African - Notable Historical Events
@TweetsByHMP — Our most recent tweet:
— about 55 years ago
African - Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1497-12-16 |
Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama sailing along African East Coast names it Natal, first European to sail so far |
1619-08-20 |
1st known African Americans (appox. 20) land at Jamestown Virginia aboard Dutch vessel then sold or traded into servitude for supplies |
1663-01-10 |
King Charles II affirms charter of Royal African Company |
1770-03-05 |
Boston Massacre, British troops kill 5 in crowd. Native African American Crispus Attucks 1st to die. Later held up as early black martyr. Galvanised anti-British feelings |
1775-10-18 |
African-American poet Phillis Wheatley freed from slavery. |
1781-11-29 |
Crew of the slave ship Zong murder approx. 142 African slaves by dumping them into the sea in order to claim insurance. |
1783-12-31 |
Import of African slaves banned by all of the Northern states |
1787-04-12 |
Philadelphia's Free African Society forms |
1787-05-06 |
1st Black Masonic Lodge (African # 459) forms Prince Hall, Boston |
1787-11-01 |
First free school in NYC (African Free School) opens |
1788-01-20 |
Pioneer African Baptist church organizes in Savannah, Ga |
1791-08-19 |
Benjamin Banneker writes a letter to the Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson using language from the 'United States Declaration of Independence' to criticize Jefferson's pro-slavery stance and to request justice for African Americans |
1794-06-10 |
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia forms |
1794-07-17 |
Richard Allen organizes Philadelphia's Bethel African Meth Episcopal Church |
1794-07-29 |
African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas in Philadelphia, dedicated |
1796-03-28 |
Bethel African Methodist Church of Phila is 1st US-African church |
1796-08-08 |
Boston African Society establishes with 44 members |
1796-08-23 |
African Methodist Episcopal Church incorporated |
1808-01-01 |
African Benevolent Society (education) forms |
1816-04-09 |
African Methodist Episcopal Church organizes (Phila) |
1817-09-09 |
Alexander Twilight, probably first African American to graduate from a US college, receives BA degree at Middlebury College |
1820-02-06 |
US population announced at 9,638,453, African Americans 1,771,656 (18.4%)) |
1820-02-06 |
The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society started a settlement in present-day Liberia. |
1821-03-14 |
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church founded (NY) |
1821-06-21 |
African Methodist Episcopal Zion (AMEZ) Church organizes (NYC) |
1824-08-15 |
Freed American slaves establish Liberia on the West African coast through the American Colonization Society (ACS) |
1829-10-01 |
South African College is founded in Cape Town, South Africa; later to separate into the University of Cape Town and the South African College Schools. |
1836-02-25 |
US Showman Phineas Taylor Barnum exhibits African American slave Joice Heth. |
1845-04-29 |
Macon B Allen & Robert Morris Jr, 1st African Americans to open a law practice in the US |
1845-05-03 |
1st African American lawyer (Macon B Allen) admitted to the bar (Mass) |
1848-01-03 |
Joseph Jenkins Roberts is sworn in as the first President of the independent African Republic of Liberia. |
1853-07-06 |
William Wells Brown publishes "Clotel", 1st novel by an African American |
1862-08-14 |
Abraham Lincoln receives the 1st group of African Americans to confer with a US president |
1863-01-26 |
American Civil War: Massachusetts Governor receives permission from Secretary of War to raise a militia organization for men of African descent (54th Massachusetts Regiment) |
1863-08-08 |
American Civil War: Tennessee's "military" Governor Andrew Johnson frees his personal slaves. Celebrated as a holiday by Tennessee African Americans (early 20th century) |
1865-07-26 |
Patrick Francis Healy is 1st African American awarded PhD (from University of Leuven, Belgium) |
1867-01-08 |
African American men granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C. despite President Johnson's veto |
1867-06-22 |
Leopold Marquard, South African clergyman, missionary and educationist, 80 |
1868-10-30 |
John Menard of Louisiana is 1st African American elected to US Congress |
1869-03-16 |
Hiram R. Revels makes 1st official speech by an African American in the Senate |
1870-07-01 |
James W Smith of SC is one of 1st African Americans to enter West Point |
1870-10-19 |
1st African Americans (4) elected to US House of Representatives |
1873-07-01 |
Henry Ossian Flipper of Georgia one of the first African Americans enters West Point Military Academy |
1874-04-18 |
David Livingstone, African explorer, buried in Westminster Abbey |
1877-06-15 |
Henry Ossian Flipper becomes 1st African American to graduate from West Point Military Academy |
1878-06-13 |
Congress of Berlin meets to divide African colonization |
1878-07-13 |
Congress of Berlin discussing division of African colonies ends |
1881-03-04 |
South African president Kruger accepts ceasefire |
1884-05-01 |
Moses Walker became 1st African American player in major league baseball in US |
1886-03-17 |
Carrollton Massacre, (Mississippi) 20 African Americans killed |
1887-05-24 |
Sultan Bargash of Zanzibar grants E Afr Association at East African harbors |
1888-06-23 |
Frederick Douglass is 1st African-American nominated for US President |
1888-12-30 |
Belgium: king Leopold II installs Order of African Star |
1890-08-05 |
British & French accord to divide African colonization |
1891-05-15 |
British Central African Protectorate (now Malawi) forms |
1894-01-01 |
South African Amateur Athletic Union is founded in Johannesburg. |
1897-07-16 |
The South African Committee, investigating the Jameson Raid releases its report finding that it was conducted almost implicitly through the support and encouragement of Cecil John Rhodes and the mining houses in the Transvaal |
1899-10-11 |
South African Boers declare war on Great Britain |
1900-07-23 |
Pan-African Congress meets in London |
1900-10-19 |
South African President Paul Kruger departs for Europe |
1900-10-25 |
Great Britain annexes the former Boer South African Republic, renaming it the Transvaal Colony |
1900-12-01 |
Exiled South African president Paul Kruger visits Flanders and on the same day is declined a visit from the German Kaiser |
1900-12-02 |
Exiled South African president Paul Kruger arrives in Germany, though the Kaiser refuses the meet him |
1901-06-20 |
Charlotte Manye is 1st native African to graduate from a US college |
1901-07-16 |
The Fawcett Commission headed by Millicent Fawcett is established as a result of an outcry against the treatment of Afrikaners in concentration camps during the South African War |
1901-07-25 |
Emily Hobhouse addresses public meetings in Britain on the concentration camps during the South African War |
1905-04-01 |
British East African Protectorate becomes colony of Kenya |
1910-02-26 |
Gandhi supports the African People's Organisations resolution to declare the day of arrival of the Prince of Wales in South Africa as a day of mourning in protest against the South Africa Acts disenfranchisement of Indians, Coloureds and Africans in the upcoming Union of South Africa |
1910-04-27 |
Louis Botha and James Hertzog establish the moderate nationalists South African Party promising equality of Britons and Boers |
1912-01-08 |
Chiefs, representatives of people's and church organisations, and other prominent individuals form the African National Congress and declare its aim to bring all Africans together as one people to defend their rights and freedoms |
1913-03-14 |
South African Supreme Court declares that marriages not celebrated according to Christian rites and/or not registered by the Registrar of Marriages, are invalid; all Moslem and Hindu marriages are therefore declared invalid |
1913-06-14 |
The South African Government pass the Immigration Act, which restricts the entry and free movement of Asians; it leads to widespread agitation and rioting by resident Indians, led by Gandhi |
1913-06-16 |
South African Government pass the segregationist Native Land Act, which restricts purchase or lease of land by native Africans |
1913-07-25 |
A meeting in Johannesburg, called by the South African Native National Congress, now African National Congress, is attended by a large number of people from South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, and Swaziland |
1914-09-18 |
South African troops land in German South West Africa |
1914-12-21 |
2,800 African miners strike at the Van Rhyn Deep mines in a bid to redress some of their grievances |
1915-07-10 |
British/South African troops march into German SW-Africa |
1917-07-28 |
Silent Parade 10,000 African-American march on 5th Ave (NYC) protesting against lynching |
1919-02-19 |
Pan-African Congress, organized by W.E.B. Du Bois (Paris) |
1920-10-23 |
African demonstrators shot in Port Elizabeth, South Africa |
1921-03-03 |
The Asiatic Inquiry Commission, est. by the South African Government, proposes a system of voluntary repatriation and segregation of Indians and prohibit Indians from buying agricultural land in a specified area along the coast |
1921-06-20 |
At the Imperial Conference in London, V.S. Srinivasa Sastri, the Indian representative, puts forward a case for the granting of full citizenship rights to Indians in South Africa and other British colonies; the South African Prime Minister, General J.C. Smuts, opposes Sastris resolution, claiming that he cannot grant the franchise to Indians while withholding it from Blacks |
1921-06-30 |
The South African Reserve Bank is established. |
1921-07-30 |
The Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) forms; the party changed its name to the South African Communist Party (SACP) in 1953, after it had been forced underground |
1921-08-28 |
2nd Pan-African Congress meets (London, Brussels & Paris) |
1923-05-31 |
The South African Indian Congress (SAIC) forms in Durban, South Africa, with Omar Hajee Amod Jhaveri as President. |
1924-02-15 |
A deputation for the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) meets with the Minister of the Interior, Sir Patrick Duncan, and presents him with a memorandum setting out their objections concerning the Class Areas Bill |
