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EventChristoffel Coetzee de Villiers (37), compiler of South African genealogical registers, dies
… Location: back to this day in history search archive Christoffel Coetzee de Villiers was born on 10 …
EventSouth African woman, Janice Bronwyn Linden, is sentenced to death in China for smuggling drugs
… in Guangzhou without declaring any goods. After a normal search procedure, customs officers found 3kg of …
ArticleTimeline of South African photographic books and exhibitions 1958 - 2003
… Letter to Farzanah, is held at the Pietermaritzburg Public Library, Pietermaritzburg. Paul Weinberg teaches photography … . Imijondolo was also exhibited at…
EventLord Charles Henry Somerset, governor of the Cape Colony, is born in Badminton, England
… Cape. In Cape Town he launched the South African Public Library in the Cape through a proclamation in 1818. There …
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 2 Glossary
… Xesi. End Notes [1] Lesson Plan: The American Dream" . Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. …
Behind the Narrative of the Abuse of State Power was a Larger Goal by Thabo Mbeki, 8 February 2016
… He informed us that he had secured Warrants to conduct search and seizure operations at the SAPS Headquarters and … result in a violent, armed conflict…
ArchiveEmily Hobhouse - Beloved Traitor by Elsabe Brits(The Heritage Portal), 14 September 2016
… indeed a phenomenal find and the author travelled far in search of her bonanza and was duly rewarded. Brits was given … of the Hobhouse family in a national…
PlaceMvezo, Eastern Cape
Mvezo is a small Village on the banks of the Mbashe River, not far from Mthatha in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. The Village is mainly known as being the…
PlaceTable Bay
… the Areas of Table Bay, Swartland and Saldanha Bay in search of fresh grazing pastures with their cattle herds. It …
EventSimon Mann pleads guilty in a Zimbabwean Court to attempting to purchase dangerous weapons
… Location: back to this day in history search archive On 28 July 2004, Simon Mann, a British …
PlaceHammarsdale, KZN
… or 'the sun comes out'. The Township boasts of a local library known as Mpumalanga Library and a shopping center which has become the heart of … The Township…
Contact, conflict and dispossession on the Cape eastern or northern frontiers in the nineteenth century
… leaders. The Trekboers were used to moving around in search of land for grazing. They packed their belongings into … gathered their servants and slaves, and…
EventThe Liquor Laws Amendment Bill comes into effect
… Location: back to this day in history search archive The Liquor Act, which was passed on 23 June …
EventA South African spy is released from jail
… Location: back to this day in history search archive Odile Harrington, a South African convicted …
EventF.W. de Klerk clamps down on KwaZulu
… to use the necessary force to maintain order and to search people and premises without a warrant. The measures …
BiographyChristopher “Dali” Daluxolo Mpofu
… in the movement. Some police officers were sent to search their homes for information and to arrest them. Mpofu …
ArticleThe Impact of Colonialism
… routes to the East. The main reason why Europeans began to search for a sea route to the East was to avoid paying … the king of Mali holding a gold nugget…
PlaceMofolo Arts Centre
… sewing, pottery, dance and music lessons. It also runs a library that houses over 14165 books, which is well used by …
EventJack Penn, sculptor and one of the world’s best plastic surgeon is born
… Jack Penn Collection at the University of Cape Town (UCT) library. He died on 27 November 1996, at the age of 87. …
The Lusaka Years: The ANC in Exile in Zambia, 1963 to 1994
… Pretoria : HSRC Video Conference, 1st floor HSRC Library Human Sciences Research Council, 134 Pretorius …
PlaceBergtheil House, 16 Queen’s Avenue, Westville
… First and Second World Wars. The museum houses a reference library with a considerable collection of South African …
English Settlement in South Africa
… of British citizens to Cape Town especially young men in search of a new life and the hope of making fortunes. British …
Biography of Mtutuzeli Dudu Pukwana by Nick Mencia
… many of these activist musicians out of their homeland in search of a more accepting society. A prime example of this … down the same streets, armed and…
Event60,000 delegates attend the World Summit on Sustainable Development
… Location: back to this day in history search archive  An estimated 60,000 delegates and heads of …
Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis - Acknowledgement
… B, no. 2 (1928): 14–45. Sally MacRoberts at the Brenthurst Library for permission to reproduce pages from the manuscript … Manager Archives and Special…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 3 Essay Questions
… & N. Worden, (2011), “Grade 10 Learner’s Book,” Oxford in Search of History. Oxford University Press, South Africa. … & N. Worden, (2011), “Grade 10 Learner…
EventFree, compulsory education for Black children
… in South Africa. As a result, the government was in search of a strategy that would undermine the struggle …
EventSouth Africa relinquishes sovereignty over Walvis Bay
… Location: back to this day in history search archive Walvis Bay, from the Dutch for "Whale Bay", is …
Event18 mineworkers die in Carletonville
… bodies in the 2 700 meters shaft and continued to search in poorly ventilated tunnels filled with poisonous …
EventNongqawuse’s unfulfilled prophecy
… died, while about 30,000 streamed across the border in search of food and work. Many AmaXhosa held the belief that …