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ZANU-PF wins the first free elections in Zimbabwe
30 November 2025
The Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) won the first free elections in Zimbabwe. Robert Mugabe, p...
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Court verdict made on the sinking of the SS Mendi
15 May 2025
Following the sinking of the SS Mendi troopship, from which 616 South Africans lost their lives, there was an official a...
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The second Anglo-Boer war, also known as the South African war, breaks out
10 October 2024
A number of interrelated factors led to the Second Anglo-Boer War. These include the conflicting political ideologies of...
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Mass Democratic Movement (MDM) begins their Defiance Campaign
20 May 2024
The United Democratic Front (UDF) was a non-racial coalition group that was initially formed in protest to the Tricamera...
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Grammy Award winner Miriam Makeba is born in Johannesburg
8 March 2024
Miriam Zenzile Makeba was born in Johannesburg on 4 March 1932 to a Swati mother and a Xhosa father. Her mother was a sa...
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Jack Parow, the Afrikaans rap artist is born
22 February 2021
Zander Tyler, stage name Jack Parow was born in Parow, Cape Town on 22 February 1982.[i] He is one of the most popular A...
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Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Congo Republic, is assassinated
17 January 2020
The first and only elected Prime Minister of the Congo Republic, Patrice Lumumba, was assassinated a few months after Co...
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Dulcie September is assassinated in Paris
13 January 2020
On 29 March 1988, Dulcie September, the African National Congress (ANC) representative in France, Luxembourg and Sw...
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Bartolomeu Dias enters Luderitz Bay
30 September 2019
Portuguese seafarer Bartolomeu Dias enters the wide bay now known as Luderitz Bay after sailing for three weeks along th...
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Jan van Riebeeck, Dutch colonial administrator and first commander of the colony at the Cape of Good Hope, is born
30 September 2019
Founder of and first commander of Cape Town, Johan Anthoniszoon van Riebeeck, was born in Culemborg in the Netherla...
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Lord Charles Henry Somerset, governor of the Cape Colony, is born in Badminton, England
30 September 2019
Lord Charles Somerset, who became the British Governor at the Cape from 1814 to 1826, was born in Badminton England on 1...
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Dutch East Indian Company expedition into the interior
30 September 2019
August Friedrich Beutler was employed by the Dutch East Indian Company to lead an exploration expedition into the Easter...
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The ‘Hospital and Lunatic Asylum’, the first civilian hospital in Cape Town, is opened
30 September 2019
In the early 1800s, there was only one hospital for army men in the Cape, as well as a naval hospital in Simonstown. So,...
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Slavery is abolished at the Cape
30 September 2019
On 1 December 1834, slavery came to an end in the Cape Colony. The move to abolish slavery in the Colony came a year aft...
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Zulu King Dingane orders the execution of Piet Retief’s men
30 September 2019
Following the signing of Dingane and Retief's treaty, Piet Retief and his party were treated to a farewell dan...
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Chief Kausobson Kausob is killed
30 September 2019
The chief of a group of San that inhabited the area between the Modder, Riet and Vaal Rivers early in the nineteenth cen...
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Dr Robert Broom is born
30 September 2019
This day in history, Robert Broom, known for having discovered “Mrs Ples”, was born in Paisley, Scotland. Though Broom w...
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Verney Cameron is first European to cross equatorial Africa
30 September 2019
Verney Lovett Cameron entered the British navy in 1857, taking part in the Abyssinian campaign of 1868 and in the suppre...
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Nqwiliso cedes land to Cape Government
30 September 2019
Nqwiliso, tribal chief of Western Pondoland and eldest son of Ndamase, signed a treaty with H.G. Elliott in which he ced...
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Prince Eugene Napoleon is killed during Anglo-Zulu War
30 September 2019
The 22-year-old Prince Imperial of France, Eugene Louis Jean Joseph Napoleon, who studied in England at the Royal Milita...
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The Republic of Goshen is founded
30 September 2019
The Republic of Goshen with its capital in Lichtenburg is founded by a group of Afrikaner farmers on land allocated to t...
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Winston Churchill, is captured by Boer forces during the Anglo-Boer War
30 September 2019
Winston Churchill joined the British army in 1893 and developed a keen interest in war correspondence. Some of his early...
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Battle of Vaalkrans begins
30 September 2019
Among the reasons for the South African War (Anglo- Boer War), 1899 - 1902, was that the Afrikaners attempted to assert ...
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Kitchener succeeds Roberts as Commander-in-Chief
30 September 2019
On Lord Roberts' return to England in November 1900 Lord Kitchener succeeded him as Commander-in-Chief of the British fo...
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Cecil John Rhodes (48) dies in Muizenberg
30 September 2019
Cecil John Rhodes, imperialist, political manipulator, diamond magnate and Premier of the Cape Colony dies aged 48. He a...
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Alan Paton is born
30 September 2019
On 11 January, 1903 Alan Steward Paton, author of Cry, the Beloved Country was born in Pietermaritzburg, Natal Province....
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World’s largest diamond at the time, the Cullinan, is found in South Africa
30 September 2019
On 26 January 1905 miner Frederick Wells extracted a large diamond from the Cullinan mine, a few kilometres outside Pret...
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Belgium annexes the Congo Free State
30 September 2019
The central African region in which the Congo (now Democratic Republic of the Congo) lies has been pervaded by conflict ...
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Walter Sisulu, co-founder of the ANCYL and Umkhonto we Sizwe, is born
30 September 2019
Political leader, Walter Ulyate Sisulu was born in the Engcobo area in the Transkei on 18 May 1912. Sisulu worked as a m...
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The Afrikaner Broederbond is formed
30 September 2019
On 5 June 1918 disaffected Afrikaners were brought together in a new organisation called Jong Suid-Afrika (Young South A...
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Bantu Women’s League protests against pass laws
30 September 2019
The Bantu Women's League (BWL) under its first president Charlotte Maxeke, undertook a passive resistance on 7 January 1...
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South Africa observes Armistice Day
30 September 2019
Armistice Day is observed annually in South Africa to commemorate the sacrifice of veterans and civilians in World War I...
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The Rand Revolt breaks out
30 September 2019
The end of World War I was followed by a global depression that affected South Africa as well. Soon after the war, in 19...
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Enoch Mgijima dies
30 September 2019
Enoch Mgijima (Mgizima), Fingo prophet of the Israelites sect in the Eastern Cape, died in Ntabelanga, Queenstown. His f...
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Italy invades Ethiopia
30 September 2019
Benito Mussolini determined to establish an Italian empire and to avenge Italy's defeat in 1896 at Adwa by the Eritreans...
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Adolph Hitler Opens VW Plant In Germany
30 September 2019
Adolph Hitler opens an assembly plant in Sakse, Germany, for the manufacture of Volkswagen motor vehicles. Today, Volksw...
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William Selborne Dies
30 September 2019
William W. P. Selborne, British High Commissioner in SA and Governor of the Transvaal and Orange River Colony, dies at t...
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Chris Hani is born
30 September 2019
Thembisile 'Chris' Hani, Chief of Staff of Umkhonto we Sizwe, military arm of the African National Congress (ANC) and Ge...
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African National Congress Youth League is founded
30 September 2019
The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) is the youth wing of the African National Congress. It was formed in ...
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Jakes Gerwel is born
30 September 2019
Prof. Gert Johannes Gerwel, distinguished academic and politician, was born in the district of Somerset East, Eastern Ca...
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