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PlaceMichaelis School of Fine Art
… The Michaelis School of Fine Art, the namesake of the Fine Art Department of the University of Cape Town , is located on Hiddingh … https://showme.co.za/cape…
PlaceHeritage Route of King Shaka
… opened. Mavivane Execution Cliff- This means the 'Place of Shivering'. According to legend Shaka used it as an execution cliff. The cliff is on the outskirts…
PlaceDitsong Museum of Natural History
… The Ditsong National Museum of Natural History used to be the Transvaal Museum of Natural History, which in turn developed from the 1892 … Gauteng’s only…
EventDay of the African Child
… The 16th of June is commemorated each year as the Day of the African Child. This commemoration was adopted on 16 … honour those who had laid down their lives…
ArchiveMinutes: Ordinary Meeting of the Urban Bantu Council of Johannesburg, 26 February 1976
… Minutes of the 94th Ordinary Meeting record the service provision and the administrative duties of the Council within a segregated local government … Minutes…
Meeting of ANC, SACP, COSATU of Transkei and the Border held in Umtata
… Minutes of a meeting of the Tripartite Alliance. Discussed political developments … Meeting of ANC, SACP, COSATU of Transkei and the Border held in Umtata …
ArchiveMeeting of ANC, SACP, COSATU of Transkei and the Border held in Umtata
… Minutes of a meeting of the Tripartite Alliance. Discussed political developments … Meeting of ANC, SACP, COSATU of Transkei and the Border held in Umtata …
PlaceCircle of Kramat's, Cape Town
… The circle of Kramats in Cape Town is a shrine to Muslim holy men buried … National disasters. Kramats or Mazaars, the holy shrines of Islam, mark the graves…
PlaceHistorical core of Wynberg Village
… The old village of Wynberg was developed during the mid-19th Century when it became the preferred place of retirement for British civil servants returning…
48. Breach of the compromise
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … June to discuss the 'breach' by the Transvaal Government of …
EventBattle of Delville Wood starts
… South Africa entered WWI on 8 September 1914, on the side of the Allied Forces. On 15 July 1916, the S.A. Infantry … was ordered to clear the wood at d…
EventVorster appoints a Commission of Inquiry
… Prime Minister John Vorster appoints a Commission of Inquiry under chairmanship of Justice H. J. Potgieter of The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court to…
EventAbolition of Internal Security Act
… multiparty negotiating forum agreed to repeal section 29 of the Internal Security Act (ISA), which allowed for detention without trial. This measure had been…
PlaceWits School of Arts (WSOA)
… The Wits School of Arts (WSOA) is ranked as one of the top interdisciplinary school of arts in South Africa according to World Universities … https://www…
PlaceCradle of Humankind, near Johannesburg
… The Cradle of Humankind was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1999. It is about 50 km North West of Johannesburg , South Africa in the Gauteng…
ArchiveMessage of goodwill and solidarity
… Message of goodwill and solidarity from His Excellency Dr Kenneth David Kaunda, President of the Republic of Zambia from the chairman of the preparatory…
EventLeague of Nations is formed
… The League of Nations was established after World War I, during the Treaty of Versailles. The intention of this organization was to reduce armament and to…
Draft constitution of the ANC
… Report of the working group under paragraph three of the Pretoria Minute 1. The Working Group was established under paragraph 3 of the Pretoria Minute, which…
PlaceBattle of Muizenburg Monument, Muizenburg
… Given the turmoil in Europe and the importance of the Cape sea-route to India the British Government sent a fleet of seven Royal Navy ships under the command…
ArchiveBolt: magazine of the Literary Society, University of Natal, Durban Vol.2 No.1 1971
… Douglas Livingstone. Arthur, or The Man Who Was Afraid of Nothing, Christopher Hope. Photographer’s Twiggy, Peter … City, Fiona Morphet. Gulliver’s Day, Mike…
ArchiveBiography of Moses Mabokela Chikane
… Biography of Moses Mabokela Chikane who was born in 1948 August 14 in area of Groblersdaal first of the family of nine, he was detained under section 28 of ……
EventUniversity of Pretoria is established
… On 10 February 1908 a new department of the Transvaal University College (T.U.C.), situated in … in Skinner Street, Pretoria . This department, consisting…
PlaceDemocratic Republic of the Congo
… Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), country located in central Africa. Officially known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the country has a 25…
EventUniversity of Pretoria is established
… in Johannesburg and Pretoria , took the examinations of the Cape University. The Pretoria branch of the Transvaal University College, which started classes…
The start of mass campaigns
… and make things how we want them. We started this thing of boycotts and campaigns, fighting to make things right. … used to be sympathy boycotts too. There…
EventGovernment’s final consolidation of ‘homelands’
… announced its intention to consolidate the total number of separate 'homeland' areas from 113 to 36. The homelands … were officially instituted in the 1950s…
ArchiveSouth Africa: state of terror
… Multicoloured poster with names of political prisoners and artwork of bars of gold, diamonds, coffins, skulls and list of attrocities. … South Africa: state…
EventANC calls for the dismissal of Adriaan Vlok and Magnus Malan
… The African National Congress (ANC), in an emergency meeting, called for the dismissal of Law and Order Minister Adriaan Vlok and Defence Minister … and ANC…
ArchiveNo closure of western hospital
… Red, black and white poster. Red artwork of a map of Britain with a white outline of a heart containing words 'National Health Service'. … No closure of…
PlaceHouse of Parliament, Cape Town
… The houses of South African Houses of Parliament are situated in Cape Town even though the seat of government is in Pretoria . This was part of a compromise …