1924-04-08 |
South African State pass the Industrial Conciliation Act No 11: the act provided for job reservation, excluded blacks from membership of registered trade unions,and prohibited registration of black trade unions |
1925-06-16 |
The Union Government rejects a round-table conference with India on the grounds that it will constitute interference in South African affairs |
1927-08-21 |
4th Pan-African Congress meets (NYC) |
1931-07-01 |
Trans African Railway in use (Benguela, Angola-Jadotville, Congo) |
1935-02-11 |
-11°F (-24°C), Ifrane, Morocco (African record low) |
1938-07-01 |
The South African Press Association (SAPA) is established as a non-governmental institution by South Africa's major newspapers to facilitate the sharing of news, both national and international |
1938-07-14 |
Benito Mussolini publishes anti-Jewish/African manifesto |
1939-07-22 |
Jane Bolin becomes the 1st African American female judge (NY) |
1940-10-25 |
Benjamin O Davis Sr. becomes 1st African American general in US Army |
1942-01-25 |
Lt General Rommels African corps reaches Msus |
1942-11-24 |
French collaborator Marquis de Brinon establishes "African Falanx" |
1943-07-25 |
1st warship named after an African American launched - USS Leonard Roy Harmon, a Buckley class destroyer |
1944-01-01 |
1st feature-length foreign movie, African Journey, shown on TV, NYC |
1946-06-22 |
Speaking at a prayer meeting in New Delhi, Gandhi calls on the South African government to stop 'hooliganism' by Whites |
1947-04-15 |
Jackie Robinson becomes 1st African-American to play in US major league baseball (Dodgers) |
1949-07-05 |
NY Giants purchase Monty Irvin & Henry Thompson, their 1st African American players |
1950-05-01 |
Gwendolyn Brooks is 1st African American awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry |
1950-06-13 |
South African parliament accept "Groups Area Act" |
1950-08-24 |
Edith Sampson named 1st African American US delegate to UN |
1952-02-20 |
"African Queen" opens at Capitol Theater in NYC |
1953-04-15 |
Malans National Party wins South African elections |
1953-06-09 |
South African premier Malan visits Netherlands |
1954-07-07 |
Formation of the TANU party (Tanganyika African National Union ) in Tanzania |
1954-07-12 |
ANC President Albert Luthuli banned by South African Minister of Justice from attending public gatherings and confined to the magisterial district of Lower Tugela, Natal |
1954-09-27 |
1st African American Supreme Court page is CV Bush |
1954-10-27 |
Benjamin O. Davis Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force. |
1956-02-06 |
University of Alabama suspends African-American Autherine Lucy on the grounds that it can no longer provide a safe environment for her |
1956-08-09 |
South African women demonstrate against pass laws |
1956-09-09 |
African Party for Liberation of Guinea-Bissau & Cape Verde forms |
1956-11-05 |
The Nat King Cole Show debuts on NBC, the first variety program to be hosted by an African-American |
1957-01-11 |
The African Convention is founded in Dakar. |
1958-02-11 |
Ruth Carol Taylor is 1st African-American woman hired as flight attendant, Ithaca NY |
1958-03-14 |
South Africa government prohibits the African National Congress |
1958-03-26 |
The African Regroupment Party (PRA) is launched at a meeting in Paris. |
1958-07-25 |
The African Regroupment Party (PRA) holds its first congress in Cotonou. |
1958-12-01 |
Central African Rep made autonomous member of Fr Comm (Natl Day) |
1959-03-24 |
The Party of the African Federation (PFA) is launched by Léopold Sédar Senghor and Modibo Keita. |
1959-07-01 |
The Party of the African Federation (PFA) holds its constitutive conference. |
1959-07-18 |
African American William 'Bill' Wright is the 1st coloured person to win a major golf tournament (U.S. Amateur Public Links Championships) |
1960-01-01 |
A photograph of a 13 year-old South African boy in a torn vest appears in the front page of the London Labour paper, the Daily Herald. According to the Native Labour Regulation Act, it was an offence to employ a Native in a mine under the age of 18 years. |
1960-03-28 |
Pope John appoints the first Japanese, African & Filipino cardinals |
1960-04-09 |
South African premier Verwoerd wounded in battle |
1960-07-12 |
Congo, Chad & Central African Republic declare independence |
1960-08-13 |
Central African Republic & Chad proclaim independence from France |
1960-09-20 |
UN General Assembly admit 13 African countries & Cyprus (96 nations) |
1961-04-18 |
CONCP is founded in Casablanca as a united front of African movements opposing Portuguese colonial rule. |
1961-06-29 |
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) calls for South Africa's withdrawal at the Geneva Conference in protest of the racial policies of the South African government |
1961-08-24 |
Former South African nazi leader Johannes Vorster becomes South Africa's minister of justice |
1961-08-30 |
J B Parsons is 1st African American judge of a US District Court |
1962-08-04 |
Nelson Mandela captured by South African police |
1963-05-25 |
Organization for African Unity formed by Chad, Mauritania & Zambia |
1963-05-26 |
Organization of African Unity forms |
1963-06-25 |
Curnick Ndlovu, South African Trade Unionist and African National Congress Leader, is arrested |
1963-07-06 |
South African workers' union leader Billy Nair arrested |
1963-07-11 |
South-African ANC Walter Sisulu/Andrew Mlangeni/Govan Mbeki arrested |
1963-07-13 |
Indian government announces it will cut last remaining links with South Africa by refusing landing facilities to South African aircraft |
1963-07-20 |
17 African states & Madagascar sign peace treaty with EC |
1963-08-12 |
Portuguese dictator Salazar firm on African colonization |
1963-08-28 |
200,000 march and demonstrate for African American civil rights in Washington, DC |
1963-09-15 |
Church bombed in Birmingham AL, kills 4 African-American girls |
1963-11-02 |
Only 1st-class cricket game played in Uganda, MCC v E African XI |
1964-06-18 |
African Groundnut Council forms in Dakar |
1965-03-20 |
Civil and Women's Rights Activist Dorothy Height has her first column published in the weekly African-American newspaper called the "New York Amsterdam News" |
1965-07-03 |
Harold Strachan, member of the Communist Party of South Africa and Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress, is served with a restriction order in terms of the Suppression of Communism Act |
1966-01-01 |
Milt coup by Col Jean-Bédell Bokassa in Central African Republic |
1966-01-11 |
"Daktari" African adventure series premieres on CBS TV |
1966-06-22 |
South African Bishop Alphaeus Hamilton Zulu, is refused a passport and thus permission to attend an international church conference by the South African government |
1966-08-03 |
South African government bans Beatle records |
1967-05-03 |
African American students seize finance building at Northwestern University |
1968-04-02 |
Chad creates Union of Central African States |
1968-08-21 |
Marine James Anderson Jr is 1st African American to win Medal of Honor |
1968-08-25 |
Arthur Ashe becomes 1st African American to win the US singles championship |
1970-02-11 |
John Lennon pays £1,344 fines for 96 protesting South African rugby team playing in Scotland |
1970-08-13 |
Pamphlet bombs which scatter revolutionary African National Congress propaganda leaflets explode in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban and Port Elizabeth, South Africa |
1971-03-03 |
South African Broadcasting Corp lifts its ban on the Beatles |
1972-01-01 |
Policewomen are enlisted as full members of South African Police Force for the first time. |
1972-02-05 |
Bob Douglas is 1st African American elected to Basketball Hall of Fame |
1972-03-02 |
Jean-Bédell Bokassa appoints himself pres for life of Cent African Rep |
1972-06-24 |
Danie Malan, South African athlete, sets a new world record in the 1000m event in Munich |
1972-07-03 |
Themba Sono is forced to resign as president of South African Student Organisation (SASO) |
1972-07-25 |
US health officials concede African American were used as guinea pigs in 40 year syphilis experiment |
1973-01-01 |
West African Economic Community formed (Benin, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Upper Volta) |
1973-05-08 |
Ernie Banks fills in for Cubs mgr Whitey Lockman who is ejected during the game, technically becoming baseball's 1st African American manager |
1973-07-01 |
Tom Bradley becomes the 38th Mayor of Los Angeles, the first (and only) African-American to hold that position |
1975-06-28 |
The South African rugby team beats France 33-18 in Pretoria |
1975-07-27 |
The British government closes its consulate in Angola following increasing fighting between the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola and South African troops |
1975-09-29 |
Sharon Dahlonega Raiford Bush becomes American television's first African-American weathercaster. |
1976-02-28 |
Ceuta & Melilla (Spanish Morocco) are last European African possession |
1976-03-12 |
South African troops leave Angola |
1976-07-17 |
The opening of the Summer Olympics is marred by 25 African teams boycotting the New Zealand team. |
1976-07-20 |
Rev. Samuel Mutendi, founder of the first African Independent Church, dies |
1977-06-24 |
Josiah Mutabuzi Isaya Kibira is the first African to be elected president of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) |
1977-12-04 |
Jean-Bedel Bokassa crowns himself ruler of Central African Empire |
1979-06-04 |
South-African pres Vorster resigns due to scandal |
1979-09-20 |
Coup in Central African Rep: David Dacko overthrows emperor Bokassa I |
1979-10-30 |
Richard Arrington, Jr. is elected the first African American mayor in Birmingham, Alabama |
1980-05-02 |
Pope John Paul II begins African tour |
1980-06-23 |
South African Prime Minister P. W. Botha warns the country that confrontation will be inevitable if his proposed President's Council fails; the Council was part of Botha's plan to effect broad ranging constitutional changes which would allow for a role for both Indian and Coloured people in parliament but which still excluded direct political representation for African people. |
