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PlaceGood Hope Centre, Cape Town
… one of Pier Luigi Nervi’s last works , featuring some of his most famous building techniques and architectural forms: … apartheid ”). Conceived by Pier Luigi…
Interview with Oliver Tambo to Radio Freedom, 01 April 1981
… the "noise Chief Gatsha Buthelezi was making about his nephew who is allegedly being held by the ANC.] It is a …
SABC CEO Jimi Matthews quits: ‘What’s happening at the SABC is wrong' (Tmg Digital), 27 June 2016
… Matthews tweeted a picture of his resignation letter to SABC board chair Professor …
PlaceAmandelboom, Town in Northern Cape
… Brigade leader Major Cyril Swart says every time his band marches, 'two or three join our flock'. The local …
PlaceEritrea
… since 1993. President Afwerki Isaias has always expressed his disdain for western-style democracy. Some interesting …
PlaceHaarlem
… father of Coenraad de Buys, the battling giant who left his legend – and offspring – all the way from the Cape …
PlaceNapier
… Napier was established in 1838, when Michiel van Breda and his neighbour, Pieter Voltelyn van der Byl, could not agree …
PlaceOld Locomotive “Emil Kessler”, Johannesburg
… Kessler's bid was successful and in 1841 he built his first steam locomotive, the Badenia for the Grand Duchy …
Document 11 - Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union of Africa, Annual Conference Agenda, St Phillips School, Chapel Street. District 6, Cape Town, 18 January 1923
… report. 20. The Acting President-General's report on his tour. 21. Revision of the administrative work of the …
Document 5 - “Trade Union Notes”, The Bolshevik, March 1920 (Extract)
… action in scabbing is driving the native to look upon his fight as between black wage-workers on the one hand and …
EventGambia is admitted to the United Nations
… reference in the account by Hanno the Carthaginian of his voyage through West Africa around 470BC. During the 5th …
EventA group of six White and several Black rebel army troops mounted another coup attempt on 21/22 November in Transkei, a Black ‘homeland’
… had unbanned the organisation in the Transkei. Moreover, his opposition to the homeland system and the holding of a …
EventSA and Mozambique revive Nkomati Accord
… of South Africa and leader of the National Party, launched his "Total Strategy" in response to what he saw as the "Total …
EventCharles Darwin and the HMS Beagle reached the Galapagos Islands
… in the Galapagos would be the principle inspiration for his work, On The Origin of Species, one of those rare …
EventSlavery is abolished at the Cape
… (starting in 1835) from the Cape Colony. Piet Retief, in his famous manifesto to the Grahamstown Journal, wrote: “We …
EventThe Directors of the Dutch East India Company propose Hout Bay to Jan van Riebeeck as a possible area to settle some Dutch families
… it 'T'Houtbaaitjen' (Dutch for 'Bay of Wood'), noting in his journal that its mountainous slopes held 'the finest …
EventPresident Robert Mugabe defends land reform programme
… This has resulted in Mugabe declaring that criticisms of his regime is racist in nature and that critique voiced by …
EventFormer Minister of Defence and others are charged with murder
… would begin its work. After a seven month trial, Malan and his co-accused were cleared of all charges on 11 October …
EventFighting breaks out on the Johannesburg market square
… J L Labuschagne, twice walked into the street, threw out his arms and cried, "Shoot me!" The second time, when the …
EventAnglo-Boer War 2: The British evacuate Rustenburg to occupy Commando Nek and Silkaatsnek
… Girl Guides movement, which began partly as a result of his observations of children during the siege of Mafikeng and …
PlaceRaadsaal, 95 St George’s Street, Bloemfontein
… raising for the Government a sum of £900 and, at his request, was allowed to use half of this money to build a …
Introduction
… they were quick to learn the complexity of the man and his message. The 1908 compromise was interpreted by one …
ArticleSouth Africa’s Foreign Relations during Apartheid, 1948
… organisation, and the Foreign Minister was criticized for his speech in the General Assembly. In 1966, the first of … turned to as a way of reducing South…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Essay Questions and Answers
… the implementation of the 1913 Natives Land Act wrote in his book, Native Life in South Africa, concerning the Act … their new racist policies. This led to…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 2 Source Based Questions
… of the Spanish navigator, Christopher Columbus, and his crew in Hispaniola. The etching Depicts the local inhabitants of Hispaniola giving Columbus and his…
PlaceUmzinto, South Coast
… sites and walks. King Shaka also visited this Area on his travels and within the reserve lays the words: “Umthombo … Kashaka” - meaning a well of fresh water…
EventPresident Jacob Zuma steps down as President of South Africa
… 2018, President Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma announced his resignation with immediate effect, following years of … of the republic with immediate effect.”,…
Chapter III - My very ordinary life
… then to Egypt and to Palestine. He wrote vivid letters to his two children, enclosing pressed flowers for me from … with its Georgian front, which my father…
Defining the term 'Bantu'
… 19th century. Wihelm Bleek first used the word 'Bantu' in his 1862 publication Comparative Grammar of South African …
ArticleThe formation of the SANNC/ANC
… to the tactics which were being employed by Gandhi and his followers in the South African Indian community. …