident near Muldersvlei station, Paarl.
PlaceOude Molen, Alexandra Care and Rehabilitation Centre, Maitland
It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 4 August 1978. This rural non-profit is home to many business ventures from equestrian…
Simon's Town Museum
… able to build a church in 1850. During the middle and late 1800’s islanders came from St Helena to settle in Simon’s … skilled fishermen and whalermen. Also…
ArticlePort Elizabeth Timeline 1799-1986
1799 2 March, British government lands troops in Algoa Bay. Construction begins on the building of Fort Frederick. 1803 Founding of Bethelsdorp. 1804 …
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at the re-dedication of the 1820 settlers monument Grahamstown, 16 May 1996
The British government admits receiving 1100 tons of uranium from Namibia in defiance of the United Nations ban.
Sir Jacob Dirk Barry, judge president of the Eastern division since 1880, is born in Swellendam, Cape Colony.
Uganda becomes independent, with Milton Obote the first prime minister (Nuusdagboek: feite en fratse oor 1000 jaar, Kaapstad: H
Sir Jacob Dirk Barry (73), judge president of the Eastern division since 1880, dies in Queenstown, Eastern Cape.
Sir Jacob Dirk Barry (73), judge president of the Eastern division since 1880, dies in Queenstown, Eastern Cape.
Hercules George Robert Robinson, South African high commissioner and governor (1880-89, 1895-97), is born in Ireland.
More than 1000 people are reported drowned or missing when an Egyptian ferry sinks in the Red Sea.
BiographyChristiaan Rudolf De Wet
Christiaan de Wet was born at Leeuwkop near Smithfield, Orange Free State, on 7 October 1854. He received little formal education, spending his days helping…
Sir Rufane Shaw Donkin
British soldier, and Governor at the Cape from 1820-21. He named the burgeoning port of Algoa Bay, Port Elizabeth in memory of the death of his wife. He…
EventDr Wilson Carswell, medical adviser to the government’s Aids unit, says about 100 000 South Africans are infected with HIV
On 21 May 1991 the medical adviser to the government, Dr Wilson Carswell made the shocking announcement that 100 000 South Africans are infected with the Human…
Mission Stations - M
MAASDORP, Stockenstrom, Cape: UC. Believed to have acted as an outstation only. MABAALSTAD, also known as EMMAUS, Transvaal: HM 1868 MABETSHA, Ngqeleni,…