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ArchiveSACWU in the Western Cape: the Plascon strike
… SACWU in the Western Cape: the Plascon strike …
The first land is registered at the Cape.
… The first land is registered at the Cape. …
Cape Flats Details - Life and Popular Art in Cape Town’s Townships
… Author : Chris Ledochowski This book is the culmination of 10 years of documenting life in the Cape Flats African and Coloured townships of Cape Town by one…
Nelson Mandela's address to the people of Cape Town, Grand Parade, on the occasion of his inauguration as State President
… Nelson Mandela's address to the people of Cape Town, Grand Parade, on the occasion of his inauguration as State President …
Hendrik Swellengrebel, the only Cape governor to be born at the Cape, is born in Cape Town. Swellendam is named after him and
… Hendrik Swellengrebel, the only Cape governor to be born at the Cape, is born in Cape Town. Swellendam is named after him and …
EventThe first Cape to Rio yacht race takes place
… The first Transatlantic yacht race between Cape Town and Rio … guardship for the voyage which started from Table Bay in Cape Town. The race was called the…
Ryk Tulbach, Cape governor in whose honour the town Tulbach was named, dies in the Cape.
… Ryk Tulbach, Cape governor in whose honour the town Tulbach was named, dies in the Cape. …
PlaceEerste Rivier, Cape Town
… Eerste River was a Railway Station of the Cape Town , Wellington and Docks Railway Co Ltd, and was … 13 February 1862. This was when the Railway Line from…
BiographyBertha Solomon
… sister were taken by their mother, Sonia Schwartz, to join their father, a Zionist pioneer, Idel Schwarz, in Cape Town . She graduated from the Anglican…
BiographyPaula Ensor
… Paula Margaret Ensor was born in the early 1950s in Durban , Natal (now KwaZulu Natal ). In … honours degree also in economics from the University of Cape…
PlaceCape Town, Western Province
… "Cape Town has just been voted as the top city in the world by the prestigious Time Out … with this, having just returned from my vacation there." Cape Town…
PlaceBo-Kaap, Cape Town
… The stone shown in PHOTO is off the Well, uncovered at the … Market site upgrade. (LINK PROVIDED IN FURTHER READING) Cape Town is a city built on layers of…
ArchiveFrom the African Scholars of Cape Town: Once we return to our desks - the cause is lost!
… Recommendations from the pupils of the Cape Town Bantu schools with regard to … From the African Scholars of Cape Town: Once we return to our desks - the…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - Hertzogian Segregation VERSUS The Cape Native Policy
… From the book: The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers by D.D.T … Government Conference, and of whom some are voters in the Cape were not only never…
Chapter 1 - The Promise of the Impossible Revolution: The Cape Town Industrial Socialist League, 1918 - 1921
… following the Labour Party split in 1914, namely the Cape Town based Industrial Socialist League, which in 1920 … militant elements of the Cape Town workers'…
The first golf club in SA, the Cape Golf Club (later the Royal Cape Golf Club), is established.
… (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 5, p. 253. … The first golf club in SA, the Cape Golf Club (later the Royal Cape…
Dr James Barry, physician at the Cape who performed the first successful Caesarean, leaves the Cape for Mauritius.
… Dr James Barry, physician at the Cape who performed the first successful Caesarean, leaves the Cape for Mauritius. …
PlaceCamp’s Bay, Cape Town
… Camp's Bay is located some 9 km from Cape Town , on the slopes of the Twelve Apostles . Zwarte Maria Evert was … the Farm that later became Camps Bay. She…
BiographyArnold Selby
… was born on 14 November 1918 in South Africa. He joined the liberation struggle in the 1940s. His experience as a … and I were treated as fellow Africans. I…
PlaceMalay Quarter, Cape Town
… The area, known as the Malay Quarter of Cape Town, nestles … of Apartheid legislation. It is one of the oldest parts of Cape Town, and is one of the few to…
EventSir Alfred Milner arrives as Governor of the Cape
… The British Secretary of State for the Colonies, Joseph … appointed Sir Alfred Milner as Governor of the Cape Colony in 1897. Milner arrived in Cape Town on…
PlaceSlave Lodge, Cape Colony
… 28 March 1652, the Dutch Merchantman, the 'Amersfoort', anchored at the Cape with a cargo of 174 Slaves. The Amersfoort's arrival in Table Bay, with Slaves…
BiographyJeanette Carlson
… Levinson Carlson was born on 21 June 1929, in Muizenberg , Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape Province). She was the youngest of Israel and…
BiographySiyamthanda Kolisi
… 1991 in Zwide Township in Port Elizabeth (PE), Eastern Cape . He was born exactly 15 years after the Soweto Youth Uprisings , and 16 months after the release…
PlaceStanford, Western Cape Overberg
… Village, in Overberg District Municipality, Western Cape. Located only 16 km East of Hermanus and 22 km … Africa’s Favourite Village', Stanford has become…
PlaceCity Hall, Cape Town
… This is a large Edwardian building in the centre of Cape Town city. It was built in 1905, on the … Frederick George designed this building and is home to the…
EventVictor Sidney Norton, journalist and first South African-born editor of the Cape Times, dies in Cape Town
… influence his son’s future career path. Norton joined The Star Newspaper in 1927, but was soon transferred to the … In 1931, Norton and fellow reporter Bob…
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PlaceRiebeeck Square, Cape Town.
… Riebeeck Square developed during the 18th century, when the town began to expand laterally … their wagons. This changed after the annexation of the Cape by…
PlaceTable Mountain, Cape Town
… The World famous Table Mountain is part of the scenic … Hill in the North (rightmost peak in the image above) to Cape Point in the South, some 60km. Around…