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EventWendy Botha, South Africa’s world champion surfer is born
… May 2017). ↵ [iv] David van Lill, Van Lill’s South African Sports Trivia (Cape Town: Zebra Press, 2005), p. 237. ↵ [v] David van Lill, Van Lill’s South…
BiographyKgalema Petrus Motlanthe
… flagging.” He told jokes, he centralised the different sports committees into a more unified one with Nkosi, and he …
EventCliff Drysdale, the tennis star is born
… ↵ [ii]David van Lill, Van Lill’s South African Sports Trivia (Cape Town: Zebra Press, 2005), p. 204. ↵ [iii]David van Lill, Van Lill’s South African Sports…
EventMike Gatting’s rebel cricket tour is curtailed
… Negotiations between the National Sports Council (NSC) and the white South African Cricket … Resistance against the tour was led by the National Sports…
A City within a city: Vestiges of the socio-spatial imprint of colonial and apartheid Durban, from the 1870s to 1980s by Leonard Glenn Rosenberg
… Central to the life of this "town" was Currie’s Fountain sports ground, popularly known as "Currie’s", which served as a sports, cultural and political…
EventSewsunkerlal Bahadur Singh dies in Durban
… He was born in 1890 and played an active role in SA sports as, inter alia, president of the South African … (SAFA). Singh was also a regular contributor to…
Francis Zaccharius Santiago Peregrino
Francis Zaccharius Santiago Peregrino was a journalist and public intellectual who, in the early 1900s, challenged notions of Black racial inferiority in the…
BiographyDavid Dabede Mabuza
David Dabede Mabuza was born 25 August, 1960 in Brondal, Mpumalanga. He matriculated from Khumbula High School. He obtained a National Teacher’s Certificate…
BiographyArnold Selby
Arnold Selby was born on 14 November 1918 in South Africa. He joined the liberation struggle in the 1940s. His experience as a miner brought to light the…
EventRSA golf team is expelled from Greece
… to condemn all practices of racial segregation in sports. Click here to read resolution of the International Convention Against Apartheid in Sports. … SAHO,…
EventSA is readmitted to the IOC
… abolition of Apartheid laws, the non-racial unification of sports bodies and normalisation of relations with sports bodies elsewhere in Africa. The country…
PlaceGroote Schuur High School
… The school also has a library. The school has two sports fields: Inversnaid Sports Field and Vredenhof Sports Field; tennis courts, netball courts, a…
The First South African side to play in the sub-continent: Boer Prisoners of War in 1901 (Part 1 of 2) by Arunabha Sengupta (Cricket Country), 12 October 2015
… of apartheid across all spheres of life, which affected sports as much as anything else, had prevented South Africa … with cricket till the 1960s, always…
EventMichael “Muis” Roberts, South Africa’s best jockey is born
… ↵ [ii] David van Lill, Van Lill’s South African Sports Trivia (Cape Town: Zebra Press, 2005), p. 219. ↵ [iii] … ↵ [iv] David van Lill, Van Lill’s South…
ArticleGrade 4 - Learning about local history through pictures: Cape Town
… Board shortly following the end of the international sports boycott due to the apartheid. South Africa …
EventHestrie Cloete, world champion high jumper, is born
… Johannesburg on 26 August 1978. She began participating in sports at an early age. Her long-time coach, Martin Marx, … After the 2004 Olympics, Cloete…
EventSteve Tshwete is born
… structures, and later he also acted as the coordinator on sports matters. This is also when he got his nickname of "Mr …
EventCharles Barends, the renowned South African jockey is born
… 2017). ↵ [ii] David van Lill, Van Lill’s South African Sports Trivia (Cape Town: Zebra Press, 2005), p. 224. ↵ [iii] David van Lill, Van Lill’s South African…
Address by President Mandela at the opening of the 36th Annual World Boxing Council Convention Johannesburg, 26 October 1998
… contribution to the building of our new nation. Our sports men and women are proving outstanding ambassadors for …
EventSandra Reynolds, a South African tennis champion is born
… 2015). ↵ [iii] David van Lill, Van Lill’s South African Sports Trivia (Cape Town: Zebra Press, 2005), p. 199. ↵ [iv] David van Lill, Van Lill’s South African…
EventPolice break up demonstrations against South African rebel Cricket Tour
… National Congress (ANC) and the mainly black National Sports Congress demonstrated against a visit to South Africa … Ali Bacher but was opposed by the the…
In Conclusion: The Decline and Fall of the Tricameral Parliament
… into an alliance with the ANC, and was appointed MEC for Sports and Recreation in KwaZulu-Natal. He died in 2011. …
BiographyGerald Patrick Kearney
Gerald Patrick ‘Paddy’ Kearney was born in Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) on 28 August 1942. He was educated at Catholic schools and for some…
Afrikaans Community 1652-1795
… their birthdays with shooting contests and even fireworks. Sports such as football, cricket and tennis were only …
Dance For All (DFA)
… was nominated for the Department of Cultural Affairs and Sports Awards Fund and their students took first place at the …
Submissions by the McGill University students 2014
… He is passionate about nature, outdoor activity and sports. In September 2013 Simon begins law school at the …
EventTravis Logie, South Africa’s world champion surfer is born
… 2015). ↵ [ii] David van Lill, Van Lill’s South African Sports Trivia (Cape Town: Zebra Press, 2005), p. 237. ↵ [iii] David van Lill, Van Lill’s South African…
EventLlewellyn Herbert was born on this day
… ↵ [iv] David van Lill, Van Lill’s South African Sports Trivia (Cape Town: Zebra Press, 2005), p. 141. ↵ [v] … David van Lill, Van Lill’s South African Sports…
PlaceClarkebury, Eastern Cape
… friends with a girl for the first time; he began playing sports and developed his lifelong love of …
ArchiveCuba: poster no. 6
… red and blue poster. Various artwork showing arts and sports scenes. Editora Politica logo. See folder 3845 for …