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PlaceRust en Vreugd, Buitenkant Street, Cape Town
… to be the work of Anton Anreith. Typical of its time one enters the house from the stoep into a voorhuis , with reception rooms on either side. From there…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Luncheon hosted by Prime Minister Narasimha Rao of India New Delhi, 25 January 1995
… commission of our two governments which was established by one of the agreements signed this morning, will play a key … signed in August last year laid the…
Document 3 - Peace Treaty of Vereeniging
… parliament will go down in the history of our country as one of the most sober analyses of the challenges we face. The … at every turn. It is remarkable that…
PlaceWits Art Museum
… in the heart of Braamfontein, The Wits Art Museum is one of Johannesburg’s foremost tourist attractions. The … African art. The Studio Gallery was known for…
PlaceAi-Ais, Namibia
… Spring, and means 'burning water' in the Local Dialect. One of the eyes of the hot Spring is in the Ai-Ais Resort … from very easy to quite challenging. The…
PlaceParsonage House Museum, Port Elizabeth
… or No 7 Castle Hill. The Georgian house, now a museum is one of the oldest houses in the city and is a fine example of … National Monuments now provincial…
PlaceNewington Road Victorian Houses, Port Elizabeth
… legislation on 15 July 1983. Newington Road is found in one of the most historic suburbs in central Port Elizabeth, … decor style shop and upmarket…
EventEllen Phyllis Hellmann, social anthropologist and executive member of the SAIRR, dies in Johannesburg
… condemned as slums in the 1920s and early 1930s. One of the slum yards known to have been very active in … clearance was Rooiyardin Doornfontein, currently…
Document 67 - Letter from the African Metal Trades Union, Johannesburg, to the Workers’ Party of South Africa, 21 February 1937
… Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 67 - Letter from … Scaw Works, (Steel Ceilings &…
EventFatima Meer is banned for a second time
… re-emergence of FEDSAW. Through her organisation, Meer was one of the initiators of the Free Mandela Campaign launched … people and their families. In 1981,…
EventThe Constitution of the Republic of South Africa is approved by Parliament
… of the Republic of South Africa is regarded as one of the most progressive constitutions in the world. The process that led to its approval was not an easy…
EventFirst air flight from London to South Africa
… considerably, partly due to the outbreak of World War One. Britain, having emerged victorious from this war also … made it to Cape Town. This was…
EventDavid Livingstone “discovers” Lake Nyasa
… a tributary of the Zambezi, and discovered Lake Nyasa, one of his many great discoveries of the African interior. Today it may seem strange to credit one…
18. Narayanan searches for his wife and child
… Umzimkulu Estate Ltd. My wife Chinnama, and child - a girl one month old ”” arrived with me, but she was detained at the … and night untold agony in thinking…
Address of Nelson Mandela, President of the African National Congress on Receiving an Honorary LLD Degree at the University of Fort Hare 9 May 1992
… all the other crimes of apartheid. Clearly there is only one future that we can contemplate and that is for us to take … the impression that they do not…
Address at The Official Opening of The Cape Town International Convention Centre, Cape Town, 28 June 2003
… Western Cape and South Africa. This convention centre is one of the many concrete proofs that the tide has indeed … Mountain, which lies majestically in…
88. Gandhi’s legacy
… rich in humanity, imagination and creativity. I am one of you and I would therefore like to believe that I could … it is their duty, to rise against an…
The White man’s task by Jan Smuts, 22 May 1917
… Cabinet and to render brilliant services to the Allies. One of his most notable and prophetic speeches on African … I know that there are many here tonight…
ArticleStudent protests in democratic South Africa
… called the South African Students’ Congress (SASCO). One development is that as protests have increased so too has …
CAPS Grade 5: Intermediate Phase History - Term 2
… first farmers in southern Africa Suggested contact time One term/15 hours This content must be integrated with the …
ArticlePedi & Anglo-Pedi Wars 1876-1879
… onslaught caused the Pedi to flee northwards with Sekwati, one of Thulare's surviving sons. Sekwati later returned with …
ArticleBantu education and the racist compartmentalizing of education
… at secondary schools increased from 12,656 to 34,656. One in five Soweto children were attending secondary school. …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1800-1899
… Mandela traces his lineage back to the Thembu Chief Nxeko, one of the early Thembu Kings who ruled over Thembuland, a …
Learning about local history through pictures
… Source: Adderley Street in 1910 1 Adderley Street is one of the most historically significant streets in Cape …
ArticlePolokwane/Pietersburg Timeline 1835-1995
… of SA 1995 25 February,The city of Pietersburg becomes one of the first places in South Africa to change its name …
ArticleThe Transkei
… the early British forces who first occupied Pondoland. On one occasion in 1895, when it seemed that a clash was …
The Cape Northern Frontier
… to 1819 the British were involved in a second conflict, one of many with local peoples, with Xhosa forces for the …
ArchiveStatement announcing retirement, Nelson Mandela, 1 June 2004
… health, with my family, my friends and also with myself. One of the things that made me long to be back in prison was … that now really need my urgent…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Annual Gold Award ceremony of the President’t award Pretoria, 25 November 1994
… Annual Gold Award ceremony is unlike any previous one. It is the first year that the programme under which the … representatives of the future, is a rare and…
PlaceClifton and Camps Bay Beaches, Cape Town
… range and the glittering Atlantic Ocean, Camps Bay is one of Cape Town’s most breath-taking Suburbs. As well as … many roads in the Cape region, was…