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Bennie Bethuel Albert RaKhoapa Khoapa
Bennie Bethuel Albert RaKhoapa Khoapa was born in 1937,he grew up in Matatiela in the Transkei,He graduated from Adama College in 1956,and attended Jan Hofmeyr…
BiographyZachius Botlhoko Molete
Zachius Botlhoko Molete was born in 1930 in Winburg in the Orange Free State of mixed Tswana-Ndebele parentage. His father was a teacher. He spent 1949 and…
BiographyOscar Mpetha
Oscar Mpetha was born at Mount Fletcher in the Transkei in 1909 and in 1934 sought work in Cape Town, where he was employed as a dock worker, waiter, hospital…
Address on Accepting an Honarary Doctorate from the Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow, 30 April 1999
It is indeed a very special honour to receive not one Honorary Doctorate but two, and not from one prestigious institution of learning but two! I will…
An elderly pensioner dies in a hail of bullets and two other pensioners are seriously injured during an attack at a pay point i
Jeff Radebe, the transport minister, launches the national SA Police Services Railway Unit in Cape Town. According to the SA Ra
In Dass, Nigeria, pregnant Hajara Ibrahim, 29, appears before an Islamic court to hear her lawyer launch an appeal against her
EventThe South African Government orders the slaughter of 30 000 ostriches in an effort to contain an outbreak of bird flu
In 2004, South Africa was hit by the H5N2 strain of the Avian Flu Virus. The virus killed over 2000 birds in the Middleton area of the Eastern Cape and quickly…
The match between the SA rugby team and New Zealand ends in a tie with 18 points each. SA loses the series 2-0.
A hijacker holds an Algerian jetliner for five hours at an airport in western Algeria before he is overpowered. All 232 people
Gé Korsten, popular SA singer, is born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He came to SA at the age of nine years.
An agreement to restore peace in Liberia is reached by the warring factions, whose accord includes a cease-fire, an interim gov
The ANC and the South African government make further concessions in an attempt to draw the FA into an inclusive constitutional
Fifteen people are killed in an attack on youth volunteers for an ANC voter education workshop in Mahlele, Creighton, Natal, pr
The first motorists’ organisation in SA, the Automobile Club of South Africa (called the Royal Automobile Club of SA since 1911
Roelof Temmingh, SA composer and organist, is born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He emigrates with his family in 1958 to SA.
Five hundred people attend an AWB meeting and a further 200 attend an Afrikaner Volkswag meeting the gatherings are held to pro
Israel Isaac (Lippy) Lipshitz, SA sculptor is born in Plungian, Lithuania. His father emigrated to SA in 1904 and was joined
Adv. C.R. Swart resigns as governor-general of SA to become the first state president of SA on 31 May 1961.
Adv. C.R. Swart resigns as governor-general of SA to become the first state president of SA on 31 May 1961.
Ten people die in an attack by the IFP on the launching of an ANC branch in Appelbosch, Natal North Coast.
Prof. Elize Botha, Afrikaans literary critic and former president of the SA Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns (SA Academy of Scien
Gerard Sekoto, SA artist is born in Botshabelo, Middelburg, Transvaal. He left SA for Paris in 1947. He died in 1993.
Gé Korsten, popular SA singer, is born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He came to SA at the age of nine years.
A scientist by the name of Koch discovers a vaccine successful in the prevention of , an animal disease that caused an in most
Sharpeville Day - an eye witness report by Humphrey Tyler
Historic elections!: an overview of the April 1994 elections
ArchiveMandela, From a Freedom Fighter to an Icon of Reconciliation
When Nelson Mandela walked out of the Victor Verster prison on 11 February 1960, after 10,053 days of incarceration, people all over the world watched the…
The challenge of Black Theology to the present S.A.
Lecture delivered by Rev M. Ngakane, Deputy General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches in Benoni on March 6, in 1976 about the challenge of…
One year of an unbanned ANC: the road ahead
State of the nation unauthoured paper assessing the African National Congress one year after it was unbanned.