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EventSipho Gumede, South African jazz legend, dies
… started playing music on a homemade guitar. He joined his first band at the age of 16 and soon became a known and sought after bass player. In the course of…
EventCecil John Rhodes is buried in the Matopos
… ). Rhodes visited England in 1901. He was already ill on his return to Cape Town in the early months of 1902 and died soon afterwards at his seaside cottage…
EventThe Nelson Mandela Museum is opened in Mthatha
… himself on 11 February 2000, exactly ten years since his release from prison. Positioned in the area of his birth, the museum receives tourists from all over…
EventPaul Kruger is sworn in as president of the Zuid
… as the 'father of the Afrikaner nation'. This is because his firm belief in the destiny of the Afrikaner, his strong faith, and his obedience to his God…
David Goldblatt - 'Mostly Unseen' at the Goodman Gallery by Sean O'Toole
… works and three vintage District Six prints on offer. In his 'Die Hel' series, the dignity with which Goldblatt portrays his subjects certainly places his…
The Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… Bloc. Dr. Yusuf Dadoo escapes narrowly and one of his supporters, Dahyabhai Govindji, is disembowelled and dies … African Prime Minister after Parliament…
EventSpringboks beat Scotland at Murrayfield
… tries came from the 21 year old wing Bryan Habana on his first international start. Habana was voted for the … Despite the fact that the team had won…
Archive'Colonialism had never really ended': my life in the shadow of Cecil Rhodes by Simukai Chigudu
… sparking the diamond rush in which Rhodes first made his fortune. Or I could start it a century later, when my … it, this was a racial logic I readily…
PlaceNgcobo
… In 1876 Walter Stanford arrived at the station to take up his appointment as Resident Magistrate to the amaQwathi. He established the seat of his magistracy…
1. The Way to Fox Street
… border of the Orange Free State with Lesotho. 7 His mother, Linkhapa, was a daughter of Molapo, a son of King Moshoeshoe, the founder of the Basotho kingdom…
EventMoroccan explorer, Ibn Battuta is born
… and North and West Africa. It would be 24 years before his return to Morocco and 29 years before he completed his travels. Sadly, Battuta did not document…
EventSouth African writer J.M. Coetzee is born in Cape Town.
… Coetzee in Cape Town to Afrikaner parents, Coetzee uses his initials as his pen name. He studied at the University of Cape Town and … at the University of…
EventThomas William Bowler, prolific painter at the Cape, is born
… was a self taught painter and printmaker who spent most of his life at the Cape of Good Hope. He arrived at the Cape … astronomer Thomas McClear in 1834 whom…
ArticleThe Dutch Settlement
… before turning back presumably due to protests by his ship crew. On his return Dias erected a cross (on the Gulf between the … Table Bay with a fleet in…
ArticleBlack Consciousness and student revolt in the Cape
… he was denied letters of recommendation to continue his studies elsewhere in the country. Other leading figures … head of Philosophy Department at…
Thabo’s pen versus perceptions by Tinyiko Maluleke (Sunday Independant), 24 January 2016
… African rhetoric the world over will continue to recognise his 1996 “I am an African” speech as a remarkable text and … youths will not have seen the animals…
To Change the World ! Is Reason Enough ?, London, August, 1995
… Ron Press, This is Ron Press' story of his part in the struggle against apartheid. Forced into exile … the frontier's man in working clothes. My teacher was,…
EventPresident P.W. Botha suffers a stroke.
… 20 January 1989, but could not attend the meeting due to his ailing condition. Acting president, Christiaan Heunis, attended the meeting in his place. Some…
EventVuminkosi Zulu, S.A. sculptor is born in Mapumulo, Natal
… studied art at Rocke’s drift art school and completed his course in 1972. He decided to stay on as a resident artist until 1974. Zulu is famous for his…
Citation for Saleem Badat by Professor Paul Maylam, 10 April 2015, Rhodes University
… in 2007, Dr Saleem Badat stood on this stage to deliver his first graduation address as Rhodes’ new vice-chancellor. … years, and particularly to Rhodes…
PlaceAG Bain Monument, Grahamstown
… the Katberg Pass. There is also a bronze plaque in his honour on the Summit of Bain's Kloof Pass, 7 km North of Wellington. His son Thomas also went on too…
EventMohandas K. Gandhi is arrested as he leads a march of Indian miners in South Africa
… On his journey to South Africa in 1893, Mohandas Gandhi had … of the discrimination faced by people of colour. His response to this was the establishment of…
EventRenowned Nigerian writer, Chinua Achebe, is born in Ogidi, Nigeria
… (1930-) is a prominent Igbo (Ibo) writer, famous for his novels describing the effects of Western customs and … traditional African society. Achebe's knack…
ArticleThe ‘four nation’ thesis
… seen to be at odds with one another. Jon Soske states, in his essay ‘ The Impossible Concept: Settler Liberalism, … suffer national oppression.” [4] Neville…
ArticleSources task: The Berlin Wall
… John F.Kennedy visited Berlin in June 1963, and expressed his solidarity with the walled-in people of both West and East Berlin. His speech contained the…
How do we understand Nelson Mandela@100? by Raymond Suttner, 29 May 2018
… to move away from the cliché-ridden assessments of his multi-faceted personality. Understanding Mandela means … the life of a complex human being, who…
South African History Online and Bridgewater State University Partnership Project - 2018 Submissions
… high school social studies teacher in the future. Some of his hobbies include traveling, watching sports, and … major in History and Secondary Education…
Biography of Michael Scott from an email contribution by Lorna Richmond, 25 November 2015
… Heath Sussex, the youngest of three brothers. In 1911 his father, an Anglican priest, was transferred to a slum … the surrounding poverty and suffering…
EventSA artist, Lionel Davis, is born
… on Robben Island between 1964 and 1971, where he completed his Senior Certificate. After his release from Robben Island he was restricted under a … by…
EventGerard Bhengu SA artist, is born in Natal
… art training for fear that it would spoil and corrupt his 'natural' gift. As a Christian, he was a virtual outcast in terms of his own culture, but at the…