Engenas Barnabas Lekganyane (also called Enginasi or Ignatius), ambitious and charismatic founder of the Zion Christian ...
Christiaan Frederik Beyers Naudé was born in Roodepoort, Transvaal, on 10 May 1915. He was named after C.F. Beyers, a Bo...
In the aftermath of the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902), Britain annexed the South African Republic and the Orange Free State...
The rapid expansion of Johannesburg after the end of the Second Anglo Boer War increased to over twice it's the area to ...
Chief Rabbi of Cape Town and Hebrew scholar Israel Abrahams was born in Vilna, Lithuania. He came to South Africa in 193...
The Jameson Raid of 1895 did tremendous harm to the relationship between the Boer Republics and the British Empire, as t...
Big-game hunter, commandant, politician and scout Johannes Willem Viljoen (Jan) died in the Marico district, Western Tra...
The discovery of various rich mineral resources in Southern Africa saw the construction of various railway lines. Of not...
On the afternoon of 17 January 1879 the Zulu king Cetshwayo addressed 20 000 of his warriors at the great military kraal...
On 4 June 1652, sick-comforter at the Cape, Willem Barentz Wijlant and his wife became the first people to move into the...
On 24 December 1651, accompanied by his wife and son, Jan van Riebeeck set off from Texel in The Netherlands for the Cap...
The Transvaal University College, with branches in Johannesburg and Pretoria, took the examinations of the Cape Universi...
In the 1940s, as a result of the Second World War, the economy was in a dire state with the working and lower classes be...
Boitumelo “Tumi” Molekane was born in Tanzania on 16 August 1981.[1] At the time of his birth his parents were living in...
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