Following the sinking of the SS Mendi troopship, from which 616 South Africans lost their lives, there was an official a...
A number of interrelated factors led to the Second Anglo-Boer War. These include the conflicting political ideologies of...
The United Democratic Front (UDF) was a non-racial coalition group that was initially formed in protest to the Tricamera...
Miriam Zenzile Makeba was born in Johannesburg on 4 March 1932 to a Swati mother and a Xhosa father. Her mother was a sa...
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...
The first and only elected Prime Minister of the Congo Republic, Patrice Lumumba, was assassinated a few months after Co...
On 29 March 1988, Dulcie September, the African National Congress (ANC) representative in France, Luxembourg and Sw...
Portuguese seafarer Bartolomeu Dias enters the wide bay now known as Luderitz Bay after sailing for three weeks along th...
Founder of and first commander of Cape Town, Johan Anthoniszoon van Riebeeck, was born in Culemborg in the Netherla...
Lord Charles Somerset, who became the British Governor at the Cape from 1814 to 1826, was born in Badminton England on 1...
August Friedrich Beutler was employed by the Dutch East Indian Company to lead an exploration expedition into the Easter...
In the early 1800s, there was only one hospital for army men in the Cape, as well as a naval hospital in Simonstown. So,...
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...
Following the signing of Dingane and Retief's treaty, Piet Retief and his party were treated to a farewell dan...
The chief of a group of San that inhabited the area between the Modder, Riet and Vaal Rivers early in the nineteenth cen...
This day in history, Robert Broom, known for having discovered “Mrs Ples”, was born in Paisley, Scotland. Though Broom w...
Verney Lovett Cameron entered the British navy in 1857, taking part in the Abyssinian campaign of 1868 and in the suppre...
Nqwiliso, tribal chief of Western Pondoland and eldest son of Ndamase, signed a treaty with H.G. Elliott in which he ced...
The 22-year-old Prince Imperial of France, Eugene Louis Jean Joseph Napoleon, who studied in England at the Royal Milita...
The Republic of Goshen with its capital in Lichtenburg is founded by a group of Afrikaner farmers on land allocated to t...
Winston Churchill joined the British army in 1893 and developed a keen interest in war correspondence. Some of his early...
Among the reasons for the South African War (Anglo- Boer War), 1899 - 1902, was that the Afrikaners attempted to assert ...
On Lord Roberts' return to England in November 1900 Lord Kitchener succeeded him as Commander-in-Chief of the British fo...
Cecil John Rhodes, imperialist, political manipulator, diamond magnate and Premier of the Cape Colony dies aged 48. He a...
On 11 January, 1903 Alan Steward Paton, author of Cry, the Beloved Country was born in Pietermaritzburg, Natal Province....
On 26 January 1905 miner Frederick Wells extracted a large diamond from the Cullinan mine, a few kilometres outside Pret...
The central African region in which the Congo (now Democratic Republic of the Congo) lies has been pervaded by conflict ...
Political leader, Walter Ulyate Sisulu was born in the Engcobo area in the Transkei on 18 May 1912. Sisulu worked as a m...
The Bantu Women's League (BWL) under its first president Charlotte Maxeke, undertook a passive resistance on 7 January 1...
On 5 June 1918 disaffected Afrikaners were brought together in a new organisation called Jong Suid-Afrika (Young South A...
Armistice Day is observed annually in South Africa to commemorate the sacrifice of veterans and civilians in World War I...
The end of World War I was followed by a global depression that affected South Africa as well. Soon after the war, in 19...
Enoch Mgijima (Mgizima), Fingo prophet of the Israelites sect in the Eastern Cape, died in Ntabelanga, Queenstown. His f...
Benito Mussolini determined to establish an Italian empire and to avenge Italy's defeat in 1896 at Adwa by the Eritreans...
Adolph Hitler opens an assembly plant in Sakse, Germany, for the manufacture of Volkswagen motor vehicles. Today, Volksw...
William W. P. Selborne, British High Commissioner in SA and Governor of the Transvaal and Orange River Colony, dies at t...
Thembisile 'Chris' Hani, Chief of Staff of Umkhonto we Sizwe, military arm of the African National Congress (ANC) and Ge...
The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) is the youth wing of the African National Congress. It was formed in ...
Prof. Gert Johannes Gerwel, distinguished academic and politician, was born in the district of Somerset East, Eastern Ca...
Graça Machel, political activist and champion of children's rights, widow of Samora Machel and wife of former President ...
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