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ANC statement on Zimbabwe, 26 May 2000
… that the route to follow in the Zimbabwean situation is one of `quiet diplomacy` instead of a fan fare approach. The …
Apartheid’s Twisted Dream: David Goldblatt’s South Africa by Joseph Lelyveld, 2 July 2010
… described as his country’s Walker Evans. Though Evans was one of Goldblatt’s models when he was starting out more than …
Author uncovers Gandhi’s links with early ANC leaders by Anelisa Kubheka (Daily News), 02 March 2012, Durban
… Dube made an eloquent speech and he was an African whom one should know. He kept in contact with Dube,” he said. He …
EventJoyce Mashamba passed away
… and the South African Communist Party. [iii] Mashamba was one of the longest serving MEC’s and at the time of her death …
PlaceJoubertina
… suffered little notoriety and languished as something of a one-horse town in much the same vein as its Neighbour's. Now …
EventProVerb, the South Africa hip hop artist, television and radio presenter is born
… ambassador for the province in 2005. In 2010, ProVerb was one of the celebrity contestants on the reality show, …
EventRiaad Moosa, the South African comedian is born
… African Film and Television Award for Best Actor.[v] His one-man comedy shows are “Strictly Halaal” and “For the …
EventJack Parow, the Afrikaans rap artist is born
… was born in Parow, Cape Town on 22 February 1982.[i] He is one of the most popular Afrikaans hip hop artists in South …
PlaceSalt River
… Junction; and in 1883 it was joined with Woodstock in one Municipality. The Railway Line from Cape Town, reached …
PlaceMowbray
… Mowbray its reputation as a transitory neighbourhood; one through which people tend to pass, not least due to Main …
PlaceRailway Station, Muizenberg
… Sir Herbert Baker, the station was opened in 1913, it is one of Cape Town's most well known historical buildings. Now …
PlaceCape Flats Nature Reserve, University of the Western Cape, Bellville
… Flats Nature Reserve, situated on the campus of UWC, is one of the most important sites in the Cape Lowlands with …
PlaceNapier
… has rather unusual architecture and a teak interior. One of the first buildings in Napier, the Feeshuis , was … the Kerkplaats soon became a matter of local…
PlaceElim
… fishermen’s cottages and fig trees. This town is one of the few surviving South African mission stations . It … by white-washed fishermen’s cottages and fig…
EventThe South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) introduces its first national news service
… By April 1927, an hour of Afrikaans programming and one daily news bulletin in Afrikaans was broadcast. …
PlaceOld Locomotive “Emil Kessler”, Johannesburg
… October 1851 and acquired in 1852 by the Baden government. One year later he founded a new company under the name of …
EventPansy Tlakula, Chairperson of the Independent Electoral Commission, announces her resignation
… but it was complicated due to the fact that the IEC is one of the chapter nine institutions supporting democracy and …
EventThe Republic of South Africa is established
… abandoned their policy of passive resisÂtance and adopted one of armed struggle, and, in reaction against the actions …
EventThe Flag of the Union of South Africa is hoisted on Prince Edward Island
… hoisted on Prince Edward Island. Prince Edward Island is one of two Islands annexed by South African which includes …
EventMapungubwe is ‘discovered’
… Zimbabwe and Botswana and is located 75 km from Messina. One thousand years ago, Mapungubwe appears to have been the …
EventEditors oppose legislation on media control
… of the press at bay. The events of 10 June 1977 stand as one of the few instances during the apartheid era in which …
EventDurban magistrate rules the death of Dr Haffejee accidental
… A Durban magistrate ruled that no one was to blame for the death of a young dentist, Dr. Hoosen …
EventLord Charles Henry Somerset, governor of the Cape Colony, is born in Badminton, England
… boost to the English-speaking population. This period saw one of the largest stages of British settlement in Africa, …
EventThe first family at the Cape moves into the fort
… urgency to van Riebeeck. He went ashore on 7 April, barely one day after dropping anchor in Table Bay, to select the …
EventSA judge jails former state assassin Eugene de Kock for more than 200 years
… his term of office.De Kock was accused of many crimes, one of which was attempting to cover up the involvement of …
EventKen Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian author and environmental activist, is executed
… the Movement for the Survival of the Ogani People (MOSOP). One contentious issue faced by the Ogani people, that MOSOP …
EventThe Rand Revolt strikers’ stronghold at Fordsburg Square falls to the government
… (Taffy) Long, heralded by subsequent labour histories as one of South Africa's greatest working-class martyrs, was …
EventGeneral C.R. de Wet was found guilty of treason for leading the Afrikaner rebellion of 1914
… and statesman, regarded by Afrikaner nationalists as one of their greatest heroes. He won renown as commander in …
EventFighting breaks out on the Johannesburg market square
… mob refused to disperse and fired shots at the military. One of the ringleaders, a tall red-headed miner from Nigel …
PlaceCradock Division
… north of Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Municipality. It is one of six municipalities in the district, making up a third …