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PlaceVineyard Hotel, Colington Road, Newlands
It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 18 February 1977.Over the past two Centuries, The Vineyard has proudly evolved into one of the…
PlaceLeeuwenhof, Official Residence of the Premier of Cape Town
Proclaimed as a National Monument in 1966. Leeuwenhof, the official residence of the Premier of the Cape Province, stands on the slope of Table Mountain. It is…
PlaceKing’s Blockhouse, Devil’s Peak, Cape Town.
Following the first British occupation of the Cape in 1795, the existing Dutch line of defence, known as the French line, was extended by the addition of three…
PlaceMalay Quarter, Cape Town
The area, known as the Malay Quarter of Cape Town, nestles against the steep slopes of Signal Hill. It formerly covered a much larger piece of land but this…
PlaceBo-Kaap Museum
Situated at the foot of Signal Hill, on the fringe of the city centre, and formerly known as the Malay Quarter, the Bo-Kaap’s origins date back to the 1760s…
PlaceKirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens, Cape Town
Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden lives up to its reputation as the most beautiful garden in Africa and one of the great botanic gardens of the world. Few…
EventAnti-SAIC political rally ends in Lenasia
On 19 and 20 August 1981, in response to the National Party (NP) government’s attempts to co opt Indians and Coloured communities into puppet state…
PlaceFort Schanskop
After the Jameson Raid in 1896, Pres Paul Kruger of the “Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek” decided to protect Pretoria by constructing forts in strategic places…
PlaceSouth African National Museum of Military History
The Museum of Military History offers adults a fascinating look at all forms of war vehicles and weapons. And it will captivate children with the visual…
PlaceLiberia
Liberia, which means ‘freedom’ formerly known as the Grain Coast, is one of the few African countries including Ethiopia that were not colonised by the…
Statement by the National Executive Committee of the ANC - 20 September 2008
Over the past two days, the National Executive Committee of the ANC has deliberated on the Pietermaritzburg Court judgement on the 12th of September by Judge…
Document 32 - League of African Rights, Petition, 1929
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 32 - League of African Rights, Petition, 1929 A…
EventJoaquim Chissano succeeds Samora Machel as president of Mozambique
Following almost 400 years of Portuguese presence, Mozambique became an independent state in 1975. A civil war broke out between two factions FRELIMO, backed…
EventUN peace-keeping troops deployed to the Republic of Congo
Formerly known as the Belgian Congo, the Republic of Congo was established in 1960. The fight for independence was initially led by Patrice Lumumba of the…
EventDonald James Wood journalist and Anti apartheid activists is born
Donald James Woods was born in Elliotdale, Transkei on 15 December 1933. He was educated at Christian Brothers College in Kimberley. After completing his…
EventThree British mercenaries are sentenced to death for their part in the Angolan civil war
In January 1976, a group of 100 mercenaries crossed over from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (then Zaire) to Angola in order to support The National…
EventThabo Mbeki is elected 2nd President of a democratic South Africa
Thabo Mbeki was sworn in as South Africa's second democratically elected president in front of a vast crowd of dancing and cheering supporters. The…
EventHundreds of thousands of people killed as tsunamis devastate large swathes of South and Southeast Asia, coming as far as South Africa
On the morning of 26 December 2004, a magnitude 9.3 earthquake struck off the Northwest coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. The earthquake deformed the…
EventArrival of Chinese labourers in South Africa
A labour shortage at the gold mines on the Rand resulted in the importation of Chinese labour in 1904. This situation, in part, was the result of the Anglo…
EventField Marshal Lord Roberts is appointed British supreme commander in South Africa
The appointment of Lord Roberts as Supreme Commander of the British forces in South Africa came after a series of failed campaigns against Boer Commandos in…
PlaceRobert Sobukwe Town, was called Graaf-Reinet
The oldest town in the Eastern Cape, the fourth oldest in South Africa and certainly one of the most atmospheric, Graaff-Reinet lies enclosed by a bend in the…
PlaceGoshen
It was established by the Transvaal Boers in 1884, as a Republic. Their flag was horizontal black-white-red stripes with a green vertical stripe at the hoist…
EventJoe Slovo dies
Joe Slovo, the communist intellectual widely credited with being one of the masterminds of South Africa's national reconciliation, died after a long battle…
EventSouth Africa signs agreement with Switzerland to support the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP)
The legacy of apartheid is characterized by great political and socio-economic inequality. In order to address this, the African National Congress (ANC) along…
PlaceTwo Oceans Aquarium, Cape Town Waterfront
The Two Oceans Aquarium in Cape Town is all about fun and entertainment, for Adults and Kids alike. See over 3,000 creatures, from the smallest Species to…
EventFirst celebration of International Women’s Day
The first International Women's Day was launched in several European countries in March 1911. It was celebrated on 19 March and over a million men and women…
PlaceBalule Private Game Reserve, Kruger National Park
In the language of the Shangaan people, the name 'Balule' is the Tsonga word for Buffalo. You can see the 'Big Five' and many other animals in the Balule Game…
PlaceMalawi
The Coastal and Marine Ecosystems of the Bijagós Archipelago – Omatí Minhô in Guinea-Bissau and the mountain range of southern Malawi have been added to the…
Address by President Jacob Zuma, at the James Sebe Moroka Lecture, Northwest Province, 22 August 2012
ANC provincial chairperson Comrade Supra Mahumapelo, ANC national chairperson Comrade Baleka Mbethe and all ANC Officials, NEC members and provincial…
ArchiveAppendix 1: Time Line of South African history by Denis Goldberg
In pre-colonial times South Africa was occupied by Khoisan people in the west and Bantu speaking people in the east. 1652 Jan van Riebeeck landed at the Cape…