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EventCollen Chauke, infamous escapee, is captured
Collen Chauke, South Africa's most wanted fugitive, was captured in Nelspruit. He was arrested at a roadblock in Nelspruit near South Africa's border with…
EventJameson Raid starts
Leander Starr Jameson led a group of about six hundred men of the Mashonaland Mounted Police from Bechuanaland (now Botswana) over the border of the Zuid…
EventThe Hewat Teacher Training College in Athlone is set alight in solidarity with the UWC students on a boycott
… hours of fighting. Students in Cape Town also marched on 12 August. The University of Cape Town (UCT) provided one …
EventSouth Africa’s first democratic elections
Following a series of tense negotiations and years of liberation struggle, the first democratic election was held in South Africa on the 27th April, 1994. This…
EventMazisi Kunene, Zulu poet and ANC activist, is born
… Mazisi Kunene was born on 12 May 1930 in Amahlongwa, Southern KwaZulu Natal to a Swazi … Trust [online] Available at: www.cas.org.za [Accessed on 16 April…
EventKenya is granted independence
… to seven years in prison. When Kenya became a Republic on 12 December 1964, Kenyatta was named Kenya's first president, …
PlaceWarriors Gate: MOTH Museum of Militaria
Warrior's Gate is situated at the Corner of Old Fort Road and Masabalala Yengwa Avenue, in Durban. In addition to its Headquarters function, Warriors Gate is…
EventSophiatown residents are forcefully moved to Soweto
… to a notice, residents were supposed to be moved on 12 February 1955, but the government caught them by surprise. …
EventJacobus Johannes (Jim) Fouché is born in Wepener in the OFS.
… Through the Years 1912-1982’ in Scientaria Militaria, Vol. 12, No. 2, (1982). ↵ …
The 2014 Cape Agulhas Treasure Tracks
… - Maximum of 4 members per team with at least one person 16 years or younger. - Entry fee: R0 = unemployed, R20 = …
EventSpringboks lose to the Lions
… in Newlands, Cape Town, South Africa, with a score of 21-16. The first two test matches of the tour were easily won by …
EventNicolaas Jacobus Smit, Vice-President of the ZAR, is born in Graaff-Reinet.
… battle of the First Boer War, which was fought from 16 December 1880 until 23 March 1881. As a member of the SAR …
EventThe Azanian People’s Organisation (AZAPO) is founded after the government banned a host of BCM organisations in October 1977.
… In the aftermath of the 16 June 1976 Uprising, in Soweto, Johannesburg, the apartheid …
ArticleA list of South African Shipwrecks
… Armadale Castle The Armadale Castle was a mail steamer of 12 973 tons. A sister ship to the Kenilworth Castle, she was … and was broken up in Japan in 1907…
The Afrikaner Bond
… of the provincial bestuur (administration) took place on 12 January 1884, attended by delegates from Standerton, … They resolved to hold a larger congress in…
PlacePeddie
… 18,796 residents, of whom 670 were literate 1875 census: 16,886 residents, of whom 1,482 were literate 1891 census: 16,525 residents, of whom 2,025 were…
EventJames Filbert Sojane, sports administrator and pioneer in the taxi industry, dies
… Zipporah and they had a son and two daughters. He died on 16 February 1985. …
EventAbebe Bikila wins gold at Rome Olympic Games
… Games. In the process Bikila set a new world record at 2:16:2. Explaining later why he ran barefoot, Bikila said, "I …
EventDutch Foreign Minister Luns is asked by the Johannesburg
… On 16 February 1960, the Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs …
EventThe Ncome Museum is opened
… confrontation between the Voortrekkers and amaZulu on 16 December 1838. The Ncome Monument and Museum Complex is …
EventPortuguese explorer Bartholomew Dias anchors at Walvis Bay
… was on this homewards journey that he reached False Bay on 16 May 1488 and named it the Cape of Good Hope. In 1910, …
PlaceUniversity of the Free State, Main building, Bloemfontein
… by Sir Hamilton Gould-Adams, and was officially opened on 16 October 1909. The North and South wings date from 1915 and …
PlaceRhodes
… It was laid out on the farm Tintern, and was proclaimed on 16 September 1891. The village was named after Cecil John …
ArticleWorld War I Timeline 1916
… Lloyd George becomes Prime Minister of Great Britain. 12 December Joseph Joffre resigns as Commander in Chief of …
ArticleThe Inquest into Biko’s Death and his funeral
… in the back of a police van, to Pretoria. He died there on 12 September 1977. Biko's funeral was the first big political …
PlaceHeritage Route of Transvaal, Limpopo and Mpumalanga
… an exodus from British-controlled territory. Some 12,000 of these Boer emigrants moving Northward from the Cape … when the Union became the Republic of South…
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1950-1959
… Republic of South Africa Constitution Act, Act No 32 of 1961. Riotous Assemblies Act, Act No 17 of 1956 In terms of … was also included as a form of…
‘Where Do Whites Fit in?’: The portrayal of Black Consciousness and its effects on white liberals in Burger’s Daughter by Rebecca Trout
… some sort of anti-apartheid activism’ (Wagner, 1994, p.16). Proponents called into question the role of ‘white … I can to prevent them, I too am guilty.’ …
SEME by Richard Rive and Tim Couzens
… the Zulus. Commending him to your Christian watch and care.12 John Dube, himself still a student at Brooklyn Seminary, … to Seme by H.R. Jackson, tailors of…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 4 Source-based Questions
… lyrics that states that he is “Shaka the Unshakeable.” [12] This content was originally produced for the SAHO … [8] Ibid. [9] Ibid. [10] Ibid. [11] Ibid. [12…