1980-06-28 |
The South African Springbok rugby team lead by Morné du Plessis beats the British Lions 12-10 in Port Elizabeth to lead 3-0 in the series |
1981-08-08 |
At a summit South African Trade Unions resolve to defy apartheid and labour laws |
1981-09-01 |
Military coup under general Kolingba in Central African Republic, President Dacko flees |
1981-11-25 |
Failed coup by South African mercenaries in Seychelles |
1982-06-25 |
South African President P.W. Botha issues a new Proclamation again placing Ingwavuma under government control |
1982-08-11 |
The South African Defence Force (SADF) raids Southern Angola |
1983-01-02 |
Several African National Congress(ANC) members detained in Swaziland decide to leave the country voluntarily for Mozambique. |
1983-08-20 |
The South African anti-apartheid umbrella organization, United Democratic Front (UDF) is launched at Rocklands Community Centre in Cape Town, South Afrca |
1983-08-30 |
Guion Bluford becomes 1st African-American astronaut in space |
1984-05-12 |
South African prisoner Nelson Mandela sees his wife for 1st time in 22 years |
1984-06-28 |
Former member of South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU), Jeannette Schoon, and her six-year old daughter, Katryn, are killed by a letter bomb at Lubango, in northern Angola |
1984-07-23 |
Vanessa Williams, 1st African American Miss America, resigns due to posing nude |
1984-08-13 |
Morocco & Libya sign "Arabic-African Union" treaty |
1984-12-10 |
South African Bishop Desmond Tutu received his Nobel Peace Prize |
1985-01-31 |
South African president PW Botha offers to free Mandela if he denounces violence |
1985-07-13 |
"Live Aid" concert raises over $70 million for African famine relief |
1985-08-07 |
A delegation of the South African Council of Churches meets with SA President P W Botha, following calls by the church for urgent discussions on the causes of unrest, forced removals and the emergency regulations in the country |
1985-08-13 |
South African Defence Force soldiers, travelling in a convoy of more than ten armoured vehicles, surrounded the Thaba-Juluba high school in Soweto and arrest 200 students during a clampdown on school boycotts |
1985-08-14 |
Political violence by the youth begins after the funeral of assassinated Victoria Mxenge, a civil rights lawyer, who was respected and liked by the Congress of South African Students |
1985-08-23 |
South African attorney/UDF leader "Dulah" Omar arrested |
1985-10-11 |
President Reagan bans importation of South African Krugerrands |
1986-01-01 |
South African Government closes its borders with Lesotho, cutting off important food and fuel supplies, after Lesotho refuses to sign a non-aggression pact. |
1986-05-16 |
South African Pres P W Botha sends Coetsee to visit Mandela |
1986-05-18 |
South African army occupies Botswana, Zimbabwe & Zambia |
1986-06-12 |
P W Botha declares South African national emergency |
1986-06-13 |
Pres Reagan criticizes South African state of emergency |
1986-06-24 |
In Britain, Foreign Office Minister Lynda Chalker, meets Oliver Tambo, president of the African National Congress to discuss means of ending Apartheid without violence |
1986-06-26 |
South African journalist Zwelakhe Sisulu arrested |
1986-06-27 |
South African Journalist and founder of the 'New Nation' newspaper, Zwelakhe Sisulu is abducted; he was released 721 days later on 2 December 1988 |
1986-06-29 |
Moses Mayekiso, who was the General Secretary of the Metal and Allied Workers Union (MAWU) and became a member of the South African Communist Party (SACP), is detained for a second time and spends several months in solitary cofinement |
1986-11-21 |
Central African Republic adopts constitution |
1986-12-12 |
South African journalist Zwelakhe Sisulu arrested |
1987-06-22 |
The International Labour Organisation, meeting for its annual conference in Geneva, calls for international sanctions against South African minerals |
1987-11-28 |
South African Airways Boeing 747 crashes into Indian Ocean, 159 die |
1988-02-24 |
South African apartheid regime bans the UDF |
1988-03-15 |
Eugene Marino of Atlanta, appointed 1st African American archbishop |
1988-04-06 |
African American polar explorer Matthew Henson buried next to R Peary in Arlington National Cemetery |
1988-07-29 |
South African government bans anti-apartheid film "Cry Freedom" |
1988-10-19 |
South African anti-apartheid leader Sisulu wins $100,000 Human Rights prize |
1988-12-26 |
Anti African student rebellion in China PR |
1989-02-14 |
African National Congress (ANC) opens office in Amsterdam |
1989-06-07 |
23 year old olympic barefoot South African runner Zola Budd retires |
1989-06-29 |
The National Party adopts a five year programme of its objectives which included a political "reform" plan to give South Africa's Black majority a role in national as well as local government spheres; the African National Congress (ANC) said that it would consider nothing less than a one-man, one-vote system |
1989-07-05 |
South African President Pieter Botha visits ANC leader Nelson Mandela |
1989-07-16 |
South Africa's largest labour federation, the Congress of South African Trade Unions, holds its third annual congress and intensifies its campaign against apartheid |
1989-08-06 |
Twenty former South African political prisoners, in defiance of the restriction orders, launch a campaign against apartheid laws |
1990-01-18 |
South Africa says its reconsidering ban on African Natl Congress |
1990-02-10 |
South African President de Klerk announces Nelson Mandela will be freed on Feb 11th |
1990-05-02 |
South Africa & African National Congress open talks to end apartheid |
1990-06-05 |
South African troops plunder Nelson Mandela's home |
1990-06-23 |
African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela, on a US tour, receives a tumultuous welcome in Boston. |
1990-06-25 |
African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela meets with President George Bush at the White House |
1990-08-15 |
At least 150 people die in clashes between the African National Congress and Inkatha Freedom Party, South Africa |
1990-08-16 |
South African President F. W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela hold emergency talks in Pretoria about increasing violence in Soweto |
1990-09-24 |
South African President F W de Klerk meets US President Bush in Washington DC |
1990-12-13 |
South African President De Klerk meets with Nelson Mandela to talk of end of apartheid |
1991-05-13 |
South African activist Winnie Mandela convicted of abducting 4 blacks |
1991-09-05 |
Nelson Mandela chosen as president of African National Congress |
1991-09-07 |
1st South African international competition in 25 years, gymnastics |
1992-06-30 |
South African ANC President Nelson Mandela meets with UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali at Dakar |
1992-07-13 |
The Tripartite Alliance, consisting of the African National Congress, South African Communist Party and Congress of South African Trade Union, outlines a mass action plan for August |
1992-08-23 |
Wilhelm Verwoerd, grandson of former South African Prime Minister, Hendrik Verwoerd, main architect of apartheid, joins the African National Congress |
1993-09-02 |
Central African Republic ex-emperor Bokassa freed |
1994-01-03 |
Restoration of South African citizenship, announced on 15 December 1993 by the South African parliament led by President F.W. de Klerk, becomes effective four months before the first South Africa non-racial polls of 27 April, 1994 |
1994-03-22 |
South African government/ANC take power in Ciskei homeland |
1994-04-19 |
Inkatha ends boycott of South African multi-racial election |
1994-04-26 |
1st multi-racial election in South Africa begins [3 days] Dr Nomaza Paintin in NZ is 1st black South African to vote |
1994-08-15 |
South African President Nelson Mandela receives Anne Frank Penning |
1994-08-20 |
Vuyani Bungu, the South African junior feartherweight, wins IBF World Boxing Title |
1994-10-01 |
South African President Nelson Mandela visits US |
1996-08-19 |
The major South African political parties begin their submission to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) |
1997-06-23 |
In the Central African Republic, soldiers fire on foreign peacekeepers in the third major rebellion since May |
1997-08-16 |
The South African soccer team, Bafana Bafana wins against the national team of the Democratic Republic of the Congo at First National Bank stadium, Johannesburg, South Africa |
1998-02-01 |
Rear Admiral Lillian E. Fishburne became the first female African American to be promoted to rear admiral. |
1998-08-19 |
South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission chairperson, Archbishop D. Tutu, releases documents revealing an alleged plot by Western countries to assassinate United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold of Sweden |
1999-02-04 |
Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot dead by four plainclothes New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race-relations in the city. |
1999-06-25 |
In his first state of the nation address, South African President Thabo Mbeki promises to tackle rampaging crime; the nation's murder rate is the third highest in the world and more than 49,000 cases of rape were reported in 1998 |
2000-08-09 |
South African President Thabo Mbeki unveils the Women's Monument commemorating the role of women in the anti-apartheid struggle |
2002-06-24 |
The Igandu train disaster in Tanzania kills 281, the worst train accident in African history. |
2002-06-28 |
In South Africa, the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the Treatment Action Campaign table a national HIV/AIDS treatment plan in the National Economic, Development and Labour Council |
2002-07-09 |
The African Union is established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The first chairman is Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa. |
2004-07-17 |
Former South African President Nelson Mandela calls for commitment by the world to take action against Aids |
2005-01-26 |
Condoleezza Rice is sworn in as U.S. Secretary of State, becoming the first African American woman to hold the post. |
2005-04-02 |
James Stewart Jr. becomes first African American to win a major motor sports event. |
