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Conquest: 1600s-1800s
… and often conflicting interests between settlers on the one hand, and Company (and later British colonial) agendas …
ArticleAngolan Civil War (1975-2002): A Timeline of Events
… The MPLA repels an attempted coupby one of its prominent leaders and subsequently establishes …
ArticleThe missionaries
… which caused conflict amongst the Pondo people. One such example was Mhlangaso, chief councillor to the …
ArticleTransport on water
… these different boats all have their own characteristics. One of these is the dhow, originally from the Arabian Seas …
ArticleWhat makes a good or great leader?
… the leader of a country, like the president, is the one who rules the country. Sometimes a leader can be the most …
ArticleThe Basotho
… rivers, flat-topped and freestanding mountains formed. One of Moshoeshoe’s followers found a virtually impenetrable …
EventCharles Barends, the renowned South African jockey is born
… years, and rode 2 300 race winners [ii] Charlie only rode one July Handicap winner in 27 starts, and he won the Gold …
Beyond the barricades: the 1985 schools boycott and the vicissitudes of the Athlone Students Action Committee(ASAC)
… as such, eschews a simplistic analysis or categorisation. One of the cardinal concerns of the dissertation is an …
ArchiveWhere do we stand?: APDUSA and a nation free of race hatred and oppression
… where they belong; and that there are only two camps, one consisting of the oppressed masses, and the other is the …
PlaceIbeka, Simonstown
… This land was one of the original erven granted in Simons Town . Built in …
PlaceWelgelegen Farm, Stellenbosch
… vehicles minimum. +- 9 km long Trail with halfway stop on one of the highest Koppies along Bottelary, with amazing …
PlaceGrand Parade, Cape Town
… built on its fringes, and today it has shrunk to about one half of its original area. It was declared a National …
PlaceDie Kraal, Brummeria, Pretoria
… Jacob Hendrik Pierneef is one of South Africa’s most well known artists. He was born in …
EventInternational Labour Organisation excludes South Africa from its two-day meeting
… with many challenges because of its apartheid policies. At one stage South African goods were boycotted by some western …
EventEdward Roworth, SA landscape painter, dies in Somerset West
… of the South African Society of Artists. He was also one of the first few people to paint frescoes in South …
EventFEDSAW Western Cape Region launched
… The Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) was one of the women’s rights organisations that emerged in the …
EventAhmad Mahir Pasha, the Egyptian Prime Minister, is assassinated
… October 1944. Ahmad Mahir, the son to Muhammad Mahir, was one of the most important figures in the early history of the …
EventSouth African artist Fikile Magadledla is born
… artist, who learned and benefited greatly from his peers. One of his mentors was Harold Jeppe, who introduced him to …
EventDr. Dadoo and Naicker lead Passive Resisters
… or protest on which all the shops were shut and no-one went to work or did any shopping, throughout the country. …
EventHezekiel Sepeng is born
… ‘Potchefstroom Express’, as he was known, was scouted in one of J.P. van der Merwe’s coaching clinics in a township …
EventCOSATU conference prohibited and organisers restricted
… of protests against the Labour Relations Amendment Bill. * One source mentions that the restriction was in 1986, but two …
EventSoccer coach Pitso Mosimane is fined R50 000
… Mosimane appeared before the committee on two charges, one of bringing the PSL into disrepute and another of …
EventPresident Mbeki opens the second sitting of PAP
… 17 of The Constitutive Act of the African Union, as one of the nine Organs provided for in the Treaty …
EventCrime statistics released
… murdered in the first seven months of 1995, an average of one in every 29 minutes. This marks a 7% reduction, a big …
EventGifted writer and actor William Modisane is born
… died in 1986 in Dortmund, West Germany and is rated as one of the finest Black writers and intellectuals of the 20th …
EventThe first issue of the weekly periodical ‘TIME’ appeared on news stands
… and Briton Hadden, is printed in several languages. It is one of the most popular magazines in history, with readership …
EventThe League of Nations is established
… in 1919 at the Treaty of Versailles. South Africa was one of the founding members of the League. …
EventSelf government is granted to the Transvaal
… was followed by the Orange River Colony in 1907. One of the clauses of the Vereeniging Peace Treaty (1902) …
EventWalter Battiss is born in Somerset East
… East to an English Methodist family in 1906. He became one of South Africa's first and most important abstract …
EventAlbert Einstein introduces his theory of relativity
… history has come to call the Annus Mirabilis Papers. In one of the four papers on mass-energy equivalence, Einstein …