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Ronald (Ronnie) Britten
… At a young age, while a student at the University of Cape Town, Ronald (Ronnie) Britten was an … writings of I.B. Tabata in an archive at the University of…
ArticleThe Union of South Africa 1910
… Towards Union It is often assumed that the discovery of gold at the Rand was the chief cause of the … was repayment for the treatment the Boers received at…
BiographyWangari Maathai
… and human rights. [i] She was born in Nyeri, part of the rural region of Kenya on the 1st of April 1940. Maathai … women in planting over 20 million trees on…
PlaceVaal River and Dam, Gauteng, Free State, Northern Cape and Mpumalanga
… Vaal Dam covers over 300 km, which makes it the Country's largest Dam, by area. It was constructed in … of Gauteng's major sources of drinking water , it…
BiographyDorothy Moss Kay
… County Wicklow, Ireland, 1886. Kay (nee Elvery) studied at the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin. She came to SA in 1910 … of her daughter. In 1922, Kay sent…
BiographyMarion Gill
… She lived in SA from 1924 to 1957. She first studied at the Slade School of Art, London, and at the Art School in … 1933, she held a very successful…
BiographyClarence Mlami Makwetu
… Mlami Makwetu was born on 6th December 1928 in Hoyita, in the Cofimvaba district, Transkei. He was the second of five … Lovedale near Alice for his…
A Walk in the Night
… On 1 December 1834, the enslaved people of the Cape were legally freed. To … Street with a night picnic. We encourage everyone to join us and bring along…
BiographySimon Nkoli
… are Black and gay in South Africa, then it really is all the same closet…inside is darkness and oppression. Outside is … for freedom and social justice in…
BiographyYvonne Mokgoro
… Justice Yvonne Mokgoro was a judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa from its inception … as Associate Professor at the University of the Western…
Membathisi Mphumzi Shepherd Mdladlana
… May 1952 Shepherd Mdladlana was born in Keiskammahoek in the Eastern Cape. He has been South African Minister of Labour since 1998 and is a member of the…
G. Abdulla
… G. Abdulla was a Cape member of the South African Indian Federation (SAIF) in 1927. …
BiographyStanley Bongani Nkosi
… years old his family moved to Dukhatole tear Germiston in the Transvaal. He attended school in Gerpiston, Swaziland and … Society Johannesburg (African Art)…
BiographyC. M Kobus
… C. M Kobus was the African attorney and founding member of the Non-European Unity Movement (NEUM). Holder of a B.A. degree, he taught for some years in the…
Performing Arts Council of the Transvaal (PACT)
… in Pretoria on 3rd January 1963 with P.P.B Breytenbach as the first director. It was founded under the same principle as the Cape Performing Arts Board …
BiographyVuyisile Mini
… Vuyisile Mini was born in 1920 in the coastal city of Port Elizabeth. Mini's father was a Port … tireless efforts to organise workers across the Eastern Cape…
Professor Sir Raymond Hoffenberg
… was born in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape) on 16 March 1923. He went to school in Port Elizabeth … grateful to his English teacher,…
Sir Rufane Shaw Donkin
… British soldier, and Governor at the Cape from 1820-21. He named the burgeoning port of Algoa Bay, Port Elizabeth in memory of … British general, colonel…
BiographyJacob Hendrik Pierneef
… Dutch parents. Pierneef started his high school career at the Staatsmodelschool in Pretoria and it was here that he … back to Pretoria an started preparing…
BiographyColin Gardner
… England as a Rhodes scholar. He lectured briefly at the University of South Africa (Unisa) in Pretoria and in … Natal University (Pietermaritzburg campus) as…
ArticleThe International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF)
… The International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF) was established … lawyers were able to get 39 of 44 of the accused in the Cape Town Goodwood case freed. In…
Baron Joachim Ammena van Plettenberg, Cape governor, reaches a bay near Melkhoutkraal which he names Plettenberg Bay and where
… Baron Joachim Ammena van Plettenberg, Cape governor, reaches a bay near Melkhoutkraal which he …
A German baker, Carel Christoph Pabst, starts a music school in Cape Town to train amateur musicians for his orchestra.
… baker, Carel Christoph Pabst, starts a music school in Cape Town to train amateur musicians for his orchestra. …
Baron Joachim Ammena van Plettenberg, Cape governor, reaches a bay near Melkhoutkraal which he names Plettenberg Bay and where
… Baron Joachim Ammena van Plettenberg, Cape governor, reaches a bay near Melkhoutkraal which he …
Mohandas Gandhi, after successfully leading campaigns of Passive Resistance in this country, finally leaves from Cape Town by s
… of Passive Resistance in this country, finally leaves from Cape Town by s …
Elize Botha (75), first wife of former president P.W. Botha, dies of a heart attack in Wilderness, Western Cape.
… P.W. Botha, dies of a heart attack in Wilderness, Western Cape. …
Dr Monwabisi Bevan Goqwana, MEC for Health, Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature and former specialist physician at Umtata Hospi
… Dr Monwabisi Bevan Goqwana, MEC for Health, Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature and former specialist physician …
After preliminary conversations started on 6 of February in Cape Town by representatives from India, Pakistan and South Africa,
… After preliminary conversations started on 6 of February in Cape Town by representatives from India, Pakistan and South …
United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan addresses parliament in Cape Town. He urges African leaders to improve conditions i
… secretary-general Kofi Annan addresses parliament in Cape Town. He urges African leaders to improve conditions i …
Over fifty squatters begin a hunger strike in St. George’s Cathedral, Cape Town, protesting against evictions from Nyanga squat
… squatters begin a hunger strike in St. George’s Cathedral, Cape Town, protesting against evictions from Nyanga squat …