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BiographyPresident Seretse Khama
… Seretse Khama was born on 1 July 1921 at Serowe, Bechuanaland (now Botswana). His grandfather was Kgosi (King) Khama III, known as Khama the Good, the ruler…
EventBotswana President, Seretse Khama dies
… Bechuanaland (now Botswana) President, Seretse Khama died on 13 July 1980 he died in Gabarone, Botswana. He … 1921 at Serowe, Botswana. His grandfather was…
EventSeretse Khama is re-united with his British wife
… Seretse Khama succeeded his father, Kgosi (King) Khama III known as Khama the Good, ruler of the Bangwanto people. Subsequent to his father’s death Khama was…
EventSeretse Khama is asked to renounce chieftaincy
… Seretse Khama was the chief of the Bama-Ngwato tribe, Bechuanaland (now Botswana). Khama's problems with the British started when he married an … thuto,' A…
EventSeretse Khama is born
… Sir Seretse Khama was born on 1 July 1921 in Serowe in the British … Seretse Khama is born …
BiographyJohn Smith Moffat
… in 1859. In 1865 he took over the running of his father’s mission in Kuruman, South Africa. In 1879 John Moffat … promise that Lobengula would get British…
BiographyMichael Guthrie Scott
… a lifestyle radically different from that of his father’s parishioners. He noted that many children went without … violent. That fall, Scott was asked by his…
BiographyCameron Mbulelo Madikizela
… law. However, because of differences with Seretse Khama, the latter handed Madikizela over to the South African …
Sir Seretse Khama, first president of Botswana (1966–1980), is born in Serowe, Bechuanaland.
… Sir Seretse Khama, first president of Botswana (1966–1980), is born in …
BiographyMary Dorothy Benson
… the privileged world of servants and country clubs, Benson’s early ambitions were a far cry from where she would … and Swaziland – now Eswatini). When the…
BiographyFrederick Timpson I’Ons
… to do portraits of Black chiefs like Maqoma, Sandile and Khama. His depictions of local inhabitants such as the …
BiographyZachariah Keodirelang Matthews
… exclusively to education. From Lovedale, where Tshekedi Khama was his fellow student, he entered Fort Hare University … Durban Joint Council and held office…
Sir Seretse Khama, first president of Botswana (1966–80), dies in Gaborone, Botswana due to pancreatic cancer.
… Sir Seretse Khama, first president of Botswana (1966–80), dies in …
BiographyJohn Koenakeefe Mohl
… 1903 in Dinokana, Zeerust in the North-West Province. Mohl's father was a carpenter who sculpted objects such as chairs … reprimanded him for constantly…
Prime Minister H.F. Verwoerd, discloses that the restriction on Seretse Khama, now Prime Minister of Bechuanaland, visiting Sou
… H.F. Verwoerd, discloses that the restriction on Seretse Khama, now Prime Minister of Bechuanaland, visiting Sou …
ArticleSouth African General Timeline 1976
… masks on in a car near Manzini in Swaziland to Tim Maseko’s house who is the principal of St Christopher’s school. February, Jacob Zuma went back to…
Seretse Khama is asked to renounce his chieftaincy of the Bama-Ngwato tribe, Bechuanaland (Botswana), by the British colonial g
… Seretse Khama is asked to renounce his chieftaincy of the Bama-Ngwato …
Khama III (in Tswana: Kgama), paramount chief of the Bamangwato in the Bechuanaland Protectorate (later Botswana), dies in Sero
… Khama III (in Tswana: Kgama), paramount chief of the …
Seretse Khama, rightful heir to the Ngwato chieftaincy in Bechuanaland (Botswana), is reunited with his British wife in England
… Seretse Khama, rightful heir to the Ngwato chieftaincy in …
Bechuanaland (now Botswana) nationalist leader (and ex-Ngwato chief), Seretse Khama, is denied permission to see his wife by Br
… nationalist leader (and ex-Ngwato chief), Seretse Khama, is denied permission to see his wife by Br …
BiographyJustice Gizenga Mpanza
… Mission Reserve. His father was one of Chief Luthuli's indunas (advisors). Mpanza went to school at Groutville, … the group that planned to attack the July…
BiographyVincent Joseph Gaobakwe Matthews
… in Alice, Eastern Cape, and then enrolled at St Peter's Secondary School in Rosettenville, Johannesburg, where he … National Congress Youth League (ANCYL)…
BiographyBessie Amelia Head
… a groom on the Emery estate. The relationship between Head’s parents was forbidden according to South Africa’s Immorality Act at the time. Consequently,…
Delegates in attendance at the SANNC Founding Conference in 1912
… of the Thembu Chief Dinizulu of Zululand Chief Khama of Bechuanaland Chief Letsie 11 of Basotholand Chief …
ArticleFrontline States
… ending apartheid. The president of Botswana, Sir Seretse Khama , explained his country position and others by stating that: [A]s a consequence of Botswana's…
EventBotswana gains independence from Britain
… on 30 September 1966 under the leadership of Seretse Khama. Khama was elected president by the National Assembly in 1966 …
BiographySindiso Mfenyana
… during the mid 1800s, fleeing from the wave of Shaka Zulu's territorial expansion. His paternal grandparents, Isabella … in the Eastern Cape. They had six…
PlaceVryburg, Bophirima Region
… Whilst Vryburg receives many a Visitor because of the Town's situation on the Main Railway Line between Cape Town and … On a Plateau, you can read: "This…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the book launch of the series on Southern African leaders 1 August 1994
… categories. It is at one a reclamation of South Africa's history in its true and complete form and a tribute to some … manner in which they left us - some,…
”Some Basic Principles of African Nationalism.” Article by A. M. Lembede, in February 1945
… elements of his nature. History is a record of humanity's strivings for complete self-realisation. b) The Scientific … of the past, e.g. Shaka, Moshoeshoe,…