2005-07-02 |
South African tennis player Wesley Moodie and Australian Stephen Huss win the Wimbledon Men's double title |
2005-11-23 |
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, elected president of Liberia, is the first woman to lead an African country. |
2008-08-27 |
Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be nominated by a major political party for President of the United States |
2008-11-04 |
Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be elected President of the United States |
2009-01-20 |
Barack Obama, inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States of America, becomes the United States' first African-American president |
2010-07-02 |
Ghana's Black Stars, the only African team standing in the Quarter Finals of the FIFA 2010 World Cup in South Africa, are defeated by Uruguay |
2012-03-23 |
African Union suspends Mali's membership following a coup |
2012-03-24 |
African Union deploys 5,000 strong force with the aim of catching or killing warlord Joseph Kony |
2012-08-04 |
South African Oscar Pistorius becomes first amputee to compete at the Olympics |
2012-08-16 |
South African police open fire on striking mine workers and kill at least 34 people |
2012-10-12 |
The United Nations Security Council unanimously approves of an African-led force to oust Islamist militants in northern Mali |
2012-12-18 |
The Seleka rebel coalition kills 15 people during its capture of Bria, the Central African Republic |
2012-12-23 |
The Seleka rebel coalition takes over Bambari, the third largest town in the Central African Republic |
2013-02-14 |
Oscar Pistorius, a South African amputee sprint runner, is charged with the murder of Reeva Steenkamp |
2013-06-25 |
37 people are killed after a gold mine collapses in the Central African Republic |
2013-09-09 |
60 people are killed in conflict between rebels and loyalists in the Central African Republic |
2013-10-09 |
60 people are killed in clashes between militias and Seleka rebels in the Central African Republic |
2014-01-09 |
Yaya Toure wins African Footballer of the Year |
2014-05-10 |
The African National Congress wins the 2014 South African General Election |
2014-06-03 |
Hashim Amla becomes the first non-white captain of the South African national cricket team |
2014-07-14 |
The death toll from the West African Ebola outbreak passes 500 |
2014-08-08 |
The West African Ebola outbreak is categorized as an international concern by the WHO |
2014-09-11 |
South African athlete Oscar Pistorius is found not guilty of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp (and is later found guilty of culpable homicide) |
2014-09-27 |
The West African death toll from the Ebola virus reaches 3,000 lives |
2014-11-09 |
Top African business leaders establish an emergency fund to help countries hit by the Ebola outbreak |
2016-02-21 |
Central African Republic elects former PM Touadera as president |
2017-10-08 |
Nigeria first African country to qualify for 2018 soccer World Cup |
2018-02-15 |
South African President Zuma succumbs to pressure, resigns |
Keep in touch with us:
beta testing:
nothing here now
African - Notable Birthdays
African - Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1432-01-15 |
Afonso V "the African", king of Portugal (1438-1481) |
1624-08-05 |
William Tucker, Jamestown Va, 1st child of African descent born in English America |
1746-11-06 |
African-American abolitionist and clergyman Absalom Jones born into slavery in Delaware |
1753-05-08 |
Phillis Wheatley, American poet who was both the second published African-American poet and first published African-American woman. |
1761-02-01 |
Christian Hendrik Persoon, South African mycologist (d. 1836) |
1783-02-11 |
Jarena Lee, African American travelling minister |
1788-05-18 |
Hugh Clapperton, Annan Scotland, African explorer |
1795-09-23 |
Alexander Twilight, minister and politician, first African American to graduate and to hold public office, born Corinth Vermont (d.1857) |
1797-07-10 |
Pieter L Uys, South African pioneer (Great Pull) |
1802-07-24 |
Ira Aldridge, African American stage actor |
1813-04-18 |
James McCune Smith, African-American doctor and abolitionist (d. 1865) |
1817-01-08 |
Sir Theophilus Shepstone, South African statesman (d. 1893) |
1818-02-14 |
Frederick Douglass, African-American abolitionist/lecturer/editor (exact year unknown) |
1825-09-24 |
Frances E W Harper, famous African |
1825-10-10 |
Paulus Kruger, Pres of South African Republic (1883), Boer leader |
1838-02-16 |
Arnoldus Pannevis, South African ship's doctor/linguist |
1841-01-28 |
Henry Morton Stanley, Denbigh Wales, journalist and African explorer (found Livingstone in Africa) (d.1904) |
1847-10-22 |
Jacobus Herculas [Uncle Koos] de la Rey, South African politician |
1853-02-09 |
Leander Starr Jameson, PM of South African Cape colony |
1854-10-07 |
Christiaan R de Wet, South African rebel leader, politician and general in the Boer War |
1855-03-24 |
Olive Schreiner, South African writer (Portrait of a South African Woman) |
1855-03-24 |
Olive Schreiner, The Story of an African Farm |
1856-03-21 |
Henry Ossian Flipper, Thomasville, Georgia, American soldier, former slave and first African American to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1877 |
1865-08-04 |
Gus Kempis, South African cricketer (d. 1890) |
1865-08-20 |
Bernard Tancred, South African cricketer (d. 1911) |
1866-04-03 |
J. B. M. Hertzog [Barry Hertzog], Cape Colony, South African General/Premier (1914-39) |
1870-06-24 |
Horatio Mbelle, Cape Colony, South African interpreter, community leader and politician |
1872-04-07 |
William Monroe Trotter, Hyde Park, Massachusetts, newspaper editor and African-American rights activist |
1873-06-29 |
Leo Frobenius, Berlin, Germany, German ethnologist and archaeologist (African cultures) |
1874-01-24 |
Arthur Schomburg (Arturo Alfonso), Puerto Rico, archivist of African American history and culture |
1875-05-04 |
Reggie Schwartz, cricketer (1st of great South African googlists) |
1876-04-14 |
Murray Bisset, cricketer (South African wicket-keeper 1899 & 1910) |
1876-11-28 |
Bert Vogler, cricketer (early South African googly bowler) |
1877-02-21 |
Jacob D du Toit [Totius], South African poet/theologist |
1877-03-03 |
Garrett Morgan, African-American inventor |
1878-01-26 |
A W "Dave" Nourse, cricketer ("Grand Old Man" of South African cricket) |
1878-04-07 |
C M M Hathorn, cricketer (South African Test centurion in 1905-06) |
1879-08-07 |
J J Kotze, South African cricket fast bowler (1902-07) |
1880-08-17 |
Percy Sherwell, cricketer (great South African batsman-keeper-captain) |
1880-12-28 |
Christian DFL Leipoldt, South african physician/writer/poet |
1881-03-13 |
Balthazar H Verhagen, Neth/South African dramatist/writer |
1881-04-23 |
Claude Carter, South African slow lefty cricketer (1912-22) |
1882-02-09 |
Thomas Campbell, South African cricket wicketkeeper (5 Tests 1909-12) |
1883-02-21 |
J M M "Mick" Commaille, cricketer (dual South African cricket/soccer rep) |
1883-08-14 |
Ernest Everett Just, Charleston South Carolina, African-American embryologist known for his pioneering work in the physiology of development, especially fertilization and cell division |
1884-02-04 |
Rolland Beaumont, cricketer (South African batsman in 5 tests 1912-14) |
1885-06-16 |
Tom Howard, The African Dodger |
1886-06-28 |
Joe Cox, cricketer (South African pace bowler in 1913-14 series v England) |
1886-06-29 |
James Van Der Zee, Lenox Ma, African American photographer |
1886-09-13 |
Alain LeRoy Locke, African American writer and philosopher "Father of the Harlem Renaissance" |
1887-02-11 |
John van Melle, South African writer (Dawid Booysen) |
1887-08-02 |
Tommy Ward, Former South African cricketer (d. 1936) |
1887-11-17 |
Bernard L Montgomery, British field marshall (WW II-African campaign) |
1888-11-26 |
Ford Beebe, African Treasure |
1889-03-16 |
Reggie Walker, South African athlete (d. 1951) |
1889-05-05 |
Herbie Taylor, cricketer (prolific South African pre- & post-WWI) |
1889-06-20 |
John S. Paraskevopoulos, Greek-South African astronomer (d. 1951) |
1891-04-13 |
Nella Larsen, African-American novelist (d. 1964) |
1891-11-15 |
Erwin Rommel, German Field Marshal (WW II-African campaign) |
1892-02-29 |
Augusta Savage (Fells), Green Cove Springs Florida, African-American sculptor and equal rights advocate |
1894-08-23 |
James La Guma, Bloemfontein, South African political activist and trade unionist |
1894-10-05 |
Bevil Rudd, South African athlete (d. 1948) |
1895-06-10 |
Hattie McDaniel, Wichita Kansas, 1st African American actress to win an Oscar (Gone With The Wind) |
1895-06-22 |
James Arthur Calata, Anglican clergyman and African National Congress (ANC) leader, Rabula, Keiskammahoek, Eastern Cape. |
1895-07-21 |
H G "Nummy" Deane, South African cricket Test captain (1927-31) |
1895-07-22 |
James Arthur Calata, African National Congress (ANC) leader and Anglican clergyman |
1897-11-01 |
Naomi Mitchison, author (African Heroes, Return to Fairy Hill) |
1899-04-04 |
William Brann, cricketer (South African batsman v England 1922-23) |
1899-10-11 |
A L "Oosh" Ochse, cricketer (no relation to A E South African fast bowler) |
1900-06-25 |
Izak D du Plessis, South African writer/director (3rd World) |
1900-07-10 |
Bob Catterall, cricketer (dashing South African batsman of 20's) |
1901-03-18 |
William H. Johnson, African-American artist of the Harlem Renaissance (d. 1970) |
1901-10-02 |
[Ignatius] Roy [D] Campbell, South African poet (Flowering Rifle) |
1902-01-01 |
Buster Nupen, cricketer (1-eyed South African quick, great on matting) |
1902-10-14 |
Stanley Coen, cricketer (South African batsman in two Tests 1927-28) |
1904-06-23 |
Quintin McMillan, cricketer (South African leg spinner 1929-32) |
1905-07-05 |
Jock Cameron, South African cricket keeper (captain) |
1905-11-05 |
George Bissett, cricketer (successful South African quick in 1927-28) |
1906-04-15 |
A J "Sandy" Bell, South African cricket fast bowler (16 Tests 1929-35) |
1906-08-05 |
John Huston, Nevada Mo, director/writer (African Queen, Chinatown) |
1907-07-01 |
Elma Milotte, The African Lion |
1907-12-16 |
Syd Curnow, cricketer (South African batsman in 7 Tests 1930-32) |
1908-05-26 |
