Prof. Gert Johannes Gerwel, distinguished academic and politician, was born in the district of Somerset East, Eastern Ca...
Sixty-five years ago (1947-2012) the Joint Declaration of Cooperation known as “Three Doctors’ Pact” was signed by three...
James M. Thaele, radical politician, journalist, teacher and co-founder of the African National Congress (ANC) branch in...
In 1948 the Nationalist Party won the general election on a platform of separate development. In 1950 the government pas...
Jacob (Job) Masego, World War 2 (WW2) veteran, who sunk a German supply boat, died in Springs, Transvaal (now in Ekurhul...
South African Artist Vincent Baloyi was born in Newclare, Johannesburg. He joined the National Arts Society and the SAAA...
Col. Gamal Abdel Nasser, an Arab nationalist, became premier of Egypt following a military coup. Under his leadership Eg...
An Africanist group led by Robert Sobukwe and Potlako Leballo were frustrated by the multi-racial character of the Afric...
Makgabo Rufus Maruma, world respected Tourism, Environmental and Waste Management expert and founder of Bohlweki Environ...
Before Fidel Castro took over the island state's government; Cuba was under the military rule of President Fulgeneio Bat...
On this day in 1963, the Rivonia trialists were charged with sabotage and attempting to violently overthrow the South Af...
The governing body of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) voted in favour of suspending South Africa from partic...
On 11 December 1963 the first of the 'Bantustans' or 'homelands' came into existence when the Minister of Bantu Administ...
The General Laws Amendment Act of 1964 (passed in 1963) or the 90-Day Act, commences on this day. It is dubbed the 90-Da...
On 7 March 1964, the Minister of Posts and Telegraphs, Dr Albert Hertzog, confirmed that the government's policy regardi...
On 24 October, 1964 Northern Rhodesia (now known as Zambia) gained independence from Britain. Kenneth Kaunda, the count...
On 29 October 1964, the United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar was renamed the United Republic of Tanzania. Tanganyi...
Henry Fazzie went into exile to receive training in guerrilla warfare in Ethiopia. On his return to South Africa, their...
On 19 July 1965, Ingrid Jonker, a South African poet, committed suicide by walking into the sea. Jonker was 31 Years old...
Situated on the west coast of Africa, the banks of the River Gambia have been inhabited for many centuries. The first kn...
The National Party under Dr H.F. Verwoerd claimed majority of votes in a parliamentary general election, Verwoerd's last...
Within the old South Africa, 10 homelands were created. The 'separate development' policies (Apartheid) of H.F. Verwoerd...
The Lesotho government invited all South African political refugees to make formal application to leave the country, to ...
The Ciskei was established under the Bantu Authorities Act of 1951 as an 'independent republic'. The creation of Ciskei ...
On 19 August 1970, the Chinese community, officially classed non-White in the past though they were admitted to White th...
On 28 October 1971, the death of anti-apartheid activist, Ahmed Timol, was officially confirmed. It was revealed that th...
The Democratic Party (DP), formed when factions from various opposition parties to the National Party (NP) merged, indic...
The National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) a White, student organisation, served an important role in unifyin...
Onkgopotse Abram Tiro, a leader of the South African Students' Organisation (SASO), was killed by a parcel bomb near Gab...
The athlete Hezekiel Sepeng is born in Potchefstroom, North West (then Western Transvaal). The ‘Potchefstroom Express’, ...
Former leader of South African Communist Party (SACP) Bram Fischer died of cancer at his brother Dr Paul Fischer's house...
President Samora Machel of Mozambique issued a decree ending private property ownership, in accordance with the Marxist ...
The oldest of the independent homelands, Transkei, gained complete independence as an autonomous republic under the poli...
Pik Botha, South African ambassador in the United States of America (USA), returns to South Africa and is appointed as M...
A year after the 1976 Soweto Student Uprising, the former Secretary of the South African Catholic Bishops' Conference (S...
When her underground cell was arrested and detained, Phyllis Naidoo escaped to Lesotho along a new route established by ...
Moses Kotane, the South African Communist Party and African National Congress stalwart passed away in Moscow, Russia whe...
Security Police Chief, Brigadier C.F. Zietsman, announced that about 4,000 South African exiles were undergoing guerrill...
On 26 March 1979, the Camp David peace treaty was signed by Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President...
The Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) won the first free elections in Zimbabwe. Robert Mugabe, p...
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