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EventThozamile Botha breaks banning order
… Port Elizabeth Black Civic Organisation (PEBCO) activist Thozamile …
EventTranskei Defense Force topples Transkei Bantustan leader George Matanzima, but denies coup
… did not run away from Transkei but was on sick leave in Port Elizabeth. The coup came when Transkeians were anticipating a …
ArticleBritain takes control of the Cape
… the settlers were sent to Algoa Bay, known today as Port Elizabeth. Lord Somerset, the British governor in South … eastern border in search of a better life…
BiographyAhmed Mohamed "Kathy" Kathrada
… Island and honorary citizenship from the city of Le Port, August 2014 Chevalier de l’Ordre National de la Légion …
EventA 19 year old Mzwandile Kekana is testifying at the trial of 14 Cookhouse people charged with murdering a teacher.
… Mziwandile Kekana, a 19 year old boy, testified in the Port Elizabeth Supreme Court that the people who accused him of …
ArchiveA mapping of the KwaZulu Natal political conflict with reference to Inkatha (1990-1993)
… philosophiae in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Port Elizabeth. The Black political participation in South Africa …
PlaceCuyler Manor, Uitenhage
… away between the Swartkops River and the old road to Port Elizabeth (R367) where a 200-year old Cape Dutch house …
EventNyanga school Principal’s office burnt
… were destroyed, while 33 people died in protests in Port Elizabeth. Cape Town also saw its share of violence, and by …
EventJacob Matlala, SA flyweight, wins the World Boxing Organisation world champion title
… his first professional victory against Fraser Plaatjie in Port Elizabeth in 1980. Matlala then went on to become the South …
EventSA's first official commercial airline service is launched
… (Pty). On this date the first flight between Maitland and Port Elizabeth left with five bags of mail. The company, with headquarters in Port Elizabeth, flew…
My Spirit Is Not Banned - PART 3 by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… me my banning orders, you know, that I mustn't go out of Port Elizabeth, and that I must go to the police station every … again. During that time the cases…
PlaceLookout, Uitenhage
… 21 August 1953. James Somers Kirkwood, an auctioneer from Port Elizabeth, arrived in 1877 to auction off the farm … via river barges connecting the fertile…
EventSouth African poet Vincent Oliphant is born
… was born in 1954 in Alicedale, a small town near Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape. His first book of poems, Bloed …
EventPaul Adams becomes SA’s youngest Test Cricket player
… matches played from 26 to 30 December against England in Port Elizabeth , South Africa. In later matches he suffered for a …
EventSouth African Aerial Transports services are inaugurated
… Company (Pty.) Ltd, introducing a regular service between Port Elizabeth, Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban. …
PlaceHumansdorp
… at the start of the Garden Route and is 87 km West of Port Elizabeth, off the N2 highway. Jeffreys Bay is just 16 km … says, even though she now spends much…
ArticleConvict Stations & Labour in the Cape Colony
… East, and straddles across the main wagon route from Port Elizabeth to Cradock The road, which travels through the … war, the convict camp was removed to the…
Article“Bantu Education or the Street” by Norman Levy
… (as outlined by Tambo) during the Easter holidays in Port Elizabeth. Second, it called for a National Council of … of organizations opposed to Bantu…
EventANC stage marches in major cities
… major cities such as Pretoria, Johannesburg, Bloemfontein, Port Elizabeth and Cape Town. The government, though under …
EventStandard Bank becomes the first bank to opens its doors on the Witwatersrand
… Standard Bank was established in Port Elizabeth in 1862, then known as The Standard Bank of British …
My Spirit Is Not Banned - PART 1 by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… I had been at school with Ariah, but now she lived in Port Elizabeth. Bloemfontein was not such a good place to live in. … were very rude. Ariah used to…
EventTwo actors, Athol Fugard and Zakes Mokae arrive in Cape Town to stage a play on the 'Colour-bar'
… On 11 February 1962, two actors, Athol Fugard, 29, from Port Elizabeth, author of the two - man play "The Blood knot" and … "The Blood Knot" had a colour…
EventMargaret Rheeder is hung in Pretoria
… 27 April 1957 Rheeder went to a pharmacy in Kempston Road, Port Elizabeth to buy a bottle of Antexit ant-killer. Before she …
EventPeter van der Merwe, South African cricketer, dies
… Council (ICC) match referee for eight years. He died in Port Elizabeth on 23 January 2013. He was 75 years old and had …
EventThree cases of Buboinic plague are reported in Cape Town
… of the disease. The disease spread to other towns such as Port Elizabeth (PE) by mid 1901. As consequence, white people in …
Document 46 - D. Tloome, “The Origin and Development of Non-European Trade Unions”, lecture delivered to the Johannesburg Discussion Club on 27 February 1953, Viewpoints and Perspectives. L 1,21 February 1953
… follows: - Johannesburg 21 Pretoria 1 Durban 4 Cape Town 2 Port Elizabeth 3. East London 1 It is clear from these facts that … branches in Pretoria, Durban,…
PlaceAlbany, Eastern Cape
… the Suurveld- seasonal sour Grassland North of later Port Elizabeth. This was after, the Dutch East India Company … the Suurveld- seasonal sour Grassland…
EventDennis Brutus is born
… His parents moved back to South Africa and settled in Port Elizabeth. He studied law at both the University of the …
EventEdgar D. Ngoyi, South African ANC leader who spent seventeen years on Robben Island, is born.
… 17 years on Robben Island. Ngoyi and Henry Fazzie joined Port Elizabeth Black Civic Organisation (PEBCO) in 1984, soon …
EventFormer African Springbok captain, Welile Nkohla dies
… at the age of 71 years of age in Livingstone Hospital in Port Elizabeth, after a long battle with cancer. Nkohla was born …