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Anglo-Boer War 2: Princess Wilhelmina of the Netherlands writes to her aunt, Queen Victoria, imploring her to use her influence

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While underground, Nelson Mandela writes a letter in which he states the famous words: &quot;The struggle is my life. I will co

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Frederick Courteney Selous, traveller, hunter, writer and naturalist is born in London. He came to Southern Africa in 1871. The

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Anglo-Boer War 2: Lady Edward (Violet) Cecil writes to Lord Salisbury on the conditions in Bloemfontein: “Far more people have

ANC’s chief representative in Swaziland, Stanley Mabizela, writes a letter to the ANC following a visit by Thabo Mbeki and Max Sisulu

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ANC’s chief representative in Swaziland, Stanley Mabizela, writes a letter to the ANC following a visit by Thabo Mbeki and Max Sisulu

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Dalene Matthee (66), laurelled Afrikaans writer, dies of heart failure in a hospital in Mossel Bay. Her best-known book, Krin

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Severus Gerhardus Smidt (Johan van der Post / Adriaan Roodt), SA short-story writer is born in Frankfort, Orange Free State.

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Simon Mann, arrested in Zimbabwe, writes a letter pleading with associates, including Sir Mark Thatcher, to get him out of pris

Joseph Manana portrait

Joseph Manana

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Shadrack Fuba Zibi, chief of the Mbuto (Mbuthweni) section of the Hlubi group of tribes and accomplished writer, dies in Kaya K

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Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi, Xhosa poet and prose writer, and a member of the Xhosa Bible revision board, is born in Gqumahashe

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Fikile Magadledla, SA artist, co-founder of the Soweto Art Association, illustrator of several books and writer of poetry to ac

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Zacharias Wagenaer, successor of Jan van Riebeeck, writes to the Lords 17 suggesting that sixty-seven families be sent back to

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Dr Benedict Wallet Vilakazi, poet and writer and first Black South African to receive a doctorate in literature, is born in Gro

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Todd Tozama Matshikiza, SA musician, composer and writer, dies in Lusaka, Zambia. He composed the music and wrote some of the l

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As far as known Henry D. Warden makes the first reference to Bloemfontein when he writes to the governor about a farm between P

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Bessie Amelia Head, SA novelist, short story writer and social historian dies in Serowe, Botswana. She had gone to Botswana in

Molefe Pheto portrait

Molefe Pheto

Allister Sparks portrait

Allister Sparks

Dumisani Shadrack Kumalo portrait

Dumisani Shadrack Kumalo

Milwa Mnyaluza “George” Pemba portrait

Milwa Mnyaluza “George” Pemba

Livingstone Mqotsi portrait

Livingstone Mqotsi

South Africa’s Academic and Cultural Boycott - Timeline

South Africa’s Academic and Cultural Boycott - Timeline

… condemns the policies of apartheid. In 1963 — 45 British writers put their signatures to an affirmation approving of … for a boycott of films and movie production. 1965 — The Writers' Guild of Great Britain called for an embargo on the …

Esmé Berman

Jordan Kush Ngubane portrait

Jordan Kush Ngubane

Winston Churchill Masakeng Saoli portrait

Winston Churchill Masakeng Saoli

Brian Percy Bunting portrait

Brian Percy Bunting

Breyten Breytenbach writes to the editor of the Daily Maverick on vanishing UCT artworks and blank minds, South Africa, 11 April 2016

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Ndazana Nathaniel Nakasa (Nat), journalist and writer who left SA by means of an exit permit and could never return, jumps from

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Prof. Johan Franken, writer of cultural historical works and expert on the history of the French Huguenots at the Cape, dies in