Robert Morley, England, actor (High Road to China, African Queen) |
1908-05-26 |
Robert Morley, The African Queen |
1909-01-08 |
Bruce Mitchell, cricketer (South African bat, their top run-scorer (3471)) |
1909-07-15 |
John Cochrane, South African cricket pace bowler (one Test 1931) |
1909-07-20 |
Eric Rowan, South African cricketer (prolific batsman pre- & post-WWII) |
1909-08-24 |
Ronnie Grieveson, South African cricket keeper/batsman (2 Tests v Eng 1939) |
1909-11-19 |
Moses Josiah Madiba, Seshego, Pietersburg (now Polokwane) district, South African author and first African chancellor of the University of the North |
1909-11-27 |
James Agee, American author (African Queen, Death in Family) |
1909-11-27 |
James Agee, The African Queen |
1909-9-21 |
Kwame Nkrumah, The Proud African |
1910-02-04 |
Uys Krige, South African playwright/novelist (Orphan of the Desert) |
1910-05-19 |
Alan Melville, cricketer (graceful South African batsman 1938-49) |
1910-07-08 |
Govan AM Mbeki, South African leader (ANC/SACP) |
1910-10-15 |
Xenophon Balaskas, cricketer (South African leg-spinner of 30's) |
1910-11-12 |
A "Dudley" Nourse, cricketer (son of Dave, brilliant South African bat) |
1910-11-20 |
Pauli Murray, famous African |
1911-05-28 |
Bob Crisp, cricketer (South African pace bowler of 1930s) |
1911-06-13 |
Albert Cleage, famous African |
1911-09-02 |
Romare Bearden, African American painter (d. 1988) |
1912-10-08 |
Ralph Kemplen, The African Queen |
1913-05-22 |
Andrea C Bensddorp, Dutch/South African actress (Commensaal) |
1913-09-10 |
Zeph[ania L] Mothopeng, pres South Afr Pan-African Congress (1986- ) |
1913-9-06 |
Leigh Aman, The African Queen |
1914-06-18 |
Billy Wade, cricket wicket-keeper (South African in 11 Tests 1938-50) |
1914-06-29 |
Dr Nnoseng Ellen Kate Khuzwayo, Thaba-Nchu Orange Free State, South African member of parliament (ANC) and noted writer ("Call me Woman") |
1914-12-12 |
Denis Begbie, cricketer (South African batsman in five Tests 1948-50) |
1915-04-20 |
Joseph Wolpe, South African-born psychotherapist (d. 1997) |
1915-07-17 |
Habib Rajab, Durban, South African, a trader and collector of oriental art |
1917-10-27 |
Oliver Tambo, co-founder (African National Congress) |
1917-11-20 |
Bobby Locke, South African golfer (d. 1987) |
1917-12-09 |
Samuel W. Allen, Furious Flower: A Video Anthology of African American Poetry 1960-95 |
1918-07-09 |
Rowley I Arenstein, South African attorney/communist/ANC'er |
1919-01-05 |
Severino Gazzelloni, Scipio the African |
1919-05-23 |
Robert KJE Antonissen, South African literary |
1919-07-31 |
Norman Del Mar, The African Queen |
1920-05-26 |
Jack Cheetham, cricketer (South African batsman, Test capt early 50's) |
1920-08-20 |
Bill Herlihy, The African Queen |
1920-09-23 |
Gerard W Taylor, South African/British surgeon |
1920-12-07 |
Tatamkulu Afrika, South African poet and writer (d. 2002) |
1921-02-07 |
Athol Rowan, cricketer (brother of Eric, South African off-spinner) |
1921-03-27 |
Richard Marner, The African Queen |
1922-04-30 |
Anton Murray, cricketer (South African batsman in 10 Tests 1951-55) |
1922-11-08 |
Christiaan Barnard, South African surgeon (perform 1st heart transplant) |
1922-12-08 |
George Fullerton, cricketer (South African keeper-batsman 1947-51) |
1922-9-29 |
Peter Swanwick, The African Queen |
1923-04-10 |
John Watkins, cricketer (South African all-rounder in 15 Tests 49-57) |
1923-04-23 |
James Kirkup, travel writer/poet/novelist (African in Greenland) |
1923-07-16 |
Mari Evans, Furious Flower: A Video Anthology of African American Poetry 1960-95 |
1923-11-20 |
Nadine Gordimer, South African author (July's people, Nobel 1991) |
1923-12-24 |
Wilton S Mkwayi, South African ANC leader |
1924-03-25 |
Julia Perry, Lexington, Kentucky, African-American composer (Cask of Amontillado) |
1924-05-13 |
Harry Schwarz, South African MP and Ambassador to the US |
1924-07-26 |
Elias Motsoaledi, South African Umkhonto we Sizwe-commandant |
1925-05-04 |
Peter Blum, German/South African/English poet (Capricorn) |
1925-06-19 |
Alfred B Nzo, South African sec-gen ANC (1969- ) |
1925-06-28 |
Anne Mackenzie, South African long distance athlete |
1925-08-15 |
Gertrude Shope, South African head (ANC female section) |
1925-10-24 |
Jayaaram N Reddy, South African politician/banker |
1925-12-03 |
Ken Funston, South African cricket batsman (18 Tests during 1950's) |
1925-12-25 |
Christmas F Tinto, South African ANC'er/UDF-leader |
1926-01-14 |
Harold Wolpe, sociologist lawyer/Soth African activist |
1926-09-11 |
Gerrit van Niekerk Viljoen, South African minister of Legislation |
1926-12-24 |
Ronald Draper, cricketer (South African batsman v Australia 1949-50) |
1926-12-26 |
Edgar D Ngoyi, South African ANC leader (17 yrs in Robbeneiland Jail) |
1927-04-03 |
Wesley Brown, Baltimore, Maryland, 1st African American US Naval Academy graduate, (d. 2012) |
1927-05-24 |
Martinus J Mentz, South African MP (Conservative) |
1927-10-21 |
Nadine Judd, [Nadia Moore/Nerina], South African/British ballerina |
1927-11-09 |
Carel W H Boshoff, South African head (Broederbond/Volkswag) |
1928-03-01 |
Seymour Papert, South African mathematician |
1928-03-19 |
Clive Van Ryneveld, cricketer (South African all-rounder 1951-58) |
1928-05-12 |
Henry Cosby, African-American songwriter (d. 2002) |
1928-06-28 |
Peter Heine, cricketer (solid South African fast bowler in 1950's) |
1928-07-10 |
Jack Nel, cricketer (South African opening bat in 6 Tests 1949-57) |
1928-10-17 |
Zacharias J de Beer, South African physician/MP (DP) |
1929-01-30 |
Hugh Tayfield, cricketer (celebrated South African off-spinner 1949-60) |
1929-03-05 |
J. B. Lenoir, Monticello, Mississippi, African American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter, active in the 1950s |
1929-03-11 |
Jackie McGlew, cricketer (dour South African opening bat of the 50') |
1929-05-23 |
Joe Modise, South African commandant of Umkhonto we Sizwe (1965- ) |
1929-06-28 |
Helena van Heerden, South African pianist |
1930-01-19 |
John Waite, cricket wicket-keeper (great South African) |
1930-01-30 |
Magnus Adem Malan, South African minister of Defense (1980- ) |
1930-03-12 |
Alvin Aubert, Furious Flower: A Video Anthology of African American Poetry 1960-95 |
1930-04-27 |
Roelof F "Pik" Botha, South African minister of Foreign affairs |
1930-06-03 |
Michael Melle, cricketer (South African pace bowler of early 1950's) |
1930-07-09 |
Roy McLean, cricketer (prolific South African batsman played 40 Tests) |
1930-08-04 |
David M G Curry, South African Labour Party parliament leader |
1930-10-13 |
Peter J Clase, South African minister of Education/Culture (1985- ) |
1931-03-08 |
Neil Adcock, cricketer (South African pace bowler, 104 wkts 1953-62), (d. 2013) |
1931-07-15 |
Eugene Louw, South African minister of Internal affairs |
1931-08-01 |
Trevor Goddard, cricketer (South African opening batsman & opening bowler) |
1931-08-02 |
Eddie Fuller, cricketer (South African fast bowler in 7 Tests 1952-58) |
1931-08-09 |
Mark Weinberg, South African/British fiancier/multi-millionaire |
1931-12-28 |
Georg "Org" Marais, South African economist/underminister of Finance |
1932-02-29 |
Reri Grist, African-American coloratura soprano |
1932-03-31 |
Godfrey Lawrence, cricketer (South African fast bowler, 8-53 v NZ 1961) |
1933-03-06 |
Kim Elgie, cricketer (South African bat v NZ 1961-62, Scotland RU intl) |
1933-03-22 |
Chris Duckworth, cricketer (South African batsman v England 1956-57) |
1933-06-21 |
Gerald Barrax, Furious Flower: A Video Anthology of African American Poetry 1960-95 |
1933-07-17 |
Tony Pithey, cricketer (brother of David, South African batsman in 17 Tests) |
1933-10-10 |
Gerald Masters, South African/British author (Pan Book of Dates) |
1933-12-06 |
Jim Pothecary, cricketer (South African pace bowler on 1960 England tour) |
1934-04-03 |
Jane Goodall, London England, ethologist (studied African chimps) |
1934-05-26 |
Abdulah M "Dulah" Omar, South African attorney/UDF-leader |
1934-11-09 |
Ronald Harwood, [Horwitz], South African playwright (Dresser) |
1935-01-09 |
Earl G. Graves, Sr., African-American Publisher |
1935-02-05 |
John J "Jannie" Geldenhuys, supreme commander South African army |
1935-03-09 |
Sister Bernard Ncube, South African nun |
1935-05-26 |
Sheila Steafel, South African-born British actress |
1935-05-29 |
Andre P Brink, South African writer (Dry White Season) |
1935-05-29 |
Denis J Worrall, South African politician/leader (DP) |
1935-06-25 |
Wynand Breytenbach, South African under minister of Defense (1986- ) |
1935-07-12 |
Chris Burger, cricketer (South African batsman v Australia 1957-58) |
1935-07-24 |
George Varnals, South African cricket batsman (England 1964-65) |
1935-11-01 |
Gary Player, Johannesburg, South African PGA golfer (Brit Open-1959, 68, 74) |
1936-01-08 |
Ferdinand Hartzenberg, South African minister of Education (1979-82) |
1936-02-22 |
Ernie K-Doe [Ernest Kador Jr], New Orleans, Louisiana, African-American R&B singer (Mother-in-Law") |
1936-09-26 |
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, South African anti-apartheid activist and politician |
1936-10-22 |
Neville E Alexander, South african (10 years in Robbeneiland Jail) |
1936-12-08 |
W S "Buster" Farrer, cricketer (South African Test batsman 1962-64) |
1937-01-03 |
Alexander Frater, Last African Flying Boat |
1937-01-25 |
Ange-Félix Patassé, President of the Central African Republic |
1937-03-14 |
Peter van der Merwe, cricketer (South African captain of mid-1960's) |
1937-07-01 |
Ebrahim I Ebrahim, South African ANCer/Umkhonto we Sizwe-leader |
1937-08-12 |
Walter Dean Myers, African-American author |
1937-12-11 |
Adrian J Vlok, South African NP-minister of Law & Order (1986- ) |
1938-03-18 |
Michael S. Harper, Furious Flower: A Video Anthology of African American Poetry 1960-95 |
1938-04-05 |
Colin Bland, cricketer (South African bat Maybe the best cover field) |
1938-05-24 |
Glen Hall, cricket leg-spinner (South African in one Test v England 1964) |
1938-07-18 |
Dudu Pukwana, [Mtutuzel], South African/British saxophonist/composer |
1938-10-28 |
Peter Carlstein, cricketer (South African Test batsman 1958-64) |
1938-11-19 |
Richard Dumbrill, cricketer (South African all-rounder in 5 Tests 1965-67) |
1938-12-09 |
Elizabeth H "Rina" Venter, South African minister of Health care |
