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PlacePhilip Kgosana Drive, Devil's Peak Estate- Cape Town
The Road was originally named after Nicolaas de Waal, the first administrator of the Cape Province. He initiated the Road's construction. De Waal Drive is set…
Ubuntu Awards 2018
ABOUT THE AWARDS The Annual Ubuntu Awards have grown exponentially since they were launched in 2015. Now in their fourth year, the Awards are carried live on…
PlaceHaarlem
Sixteen kilometers East of 'Avontuur' and 29 kilometers from Uniondale, a village was established by the Berlin Mission Society and was named Anhalt-Schmidt,…
PlaceMowbray
The village of Mowbray was established in about 1853 on the farm Welgelegen, in an area more commonly known as Drie Koppen. This name was of Dutch origin, and…
EventDelagoa Bay railway line is officially opened
On 8 July 1895 the Delagoa Bay railway line was officially opened by Paul Kruger. Its link to Pretoria was completed on 20 October 1894.The railway line was…
PlaceAlbert Jackson School, Port Elizabeth
Declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 4 January 1963. Greenwood Primary School had its origin in the Albert Jackson Primary School which…
EventSouth African Defence Force (SADF) raid Maseru in an effort to kill suspected members of the African National Congress
In the early hours of December 9th, 1982, South African Defence Force commandos crossed the border into Lesotho. Their target was a cluster of houses on the…
EventThe full citizenship of Coloured people is called for
During apartheid, the term "Coloured" was used to refer to group of people generally considered to be of mixed race origin. Coloured people, throughout the…
ArticleNatal Indian Congress (NIC)
The NIC (Natal Indian Congress) was the first of the Indian Congresses to be formed. It was established in 1894 by Mahatma Gandhi to fight discrimination…
PlaceTiskiwin Museum, Marrakech- Morocco
The Tiskiwin Museum was founded by Bert Flint, who was born in 1931 in the Netherlands where he studied Spanish language and literature at the University of…
PlaceLangkloof Valley, Eastern Cape
Part of the Cape Fold Belt, the Langkloof Valley and Mountains are a short range of Mountains that serve as a link between the Tsitsikamma and Outeniqua…
PlaceWinterberg Mountains, Amatola
Winterberg lies virtually in the shadow of the Winterberg Mountains that include some of the highest peaks in the province, roughly 20 kilometres from…
PlaceSteenbras Nature Reserve, near Gordons Bay
Steenbras Nature Reserve includes: The well-known Steenbras River Gorge and Crystal Pools Hiking Trail. These are very popular destinations for abseiling,…
PlacePhuthaditjhaba, Free State
Phuthaditjhaba is a Sotho town in the province of the Free State. Flanked by the drama of the Drakensberg Mountains and the Maluti Mountains, Phuthaditjhaba is…
Chapter 1 - The Promise of the Impossible Revolution: The Cape Town Industrial Socialist League, 1918 - 1921
… in South Africa Harmondsworth, 1969; D. Ticktin, "The Origins of the South African Labour Party 1888 - 1910', … Jones, 'Marxism-Leninism in a Multiracial…
PlaceKeetmanshoop
In 1908, Gottlieb Redecker was the official builder of the German Colonial Government’s Works Department, drew up plans for a new Post Office building in…
PlaceGrassy Park, Cape Town
Grassy Park is one of the Southern Suburbs of Cape Town set on the Cape flats, just east of the M5 and the Princess Vlei, and closest to the suburbs of Ottery…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 2 Contextual Overview
A cartoon illustrating the process of getting to the idealised “American Dream" Image Source Introduction Like communism in Russia, American capitalism…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 3: The Scramble for Africa: late 19th century
… authoritarian, bureaucratic systems, partly due to their origins in military conquest and the racist ideology of the …
PlaceAalwynkop Peak, Mpumalanga
Aalwynkop is a Hill 5 km West of Balfour and 20 km South-East of Heidelberg, in the Gauteng Province of South Africa. The name is of Afrikaans origin and means…
PlacePampierstad
Pampierstad (now Thuso a Sotho or Tswana word meaning Help/Assistance) was established in the former homeland of Bophuthatswana in the late 1960's. It was…
PlaceTokai, Cape Town
The Suburb of Tokai took its name from Tokaj, a range of Hills in Hungary. It was built in the late 1940's due to the urgent need for housing for South African…
PlaceNatures Valley, Garden Route
Nature's Valley, and the surrounding Coastline, was occupied by Old Stone Age or Paleolithic, 1 Million Years ago. Paleolithic man lived in the Area in caves…
PlacePearston, Eastern Cape-Karoo
… and villages scattered across the Great Karoo, had its origins as a parish of the Dutch Reformed Church. Since 1850 … and villages scattered across the Great…
PlaceLuneburg, Kwazulu Natal
Lüneburg is located between the towns of Piet Retief and Vryheid on the border of the KwaZulu Natal Province and the Mpumalanga Province of South Africa, has…
EventJazz veteran Dorothy Masuka dies
On 23 February 2019, Dorothy Masuka died at her home, surrounded by her children and grandchildren, after suffering from hypertension. Dorothy Masuka was…
PlaceLekkersing, Namaqualand
The small settlement of Lekkersing, established in 1926 by Ryk Jasper Cloete, lies 60 km east of Port Nolloth. It is said that its name (which means to sing…
PlaceBotrivier, near Hermanus
The small, picturesque village of Botrivier lies in the foothills of the Houw Hoek Mountains, en route to Hermanus. The Bot River, after which the hamlet is…
PlaceoThongathi, previously Tongaat
The area was formally developed around 1848–1850 when land was granted to settlers for sugar cultivation. Derived from the Zulu word 'uThongathi', which…
PlaceFietas Museum, Johannesburg
Established in 1894 to the west of central Johannesburg, Fietas (today known as Pageview) was once the city’s "Malay location" and home to a large Indian…