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PlaceStellenberg, Stellenberg Avenue, Kenilworth
… later Stellenberg, was sold to Christina van Canarij, one of the three pre-eminent and successful slave women, … of note was the affluent businessman; John…
ArchiveThe defiance campaign
… obey the laws, which the government had made because if no one obeyed these laws then they would have to take them away. … laws. They were the pass laws; the…
EventTaliep Petersen was born on this day.
… One of South Africa’s best known theatre personalities was …
ArchiveTerrorist car bombs : Public awareness chart 6
… Four coloured blocks. Block one shows car being blown up. Block two shows bus being blown …
ArchiveAmandla!Maatla!: en film om sydafrikansk ungdom
… Government. A documentary seen through the eyes of one of its students'. …
PlaceVictorian dwelling, 15 Belvedere Avenue, Oranjezicht
… House was Erected at the turn of the 19th Century and is one of the earliest Structures to have been Built in …
PlaceVictorian terrace House complex, Grove Road and Albert Road, Mowbray
… late-Victorian Double-storey, Semi-detached Houses. One of their prominent features is a set of cast-iron …
PlaceBlue Lodge Hotel, 206-208 Long Street, Cape Town
… part of the architectural character of Long Street, one of the few streets of Cape Town whose outlook over the …
EventSA Police Commissioner, Lt. Gen. H.J. du Plooy to take drastic actions against police who call Africans “Kaffir”
… newspaper, du Plooy said that his policy on Africans was one of “leniency and extreme tolerance.” …
EventAlbert Nzula dies in Moscow
… varies in different sources. It is given as 17 January in one and the year as 1934 in various other sources. …
EventANC Matthews Mapumolo dies in police custody
… was shot and, while wounded, abducted to SA. Mapumolo was one of hundreds of people who died in detention or who died …
EventAZAPO’s first contest in SA democratic elections
… managing to secure only 0,2 % of the vote which gave them one seat in the National Assembly. This was AZAPO's first …
EventAnge-Félix Patassé, President of the Central African Republic is born
… the new “democratic star” of CAR, despite him having been one of the key figures during former president, Jean-Bédel …
An evaluation of South African novelist Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014) by Sandy English (World Socialist Website), 30 September 2014
… gag on stinking meat, children refuse to go to school. No one knows where the end of suffering will begin.” – Burger’s …
EventThe UN sets up Commission on Apartheid
… Thirty-five delegates voted in favour of the commission, one voted against it, with twenty-three abstentions. …
EventInternational Day for the Abolition of Slavery
… Others (resolution 317 (IV) of 2 December 1949. This was one of the early resolutions of the UN, adopted during the …
EventFormer Colonial Prime Minister John Merriman dies
… died in Stellenbosch at the age of 85. Merriman was one of only a few members of Parliament who opposed the …
EventEgypt Establishes Diplomatic Relations With Israel
… Egypt's military forces, the fifth largest in Africa, is one of the best in the region. The new diplomatic …
EventF.W. de Klerk marries Marike Willemse
… graduated with a law degree in 1958. They had two sons and one daughter. Their marriage ended in 1998 in a divorce, …
EventThe Population Registration Act of 1950 is repealed
… It required people to register from birth as belonging to one of four different racial groups, White, Black, Coloured …
EventSA architect Gerard Moerdijk is born
… district, Transvaal (now Limpopo Province). He was one of the first Afrikaans architects and pioneered new …
EventGambia becomes a republic
… Gambia is one of the smallest countries in West Africa. It gained its …
EventGhana imposes a total ban on exports to South Africa and South West Africa
… West Africa, as a protest against apartheid. Ghana was one of the first African states to call on South African …
Analysis: Is South Africa doing enough to prevent heritage flight? by Rebecca Davis (Daily Maverick), 07 March 2017, South Africa
… David Goldblatt was the first South African to be granted one of the art world’s major benchmarks for international … shed in public on the specific catalyst…
Country Divided in Black and White by Holland Cotter, 1 July 2010
… from his high school years invite complicated readings. One of the earliest pieces in the Jewish Museum’s exhibition, … new, and organized resistance hadn’t…
PlaceGroote Kerk, Adderley Street, Cape Town.
… expanded, so, when work on the Castle was begun in 1666, one of the timber sheds in the inner court yard was converted … only completed in 1695, whereupon…
PlaceEastern Cape Province
… looking for in the Eastern Cape. Scenic diversity is one of the most striking characteristics of the region, … River Port City, is set on the broad Buffalo…
PlaceFort Cox
… various historical sites. Fort Cox was built in 1897 as one of the military post which was established during the … Colledge; Fort Cox College of Agriculture…
Baroness Castle of Blackburn opened an exhibition on the history of the Anti-Apartheid Movement at the opening session of the Symposium
… band of people inside and outside South Africa, overthrew one of the most powerful regimes in the world. We are all … we managed to get into this succession…
The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa: Conclusion - By Riashnee Pather
… body was not well accepted by the Indian Community and one gets a clear indication of this from the fact that even … of doing so." 4 In his article PR…