1938-12-15 |
Dennis RB Madide, South African Internal minister of Transkei |
1939-02-09 |
Janet Suzman, South African actress (Dry White Season, Nuns on the Run) |
1939-06-06 |
Nganani Enos J Mabuza, South African leader (Inyandza Natl Movement) |
1939-07-26 |
Wopko Jensma, Middelburg, Eastern Province, South African poet and graphic designer |
1939-08-12 |
Wale Ogunyemi, Sàngó: The Legendary African King |
1939-09-15 |
Breyten Breytenbach, South African poet/painter |
1939-09-17 |
Joseph Mosikili, South African actor/singer |
1939-10-11 |
Franklin A Sonn, union leader (South African workers) |
1939-11-05 |
Ken Walter, South African cricket pace bowler (1961-62 series v NZ) |
1939-11-15 |
Yaphet Kotto, New York City, New York, African-American actor (Alien, Homicide: Life on the Street) |
1939-12-09 |
Patrician Stephens Due, Quincy, Florida, African-American civil rights activist (FAMU jail-in), (d. 2012) |
1939-12-17 |
Charles V Bush, Washington, African-American pioneer (1st African-American US Air Force Academy Graduate and US Supreme Court Page), (d. 2012) |
1940-01-17 |
Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali, South African poet (Fireflames) |
1940-01-19 |
Barend J du Plessis, South African minister of Finance (1984- ) |
1940-02-17 |
Dennis Gamsy, cricketer (South African bat in 2 Tests v Australia 1970) |
1940-02-22 |
Johnson P Mlambo, South African leader (Pan-African Congress) |
1940-05-18 |
Pat Trimborn, cricket pace bowler (South African in 4 Tests 1966-70) |
1940-06-05 |
H R "Tiger" Lance, cricketer (South African batting all-rounder 1961-67) |
1940-07-10 |
Dawid J "Dawie" de Villiers, South African minister of energy (1989- ) |
1940-08-12 |
Eddie Barlow, cricketer (Great South African all-rounder) |
1941-04-12 |
Toi Derricotte, Furious Flower: A Video Anthology of African American Poetry 1960-95 |
1941-09-04 |
Ramesh Sethi, East African cricketer |
1941-09-07 |
Mogoboya NN Ramadike, South African politician in Lebowa |
1941-11-14 |
Hermanus J Kriel, South African minister of Planning (1989- ) |
1942-01-14 |
Amichand Rajbansi, South African politician |
1942-05-22 |
Pallo Jordan, South African ANC member/heads (Radio Freedom) |
1942-05-24 |
Ali Bacher, cricketer (South African batsman & capt in 60's) |
1942-06-18 |
Thabo M Mbeki, South African economist/1st vice-president (1994- ) |
1942-06-28 |
"Chris" Martin Thembisile Hani, sec-gen (South African Communist Party) |
1942-08-02 |
Koloi Lebona, Under African Skies |
1942-10-26 |
John P "Jannie" Roux, South African sect to pres (Botha/De Klerk) |
1943-05-25 |
Wynand C Malan, South African lawyer/NP/DP-politician |
1943-12-28 |
Oscar D Dhlomo, South African sect-gen of Inkatha (1978-90) |
1944-01-10 |
Rory Byrne, South African racing car designer |
1944-02-27 |
Graeme Pollock, cricketer (South African batting prodigy) |
1944-03-09 |
Lee Irvine, cricketer (South African batsman, only Tests in 1970) |
1944-08-25 |
Sherley Anne Williams, Furious Flower: A Video Anthology of African American Poetry 1960-95 |
1944-10-10 |
Christopher N Dlamini, South African union/SACP-leader |
1945-06-27 |
Omar Badsha, Durban, South Africa, South African photographer, trade unionist and political activist |
1946-10-29 |
Strinivasa Moodley, South African anti-apartheid activist |
1946-12-18 |
Stephen (Steve) Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist |
1947-03-24 |
Pieter W Coetzer, South African journalist/MP (NP) |
1947-06-13 |
Daniel P A "Danie" Schutte, South African underminister of Justice |
1947-08-07 |
Mosibudi Mangena, South African black leader (On Your Own) |
1948-01-17 |
Alexander "Alec" Erwin, South African worker's union leader |
1948-08-13 |
Mosiuoa Patrick "Terror" Lekota, South African UDF/ANC-leader |
1948-10-10 |
David Tereshchuk, Spear of the Nation: The Story of the African National Congress |
1948-10-21 |
Moses J "Moss" Mayekiso, South African union/SACP-leader |
1948-12-15 |
Charlie Scott, Seasons of Change: The African American Athlete |
1949-07-23 |
Clive Rice, South African cricket all-rounder (WSC 1978-79, ODI 1991) |
1949-08-20 |
Norman Featherstone, South African cricketer |
1949-10-31 |
Dumisa B Ntsebeza, South African attorney/anti-apartheid activist |
1950-01-29 |
Jody Schecter, South African auto maker (World Driver's 1979) |
1950-12-03 |
Muntu Myeza, South African anti-apartheid activist |
1950-12-30 |
Yunus I Mahomed, South African attorney/leader (UDF) |
1951-03-09 |
Helen Zille, South African politician |
1952-01-08 |
Marc Miller, African Gothic |
1952-03-10 |
Oupa J Gqozo, South African warden/army commandant (Ciskei) |
1952-11-17 |
M Cyril Ramaphosa, sec-gen of South African Mine Workers' Union |
1953-02-02 |
James Mndaweni, South African worker's union leader/president (NACTU) |
1953-07-31 |
Jimmy Cook, cricketer (South African opening batsman 1992) |
1953-09-11 |
Jani Allan, South African journalist and media personality |
1954-03-02 |
Stone Phumelele Sizani, South African treasurer (UDF) |
1954-05-02 |
Bulelani T Ngcuka, South African attorney/leader (UDF) |
1954-05-20 |
Massimo Zeri, African Gothic |
1954-06-20 |
Alan [Joseph] Lamb, South African/British cricket player (Northampton) |
1954-06-28 |
Alice Krige, South African actress (Chariots of Fire, Ladykiller) |
1954-12-22 |
Jayaseelan Naidoo, South African worker's union leader |
1955-05-14 |
Peter Kirsten, cricketer (South African middle-order batsman) |
1956-01-31 |
Trevor A Manuel, South African UDF/ANC-leader |
1956-06-25 |
Bongiwe (Bongi) Dhlomo-Mautloa, Vryheid, Natal, South African artist |
1956-11-25 |
Ena Heese, South African costume designer (Willem of Orange) |
1957-02-09 |
Mohammed Valli Moosa, South African leader (UDF) |
1957-09-14 |
Kepler Wessels, Bloemfontein South Africa, South African cricketer who played for both Australia and South Africa, the latter as captain. |
1958-01-07 |
Peter R Mokaba, president (South African Youth Congress) |
1958-02-27 |
Naas Botha, South African rugby union footballer |
1958-05-31 |
Mkhuseli Jack, South African UDF-leader (consumer boycots) |
1959-02-28 |
Sydney P Mufamadi, South African leader (SACP) |
1959-07-05 |
Tim Shaw, cricketer (South African ODI slow lefty 1991) |
1959-08-24 |
Adrian Kuiper, cricketer (South African all-rounder) |
1960-02-19 |
Keith Musa[kawukhathi] Zondi, South African head of Inkatha Youth Brigade |
1960-04-14 |
Pat Symcox, cricketer (South African off-spinner 1993- ) |
1960-07-31 |
Luca Ward, The African Game |
1960-08-28 |
Cunningham T Ngcukana, South African worker's union leader |
1960-10-17 |
Mandy Yachad, cricketer (South African ODI opening batsman 1991) |
1961-03-19 |
Micki Pistorius, Moses Sithole: The South African Strangler |
1961-08-04 |
Barack Obama, Honolulu Hawaii,44th United States President (Democrat) and first African—American president |
1962-01-31 |
Michael Hallal, African Gothic |
1962-06-16 |
Arnold Vosloo, South African actor |
1962-08-03 |
Lucky Dube, South African reggae singer |
1963-12-22 |
Bryan McMillan, cricketer (brilliant South African all-rounder since 1992) |
1964-07-19 |
André A. Jackson, founder African Diamond Producers Association |
1964-10-12 |
Fanie De Villers, cricketer (great South African pace bowler 1993- ) |
1965-02-01 |
David Callaghan, cricketer (South African all-rounder in one-dayers 1992) |
1965-02-15 |
Craig Matthews, cricket pace bowler (South African Test) |
1965-02-19 |
John Commins, cricketer (South African Test batsman v NZ 1994-95) |
1965-03-17 |
Andrew Hudson, South African cricket player |
1965-04-02 |
Rodney King, Sacramento California, African American motorist beaten by LA cops, (d. 2012) |
1966-03-14 |
Tertius Bosch, cricketer (South African pace bowler 1992) |
1966-06-22 |
Meyrick Pringle, cricket pace bowler (South African) |
1966-09-30 |
Kerry G. Johnson, African American graphic designer and caricaturist |
1966-10-20 |
Allan Donald, cricketer (great South African fast bowler) |
1966-12-02 |
Clive Eksteen, cricketer (South African slow left-armer 1993) |
1966-9-09 |
Rickey Gadson, Glory Road: The Legacy of the African-American Motorcyclist |
1967-01-02 |
Francois Pienaar, Vereeniging Transvaal (now known as Gauteng Province), South African rugby player and captain of the Springboks |
1967-01-14 |
Damon Shalit, African Gothic |
1967-03-04 |
Daryll Cullinan, South African cricketer (batsman Warne's bunny) |
1967-05-13 |
Melanie Thornton, African American German pop singer, former member of La Bouche. (d. 2001) |
1967-06-30 |
Rudi Steyn, cricketer (South African opening batsman 1995) |
1967-11-23 |
Gary Kirsten, cricketer (South African lefty opening batsman 1993-) |
1968-03-14 |
Jan Sosniok, African Race - Die verrückte Jagd nach dem Marakunda |
1968-11-13 |
Greg Wendell Reid, African-American Idol: The Search for the Next Black Leader |
1969-05-26 |
Musetta Vander, South African actress |
1969-06-24 |
Thabo Mngomeni, Cape Town, South African football player |
1969-07-26 |
Jonty Rhodes, South African cricket batsman (brilliant fielder) |
1969-07-30 |
Errol Stewart, South African cricket wicket-keeper (limited-over 1993) |
1969-09-25 |
Hansie Cronje, cricket captain (solid South African batsman) |
1970-08-04 |
Steven Jack, cricketer (South African pace bowler 1994-95) |
1970-08-26 |
Brett Schultz, cricket pace bowler (South African Test) |
1972-02-22 |
Pascal Atuma, LAPD African Cops |
1973-03-20 |
Nico Boje, cricketer (South African ODI left-arm spinner 1996) |
1973-07-16 |
Shaun Pollock, cricketer (son of Peter South African Test quick 1995-) |
1973-09-18 |
Mark Shuttleworth, South African entrepreneur |
1974-01-27 |
ZP Theart, South African-born English singer (Dragonforce) |
1974-02-23 |
Herschelle Gibbs, cricketer (South African Test batsman 1996) |
1974-06-30 |
Hezekiel Sepeng, Potchefstroom South Africa, South African athlete |
1974-11-29 |
Alex Crawford, Private Gold 35: African Dream |
1975-10-16 |
Jacques Kallis, cricketer (South African Test all-rounder v England 1995) |
1976-02-22 |
Faan Rautenbach, South African rugby player |
1976-03-25 |
Joe C. Farr III, Seasons of Change: The African American Athlete |
1976-04-02 |
Rory Sabbatini, South African golfer |
1976-07-15 |
Jim Jones, African Puerto Rican American rapper |
1976-08-26 |
Niki Scalera, African Gothic |
1976-11-27 |
Jean Grae, South African-born rapper |
