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PlaceCape Flats Nature Reserve, University of the Western Cape, Bellville
… Flats Nature Reserve, situated on the campus of UWC, is one of the most important sites in the Cape Lowlands with …
PlaceNapier
… has rather unusual architecture and a teak interior. One of the first buildings in Napier, the Feeshuis , was … the Kerkplaats soon became a matter of local…
PlaceElim
… fishermen’s cottages and fig trees. This town is one of the few surviving South African mission stations . It … by white-washed fishermen’s cottages and fig…
EventThe South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) introduces its first national news service
… By April 1927, an hour of Afrikaans programming and one daily news bulletin in Afrikaans was broadcast. …
PlaceOld Locomotive “Emil Kessler”, Johannesburg
… October 1851 and acquired in 1852 by the Baden government. One year later he founded a new company under the name of …
Document 21 - Letter from S. P. Bunting to E. R. Roux, 27 October 1930
… Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 21 - Letter from S. …
Document 2 - Letter from the Cape Labour Party to James Ramsay, 12 August 1908
… Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 2 - Letter from the …
EventThe Republic of South Africa is established
… abandoned their policy of passive resisÂtance and adopted one of armed struggle, and, in reaction against the actions …
EventThe Flag of the Union of South Africa is hoisted on Prince Edward Island
… hoisted on Prince Edward Island. Prince Edward Island is one of two Islands annexed by South African which includes …
EventMapungubwe is ‘discovered’
… Zimbabwe and Botswana and is located 75 km from Messina. One thousand years ago, Mapungubwe appears to have been the …
EventEditors oppose legislation on media control
… of the press at bay. The events of 10 June 1977 stand as one of the few instances during the apartheid era in which …
EventDurban magistrate rules the death of Dr Haffejee accidental
… A Durban magistrate ruled that no one was to blame for the death of a young dentist, Dr. Hoosen …
EventSA and Mozambique revive Nkomati Accord
… countries to be used as launching pads for attacks on one another. Mozambique agreed to expel the African National …
EventLord Charles Henry Somerset, governor of the Cape Colony, is born in Badminton, England
… boost to the English-speaking population. This period saw one of the largest stages of British settlement in Africa, …
EventThe first family at the Cape moves into the fort
… urgency to van Riebeeck. He went ashore on 7 April, barely one day after dropping anchor in Table Bay, to select the …
EventSA judge jails former state assassin Eugene de Kock for more than 200 years
… his term of office.De Kock was accused of many crimes, one of which was attempting to cover up the involvement of …
EventKen Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian author and environmental activist, is executed
… the Movement for the Survival of the Ogani People (MOSOP). One contentious issue faced by the Ogani people, that MOSOP …
EventThe Rand Revolt strikers’ stronghold at Fordsburg Square falls to the government
… (Taffy) Long, heralded by subsequent labour histories as one of South Africa's greatest working-class martyrs, was …
EventGeneral C.R. de Wet was found guilty of treason for leading the Afrikaner rebellion of 1914
… and statesman, regarded by Afrikaner nationalists as one of their greatest heroes. He won renown as commander in …
EventFighting breaks out on the Johannesburg market square
… mob refused to disperse and fired shots at the military. One of the ringleaders, a tall red-headed miner from Nigel …
PlaceCradock Division
… north of Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Municipality. It is one of six municipalities in the district, making up a third …
EventHundreds of thousands of Hutus flee to Zaire
… mainly to Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC) in one of the largest migrations of people in history. Thousands …
EventSouth African Defence Force (SADF) raid Maseru in an effort to kill suspected members of the African National Congress
… and the "Maseru Massacre" as it came to be called, was one of many brazen cross-border raids conducted by the SADF …
educating African youth and provision of large scale scholarships tenable in various
… armed actions Preamble Noting that: 1. Negotiation is only one form of struggle towards the transfer of power to the …
65. Letter from the Natal Indian Congress to Smuts, 1945
… population of South Africa. And settled in this country is one of the largest Indian colonies in the world. Any …
EventF.W. de Klerk announces the release of Nelson Mandela and unbans political parties
… as a whole. The decision taken by de Klerk was not an easy one, as he faced opposition not only from the political …
PlaceWanderers Cricket Stadium, Johannesburg
… in March 2006, it was the scene of the most extraordinary one-day match in History, when South Africa successfully …
ArticleStudent Protests at Tshwane University of Technology - Timeline
… as legitimised through the 1955 Freedom Charter, which is one of the founding documents of South Africa’s democracy. … to reduce the approved class fee…
The people armed, 1984-1990
… as mass struggles and the armed struggle began to support one another. Resistance Deepens and Expands: The Role of … flight and a precipitous drop in the…
Article1960 - 1994: Armed Struggle and Popular Resistance
… as mass struggles and the armed struggle began to support one another. Resistance Deepens and Expands: The Role of … flight and a precipitous drop in the…