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EventRocklands Community Hall declared a heritage site
On 20 August 2019, the 36th anniversary of the founding of the United Democratic Front (UDF), the Rocklands Community Hall, located in Mitchell’s Plain,Cape…
PlaceoThongathi, previously Tongaat
The area was formally developed around 1848–1850 when land was granted to settlers for sugar cultivation. Derived from the Zulu word 'uThongathi', which…
PlaceKomatipoort
The original inhabitants of the region around Komatipoort were the Bushmen. Their paintings they have been discovered under rock ledges, that date back from a…
EventSlavery abolished in the Cape
On 1 December 1834, slavery came to an end in the Cape Colony. The move to abolish slavery in the Colony came a year after the Slavery Abolition Bill of 1833…
Biography of Lefifi Tladi by Paul Linck
… lawyer proceeded to tell him that he could either spend 18 years on Robben Island, or leave the country [xxv] . Tladi … Lefifi Tladi poetry performance at…
PlaceCape Floral Areas, Western Province
… of biodiversity crime in the Western Cape, revealing 12 new cases and 23 fines issued between April and June 2025 … of biodiversity crime in the Western Cape…
PlaceEquatorial Guinea
… 12 October 1968, Equatorial Guinea gains independence from …
Resolution of the Executive Committee of the AAC, February 15, 1936 46
… 26-12-22 Dear Comrade Tom Your letter from Port Elizabeth and …
EventThe second Carnegie Report on poverty in South Africa is released
… 800 residents of a Black township were forced to share 12 open-pit toilets, which led to an outbreak of infectious …
EventIt is announced that a child prostitution and trafficking task team rescues 14 underage prostitutes in downtown Johannesburg
… The most vulnerable children are girls between the ages of 12 and 16, who are often kidnapped in broad daylight. They … [Accessed: 24 October 2013]| Seale, L…
EventHajara Ibrahim appears before a Nigerian Islamic court to launch an appeal against her conviction for adultery
… banking, family, sexuality and hygiene. Since 1999, 12 states across the mainly Muslim north of Nigeria have … The following year, in the Bauchi state of…
ArchiveThe sad secret kept by the trailblazing South African Steve Mokone
… book to try and find out what happened.” Egbers spent 18 months trawling through the archives looking for … against his own father.” Sentenced to between…
PlaceHeritage Route of Transvaal, Limpopo and Mpumalanga
… an exodus from British-controlled territory. Some 12,000 of these Boer emigrants moving Northward from the Cape … first president. South Africa’s diamond…
PlaceUnion Tavern and Stables, Simonstown
… only 17,500 guilders and it was bought a Year later for 11,600 guilders by Murdoch Morrison. The latter is noteworthy …
PlaceClanwilliam, Stellenbosch District
… Earl of Caledon , Governor of the Cape Colony from 1807-11; annexed that part of the District lying North of the Berg …
EventThe last Apollo Moon mission returns to Earth
… on the Moon since Neil Armstrong stepped out of Apollo 11 in July 1969. While astronaut's Eugene Cernan and Harrison …
EventFirst celebration of National Heritage Day
… a wonderful potential to bring us all together.... We have 11 different official languages but only one word for the …
EventAnglo-Boer War 2: Lord Methuen, British general, destroys the village of Schweizer-Reneke
… established 66 concentration camps for them, accommodating 11 500 people at the height of their existence. Mortality …
EventThembisile Chris Hani is killed
… other daughters, Neo (then 20 years old) and Lindiwe (then 12 years old) were away at the time. Also implicated in the …
PlaceLouw House Museum, Sutherland
… displays, to see here! NP van Wyk Louw, born on 11 June 1906 in Sutherland, was an Afrikaans-language poet, … department. NP van Wyk Louw died at the aged of…
PlaceKaNyamazane Township, Mpumalanga
… based in Nelspruit. Today it is a Township which homes 11 814 families. The young people of KaNyamazane are thriving …
Political Overview by the Gauteng ANC Chairperson, Paul Mashatile, at the Provincial General Council, 8 June 2012, St George`s Hotel, Tshwane
… have resulted in the decline in absolute poverty from 11.3% in 2000 to 5% in 2006, dropping continuously. Comrades, as the ANC we view the … by 16% each, and…
Extract from a speech made at Bethlehem on 2 September
… more, the danger lies in that - for the Whites there are 12, there are four units as far as the Whites are concerned. … are concerned, there are eight plus…
PlaceSomalia
… the ICU quickly became a powerful Islamic militia that by 2006 controlled much of Southern Somalia. The group was … fears about the situation across the…
PlaceSimons Town School, Cape Town
… last three years of secondary schooling (Grades 10 to 12), the Lawhill Maritime Centre at Simon’s Town School has, … last three years of secondary schooling …
EventSouth African man sets record for world's deepest dive
… to descend, but returning to the surface took an agonising 12 hours. The quick descend and slow return to surface is a …
ArchiveDenis Goldberg belongs to those who defeated apartheid
… Denis was 69 and a former engineer. Edelgard died in 2006. In the later years of his life, Denis Goldberg was …
Apartheid stakeholders - where are they now?
… extended beyond April 1999 but they were denied this extra lease of life. Within the second tier of government, … of those right wing organisations which…
ArchiveCHAPTER 2 - You only win once by Howard Barrell
… Soviet Union and in China (until the Sino-Soviet split). 11 There is no evidence of any major exodus of anti-apartheid … 2,000 guerillas in 1970 appears to…
Minutes of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, February 1-2, 1947
… of the basis for co-operation'' THE MEETING ADJOURNED AT 11:30 P.M. SUNDAY 2ND FEBRUARY - 9:45 A.M. 4. UNOPPOSED … taxation on the people, resolution No. 10…