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ArticlePort Elizabeth Timeline 1799-1986
1799 2 March, British government lands troops in Algoa Bay. Construction begins on the building of Fort Frederick. 1803 Founding of Bethelsdorp. 1804 …
BiographyArchbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu
Desmond Mpilo Tutu (known fondly as the "Arch”) was born in Klerksdorp on 7 October 1931. His father, Zachariah, who was educated at a Mission school, was the…
Archive2020 - President Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 13 February 2020
… businesses to participate in global value chains and markets. Over the next five years, the Industrial Development …
EventFormer IFP chairman Jiyane register Nadeco with IEC
Former Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) chairman, Ziba Jiyane, registerd a new political party, the National Democratic Convention (Nadeco), with the Independent…
ArticleLife Timeline of Jacob Zuma
… juggling of December 2015 cost it R99bn on international markets. 20 – Hawks interrogate Sars staff in the continuing …
PlaceRhodes University, Grahamstown
Rhodes University, founded in 1904, the University has a well-established reputation for Academic excellence. With just over 8200 students, Rhodes is a small…
ArticleHow the Group Areas Act shaped spaces, memories and identities in Cape Town
The cornerstone of the Group Areas Act of 1950 was to prevent interracial contact ‘as far as possible’ [i] , while at the same time ensuring that those…
PlaceOld General Post Office, Grand Central, Cape Town
Overlooking the Western side of the Parade is the lofty General Post Office building. It was completed in 1940 on the site of the old Opera House. The exterior…
PlaceAlkmaar, a Town Near Nelspruit
A small Community on the Crocodile River, some 18 km from Nelspruit. Named after a city in the Netherlands which is 32 km from Amsterdam, well known for its…
PlaceInn on the Square, Greenmarket Square, Cape Town
Inn On The Square is located on Greenmarket Square which was a meeting place of Caledonians and distant travellers centuries ago. In 1834, this square was the…
PlaceCity Hall, Rissik Street, Johannesburg
This ponderous pile was designed in a grandiose Edwardian style heralding the subsequent pomp of the Georgian era. The Duke of Connaught and Strathern, laid…
PlaceAdderley Street, Cape Town
The 'Herengracht Street' was Cape Town's main street, running from the foreshore to the foot of Government Avenue. In 1850, its name was changed to Adderley…
ArchivePromise of hope
A2 litho black on white photo two young boys crying; text: What is needed by the black people of South Africa is not sticking plaster; but the promise of hope…
PlaceChurch Square,Spin Street- Cape Town
Church Square is one of the three early areas of land about which the early town developed and its boundaries probably began to be defined in 1679 when the…
Document 33 - League of Atrican Rights, Announcement of Meeting, 25 August 1929
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 33 - League of Atrican Rights, Announcement of…
EventDie Huisgenoot, oldest still existing Afrikaans magazine, appears ten months after Die Burger
Huisgenoot is a weekly Afrikaans-language general interest magazine. The name Huisgenoot is Afrikaans for House Companion. The magazine was founded in 1916 as…
Edited Transcript of Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the Heads of Mission at the Presidential Guest House, Tshwane, 13 October 2005
… of those funds, which include the local one, the domestic markets become too small. And you have some African funds …
2007 ANC National Policy Conference: Report of the Commission on International Relations, 27-30 June 2007, Gallagher Estate
… in the continent and ensure our goods enter their local markets in those countries; while at the same time we …
ArchiveAppendix 2 The Political Landscape of Cape Town, by Dr Z. Pallo Jordan
… in a library service, town halls, recreational areas and markets. The 1948 TARC had a predictive dimension. Smarting …
ADDRESS AT THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT, 13 June 2001
… products of developing countries are denied access to the markets of the developed countries, when African producers …
Address on The African Renaissance to the Ghana-South Africa Friendship Association, Accra 5 October 2000
… the developed North on the question of access to their markets for our products. The continent needs to continue to …
Document 123 - Statement of Dr Y. M. Dadoo, Secretary, Non-European United Front (Transvaal), before the Court, 6 September 1940
… a low level that the local manufacturers are finding home markets too small for the development of local industries; …
PlaceUitenhage, officially renamed Kariega
… eastward, so then the lucrative military and black tribal markets moved, at first into the Albany , and then into …
Address to the Assembly of the Republic of Mozambique, 2 May 2002
… will create much-needed jobs in Mozambique and supply markets in South Africa. We should also move with the …
EventBarclays Bank changes its name to First National Bank
After protests against Barclays Bank's involvement in South Africa and its apartheid government, Barclays Bank (SA) announced its new name - First National…
EventDrum Magazine calls for the release of all political prisoners
The popular Drum Magazine called on South African Prime Minister B.J. Vorster to follow the example of Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith and to release all…
ArchiveHow China broke the chain of infection by Vijay Prashad
… already begun; families would visit one another and visit markets (this is the largest short-term human migration, when …
EventDr D.F. Malan unveils the statue of Paul Kruger on Church Square, Pretoria
President of the former Afrikaner Republic of the Transvaal, Paul Kruger’s bronze statue was sculpted by artist Anton Van Wouw in 1896. Wouw was commissioned…
ArticleDrum Magazine
The establishment of Drum Magazine in the 1950s, notwithstanding the newly-elected Nationalist Party’s policy of Apartheid, reflected the dynamic changes that…
ArticleThe Padavatan Six and the 1917 Natal Floods
On 28 October 1917 more than 400 market gardeners from the Springfield Flats (Tintown) area in Durban, Natal (now Kwazulu-Natal) drowned when the banks of the…