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… Robert Moffat, missionary of the London Missionary Society at Kuruman and father-in-law of … as a gardener and worked at High Leah, near Liverpool. At the age of 21, he came to South Africa and started his … indispensible helpmate, carried on their mission work in the neighbourhood of Kuruman. The Moffats returned to Britain …

… Bartolomeu Dias discovered that he had sailed past the southern-most point of Africa. A strong wind had driven … that he did not see it and had to sail northwards to reach the coast. His first landing place was the bay of St. Blaize (SÁƒÂƒ£o Bras), now Mossel Bay. Here he …

… cleric, Dr Richard Ambrose Reeves, Anglican (Church of the Province of South Africa) Bishop of Johannesburg, … leave spent in England. Reeves was not welcomed back by the South African government, because he believed in the justice of the struggle against oppression and inhumanity …

… Chief Albert Luthuli, President General of the African National Congress (ANC), led the Defiance Campaign in 1952, a non- violent protest against the pass laws. Yet all these were menacing to the apartheid …

… His father. a migrant worker, ‘coughed out’ the harshness of his life onto his children. He died after … his brothers. Barely 18 years old, Qabula was caught up in the Pondoland rebellion hiding and starving in the forests. In 1964 he caught a train for Carltonville to …

… school in Yorkshire, England and after leaving school at the age of 15, Bailey worked in London for a cotton and wool … and financial agent in Barberton. By 1894, he had become the head of the Bailey Group of gold mines and was fast establishing …

… Town some 77 km East of Ermelo. It formed part of the Scottish Settlement established by Alexander … proclaimed a Town in June 1881. At first called Roburnia, the name was changed on the 5 July 1882 to Amsterdam, after the Dutch city where the …

… politician and Umkhonto we Sizwe commander, was awarded the Soviet Order of the People and the Order of the People's Republic of Bulgaria First Class on …

… The Coloured Labour Party strengthened its position by forging an alliance with six members of the Coloured Persons Representative Council (CPRC). Unity … talks were held and it was decided unequivocally to tell the government that the present political dispensation of …

… The first Oscar nomination for a South African film Yesterday in the Best Foreign Language category, was announced by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president, … 2014]|jck, (2005), Oscar Nominations Announced!, from The Rugged Elegance, 25 January, Available at  …

… toppled in a military coup d'etat and put under arrest in the presidential palace. Coup leader Col Barre Mainassara Ibrahim issued a statement on the state-run radio station that Ousmane was under arrest, the constitution suspended, and that the temporary national …

… Farmsteads and is known as Carlislebrug. It is located in the Cacadu Municipality in the Eastern Cape!.  The original bridge was built in 1863 over the Great Fish …

… Precis of speech on the Wiehahn Commission of Inquiry into labour legislation, by Auret van Heerden, President of the National Union of South African Students, delivered at the 56th Annual Congress of the National Union, November …

… died in Orlando West, Soweto. Butshingi was born in the Transkei in 1906, and moved to the Transvaal in 1925 to become an insurance company agent. During the 1940s and into the 1950s, he became involved in the …

… Harold Cressy , co-founder of the Teachers League of South Africa (TLSA), educationist and … teacher, is born in Rorke's Drift, Kwazulu-Natal . He was the only Black student of the South African College, now the University of Cape Town . …

… ichthyologist, Margaret Mary Smith, was born in Indwe in the Eastern Cape. Ichthyology is the branch of zoology that deals with the study of fishes. Margaret Mary Smith illustrated the book …

… Under his leadership Egypt continued its participation in the Arab-Israeli conflicts. Nasser nationalised the Suez Canal and blocked British and French ships from using the canal. This caused the Suez Crisis in which the British, …

… A former member of the Volksraad of the South African Republic (Transvaal), representing the Vryheid district in 1897 and also Boer general during …

… white; map showing Bantustans; text: Apartheid: 70% of the population are Africans. They are allocated 13% of the land -- the Bantustans. 17 % of the population are Whites. They own …

… by Minister R F Botha and written mostly in Afrikaans, of the visit of Mr W P Clark of the United States of America, to South Africa and South West Africa. The purpose of the visit was to enable Mr Clark, on his …

… Pretoria on 1 January 1895.[i] Raymond won a gold medal in the men’s singles at the Olympic Games in 1920, hosted in Antwerp, Belgium.[ii] Raymond overpowered Japan’s Ichiya Kumagai in the men’s final[iii] despite not being the South African …

… musician Gerard Sekoto (80) died in Paris. Often cited as the pioneer of urban black art and social realism, Sekoto … matter, and he painted urban images of active scenes in the community in bold colours, in an expressionist style. He held his first solo exhibition in 1939 and in 1940; the Johannesburg Art Gallery purchased one of his pictures. …

… 1943 in Etunda lo Nghadi, Ovamboland, Angola. He came from the Kwanyama people and spent his childhood tending cattle in … After his father's death in 1955, his mother moved to the Anglican mission station at Epinga in South West Africa … Anglican Mission in Odibo, and in 1967 he enrolled at the Rorke's Drift Art and Craft Centre in KwaZulu-Natal, …

… Banyana midfielder Eudy Simelane was found in a ditch in the outskirts of her home township KwaThema, Gauteng. She had … This made Simelane’s abduction, rape and murder all the more alarming. The violence against her was particularly brutal as she had … a Lesbian: South Africa Ignores ‘Corrective’ Attacks”, The Guardian South Africa. 12 March 2009, …

… The gun was designed in 1865 as a broadside gun for ironclad … and harbour seafront defence. A total of 190 were made. The gun was last fired in 1903.. This gun was first mounted … North Battery Simon's Town in 1896 where it still exists. The gun, carriage, slide and mounting were restored in the …

… The basic concept of cellular phones began in 1947, when … of service area) with frequency reuse they could increase the traffic capacity of mobile phones substantially. However, at that time, the technology to do so was nonexistent. On April 3, 1973, … Bellis, M.,  Selling the Cell Phone, History of Cellular Phones ,  from About,  …

… The conference will cover the following topics: v  Towards the Commercialization of Traditional Knowledge and … Indigenous Systems of Governance and Post-Colonial Africa: The Case of Barotseland v  Indigenous Weather Knowledge, …

… Mission Station in Tzaneen on 11 July 1920. He was the eldest of three children of Mlungisi and Evelyn … Trichardt. He later obtained a Master of Arts Degree from the University of South Africa before proceeding to study … in Washington DC and at Hartford Seminary also in the US. In light of his leadership qualities, first as a …

… Anton Hammerl was killed, allegedly by Libyan forces on the Brega frontline. According to eyewitnesses, Hammerl’s … without medical attention.  Consequently, he died in the desert. Hammerl and other frontline journalists were taken by Libyan forces to Brega, Libya, during the rebels’ attempt to oust Muammar Gaddaffi’s regime in …

… On 7 April each year, the World Health Organisation (WHO) celebrates World Health Day. This date commemorates the formation of the WHO in 1945. The WHO's Constitution came into effect on 7 …