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Mandela and Fidel A film by Estela Bravo
… Buitenkants Stree, Cape town Venue:Tuesday 4 March 2014, 12-2pm UCT Africa Studies African …
EventEdgar Wallace (56), author and newspaper editor in South Africa, dies in Hollywood.
… up for adoption when he was nine years old. At the age of 12, Wallace left school and held several menial jobs. He …
Freedom In Our Life Time - List of Photographs
… 10-11. Lembede's gravesite, Croesus cemetery, Johannesburg 12.Signature page, ANC Youth League meeting, 14 February 1944 …
EventEugéne Nielen Marais, S.A. poet, writer, lawyer and naturalist, is born
… Marais began writing at a very young age. By the age of 12, he was a published writer. Marais became famous as an …
PlaceEbenezer, Limpopo
… The name is of biblical origin , (1 Samuel 7:12) and means 'stone of help'. Also spelt 'Ebenhaesar ' or ' …
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Telephone +27 (0)21 4474870 Office hours: 8h00 - 16h00 Physical Address: 349 Albert Road Woodstock 7925 Cape Town, South Africa Postal…
Panel Proposal for the 17th Triennial Symposium on African Art
… sustainability. Deadline for 250-word abstracts: January 16,2017. Contact: Courtnay Micots at …
Pietie Norval was born on this day
Pieter ‘Pietie’ Norval was born on 7 April 1970 in Belleville.[i] He began playing tennis at the age of 7 years old, and turned professional at 18.[ii] Norval…
PlaceAloes Railway Station, Port Elizabeth
… Railway Station between Swartkops and Coega, 16 km North of Port Elizabeth on route to Alicedale. Takes …
EventShaun Thomson*, world surfing title winner, is born in Durban
… the world title in Hawaii in 1977, and remained in the top 16 until 1989. During this time he relocated to California, …
EventSouth Africa and Mozambique sign a non-aggression pact
… pact, on the border between the two countries. On 16 March 1984, South Africa and Mozambique entered into a …
EventTwelve ANC supporters are killed in eSikhawini
… in the Esikhaweni location in KwaZulu Natal in 1992. On 16 February the IFP called its supporters from all over the …
EventLast remaining SA troops have been withdrawn from Namibia
The Citizen reported that the remaining 1 500 South African troops in South West Africa (Namibia) had been withdrawn during November. While the Namibian…
EventWits attains full university status
… to 6 275 in 1963, 10 600 in 1975 and by 1985 there were 16 400 students. …
EventAnglo-Boer War 2. The British Colonial Office appoints a Ladies Commission to investigate the concentration camps in South Africa.
… On 16 July 1901, the Ladies commission was appointed. The …
Introduction
… our country,' declared a Natal Indian Congress report of 1961. The other strand in Indian political life in this …
ArchiveSonia Bunting: Continuous Compassion and Adamant Activism by Jack Lucas
… for which she was imprisoned until December 19, 1956. [12] She was not alone in this situation, as dozens of other … the reverse effect took hold in 1962. …
ArticleUniversity of Pretoria 2015-2016 Student Protests Timeline
… (zero percent) on any outstanding fees owed by a student. 12. We demand no registration fee. 13. We demand that Council … that [De la Rey] would address…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 2 Essay Questions
… they would pay far less than what the items were valued. [12] The Khoikhoi retaliated by poising the water holes of the … [11] Ibid. [12] The Department of…
ArticleTreks & Land conflicts timeline 1602-1966
… the Dutch and local Khoi erupt at the Cape. 1657 The first 12 free burghers settle along the Liesbeeck River in the Cape …
A history of Volkskas and the Absa Banking group
… to put his idea in motion. Before the congress, on 12 August 1933, the Broederbond decided to appoint a … branch on 1 August 1935, in Market Street. Over the…
PlaceSt. Francis Church, Simonstown
… Written by Prof Boet Dommisse, who sadly passed away on 12 July 2014, it records the History the Parish Church from …
PlaceFort Daspoortraand
… for the design of the fort, which was completed 12 November 1898 and cost £46 500. French and Italian …
EventGen. J.B.M. Hertzog is forced to resign as premier after his motion of neutrality in World War II is defeated in parliament
… parliament, and later passed away in 1942. Related: Grade 12 Classroom: Pact Government …
EventApartheid police officers admit to the killing of Biko before the TRC
… to Pretoria, where he was thrown into a cell. On September 12, 1977, he died naked and shackled on the filthy floor of a …
EventSpanish Flu strikes South Africa
… was held at the University of Cape Town (UCT) from 12 to 15 September 1998 to mark the 80th anniversary of the …
EventKing George VI is born
… following his brother, Prince Edward's abdication on 12 December 1936. George who was the Duke of York and his …
PlaceuMnambithi was called Ladysmith
… placed the British in a precarious position . About 12 000 British soldiers were faced with the defence of a …
PlaceAdams Mission, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… in the country. Adams died at the Adams Mission on 16 September 1847; his funeral was attended by many prominent …
EventThe SS Mendi began its journey from Cape Town to Plymouth
In 1916, the South African government agreed to recruit Black people to assist the British in World War 1 by providing labour. There were to be 10 000 people…