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Janet Soga (neé Burnside) dies in Glasgow, Scotland. She married Tito Yoga, the first Black man to be ordained to the Ch
A total of 1 004 persons consisting of 849 burghers and boys, 152 women and girls, two Coloureds and one Black man, cross the b
Justice van Wyk of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court is appointed as a one-man Commission to inquire into all aspects
Philip Alan Moore, politician, soldier, educator and financier who emigrated to SA in 1913, is born in Peel, Isle of Man, UK.
Police find 46kg of cocaine worth R21 million in a box in the cargo section of Johannesburg International Airport. A man with a
BiographyEs’kia Mphahlele
Extract from media statement on the passing of Dr. Es’kia Mphahlele (1919 - 2008): By Minister of culture & society, Dr Z. Pallo JordanEs'kia [Ezekiel]…
BiographyEpainette Nomaka Mbeki
Epainette Nomaka Mbeki (née Moerane), known as MaMbeki, was born in February 1916 in Mangoloaneng, in the Sotho-speaking section of the Mount Fletcher district…
BiographyDr. Percy Yutar
Dr. Percy Yutar was born on 29 July 1911 in Cape Town. He was one of eight children in a family of Lithuanian immigrants. His father originally spelled his…
BiographyMargaret Singana
Margaret Singana was born Margaret Mcingana on 1st January in 1938 in Queenstown in the Eastern Cape. In the 1950s Margaret moved to Johannesburg in search of…
ArchiveThe Responsibilities of Restitution Research: The Case of Ridgeview Quarry (Cato Manor) by Glen L. Thompson, 27 October 1999
BiographyHugh Masekela
Hugh Ramopolo Masekela was born on 4 April 1939 in Witbank, near Johannesburg. Masekela showed musical ability from a young age, and began to play piano as a…
BiographyBishop Samuel Adjai Crowther
Born about 1800, in Zomba, Central Africa. From his youth the boy showed the signs of greatness and it was clear that he had a future. The country frequently…
A bomb explodes in the elevator of the building in the centre of Cape Town, which houses the President’s Council. One man is ki
An Egyptian man identified as a key suspect in the 1993 World Trade Centre bombing is flown to the United States to face charge
The United Party leader, Sir de Villiers Graaff, tells its Free State Congress that the Party rejects the idea of one man, one
Oliver John (Jack) Hindon (44), the man after whom the SA Jack Hindon medal for outstanding service is named, is born in Scotla
The Star reports that a police sergeant was shot dead in Osizweni township at Newcastle, Natal, by a man armed with an AK-47 ri
Sir David Gill (70), royal astronomer at the Cape and first man in South Africa to photograph the moon, dies in Cape Town.
ArchiveThe ‘Indian Chap’: Recollections of a South African Underground Trainee in Mao's China by Nandha Naidoo
BiographyPiet Retief
Piet Retief was born on 12 November 1780 in the Wagenmakersvallei, (known as Wellington today), Cape Province. He was the fifth of 10 children of Jacobus, a…
Extract from statement by dr. Horace Mann bond before the United Nations special committee on the policies of Apartheid of the government of the Republic of South Africa.
BiographyDr. Hans Merensky
Dr Hans Merensky was born on 16 March 1871 in Botshabelo. His father was the famous missionary and writer, Alexander Merensky. Hans studied geology and mine…
BiographyAndrew Murray
Andrew Murray was born in Graaff-Reneit on 9 May 1828, the second child of Andrew Murray senior. He was sent to Arberdeen, Scotland to be educated, where he…
BiographyGertrude Hope (nee Posthumus) Cooper
Gertrude Hope (nee Posthumus) Cooper, the second-youngest of eight children was born in King Williamstown but grew up Worcester where her father, an engineer…
BiographyNeville Wilson Curtis
Neville Wilson Curtis was born on 16 October 1947, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). his one of five children of an Australia-born miner.His father, John …
A 32-year-old man, Elvis Ramoloyi, is beaten to death by a mob after he wounded two people in an apparent road rage incident in
A 32-year-old man, Elvis Ramoloyi, is beaten to death by a mob after he wounded two people in an apparent road rage incident in
Two serving members of the army and a third man are arrested in connection with the attack on St James’s Church in Cape Town in
BiographyLawrence Folley
Born in Benoni in 1928, Lawrence started voice training with Alan Webster and music theory with Gillian Davies who trained the Benoni Orpheus Choir. Lawrence…
BiographyAnna De Koningh
Anna De Koningh was the daughter of Angela van Bengale. She arrived with Angela from Batavia, but who her father was is unknown. Like her mother, Anna de…