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Biography of Eli Weinberg by Karen Folz
… Weinberg left Latvia in 1929 and arrived in Cape Town, South Africa on 9 December 1929. Until his exile to Dar … Union (FCWU), typically associated with Ray…
BiographyEthel Ruth Prowse
… spent her childhood on the slopes of Devil Peak in Cape Town where she lived on a farm with her parents who were … and the La Palette in Paris. In 1908 she…
BiographyAnna De Koningh
… an ex-slave herself, became the mistress of one of Cape Town's greatest residences. Bergh and Anna had 12 children. …
BiographyAutshumao (Herry the Strandloper)
… recorded that the Goringhaikonas had disappeared from Cape Town. He attributed this to the small pox epidemic of 1713. …
Chapter 1 - The Promise of the Impossible Revolution: The Cape Town Industrial Socialist League, 1918 - 1921
… representing it, in particular. Although scholars such as Simons and Simons, Ticktin, Sheridan Jones and Katz, 1 have attempted to … following the Labour…
BiographyMannie Manim
… Mannie Manim was born in June 1941, in Cape Town. With more than 50 years’ involvement in theatre, Manim … of his career as a lighting designer are the Cape…
BiographyMmusi Aloysias Maimane
… be sworn in as a member of the National Assembly in Cape Town. This move catapulted Maimane to the helm of the … In 2015, Maimane was chased from the…
BiographyLawrence Folley
… Lawrence forged some powerful stage partnerships. In Cape Town he sang Jokanaan to Leonie Rysanek’s final performances …
PlaceMagistrates Court, Main Road, Simonstown
… to be one of his first visitors after his arrival in Simons Town on 21 May 1776. Towards the end of the 18th century it … converted for use as a naval…
ArticleThe Sedition Trial 1946 - 1948
… police also raided CPSA offices in Johannesburg and Cape Town. During the raid in Johannesburg Danie du Plessis , the … WH Andrews, its Secretary Moses M…
BiographyBonisile John Kani
… in Johannesburg. Kani’s performance in Miss Julie in Cape Town in 1982 was the most controversial of his career. During … with an honorary doctorate by the…
The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946
… Van Rensburg, a professional Nazi Kommandant. H. and R. Simons, commenting on these factions, say: "All the factions … a scholar shall examine in greater…
BiographyBessie Amelia Head
… After 18 months teaching she resigned and moved to Cape Town , determined to start a career as a journalist. She was … politicized through her reporting work…
ArticleForced Removals in South Africa
… or people of Asian heritage (e.g. the Cape Flats in Cape Town and areas such as KwaMashu in Durban and Soweto in … and community members. “I tell my children…
BiographyAdelaide Frances Tambo
… 82, was among those who were arrested and taken to the town square. There the old man collapsed and Adelaide had to … for the Elderly and was honorary life…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1930-1939
… the Governments of India and South Africa opens in Cape Town. The South African delegation is led by the Minister of … bare number needed for 'reasonable…
EventCape of Good Hope Royal Observatory is founded
… was erected at the Cape of Good Hope (now known as Cape Town) byFearon Fallows, a British astronomer. During the … signal would drop time balls at the…
South Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, VolumeTwo 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew - Bibliographical note and further reading
… A Documentary History of Indian South Africans, Cape Town and Johannesburg: David Philip and Stanford: Hoover. … History, Sandton: Ibis Books and Editorial…
BiographyThelma Gutsche
… Two years later Gutsche enrolled at the University of Cape Town (UCT) to study for a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Ethics, … in the new South Africa (Volume Two…
The Battle of Square Hill
… first recruitment station opened at the City Hall in Cape Town. Although the response was such that police assistance … first day. These young men were sent…
Conservative Revolutionaries - Anti-Apartheid Activism at the University of Cape Town 1963-1973 by Robert Erbmann, Oxford University, 2005
… 1963, to the banning of all protest in the centre of Cape Town in June 1973, this is only part of the story. Throughout … UCT of a leading African specialist…
PlaceIbeka, Simonstown
… This land was one of the original erven granted in Simons Town . Built in 1816 by PJ Truter Jnr, Collector of Customs …
BiographyNadine Gordimer
… in Springs, Transvaal (now Gauteng ), an East Rand mining town outside Johannesburg in 1923. Her father, Isidore … wrote about her childhood in Springs, then…
ArticleThe Johanna
… board. The local people helped guide the survivors to Cape Town Castle. As the first survivors arrived at the Castle, … now reside at the Iziko Social…
PlaceSouth African Naval Museum, formerly the Navy Mast House and Dutch Store House
… at the Castle Military and Maritime Museum in Cape Town. In the mid 1970’s a part the naval collection was transferred to the Martello Tower. in Simon’s Town…
BiographyDumile Feni
… six years old and he went to live with relatives in Cape Town until the age of eleven. He then began working for his …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1930-1939
… The second Non-European Conference takes place in Cape Town. Delegates debated among other issues the implications … bare number needed for 'reasonable…
BiographySimon Petros (Peter) Matseke
Simon Peter Matseke was born in Pretoria in 1878, but little is known about his early life except that he was a member of the Bakgatlo tribe. He was drafted as…
BiographyFrederik van Zyl Slabbert
… of employment as he started work at the University of Cape Town as Acting Head of Department from September to June … been invited to become the Dean at the…
PlaceMowbray
… Durban Road. Mowbray lies close to the University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital. Mowbray stretches from … centre - you can hop on a taxi from Main…