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PlaceDe Goede Verwachting, 17 Cavalcade Road, Green Point
… The land, which included the whole of Green Point, was granted in 1814 to David Kuuhle. Construction of the house probably began almost immediately and for…
Museum Night Cape Town 2016
… We're excited to announce the full Museum Night Cape Town 2016 programme, including 15 museums sites from the District Six Museum to the Cape Town Holocaust…
EventRobben Island is turned into a maximum security prison
… It is believed that thousands of years ago, people lived on Robben Island. After the Dutch had settled at the Cape, the island was used mainly as a hospital…
EventSouth African man sets record for world’s deepest dive
… South African engineer, Nuno Gomes, entered the Guinness Book of Records for mankind’s deepest dive ever on 13 June 2005. Gomes’318.25m plunge beat the…
Simon van der Stel is succeeded by his eldest son
… Simon van der Stel , who became commander of the Cape on 12 October 1679 and was promoted to governor … van der Stel. Upon his retirement, Simon was one of…
EventFormer Cabinet Minister Dullah Omar dies
… up in District Six. After matriculation he enrolled at the University of Cape Town for a BA LLB degree and later became a lawyer, taking on political trials…
Fosatu Worker News
… Fosatu Worker News was first published in 1979 with the formation of the Federation of South African Trade Unions and was …
EventPretoria High Court Judge, Nkola Motata, is arrested
… High Court Judge Nkola Motata drove through garden wall of a house north of Johannesburg. He was found to be drunk by police and is said to have resisted…
EventSipho Gumede, South African jazz legend, dies
… Born in the predominantly Indian community of Cato Manor near Durban, Sipho Gumede started playing music on a homemade guitar. He joined his first band at…
Answers to questions by Drum: Albert Luthuli, 6 May 1961
… Demonstrations against Proclamation of Republic 6 May 1961 [Drum asked several non-European … leaders for answers to three questions concerning the planned…
EventBafana Bafana loses to Germany
… South African soccer team Bafana Bafana played against the German national soccer team in an international friendly match, in Dusseldorf in Germany. The game…
EventEdgar Wallace (56), author and newspaper editor in South Africa, dies in Hollywood.
… gave him up for adoption when he was nine years old. At the age of 12, Wallace left school and held several menial jobs. He later joined the army and was…
EventMass arrests in Pondoland
… Justice Minister Francios Christiaan Erasmus informed the National Assembly that 4 769 Africans, 2 Europeans and 2 others had been taken into custody during…
SAHO Commemorates 40 Years Since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue by Thembinkosi Khumalo
… Thembinkosi Khumalo is a student activist at the University of Pretoria. He is an active PASMA member. PASMA is a student … like to fully, with no restraint…
EventBram Fischer is sentenced to life imprisonment
… Bram Fischer, the former political activist was arrested in 1964 for being a member of the illegal organisation Communist Party of South Africa …
EventNdaweni Mahlangu causes a storm in political circles
… premier, Ndaweni Mahlangu, who replaced Matthews Phosa as the province's second premier, caused a storm within … to lie". Mahlangu was trying to defend his…
ArchivePosition paper: Action on education
… Position paper presented at the 56th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, held at the …
Not in My Neighbourhood Documentary
… As cities around the world catapult themselves into ‘World Class’, Global City … what cost”? " Not in My Neighbourhood Documentary " gives the account of…
EventSouth Sudan votes in Referendum on Independence
… as early as 1954 were brought to a regional referendum. The referendum, constitutionally supported by the 2009 Southern Sudan Referendum Act, had a 60% turn…
EventWinnie Mandela at Johannesburg Magistrate’s court
… On this day Nelson Mandela was charged for leaving the country illegally and inciting a strike. This was after … a future in which her husband’s arrest was…
EventJohn Koenakeefe Mohl, SA artist is born
… Koenakeefe Mohl, South African artist and founding member of Artists Under The Sun, was born at Dinokana village in Lehurutshe, Western … Mafikeng, where his…
ArchiveRenewed fighting in April
… On April 1 1989, the start of the implementation of Resolution 435, clashes between Swapo guerillas and South …
EventMuhammad Ali knocks out George Foreman to regain his world heavyweight title
… The historic boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo) took place on 30 October 1974. Ali…
EventBomb explodes at Johannesburg synagogue
… A limpet mine exploded outside the Temple of Israel synagogue in central Johannesburg, the mother 'shul' of the Johannesburg Jewish Reform … Southern African…
EventBartolomeu Dias enters Luderitz Bay
… Portuguese seafarer Bartolomeu Dias enters the wide bay now known as Luderitz Bay after sailing for three weeks along the arid Namibia coast of south west…
EventTrade union federation, COSATU, celebrates its 26th anniversary
… The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), a federation of various labour unions, was established on 2 December 1985 in Durban. It is among the…
PlaceDurban Main Post Office
… which was designed by Phillip Dudgeon in 1882. It was the first meeting place of the South African National Convention, which took place in a …
National spokesperson to address a lecture on OR Tambo
… This month, October 2014, the African National Congress pays homage to our late former … Comrade Oliver Reginald Tambo. As part of the month long programme,…
Stay-away!
… From the book: My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and … In 1950 there was a big protest against this law called the Suppression of Communism, which…
PlaceBloemfontein Zoo
… Established in 1920, the Bloemfontein Zoo is well known for its collection of primates and is the home of the 'Big Five.' The Zoo pioneered the breeding of …