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EventFirst Black US ambassador is sent to South Africa
… Former Director of the Office of West African Affairs and Ambassador to Liberia, Edward Perkins, was appointed as the first black American ambassador to…
EventNoby Ngombane is murdered
… Noby Ngombane, 38, head of the Free State government's policy monitoring and evaluation unit in the premier's office, was shot dead at his house in…
EventBishop Zulu is born
… Zululand and Swaziland was born in Nquthu, Natal. He was the only son of Johannes and Miriam Kolo Zulu and was a member of the Zulu Royal Dynasty. In the…
EventEsther Franks, physician and first woman ophthalmic surgeon to practise in SA, is born in Zurich
… came to SA shortly after her birth. She was a pioneer in the fight against blindness. In 1971 she was adjudged Woman of the Year by the readers of The Star…
EventChoirmaster, educator and singer Mary Eveline Fincken is born
… Africa in 1908 for health reasons. Fincken was one of the first staff members at the South African College of Music in Cape Town. On her death in 1955 she…
EventNigerian President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua is inaugurated
… Yar’Adua was inaugurated as President of Nigeria, after the April 2007 elections. President Thabo Mbeki visited Nigeria for the inauguration ceremony of…
ArchiveBlack Art and Artists in South Africa
… Khosa, an art teacher who was residing at R740, Umlazi at the time and place of the interview. Please note that the times are for guidance only, and may not…
EventDesmond Dube was born on this day.
… 1969, South Afican celebrity Desmond Dube was born, the son of well known actress Lillian Dube. [1] He is an … films including: Hotel Rwanda, Honeville and…
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.3 No.2 Jan-Mar 1959
… Edward Roux. Satyagrapha in South Africa, Fatima Meer. The Abduction of a Community by Rabbi Dr. Andre Ungar. The Trial Begins, D.A. Leonard. The Dutch…
PlaceNew Somerset Hospital, Beach Road, Green Point
… The building was opened in 1862 and in its time was the first teaching hospital in South Africa. It was declared … AIDS and TB-related treatment, care and…
EventSA author Hymne Weiss is born
… from six European languages, Hymne Weiss, was born on the farm Goedemoed, Rouxville district, Orange Free State … from 1916 until 1928, and was awarded a…
ArchiveSPRO-CAS Occasional Publication Number 6: Towards social change
… Report of the Social Commission of The Study Project on Christianity in Apartheid Society … change in South Africa; Cultural and ethnic politics in the…
ArchiveAPDUSA Bulletin 4: Dont vote! its not a crime
… some fears and anxieties of those members with regards to the consequences of them not casting a vote or registration to vote. Some of the fears that face…
ArchivePrejudice in modern perspective
… The twelfth in the Hoernle Memorial Lecture delivered by Professor Dordon W Allport and centres around the subject of prejudices be it a "love prejudice" or …
ArchiveA survey of race relations in South Africa: 1951-1952
… in South Africa in 1952 and includes chapters on: The functioning of South Africa's sovereign Parliament; International affairs and events outside the Union;…
PlaceMagistrates Court, Main Road, Simonstown
… The building was erected in 1776 with Christoffel Brand as … after his arrival in Simons Town on 21 May 1776. Towards the end of the 18th century it was…
EventSA artist Sfiso Mkame is born
… he drew on sand walls. He received formal art training at the Open School and the Little E. Theatre in Durban. In 1986 he was a student teacher in screen…
EventBusiness leader Matome Maponya is born
… of several food companies in his name and deputy chair of the Agricultural and Rural Development Corporation Ltd (ARDC), was born in Thabakgone, Tzaneen in…
EventNIC calls for Passive Resistance against Ghetto Act
… on 13 June, which was designated "Resistance Day" to mark the beginning of Passive Resistance against the Ghetto Act or The Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian…
EventDraft laws are gazetted
… The draft laws were gazetted, providing some benefits for … of tenure for Blacks qualified to be in White areas. The Minister of Cooperation and Development,…
EventFormer Springbok rugby captain, Franscois Pienaar, is born
… Born into a working class Afrikaner family, he captained the South African national rugby team, better known as … 1993 until 10 August 1996. Many would…
EventP.W. Botha petitioned to open all sports venues
… The Sowetan reported that a petition calling for all sports venues to be opened to all races was handed to the state president, P.W. Botha. The petition,…
EventChris Hani succeeds Joe Slovo as Chief of MK
… Chris Hani, freedom fighter, political activist and at the time Deputy Commander of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in Zambia, … Joe Slovo, who had been appointed…
EventSchabir Shaik is convicted on two corruption charges
… and one count of fraud by retired Judge Hilary Squires at the Durban High Court. The outcome of the politically charged trial, which implicated Zuma, …
EventPrincess Margaret dies
… Princess Margaret, the younger sister of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, died peacefully in her sleep at the age of 71 at King Edward VII Hospital. She…
PlaceCofimvaba, Eastern Cape
… The Village of Cofimvaba was probably established in about 1877 when the Magisterial seat for Tembuland , which had originally … to a more accessible…
Gandhiji’s vision of a free South Africa: A collection of articles by E.S. Reddy
… "If we look into the future [of South Africa], is it not a heritage we have to leave to posterity, that all the different races commingle and produce a…
PlaceGrey College Complex, Bloemfontein
… The main Grey College Building was designed by Architect WH … opened in 1907 by Sir Hamilton Gould-Adams, after whom the hall was named. It was declared a…
PlaceAll Saints Mission, Eastern Cape
… An Anglican Mission in the Xuka River valley, 4 km East of Ngcobo. Established in 1860-61 by Rev. John Gordon, named thus because the Land on which it was…
ArchiveBolt Number 9 August 1973
… Editorial, Christopher Hope. A Look at the Line, Mongane Wally Serote. Fernando Pessoa: The Man with Four Faces, John Torres. Pretoria 1956 to 1960: A White…