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PlaceVerlorenvlei
Verlorenvlei is a long estuary stretching between the village of Elands Bay and Redelinghuys, some 25 kilometres south of Lambert’s Bay on the Cape West Coast…
PlaceKing Williams Town, Amatola
Founded as a Missionary Station in 1826, King William’s Town later (after 1835) served as a military headquarters for British Kaffraria and as a centre for…
PlaceSomerset West, Cape Helderberg
Somerset West It is situated in the Hottentots Holland, mountians area, which is right in the heart of the Cape Winelands. Somerset West is situated in the…
EventAllan Boesak's plea for the acquittal on fraud charges is rejected and the case is postponed to the following year
… and the impending South African ambassador to the United Nations. Boesak was charged with fraud and his trial began in …
PlaceYMCA-Cape Town and later Athlone, as well
Formerly called: 'Young Men's Christian Association'. This is a welfare movement with branches all over the World, that began in London in 1844. YMCA Cape Town…
ArchiveWhere did all the masks go? by Dewald van Rensburg (22 May 2020)
In the first quarter of this year South Africa’s normally staid and insignificant mask industry exploded. Like its peers across the globe it had orders…
PlaceTrafalgar High School
In the time of Education and its opposition to the Apartheid system, (when many students and teachers were jailed or banned). The School was nominated to the…
PlaceLoeriesfontein, Northern Cape
Loeriesfontein is situated in the Northern Cape. This little Town is situated in the Hantam Municipality, 120 kilometres from Brandvlei. Other nearby towns…
PlaceKing Shaka International Airport, La Mercy-Durban
King Shaka International Airport is named after the founder of the Zulu Kingdom, King Shaka. King Shaka Airport stands on- iLembe District land, which is…
PlaceGraafwater
The Heerenlogement cave which was used by travelers as overnight accommodation in the 17th and 18th centuries is 25 km from Graafwater on the Vredendal road. …
PlaceKgodumodumo Dinosaur Interpretation Centre
The new centre will celebrate- Africa’s Ancient History, highlighting one of the World’s oldest known dinosaur embryos ever discovered. With interactive…
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Marikana 10 years on: survey shows knowledge of massacre is low, by Benjamin Roberts, Jare Struwig and Steven Gordon (theconversation.com), 16 August 2022
To explore the patterns of collective memory in South Africa after nearly three decades of democracy, we set out to establish how much of the country’s recent…
PlaceFramesby, Port Elizabeth
Framesby is one of Port Elizabeth’s well-known residential suburbs. It is flanked by Cape Road (which is part of the N2 motorway, extending from Durban in…
PlaceWellington, Western Cape
The picturesque town of Wellington is a scenic 45-minute drive from Cape Town. The train station is built on land donated to the Town Council in 1863, as part…
ArchiveHighlights on successes and experienced challenges during the 25 years of freedom and democracy.
Union Buildings Government Avenue, Private Bag X1000 PRETORIA, 0001 Dear President, Ramaphosa I am Mnguni Bulelani, 14 years old and doing Grade 9 at…
A new total strategy emerges July 1990 -June 1991
From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman The unbanning of the liberation movements on 2 February…
Address at Conference on Southern Africa of the Socialist International and the Socialist Group of the European Parliament with the Frontline States, ANC and SWAPO by O. R. Tambo, Arusha, 4 September 1984
… the region of southern Africa, which consists of many nations and countries. We are also agreed that the peoples of …
Address to the Annual Conference of the Natal, 23 November 1951
… the whites in this country an opportunity to say to other nations overseas or in UNO that: 'There are the barbarians, …
Extract from a speech made at Koffiefontein on 11 August 1967
… the higher the level of development - and there are few nations whose level of development is as high as ours - the …
64. Congress addresses the Union Parliament, 1946
… gross violation of the principles enshrined in the United Nations Charter , on which the peace, welfare and future of …
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 12
… who, as we have seen, had just returned from the United Nations. Against the advice of those near him he travelled to …
Chapter 6 - Defining the agenda
… country under an independent convener such as the United Nations, the Commonwealth, or the Organization of African …
Post-detention weapons
From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman As we have seen in Chapter 3, detention without trial,…
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1910-1919
… In Durban, Natal Indian leaders formed "The Anti-£3 Tax League". September 18, Gandhi, writing in Indian Opinion, …
EventThe Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) invade the World Trade Centre, during constitutional negotiations, in Kempton Park, Johannesburg, Transvaal
On 25 June 1993, hundreds of armed white separatists together with the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (Afrikaner Resistance Movement - AWB) stormed the World…
PlaceJacobsbaai, West Coast
Established a few Decades ago, Jacobsbaai is a tranquil getaway between Vredenburg and Saldanha Bay. Home to a small community. Jacobsbaai was originally…
Excavations: Shirts, Placards, Posters and the Remnants of Spectacular Protest in the LRS’s Collections by Lebogang Mokwena
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference South Africa has a long and rich scholarly tradition on the labour…
PlaceHelderberg, Somerset West
The district takes its name from the mountain of the same name, which is Afrikaans for: "clear mountain". This is referring to the way in which the western…
PlaceChris Hani Municipal Region, Eastern Cape
The Chris Hani municipal region lies at the heart of the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. It is the second largest of the Eastern Cape province, district…
PlaceBlaauwberg Nature Reserve, Melkbosstrand
Cape Town is unique due to its high concentration of local flora and fauna species. The Blaauwberg Nature Reserve protects and conserves, one of the City’s-…