On 1 February 1982, the official Commission of Inquiry into the mass media, appointed in June 1980, under the chairmanship of Justice M. Steyn, tabled its report. The “Steyn Commission”…
On 1 February 1974, when Abraham Ramothibi Onkgopotse Tiro opened a parcel at the house where he was living in St Joseph’s Roman Catholic Mission in Khale, eleven kilometres south…
On 28 January 1987, Oliver Tambo, President of the African National Congress (ANC), met with the United States Secretary of State George P. Shultz in Washington D.C. to use American…
On 26 January 1963, Joe Gqabi was arrested with nine fellow members who had undergone military training in Ethiopia and were deported back to South Africa after being captured in…
On 26 January 1963, Detective Inspector Roderick Ivy of the Southern Rhodesia’s British South Africa Police (BSAP) headed to Bulawayo Central Railway Station on information received from the Northern Rhodesia…
(Extracts from a speech given by Tanzania’s founding president, Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere, in the Ghanaian capital, Accra, on 6 March 1997) For centuries, we had been oppressed and humiliated…
On this day, 23 January 2018, a South African jazz and Afro-fusion music icon, Hugh Masekela, passed away peacefully at his home in Johannesburg, South Africa, surrounded by his family.…
‘‘Why do we sing, why is there art? Art is to give life and hope to the people. Art is for healing broken hearts. Like in Zimbabwe, you don’t sing…
On 22 January 1879, the Battle of Isandlwana was the first major encounter in the Anglo-Zulu War between the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom. Eleven days after the British…
(The Complication, Son of Ndaba, is What Happened at Isandlwana) “… the Zulus … did what no European army can do. Armed only with lances and spears, without any firearms,…