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EventJohn Koenakeefe Mohl , SA artist and founder member of Artists Under the Sun, dies in Soweto
… he could look after cattle. A Reverend Hale of The London Missionary Society recognized his talent and convinced his …
EventArtist William Cornwallis Harris starts his expedition from Cape Town to the Western Transvaal and the Magaliesburg Mountain
… across the Orange River to Kuruman, where they met the missionary Robert Moffat. Moffat was a good friend of …
EventArmistice day 11th Nov 1918
… casualties from South Africa in this war. The 1884 Berlin Conference was an attempt to divide up Africa among …
Document 31 - The Negotiating Forum: resolution on the transition process
… I should have paid for full board. I subsequently reached Berlin some weeks before Comrade Bunting and I was given this …
PlaceAdams Mission, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… by Dingaan, but rebuilt in 1839. Named after the American missionary, Dr. Newton Adams (1796-1841) who arrived in Natal …
EventSir Benjamin D’Urban, for whom the city Durban was named, assumes office as Governor of the Cape of Good Hope
… was given before a parliamentary committee by the missionary and philanthropist, Dr John Phillip. D'Urban …
PlaceGriquatown
… 1802 William Anderson and Cornelius Kramer, of the London Missionary Society, established a station among the Griqua at … the original mission church of…
PlaceKeilands Catholic Mission Station, Eastern Cape
"Keilands Catholic Mission Station- Established 1886 along the banks of the Great Kei in a remote Valley, between Cathcart and Stutterheim. The magnificent …
PlaceUgie, Eastern Cape
… day, Maclear District. He was their Medical Doctor and Missionary Reverend. William Murray was born on 15 July 1837 … him of his birthplace. He then decided…
EventSA Artist, Father Frans Claerhout, is born
… he immigrated to South Africa in 1946 as a Catholic missionary. He was initially posted to the Orange Free State, …
PlaceFort Klapperkop
… received financial assistance from the German Bank in Berlin. Various pieces of heavy artillery were placed in the …
Mission Stations - M
… being charged of this fact, had sought refuge with the missionary concerned. The resultant upheavals brought to an … years after the death of king Rapusa of…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 2 Glossary
Terms You Need to Know: Christopher Columbus arriving in the America. Image Source Abolition: The ending of a law, a system or an institution. During…
EventDavid Livingstone “discovers” Lake Nyasa
… in 1813, Livingston was a renowned explorer, doctor and missionary. Of course, he is most remembered for his exploits …
EventNongqawuse’s unfulfilled prophecy
… their beliefs were being tested by a mixture of missionary teachings and European technology and their cattle …
PlaceButterworth, Wild Coast
Butterworth is situated in the Eastern Cape of South Africa and is one of the oldest towns in the Eastern Cape's Wild Coast (the former Transkei - a black…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter XII - End and Beginning
… in the 19th century, with its emphasis on the role of the missionary, we shall indicate the initial stages of the … by the invaders, developed, that the true…
PlaceGenadendal Historic Village & Museum
… Ravine) and was established in 1738 by the young Moravian missionary, Georg Schmidt . He arrived at a time when the … of Strandveld farmers also threatened…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1930-1939
… and his cousin Justice attend Clarkebury, a Wesleyan missionary school and at that time the biggest education … India as one of several delegates to the…
PlaceKweneng, District of Botswana
… first group in Botswana converted to Christianity by famed missionary David Livingstone. Various landmarks, including …
PlaceOld Lutheran Church, Kroondal
… dining room of the Ottermann house. From its beginnings, missionary Christian Müller saw to the spiritual needs of the …
EventTanzania gains independence
… of the region, German missionaries from the German Church Missionary Society preceded French interaction. East Africa …
ArticleThe 2nd Johannesburg Biennale
… the forging of a new politics of place, as the fall of the Berlin wall, the collapse of Soviet Russia, the end of …
ArticleHow did it influence the rise of Nazism?
… from the east and west. As the Russians marched into Berlin, Hitler committed suicide in his underground bunker a …
PlaceMamre, Cape Town
From one of South Africa’s oldest Churches to the delight of wine tasting and delightful Cape cuisine, sample the best of everything on this Heritage drive. …
PlaceNgcobo
… prickled early by the imperial attitudes embedded in his missionary education. Intending to gain skills needed to …
PlaceColesberg, Northern Cape
… in 1830 on the site of an abandoned station of the London Missionary Society, and was named in honour of Sir Galbraith …
Political revolution between 1820 and 1835
… In 1833 the first missionaries from the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society and Wesleyans arrived in the Sotho … Tswana converted to Christianity after…
ArticleBlack South African literature
… literature in English lie in the Eastern Cape. The Glasgow Missionary Society founded the school of Lovedale at Alice in …
PlaceClermont, a Township of Durban
… and Clermont were bought by Bergtheil. In 1928 the Berlin Mission sold most of Christiannenburg and Clermont …