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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 …
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…
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…
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. …
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…
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…
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,…
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 …
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…
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 …
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…
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 …