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ArticleThe Arrival of Jan Van Riebeeck in the Cape - 6 April 1652
… the Free Burghers, Van Riebeeck sent the first of many search parties to explore the hinterland. Van Riebeeck …
PlacePretoria Art Museum
… heritage site has children’s art gallery and reference library. It occupies a city block between Wessels, Francis …
EventHarry Frederick Oppenheimer is born in Kimberley
… Harry Frederick Oppenheimer, 1908-2000 from the Brenthurst Library, [online], Available at www.brenthurst.org.za, …
PlaceBotshabelo, Motheo Region near Bloemfontein
… as: ' The Thabelo Area '. People originally moved there in search of work, when they left their rural homes in the Free …
PlaceBonteheuwel
… and political meetings. The Bonteheuwel Civic, the library, the staircases and platforms surrounding the library would act as assembly and meeting points,…
Afrikaans Community 1652-1795
… 1790s. Before the 1800s, Cape Town had no newspapers. A library, bequeathed by J. von Dessin (1761) contained about …
ArticleEuropean trading systems in the Middle Ages - fourteenth to sixteenth centuries
… documents), the Grey Collection, at the South African Library in Cape Town. Their collection, started in 1870, …
PlaceBertrams, Johannesburg
… to the ever increasing Resident Population who arrive in search, of new Economic Opportunities. Yet, Bertrams seems to …
PlaceLiberia
… died from malaria. In 1821, a U.S. Navy vessel resumed the search for a place of permanent settlement in what is now …
EventProceedings against SA start in the International Court of Justice
… Location: back to this day in history search archive South Africa received a mandate from the …
EventNotorious Pirate, Captain William Kidd, is reportedly sighted off the coast of Cape Town
… not been found. Kidd then sailed to the Red Sea also in search of pirates but failed to find any. As an alternative, …
EventTshifiwa Muofhe, a Lutheran Church elder suspected of complicity in the Sibasa Police Station bomb blast, dies in police custody
… Homeland guilty of aiding and abetting the MK cadres. A search for accomplices inside the homeland was undertaken. …
ArticlePort Elizabeth Timeline 1799-1986
… in December 1908. 2 October, The Port Elizabeth Public Library and Reading Room open an inner room in the Commercial … It is repealed on 17 September 1902…
PlacePaternoster, West Coast
… of colour; like the bright yellow shutters of the Town’s Library, or the engine red of 'Die Winkel' on Paternoster’s , …
PlaceMarakele National Park, Waterberg Mountains
… this time, water in the bush dissipates leaving animals to search for available water. These sources of water are great …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1700s
… reign from 1751 to 1771 he establishes the Colony's first library and a plant and animal collection in the gardens of … drive large herds of their cattle…
Pledging to Debate History: Values and education
… crude indoctrination of our youth. One thing is clear; the search for a way to instill universal values and build a …
ArticleBiko’s imprisonment, death and the aftermath
… recruiters – bypassed influx control mechanisms in their search for employment. Consequently, informal settlements …
ArticleGrade 4 - Learning about local history through pictures: Cape Town
… Students can write down words they do not understand and search for their definitions. Possible questions: What is the …
Writing the 1973 Durban Strikes: From ‘black worker unrest’ to the ‘birth of independent trade unions’ by Debby Bonnin
… bought down the Apartheid regime. A google scholar search tags thousands of references, yet it seems that …
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the SA-Mali Project Fundraising Dinning, St. Georges Hotel, City of Tshwane, 27 September 2005
… busy studying the manuscripts. Preparations to erect a new library building and other facilities in Timbuktu are well on … restoration and the work on the…
PlaceKimberley, Northern Cape
… Social life in Kimberley was as hectic as the frantic search for diamonds and many a digger celebrated a large find …
EventBelgium annexes the Congo Free State
… of natural rubber. Men and even children were recruited to search for natural rubber in dense forests. Upon their return …
‘Wash Me Black Again’: African Nationalism, the Indian Diaspora, and Kwa-Zulu Natal, 1944-1960 by Jon Soske
… Special Collections Research Center; the William Cullen Library at University of the Witwatersrand; and the Killie Campbell Africana Library, Durban. One of…
EventGambian Government overthrown in military coup
… Location: back to this day in history search archive On 22 July 1994, the government of Sir Dawda …
BiographyCecil John Rhodes
… and distribution of diamonds. And so, in April 1888, in search of an oligopoly over diamond production, Rhodes and …
PlaceHeritage Route of Transvaal, Limpopo and Mpumalanga
… of the Kruger National Park can be viewed at the Skukuza Library . Half a million Years ago, the first stone age hunters roamed the plains in search of game…
PlaceEersteling Monument, Polokwane
… for its stagnant economy, was encouraging the active search for gold within its borders. Although Du Preez was … and not having sufficient fare to return…
Place'Aguada de Sao Bras', Mossel Bay
… replenish their water supplies. Dias had been appointed to search for a trading route to India, by King John II of …
EventThe first 1820 British Settlers arrive in South Africa
… Therefore many settlers left the eastern border in search of a better life in towns such as Port Elizabeth, …