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ArchiveAll That Glitters - ’The rock on which the future will be built’ by Emilia Potenza
… In the 1880s men at Kimberley could earn a cash wage of 20 shillings to 30 shillings per week, i.e. about 50 cents. … wage bonus was to find a diamond. He…
PlaceChapman's Peak Drive, Hout Bay to Fish Hoek
… roadway took seven years to complete, at a cost of ₤20 000. The Hout Bay - Noordhoek Road ‘hewn out of the stone … Peak Drive was re-opened to traffic as a…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the International Conference in solidarity with the frontline states and Lesotho, Lisbon, 25 March 1983
… astronomical figure of two and a half million - more than 20 percent of the economically active population; educational spending for blacks continues to be…
29. Removal to locations: the people are terrified
… Ally, Mr. Abdul Rahman, and myself on Thursday last (July 20, 1899), you informed the deputation that Her Majesty's … reside on your stand, after June 30th…
PlaceGood Hope Centre, Cape Town
"The aim of this lecture is to shed light on the Good Hope Centre in, Cape Town. An exceptional building designed by the famous Italian engineer and architect…
PlaceKwaNojoli, formerly Somerset East
On the fringes of South Africa’s Karoo in the malaria-free Eastern Cape lies an interesting, attractive and historic little town, which invariably charms all…
PlaceParadise Valley, Kwa Zulu Natal
… and head down through the picnic Area. It takes about 20 minutes to reach the Waterfall and another half an hour …
PlaceSasolburg
… to be developed at Boegoebaai, in the Northern Cape, and 20-km South of the Namibian border. Sasolburg attained …
EventUDF activist Toto Dweba's mutilated body is found
… 1985. He was fatally stabbed and mutilated in Eshowe on 20 August 1985. She said that she had received strange phone …
Archive”I am Albertina Sisulu”, Interview from Blue Portraits
… first of all launched our ANC Women's League in Durban in 1990, August the ninth, which is a historic day for women. I … sentenced to five years. He only…
ArticleMass Democratic movements, 1976-1983
… open casket in his home before the funeral, attended by 20,000 mourners at King William's Town. Source: The Drum … Jabane fought until he was killed in a…
Article1976-1983: Mass Democratic movements
Introduction
PlaceWitbank, Mpumalanga
… is at the centre of a coal-mining area in which more than 20 collieries operate. During the South African War … of critical patients), a 26 bed inpatient…
BiographyTim Bruwer
… at the turn of events. My father had died suddenly in 1990 and I did not attendhis funeral. However, once the end …
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt brings ex-offender portrait series to British jails by Helen Stoilas, 30 May 2017
… on the walls between cells, while in HM Prison Manchester, 20 works have been installed in the prison chapel. Two …
David Goldblatt: Intersections; Asbestos; Particulars by Sue Williamson, 1 - 25 October 2003
… has been collected into a handsome volume with 27 16 x 20 inch images, launched at this exhibition. A full review of …
ArchiveOne hundred years of an air force inspired by General Smuts, by John Kane-Berman (PoliticsWeb), 18 July 2018
… These were chillingly prescient words. Barely more than 20 years later precisely such devastation was being inflicted …
PlaceLuderitz, Namibia
Luderitz is a quaint harbour town on the Atlantic Coast in Namibia. It boasts German history, art-deco architecture and excursions to the ghost town of…
PlaceSt Stephen’s Church, Dutch Reformed Church, Riebeeck Square, Cape Town
In 1799, during the first British occupation of the Cape, the Governor, Sir George Yonge, appropriated a portion of Riebeeck Square to build a theatre upon the…
PlaceGriquatown
… by Queen Victoria. The nearby Witsand Nature Reserve, just 20 kilometres south west of Postmasburg (confusingly there is …
Place(The) Gambia
Gambia is a Western African country, situated on the Atlantic coast and is entirely surrounded by the neighbouring country, Senegal. It is a long narrow strip…
PlaceStendahl Mission
Stendahl Mission is said to have existed for about 124 years. A Minister of the Berlin Mission Society, Gueldenpfennig, acquired the mission land in 1860. By…
PlaceCape St Francis, Eastern Cape Peninsula
… The quiet fishing settlement of Oyster Bay lies some 20 km to the west, and Humansdorp , the agricultural centre …
PlaceRandjieslaagte Beacon, Parktown, Johannesburg
It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 26 February 1965. When Johannesburg was proclaimed in 1886 on the triangular site…
ArticleAnti-South African Indian Council (SAIC) Campaign
… of the United Democratic Front (UDF), six months later, on 20 August 1983 at the Rocklands Civic Centre in Mitchells …
ArticleResponses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: The Afrikaner Response and the 1914 Rebellion
… and sentenced to death. He was executed on the 20 December. Maritz and Kemp still fought on in the …
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1930-1939
… (Dugard 1978: 177). Commenced: 21 May 1930. Repealed by s 20 of the Riotous Assemblies Act No 17 of 1956. The Asiatic …
ArticleSecond Anglo-Boer War - 1899 - 1902
'South African War ( a.k.a. the Anglo-Boer War) remains the most terrible and destructive modern armed conflict in South Africa’s history. It was an event that…
ArticlePass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
Pass laws in South Africa were met with fierce resistance during the 20th century. But earlier forms of passes, had in fact been used in various instances…
Prehistory of the Rustenburg area
… capital of the Modimosana Mmatau BaKwena, and housed up to 20 000 people. Archaeologists have excavated a small part of …