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Mathys Michiel (Thys) van Lille, radio broadcaster at the Afrikaans radio station since 1935, is born.
President Sam Nujoma and his governing party are declared winners of Namibia’s first post-independence election.
Minutes of the meeting between the RSA and Angola at Ilha Do Sal on 5 June 1980
Minutes of a meeting held with representatives of the South African and Angolan Governments to discuss border issues, including border incidents and the…
Freedom struggles of the past: what can we learn from them to enhance grass roots involvement
A SASO memorandum for the Transvaal Regional Formation School, held at Turfloop, 21-22 September 1974
ArchiveFreedom struggles of the past: what can we learn from them to enhance grass roots involvement
A SASO memorandum for the Transvaal Regional Formation School, held at Turfloop, 21-22 September 1974
C.P. Hoogenhout (78), founder member of the Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners (GRA), dies in Wellington, CP.
Quintus van Rooyen (62), authority on rugby who wrote for Beeld, dies of cancer in Pretoria.
Daantjie van den Heever (67), former captain of the Northern Transvaal rugby team, dies in Pretoria.
BiographyKgalema Petrus Motlanthe
Kgalema Petrus Motlanthe was born on 19 July 1949 at the Boksburg-Benoni Hospital. He grew up in Alexandra, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). His parents,…
BiographyBishop Nathaniel James Merriman
Born in Marlborough (England) on the 4th of April 1809, died in Grahamstown on the 16th of August 1882. Educated at Marlborough, at Winchester College and…
BiographyPeter Nkutsoeu Raboroko
Peter Nkutsoeu Raboroko was born in 1917 in the Orange Free State where his father was employed as a farm laborer. He grew up in the slums of Sophiatown in…
BiographyCynthia Shange
Cynthia Shange was born in Lamontville, Durban, in Kwazulu Natal. She started modeling in 1970 and went on to win several titles. In 1972 she won the title…
BiographyDeton (Tito) Zungu
Tito Zungu was born in 1946 in Mapumulo district, Natal. Zungu received no formal education or art training. As a teenager he made clay models and in 1957 he…
BiographyHonorine Margaret Withers
Honorine Margaret (Mabel) Withers was born in 1870 in London, England. Mabel Withers studied at the RCA and exhibited in London before coming to South Africa…
BiographyDaniel Francois Malan
D.F. Malan was born in 1874 in Riebeeck West in the Cape. He completed his doctorate of divinity at the University of Utrecht in 1905 and was ordained as a…
BiographyRamnie Dinat
Ramnie Naidoo, the daughter of Ama and Narainsamy Thambi Naidoo, worked in the Transvaal Indian Youth Congress (TIYC) since her childhood. At the age of nine,…
Address to the Assembly of the Republic of Mozambique, 2 May 2002
… settlers should reciprocate the ubuntu of the Khoi and the San with kindness. However, the commander appointed by the … Van Riebeeck held a racist view that…
ArchiveMedia have tried to demonise me, says McBride, by Thami Ngidi, Sunday Tribune, 2 October 1997
ArchiveInterviews with Ernest Lakoto Pule (T-man, Themba, Vusi), 22 September 2017 - 27 September 2023
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 4 Essay Questions and Answers
Shaka Zulu Legacy Essay questions on Shaka Zulu’s legacy will be asked as 8-mark questions where students have to use sources to answer the question. The…
BiographyChris Qwazi
Chris Qwazi, a photo-journalist, started out as a freelancer in the 1980s at a time of increased resistance against Apartheid in Port Elizabeth, and the…
BiographyJohnson Phillip Mlambo
Johnson Mlambo was born in Johannesburg on 22 February 1940. He did his secondary school education at Kilnerton. After completing his studies, he worked at…
BiographyDavid Hepburn Craighead
David Hepburn Craighead was born on 18 December 1918, in Benoni, in what was known as the Transvaal Province (Gauteng). He was born to parents of English and…
EventGrace Naledi Mandisa Pandor, SA minister of education since 2004, is born in Durban
Grace Naledi Mandisa Pandor was born in Durban on 7 December 1953. Her father, Joe Matthews, was a prominent anti-apartheid activist and the son of academic Z…
Artscape: Legacy Exhibition
… Luther King Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Aung San Suu Kyi and Princess Diana to mention a few. Also amongst …
BiographyCecil John Rhodes
The Early Years Cecil John Rhodes was born on 5 July 1853 in the small hamlet of Bishops Stortford, England. He was the fifth son of Francis William Rhodes…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on the occasion of his acceptance of an honorary doctorate of the University of Stellenbosch
Biographyde Villiers Graaff
Sir de Villiers Graaff (Div) was born on 8 December 1913 in Cape Town, Western Cape. He attended Western Province Preparatory School, Claremont, Cape Town from…
BiographyReggie Williams
Apartheid was a programme established by the white dominated National Party (NP) in 1948 to consolidate the process of racial segregation in South Africa. The…
BiographyArthur William Blaxall
Arthur William Blaxall was born in 1891 in Britain. He was a clergyman who was convicted of aiding the African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan Africanist…