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Statement of ANC National Working Committee, 5 September 2011
… its regular session to deal with organizational matters. One of the issues that were discussed was the recent violent …
Panel Proposal for the 17th Triennial Symposium on African Art
… of eco-tourism through successful business practices. One example is the repurposing of plastic water sachet bags …
EventForced Removals commence from District Six
… known as Kanaladorp (kanala is a Malay word meaning ‘help one another’), is marked by the event of 11 February 1966. On …
PlaceHout Bay Museum
… Industries that leads right up to this present age. One can also contact the museum in connection with guided …
PlaceMaitland
… been an important transport hub for the City. In 1845 one of the first roads from Stellenbosch through the Maitland …
PlaceLand Adjoining Earle’s Dyke, Camps Bay.
… Lion's Head down to the sea, giving visitors a view of one of the most beautiful natural spots in the Cape …
PlaceMcgregor Museum, Kimberley
… years that she was in charge, she transformed it into one of the most important museums in South Africa. Since her …
PlaceRiversdale, Western Cape
… the current owner of De Doornkraal Estate, was appointed one of the commissioners. By 1882, the Village of Riversdale …
The Final Prize: My Life in the anti-apartheid struggle by Norman Levy
… in imprisonment alongside Bram Fischer in 1965. This is one more contribution to liberation historiography from the …
PlaceGrey Institute/School, Port Elizabeth
… the colony. At the instigation of John Paterson, one of Port Elizabeth's the first Town Councillors, the …
PlaceGreenhill Road 14, Emmarentia, Johannesburg
… decorative Victorian architectural features. It remains one of the oldest surviving dwellings in Johannesburg. It was …
EventPresident Thabo Mbeki establishes a commission of inquiry to probe alleged illicit activities on the UN's Iraq oil-for-food programme
… report. The Denon Commission of Inquiry found that no one whose name featured in their investigation had breached …
EventNative Khoikhoi tribespeople are alleged to have looted more than forty cattle from Cape Settlers
… with the Cape's native population is overhelmingly one of conquest. However every so often, the settlers would …
EventRobert Sobukwe is sentenced to three years’ imprisonment
… and went on for a further three years. He was the only one imprisoned under this clause. In 1969 he was put under …
EventThe PAC is formed
… (ANC). They echoed the sentiments of Anton Lembede, one of the founders of the ANC Youth League (ANCYL), who …
EventMartin Luther King is arrested for his role in a bus boycott
… and spends six months in prison. King is recognised as one of the greatest human rights leaders of all time. His …
EventShaun Thomson*, world surfing title winner, is born in Durban
… began Solitude Clothing. Thomson and his wife Carla had one son Mathew, who died accidentally in 2006. He is regarded …
EventWW2 veteran Job Masego dies
… useful. After the fall of Tobruk in June 1942, Masego was one of 10 722 South Africans who were taken to a German …
EventWestern countries, including South Africa, implement an airlift to supply provisions to the inhabitants of the eastern section of Berlin
… Soviet-occupied post-World War II Germany. This event was one of the first international crises to occur during the …
EventHiroshima is targeted by a WWII atomic bomb
… on Hiroshima killed as many as 140,000 people, while the one dropped on Nagasaki killed as many as 90,000 people. …
Event11 die when the South African Defence Force (SADF) opens fire on negotiators in Sebokeng
… on township communities, mostly in the Vaal/Reef area. One such incidence occurred on 4 September 1990, when the …
EventMike Gatting’s rebel cricket tour is curtailed
… date of Bacher's announcement is given as 14 February in one source. …
EventP. W. Botha refutes possibility of Black majority rule
… has dawned that apartheid has failed, and that Blacks will one day have an effective voice in government, they are told …
EventThe first edition of the Graham’s Town Journal, mouthpiece of the Eastern Frontier settlers, is published
… The Gramstown Journal, one of South Africa's important and influential early …
EventThe first British Settlers arrive in Algoa Bay
… in Algoa Bay, (now Port Elizabeth) on board of twenty-one ships, the first being the Chapman. They numbered about …
EventRain Queen Makobo Modjadji VI, dies after a sudden illness
… Province. Rain Queen Modjadji VI is a direct descendent of one of the royal houses of Monomotapa, which ruled over the …
EventJ.M. Coetzee wins the Booker Prize
… published in 1974. Following three other publications, one of which won Britain's Booker Prize, Coetzee taught …
EventBotha found Guilty
… era. Botha was fined ten thousand rand and given a one year prison sentence, suspended for five years, which …
EventFormer NP leader Sam de Beer joins UDM
… lack of charisma from the party's national leadership as one of the reasons why he was leaving the NP. Another reason …
EventKing Leopold II of Belgium hands over the administration of the Congo to the Belgian parliament
… by extreme levels of violence meted out to the workers. One of such incident, which occurred in early 1900s, was …