1976-12-03 |
Mark Boucher, South African cricketer |
1977-02-14 |
Elmer Symons, South African motorcycle racer (d. 2007) |
1977-05-11 |
Victor Matfield, South African rugby union footballer |
1977-05-21 |
Quinton Fortune, South African footballer |
1977-07-06 |
Makhaya Ntini, South African cricketer |
1977-07-15 |
Andre Nel, South African Cricketer |
1977-11-12 |
Benni McCarthy, South African footballer |
1977-11-17 |
Ryk Neethling, South African swimmer |
1977-12-02 |
Siyabonga Nomvethe, South African footballer plays for Aalborg BK |
1978-04-03 |
John Smit, South African rugby player |
1978-07-02 |
Ian Clark, African-American Idol: The Search for the Next Black Leader |
1979-08-04 |
Robin Peterson, South African cricketer |
1979-12-16 |
Trevor Immelman, South African golfer |
1980-02-02 |
Gucci Mane, African-American rapper |
1980-07-03 |
Roland Mark Schoeman, South African swimmer |
1980-09-21 |
Tomas Scheckter, South African racing driver |
1980-11-25 |
Aaron Mokoena, South African soccer player |
1980-9-08 |
Mony, Private Gold 35: African Dream |
1981-02-01 |
Graeme Smith, South African cricketer |
1981-07-02 |
Tiona McClodden, Black./Womyn.:Conversations with Lesbians of African Descent |
1981-07-12 |
Adrienne Camp, South African singer/songwriter |
1981-07-30 |
Juan Smith, South African rugby player |
1981-08-20 |
Bernard Mendy, Baba's Journey: An African Dream |
1981-10-15 |
Keyshia Cole, African American R&B singer |
1982-03-17 |
Steven Pienaar, South African footballer |
1982-07-25 |
Monde Zondeki, South African cricketer |
1982-11-16 |
Jannie du Plessis, South African rugby player |
1983-04-13 |
Schalk Burger, South African rugby player |
1983-06-12 |
Bryan Habana, South African rugby player |
1983-06-27 |
Dale Steyn, South African cricketer |
1983-10-26 |
Luke Watson, South African rugby player |
1984-02-17 |
AB de Villiers, South African cricketer |
1984-08-21 |
Neil Dexter, South African cricketer |
1984-08-31 |
Charl Schwartzel, South African golfer |
1986-06-03 |
Brenden Richard Jefferson, African-American actor |
1986-07-12 |
JP Pietersen, South African rugby union footballer |
1986-09-11 |
Chiliboy Ralepelle, South African rugby player |
1986-11-04 |
Adrian Zaugg, South African racing driver |
1986-11-22 |
Oscar Pistorius, South African paralympic athlete |
1987-05-14 |
Francois Steyn, South African rugby union footballer |
1990-08-06 |
Vardi Fivaz, The South African Story |
1996-02-17 |
Sasha Pieterse, South African child actress |
1998-08-21 |
Charles Sladdin, African Cats |
African - Notable Weddings
African - Weddings
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1930-09-04 |
Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall (21) weds Vivien Burey at First African Baptist Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
1940-01-02 |
Archibald Campbell Mzoliza Jordan, Xhosa writer, linguist and academic and outspoken critic of the South African National Party government's Bantu Education policy, marries Priscilla Phyllis Ntantla. |
1949-01-18 |
South African Rev Andries P Treurnicht marries Engela Dreyer |
1956-10-06 |
South African politician "Kobie" Coetsee marries Helena E Malan |
1969-04-11 |
South African president Frederik de Klerk marries Marike Willemse |
1989-04-15 |
South African/British Olympic runner Zola Budd marries |
1996-09-21 |
Elder son of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and magazine publisher John F. Kennedy Jr. (35) weds Caroline Bisset (30) at the wood-frame Brack Chapel of the First African Baptist Church in Cumberland Island, Georgia |
2005-07-30 |
Actress Sheryl Lee Ralph (49) weds Pennsylvania Senator Vincent Hughes (48) at the First African Methodist Episcopal Church in Los Angeles |
2007-02-24 |
Former world champion track and field athlete Marion Jones (31) weds Olympic bronze medalist Obadele Thompson (30) at the Union Hill African Methodist Episcopal Church in Wilson's Mills, North Carolina |
African - Notable Deaths
African - Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
430-08-28 |
Augustine of Hippo, North African saint and theologian (Belijdenissen), dies at 75 |
1784-12-05 |
Phillis Wheatley, American poet and first published African-American woman, dies in Boston at 31 |
1828-09-22 |
Shaka, South African Zulu king, dies |
1838-04-11 |
Pieter L Uys, South African pioneer (Great Pull), murdered at 40 |
1852-12-16 |
Andries H Potgieter, South African/Transvaal explorer, dies at 59 |
1857-06-19 |
Alexander Twilight, American politician and minister, first African American to graduate and hold political office dies aged 61 |
1865-11-17 |
James McCune Smith, African-American doctor and abolitionist (b. 1813) |
1884-08-14 |
Arnoldus Pannevis, South African shipping agent/linguist, dies at 46 |
1892-01-02 |
Frederick William Barber, South African frontiersman and scientist, dies at 78 |
1893-06-23 |
Sir Theophilus Shepstone, British-born South African statesman (b. 1817) |
1895-08-02 |
Joseph Thomson, Scottish geologist and early African explorer (Thomson's Gazelle), dies of pneumonia at 37 |
1899-11-28 |
Adrian the la Rey, son of South African general, dies in battle at 19 |
1900-03-27 |
Pieter J Joubert [Smart Piet], South African general, dies at 69 |
1900-04-05 |
Comte de Villebois-Marevil, French/South African general, dies in battle |
1901-10-30 |
... Opperman, South African Boer general (Spy), killed in battle |
1902-04-11 |
... Potgieter, South African Boer general, dies in battle |
1904-05-10 |
Henry Morton Stanley, Welsh journalist and African explorer (discovered source of the Nile), dies aged 63 |
1904-07-14 |
President Paul Kruger, the face of Boer resistance against the British during the South African or Second Boer War (1899—1902), heart failure at 78 |
1905-06-15 |
Hermann von Wissmann, German African expl/gov East-Africa, dies |
1905-08-10 |
Kinjikitile "Bokero" Ngwale, E African prophet/rebel leader, hanged |
1912-09-01 |
Samuel Coleridge Taylor, African-British composer, dies at 37 |
1915-04-14 |
James Hutton Brew, Pioneer of West African Journalism, dies |
1916-08-01 |
Claude Newberry, South African cricket All-rounder (v England 1913-14), dies |
1917-03-18 |
William Shalders, South African cricket batsman (12 Tests 1895-1907), dies |
1918-10-17 |
Gordon White, cricketer (WW I Superb South African batsman 1905-12), dies |
1919-08-27 |
Louis Botha, South African soldier/statesman, dies at 56 |
1919-10-02 |
Ernest Halliwell, cricketer (South African wicketkeeper 1892-1904), dies |
1920-12-11 |
Olive Schreiner, The Story of an African Farm |
1922-02-03 |
Christiaan R de Wet, South African Boer general, dies at 67 |
1929-11-09 |
Nicolaas Theunissen, South African cricket break bowler (2nd Test 1889), dies |
1932-06-19 |
Solomon Tshkisho Platje, South African writer, dies |
1934-04-07 |
William Monroe Trotter, African, dies on 62nd birthday in Boston |
1934-07-07 |
Doodles Tapscott, cricketer (South African batsman 1922-23), dies |
1935-11-02 |
H B "Jock" Cameron, South African cricket captain (v England 1935, age 30), dies |
1935-12-13 |
John Nicolson, cricketer (South African lefty batsman 1926-27), dies |
1936-02-16 |
Tommy Ward, South African cricket wicket keeper (23 Tests), electrocuted |
1937-07-09 |
Oliver Law, first African-American commander of U.S. troops (b. 1899) |
1938-08-09 |
Leo Frobenius, German ethnologist and archaeologist (African cultures), dies at 65 |
1940-05-03 |
Henry Ossian Flipper, American soldier, former slave and first African American to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point, dies at 84 |
1941-04-22 |
Arthur Briscoe, cricketer (South African batsman in 2 Tests), dies |
1941-10-27 |
Ernest Everett Just, African-American embryologist (physiology of development, fertilization, cell division), dies of pancreatic cancer at 58 |
1942-03-15 |
Alexander van Zemlinsky, Austrian and US composer (African Dance), dies at 70 |
1942-10-23 |
Georg Stumme, German general/commandant of African corps, dies |
1942-11-21 |
J. B. M. Hertzog [Barry Hertzog], South African Premier (1914-39), dies at 76 |
1945-07-20 |
Arthur Seccull, South African cricketer (Test v England 1896), dies |
1947-04-12 |
Christian F L Leipoldt, South African writer (Die Moormansgat), dies |
1947-07-16 |
Horatio Mbelle, South African interpreter, community leader and politician, dies in Pretoria at 77 |
1948-02-02 |
Bevil Rudd, South African athlete (b. 1894) |
1948-07-26 |
Charles Mills, South African cricketer (Test v England 1891-92), dies |
1950-09-11 |
John C Smuts, co-found British RAF/South African PM (1919..48), dies at 80 |
1950-09-29 |
Balthazar H Verhagen, Neth/South African dramatist/writer, dies |
1952-07-31 |
N B F "Tufty" Mann, cricketer (South African slow lefty 1947-51), dies |
1953-07-01 |
Jacob D du Toit [Totius], South African poet/theologist, dies |
1953-11-08 |
John van Melle, South African writer (Bart Nel), dies at 66 |
1955-02-27 |
Tom Howard, The African Dodger |
1955-05-16 |
James Agee, The African Queen |
1957-07-09 |
Manfred Julius Susskind, South African cricketer (1924 Test series), dies |
1959-03-29 |
Barthelemy Boganda, Central African Republic's 1st president, dies |
1959-04-04 |
Stanley Snooke, cricketer (bro of S J, duck in South African Test), dies |
1960-09-26 |
William Ling, cricketer (South African batsman in 6 Tests 1921-23), dies |
1961-01-17 |
Patrice Lumumba, African revolutionary, murdered at 36 |
1962-03-26 |
Augusta Savage, African-American sculptor and equal rights advocate dies aged 72 |
1962-10-08 |
Solomon Linda, South African singer and composer |
1963-07-18 |
A H C Cooper, South African cricketer (Test v England 1914), dies |
1964-07-12 |
William Solomon, South African cricketer (Test 1898-99), dies |
1965-07-01 |
Wally Hammond, South African cricketer (7,249 runs for England), dies |
1966-08-14 |
S J "Tip" Snooke, South African cricket all-rounder (26 Tests 1905-23), dies |
1966-09-06 |
Hendrik F Verwoerd, South African PM (1958-66), assassinated at 64 |
1967-04-29 |
J. B. Lenoir, African American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter, active in the 1950s, dies at 38 |
1968-01-07 |
Prof James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897) |
1971-01-02 |
Richard Maxwell (Dick) Haldane, South African trade unionist, dies at 62 |
