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Colonial conquest and resistance, Pre 1900
… East Asia. Soon more Dutch settlers arrived followed by settlers from all over Europe. The colony gradually … their ability to earn a decent wage was…
BiographyFrank Alexander Landman
… ashamed of their meagre possessions that when they moved by donkey cart to Dowerville from Vliepos, they did this at … to avoid attention. As a child Frank…
EventEdgar D. Ngoyi, South African ANC leader who spent seventeen years on Robben Island, is born.
… died at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town on 31 October 2007 aged 81. …
BiographyGeneral Jan Christiaan Smuts
… the Rhodes-Hofmeyr partnership until he was disillusioned by the Jameson Raid. He later married Krige in 1897 and … Here he and Louis Botha formed the Het…
BiographyAshley James Kriel
… and mathematics specifically. [1] This is evidenced by his attendance of the Cape Argus Winter School for Science … [2] Kriel was also religious, evidenced…
Vusi Mahlasela
… guitar lessons when he entered high school. He started off by playing cover versions of popular songs until his late … very much oblivious to the many…
BiographyEdward 'Eddie' John Daniels
… 6 was one of the so-called “coloured” areas as classified by the Apartheid government; and it was situated on the … and Back: Robben Island 1964-1979, were…
BiographyJeffry Dumo Baqwa
… in the SASO(SASO) from the start and he was defeated by Jerry Modisane for the presindency of South Africa … activities, Baqwa was served with a banning…
BiographyElmon Malele
… township. He was one of the residents forcibly removed by the apartheid regime to Moroka Emergency Camp. Malele … In 1957, he moved to Mapetla, where he was…
Wellington Mlungisi Tshazibane
… he had hanged himself. According to a statement released by the minister of police Mr Tshazibane had been held in … support of the above statement.The post…
PlaceStanford, Western Cape Overberg
… The beautifully preserved Town is also known for its rich History, that’s tied in closely to that of the Cape and … in all their glory, on the Historical…
EventThe first museum is opened in Soweto, and is named after Hector Pieterson, one of the first casualties of the 16 June 1976 Soweto uprising.
… is believed to have been the first child to be shot by police on that fateful day. Earlier in the 1990s, a … Day' since 1994. Soweto is an area of South…
ArticleLand Restitution in South Africa since 1994
… The legal basis for land restitution is provided by the 1993 Interim Constitution, section 25(7) of the 1996 … that the processing and finalisation of…
BiographySefako Mapogo Makgatho
… evangelist in the Zoutpansberg without once being visited by a white missionary”. It was during this time that Makgatho … of the General Act of the…
BiographyJohn O’ Malley
… completing his matric at Jeppe Boys High in Johannesburg. By this time the World War II had been broken out. O'Malley … misbehaviour. He was once summoned to…
BiographyStanley Huette Uys
… Reformed Church. His mother died young and Uys was raised by an English-speaking grandmother, and educated at Athlone … had worked his way through the George…
BiographyShirley Gunn
… into the armed wing of the ANC, uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) by Leon Meyer. Meyer trained her in doing underground work … As result of her anti-apartheid activity…
PlaceUganda
… after the dramatic Murchison Falls, which were christened by Sir Samuel Baker ; Uganda’s Murchison Falls National Park … mighty Nile River bisects…
BiographyConstance Greaves
… genre emerged in SA at this time as a result of efforts by the likes of Leo Francois to create a school of figure … a quality lacking in the more laboured…
BiographyJames M. Thaele
… in 1921. He returned to South Africa strongly affected by the Garveyist movement, and his subsequent writings and … organised a strong branch of the ANC in…
BiographyKing Mpande kaSenzangakhona
… stability of the Zulu nation. Ndlela was tortured to death by Dingane for his inaction. After Mpande learned in 1838 … of Blood River on 16 December 1838 ,…
BiographyStanley Mabizela
… became politicised. After passed Standard 6, he was sent by his father to Mariazel in the Transkei, near the border of … Matanzima for the first time in my…
BiographyBiddy Partridge
… African photographer Nigel Samuels in Johannesburg and by 1980 they had left the country to get married in newly … in Harare. Partridge participated with…
BiographyJohannes Henricus Brand
… Colony in the Great Trek. He was considered a model leader by the Afrikaners. Early life Brand was born in Cape Town on … which had become independent in…
BiographyPeter Hans Paul Gastrow
… Gastrow became a politician shaped by the liberal politics of 1960s and 1970s South Africa. In 1971, his political views were strengthened by the forced…
BiographyMafika Pascal Gwala
… in the town of Verulam, a region predominantly inhabited by Zulus and Indians, in what was then Natal province (now … introduced to the Black literary…
EventWorld Aids Day is internationally observed for the first time
… be observed as World Aids Day. This step was motivated by the growing realisation that, unlike other pandemics such … Free State, and in Pretoria, Gauteng…
EventThe Reburial of Mapungubwe Human Remains
… site located in Limpopo Province , was preceded by a handover and cleansing ceremony involving traditional … bona fide descendants of the human remains. On…
PlaceDurban Natural Science Museum
… 23rd 1887, the Museum celebrated its 120th anniversary in 2007/08 and these celebrations culminated in the sealing of …
EventBill Flynn, popular SA actor dies in Johannesburg
… On 11 July 2007, South African actor Bill Flynn, 58, passed away, … Olim, C.D, (2007), ‘ Actor Bill Flynn Found Dead at Home ’, from Cape …