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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 …
EventHundreds of thousands of Hutus flee to Zaire
… mainly to Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC) in one of the largest migrations of people in history. Thousands …
EventSouth African Defence Force (SADF) raid Maseru in an effort to kill suspected members of the African National Congress
… and the "Maseru Massacre" as it came to be called, was one of many brazen cross-border raids conducted by the SADF …
65. Letter from the Natal Indian Congress to Smuts, 1945
… population of South Africa. And settled in this country is one of the largest Indian colonies in the world. Any …
EventF.W. de Klerk announces the release of Nelson Mandela and unbans political parties
… as a whole. The decision taken by de Klerk was not an easy one, as he faced opposition not only from the political …
PlaceWanderers Cricket Stadium, Johannesburg
… in March 2006, it was the scene of the most extraordinary one-day match in History, when South Africa successfully …
Statement at the Sixth Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries, Havana, Cuba by O. R. Tambo, 3 - 9 September 1979
… our gathering is attended by representatives of more than one hundred countries, accounting for two-thirds of mankind, … colonialism and United States…
ArchiveBiography of Dulcie September by Claire Albin
… death in 1988 was never fully investigated, and remains one of South Africa’s biggest mysteries. Dulcie September’s … Africans despite their education and…
“I want to live not survive”: the politics of refusing low-wage work in a time of mass joblessness by Hannah Dawson
… welfare, with a focus on South Africa. At SCIS she is part of the Future of Work(ers ) project that is examining …