1972-09-22 |
Robert KJE Antonissen, South African literary, dies at 53 |
1974-08-14 |
Raymond Budd, South African trade unionist |
1976-04-26 |
Sid James, South African-born British comedian, dies at 62 |
1976-07-30 |
Emil Solomon "Solly" Sachs, South African socialist, dies in London |
1977-03-05 |
Jansen Van Vuuren, Dutch volunteer safety marshall at the 1977 South African Grand Prix |
1977-09-12 |
Steven Biko, South African black student leader, dies in police custody |
1978-11-13 |
George Hearne, South African cricketer (open bat in 3 Tests 1922-24), dies |
1979-07-17 |
Doug Meintjes, South African cricket pace bowler (v England 1922-23), dies |
1980-06-10 |
Denys Morkel, South African cricketer (batsman scored 663 runs 1927-32), dies |
1980-11-22 |
Herbert Wade, cricketer (South African batsman & captain 1935-36), dies |
1980-11-23 |
Herby Wade, cricketer (South African capt 10 Tests 1935-36), dies |
1982-02-05 |
Neil Aggett, South African worker's union leader, commits suicide |
1982-07-30 |
Frank Nicholson, South African cricket wicket-keeper (1935-36), dies |
1982-08-17 |
Ruth Voorst, South African (A World Apart), killed by letter bomb |
1983-06-16 |
James Arthur Calata, African National Congress (ANC) leader and Anglican clergyman, at 87 |
1983-09-10 |
Balthasar J "John" Vorster, South African premier (1966-78), dies at 67 |
1983-12-02 |
Atholl Mckinnon, cricketer (South African lefty spinner in 8 Tests), dies |
1984-02-13 |
Andre Stander, South African police captain and bank robber (b. 1946) |
1985-01-02 |
Moses Josiah Madiba, South African author and first African chancellor of the University of the North, dies at 76 |
1985-07-05 |
Jack Robertson, South African cricket spinner (3 Tests v Aust 1935-36), dies |
1985-08-02 |
Sandy Bell, South African cricket pace bowler (16 Tests), dies |
1985-10-18 |
Benjamin Moloisi, South African poet/Anc'er, hanged at 30 |
1986-07-28 |
Syd Curnow, South African cricketer (168 runs in 7 Tests), dies |
1988-01-12 |
Connie Mulder, South African politician (b. 1925) |
1988-04-24 |
E S "Bob" Newson, cricketer (South African fast bowler in 1930's), dies |
1989-05-01 |
David Webster, South African white anti-apartheids activist, murdered |
1989-05-22 |
Steven DeGroote, South African classical pianist (b. 1953) |
1990-02-28 |
Tuppy Owen-Smith, South African cricketer (batsman v England 1929), dies |
1990-08-31 |
Johnny Lindsay, cricketer (South African wicket-keeper 1947), dies |
1991-09-29 |
Sam Ntuli, South African ANC-writer, murdered |
1992-01-23 |
Simon Brand, South African banker/adviser to Pres De Klerk, dies |
1992-06-03 |
Robert Morley, The African Queen |
1992-08-17 |
Andre de Villiers, South African, murdered |
1992-11-22 |
Severino Gazzelloni, Scipio the African |
1993-01-04 |
Daniel H Craven, South African rugby coach, dies |
1993-04-24 |
Oliver R Tambo, chairman (African National Congress), dies at 75 |
1993-07-11 |
Denis Tomlinson, South African cricket leg-spinner, dies |
1993-12-03 |
Thomas Mogotlane, South African actor (Mapantsula), dies at 40 |
1994-02-06 |
Norman Del Mar, The African Queen |
1994-03-09 |
John Harrison, South African correspondent (BBC), dies at 48 |
1994-04-18 |
Ken Oosterbroek, South African press photographer, shot dead at 32 |
1994-05-09 |
Elias Motsoaledi, South African freedom fighter (b. 1924) |
1994-07-27 |
Kevin Carter, a South African photojournalist and Pulitzer Prize winner & member of the Bang-Bang Club, suicide at 33 |
1994-11-22 |
Charles Fortune, South African cricket commentator, dies |
1994-12-26 |
Johannes J "Joop" Klant, Neth/South African economist/author, dies |
1995-01-03 |
Gerard W Taylor, South African/British surgeon, dies at 74 |
1995-01-06 |
Joe Slovo, Latvian/South African attorney/sect-gen (SACR), dies at 68 |
1995-07-01 |
Bruce Mitchell, South African cricketer (leading Test scorer with 3471), dies |
1996-01-19 |
Harold Wolpe, sociologist lawyer/South African activist, dies at 70 |
1998-04-22 |
Kitch Christie, South African rugby coach (b. 1940) |
1998-05-07 |
Allan McLeod Cormack, South African physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1924) |
1998-07-07 |
Brigadier Theuns Swanepoel, South African Security Police notorious for ordering the police to shoot at protesting school children in 1976, 70 |
1999-07-06 |
Sherley Anne Williams, Furious Flower: A Video Anthology of African American Poetry 1960-95 |
2000-06-17 |
Ismail Mahomed, South African and Namibian Chief Justice (d. 1931) |
2000-08-14 |
Cuan McCarthy, South African cricketer (b. 1929) |
2001-04-24 |
Leon Sullivan, African-American civil rights leader and pastor (b. 1922) |
2001-07-05 |
Ernie K-Doe, African-American singer (Mother-in-Law), dies of cirrhosis at 65 |
2001-08-19 |
Donald Woods, South African journalist and anti-apartheid activist (b. 1933) |
2001-09-02 |
Christiaan Barnard, South African heart surgeon (b. 1922) |
2001-12-18 |
Wale Ogunyemi, Sàngó: The Legendary African King |
2002-01-12 |
Stanley Unwin, South African comedian (b. 1911) |
2002-06-01 |
Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer (b. 1969) |
2003-05-05 |
Walter Sisulu, South African activist (b. 1912) |
2003-11-04 |
Ken Gampu, South African actor (b. 1929) |
2003-11-20 |
David Dacko, first President of the Central African Republic (b. 1930) |
2003-12-30 |
David Bale, South African-born activist (b. 1941) |
2004-03-18 |
Richard Marner, The African Queen |
2004-04-04 |
Ralph Kemplen, The African Queen |
2004-05-26 |
Dullah Omar, South African lawyer (b. 1934) |
2004-07-26 |
Sipho Gumede, South African jazz legend, lung cancer (birthdate unknown) |
2004-12-26 |
Jonathan Drummond-Webb, South African pediatric heart surgeon (b. 1959) |
2005-01-19 |
K. Sello Duiker, South African novelist (b. 1974) |
2005-03-16 |
Allan Hendrickse, South African politician (b. 1927) |
2005-08-08 |
John H. Johnson, African-American publisher (b. 1918) |
2005-12-06 |
Danny Williams, South African-born singer (b. 1942) |
2006-02-11 |
Jockey Shabalala, South African singer (b. 1943) |
2006-07-25 |
Carl Brashear, first African-American U.S Navy Master Diver (b. 1931) |
2006-09-08 |
Hilda Bernstein, English-born South African author, artist, and activist (b. 1915) |
2006-10-23 |
Lebo Mathosa, South African entertainer (b. 1977) |
2006-12-16 |
Taliep Petersen, South African singer and composer (b. 1950) |
2007-01-01 |
Roland Levinsky, South African medical scientist (b. 1943) |
2007-01-08 |
Jane Bolin, first African American female judge (b. 1908) |
2007-01-09 |
Elmer Symons, South African motorcycle racer (b. 1977) |
2007-01-31 |
Adelaide Tambo, South African activist and wife of Oliver Tambo (b. 1929) |
2007-03-18 |
Bob Woolmer, South African cricketer and Pakistan national coach (b. 1948) |
2007-09-06 |
Alex, African Grey parrot "student" of Dr. Irene Pepperberg (b. 1976) |
2007-10-18 |
Lucky Dube, South African musician (b. 1964) |
2007-11-02 |
Henry Cele, South African Actor; best known for his onscreen portrayal of the legendary Shaka Zulu |
2008-01-07 |
Alwyn Schlebusch, South African vice state president (b. 1917) |
2008-01-18 |
John Stroger, first African-American Cook County Board President (b. 1929) |
2008-02-15 |
Ashley Callie, South African actress (b. 1976) |
2008-04-04 |
Francis Tucker, South African Rally Driver (b. 1923) |
2008-08-15 |
Vic Toweel, South African boxer, bantamweight world champion |
2008-11-10 |
Miriam Makeba, South African singer and anti-apartheid activist (b. 1932) |
2009-06-27 |
Fayette Pinkney, African American singer (The Three Degrees) (b. 1948) |
2009-12-16 |
Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, controversial South African Health Minister (b. 1940) |
2010-02-05 |
Harry Schwarz, South African lawyer, politician and diplomat, leader of the anti-apartheid movement (b. 1924). |
2010-05-24 |
Raymond V. Haysbert, African-American business executive and civil rights leader (b. 1920) |
2010-05-25 |
Siphiwo Ntshebe, South African opera singer (b. 1975) |
2010-12-26 |
Edward Bhengu, South African activist (b. 1934) |
2012-02-07 |
Patricia Stephens Due, African-American civil rights activist, dies from Alzheimer's disease at 72 |
2012-03-02 |
Lawrence Anthony, South African conservationist and author, dies from heart attack at 61 |
2012-05-22 |
Wesley Brown, 1st African American US Naval Academy graduate, dies at 85 |
2012-06-07 |
Phillip Tobias, South African palaeoanthropologist, dies at 86 |
2012-06-17 |
Rodney King, African American motorist beaten by LA cop, dies at 47 |
2012-09-23 |
Corrie Sanders, South African boxer, shot dead at 46 |
2012-11-05 |
Charles V Bush, African-American pioneer, dies from colon cancer at 72 |
2012-11-22 |
Bryce Courtenay, South African-born Australian novelist, dies from stomach cancer at 79 |
2012-12-28 |
Jayne Cortez, African-American poet, dies at 76 |
2013-01-06 |
Neil Adcock, South African cricketer, dies from bowel cancer at 81 |
2013-03-30 |
Phil Ramone, South-African born American music producer, dies from an aortic aneurysm at 79 |
2013-12-05 |
Nelson Mandela, anti-apartheid activist, political prisoner (1962-1990) and South African President (1994-99) dies of a lung infection at 95 |
2014-01-07 |
Alvin Aubert, Furious Flower: A Video Anthology of African American Poetry 1960-95 |
2015-06-27 |
Samuel W. Allen, Furious Flower: A Video Anthology of African American Poetry 1960-95 |
2015-12-02 |
Harry Radliffe II Dies: CBS' First African-American Bureau Chief & '60 Minutes' Veteran Was 66 |
2015-12-02 |
Harry Radliffe II Dies: CBS' First African-American Bureau Chief & '60 Minutes' Veteran Was 66 |
2016-04-16 |
Iconic African photographer Malick Sidibe of Mali dies at the age of 80 |
2017-03-28 |
S.African anti-apartheid icon Ahmed Kathrada dies aged 87 |
2017-03-30 |
South African anti-apartheid leader Ahmed Kathrada dies aged 87 |
2017-04-01 |
South African anti-apartheid leader Ahmed Kathrada dies aged 87 |
2017-04-02 |
South African anti-apartheid leader Ahmed Kathrada dies aged 87 |
2017-04-04 |
South African anti-apartheid leader Ahmed Kathrada dies aged 87 |
2018-01-23 |
S.African jazz legend Hugh Masekela dies, aged 78 |
2018-03-19 |
African-American WWII Veteran Millie Dunn Veasey Dies at Age 100 |
2018-06-26 |
David Goldblatt, Acclaimed South African Photographer, Dies at 87 |
