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Events. 5 May – 6 November – South African 7th Motorised Brigade and South African Air Force join the allied forces in Operation Ironclad to capture Madagascar. 29 November – Blue Star Line cargo liner MV Dunedin Star runs aground on the Skeleton Coast of South West Africa. [1]
Eric Kulani Giyani Nkovani (born 1962), better known by his stage names Penny Penny and Papa Penny is a South African musician and politician, [1] known affectionately as the "Shangaan Disco King" for the musical style he helped popularise. [2] He was the youngest of 68 children from a local traditional Surgeon/ doctor with 25 wives.
The rand was introduced in the then Union of South Africa on 14 February 1961, shortly before the establishment of the Republic on 31 May 1961. The rand replaced the pound with a decimal currency: 100 cents (100c) = 1 rand (R1), 1 rand being valued at 10 shillings and 1 cent at 1.2 pence. The coins bore the forward-facing portrait of Jan van ...
On the eve of World War II, the Union of South Africa found itself in a unique political and military quandary. While it was closely allied with the United Kingdom, being a co-equal Dominion under the 1931 Statute of Westminster with its head of state being the British king, the South African Prime Minister and head of government on 1 September 1939 was J.B.M. Hertzog – the leader of the pro ...
Table Bay, just north of Cape Town, was known as Saldanha Bay until 1601. Here, sailors exchanged packets of letters left under postal stones. This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Cape of Good Hope. The Portuguese were the first Europeans to reach the Cape of Good Hope in 1488, led by the explorer Bartolomeu Dias.
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In late November 1942, the Tilawa sailed from Ballard Pier in Bombay (now Mumbai), bound for Durban followed by Mombasa and Maputo.Acting as a troopship during the Second World War, [3] the ship carried 732 passengers and 222 crew [1] and 600 tons of cargo, including 2,364 bars of silver bullion intended to be struck as South African and Egyptian coinage at the South African mint.
The Krugerrand (/ ˈkruːɡərænd /; [1] Afrikaans: [ˈkry.ərˌrant]) is a South African coin, first minted on 3 July 1967 to help market South African gold and produced by Rand Refinery and the South African Mint. [2][3] The name is a compound of Paul Kruger, the former President of the South African Republic (depicted on the obverse), and ...