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EventSlavery is abolished at the Cape
… abolition of slavery has been historically treated as the main cause of the Great Trek, there were other equally …
PlaceTree Garden, President Brand Street, Bloemfontein
… five orange trees (although the orange trees are in the main courtyard, not in front of the building). By the end of …
PlaceHazyview
… post due to its location that met in the middle of six main roads connecting the Province. Before the Town was …
Vasco da Gama’s Voyage of ‘Discovery’ 1497
… made regular voyages using Mossel Bay and Mombasa as their main replenishing posts. Oriental silks, satins and spices, …
Art lost in a time of struggle by Mary Corrigall
… conservative even. Social art with political change as its main objective isn't able to further art's own goals. …
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions 1994 - 2014
… civil society organisations in the country. The ANC's main purpose in developing and implementing the RDP was to …
ArticleThe formation of the SANNC/ANC
… back into the ranks of the urban and rural poor. The main aim of the South African Native National Congress …
AAM and UN: partners in the international campaign against apartheid
… apartheid, especially in the countries which were the main collaborators with the South African regime. This also … of the Special Committee. The World…
Document 10 - Letter from Nelson Mandela to Sir de Villiers Graaff, leader of the United Party
… Coloured Convention movement which has the backing of the main bodies of Coloured opinion. A substantial European body … yet to hear from this most important…
PlaceLouwsburg, Zululand
… Louwsburg is a little Village on the main road to Pongola, about 70 kilometres East of Vryheid and … situated about seventy kilometres East of Vryheid on the…
PlaceBertrams, Johannesburg
… which to explore the City. In addition, it is close to the main Transport Routes, which grants easier access to the OR …
PlaceKenilworth
… extensive gardens. Across the railway line and south of Main Road, away from the mountain , Kenilworth still offers … extensive gardens. Across the railway…
PlaceSomerset Road, Green Point
… straight out of the CBD at Riebeek Street through to the Main Road in Seapoint. Since the new Green Point Stadium was …
PlaceJan De Waal House, 93 Bree Street, Cape Town
… De Waal Drive against the prominent Table Mountain is the main highway leading out of the city towards Cape Town …
PlaceLebowa
… Transvaal . Seshego and Lebowakgomo, the capital, were the main growth points. The Chief Minister during most of the …
PlaceThaba Tshwane or Voortrekkerhoogte
… around the end of May for specific commemorations, but main services are in November. …
PlaceSouth African National Museum of Military History
… Home to some of the rarest Aircrafts in the World. The Main Courtyard features several Memorials, including one …
EventViolence erupts during Defiance Campaign
… laws were committed by bands of volunteers in all the main centres of the Union. The initial stage of the campaign …
EventSir Abe Bailey, Rand mine magnate, dies.
… gold mines and was fast establishing himself as one of the main mining magnates on the Witwatersrand. Through his …
EventAZAPO is re-launched in Roodepoort
… saw the capitalist system rather than apartheid as the main oppressing force in South Africa and believed that class …
EventPaedophile Gert van Rooyen and mistress commit suicide
… after which the walls were demolished and the kitchen and main bedroom scoured with sonar equipment for secret …
EventPort Natal is renamed Durban in honour of Sir Benjamin D’Urban, governor of the Cape Colony from 1834 - 1837
… original copy) and another settler Isaacs constitute the main source on the Zulu people during the rule of Shaka and …
EventLouis Trichardt, Voortrekker leader, is born near Oudtshoorn 225 years ago
… for a better life in better country). There were two main routes that the Voortrekkers could follow into the …
EventBoeremag bomb blasts rock Soweto and Bronkhorstspruit
… bomb blasts rocked Soweto. Seven of the blasts occurred on main commuter railway lines running through the township. The …
EventRoman Catholic Bishop Augustin Misago, cleared of genocide charges
… more than 800 000 Tutsi and sympathetic Hutu dead. The main charges related to the fact that the Bishop, refused to …
Nelson Mandela Correspondence around property and land
… HOUSE With regard to the so-called ownership scheme our main difficulty is that we are not in occupation and …
PlaceImbali Township, Pietermaritzburg
… located 15km West of the City. The FJ Sithole Road is the main road that enables the citizens and the tourists to get the gist of Imbali Township, as it…
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 2 (2001-2022)
… There are a number of further reflections contained this chronology which can be added to those mentioned in Part 1. …
PlaceSouth African Royal Astronomical Observatory, Cape Town
… Sea, hence the name: 'Cape of Storms'. The Greek Revival Main Building of 1825-8 still dominates the Hill and faces a … is inconspicuously located at the…
EventVerwoerd's grandson joins ANC
… of former South African Prime Minister, Hendrik Verwoerd, main architect of apartheid, joins the African National … of the ANC even before he joined the…