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EventSandra Reynolds, a South African tennis champion is born
… to reach a single’s final at Wimbledon.[vii] She is also one of only three to reach a Grand Slam singles final.[viii] …
EventUN peace-keeping troops deployed to the Republic of Congo
… finally seized power. His leadership was to signify one of the most dictorial and corrupt regimes on the African …
EventAll African People Conference is held in Accra, Ghana
… states, liberation movements and public organisations. One of African prominent political figure attended this …
EventViolence erupts during Defiance Campaign
… East London, where enraged Blacks killed two White people, one of then a Dominican nun whose body was mutilated. The …
EventANC celebrates its 79th anniversary in Durban
… rest of our membership. We wish you all peaceful new year, one which should see our country take resolute steps forward …
EventThe possessions of Piet Retief are auctioned
… ready to grant land to Retief and his party, but had one condition: that they retrieve cattle stolen from him by …
EventLouis Trichardt, Voortrekker leader, is born near Oudtshoorn 225 years ago
… Louis Trichardt was one of the Voortrekker leaders. He was born near Oudtshoorn …
EventHundreds of thousands of people killed as tsunamis devastate large swathes of South and Southeast Asia, coming as far as South Africa
… result of the Tsunami). Measured in lives lost, this is one of the ten worst earthquakes in recorded history, as well …
EventBoeremag bomb blasts rock Soweto and Bronkhorstspruit
… million. More than 200,000 commuters could not go to work. One of the explosions flung a piece of railway line a few …
EventMzwakhe Mbuli is sentenced to 13 years in jail
… at his trial. His hearing was surrounded with spectacle as one of the arresting officers committed suicide, a bomb …
EventAllan Boesak’s plea for the acquittal on fraud charges is rejected and the case is postponed to the following year
… establishing the United Democratic Front (UDF), which was one of the largest anti-apartheid movements in South Africa. …
EventThe Rand Revolt breaks out
… a stronghold of the labour movement behind the strike. One of the long term consequences of the strike was increased …
EventWorld War I begins
… to prevent a conflict of this nature from reoccurring. As one of the longest and deadliest conflicts in history, the … Kaapstad: Human & Rousseau.|Oracle…
EventMembers of Bambathas homestead are pursued by policemen for refusing to pay the ‘hut tax’
… to colonial rule to be pursued by minor chiefs. By 1906, one of the most formidable of these chiefs, Bambatha, … Boddy-Evans, A, The Bambatha Rebellion -…
EventField Marshal Lord Roberts is appointed British supreme commander in South Africa
… victories in Colenso, Magersfontein and Spionskop. And in one of these campaigns, Lord Robert's only son was killed in …
EventWorld Teachers Day - “Build the future: invest in teachers now!”
… We highly appreciate you having chosen this profession, one so fundamental to society, and the fact that you continue …
EventSouth Africa signs agreement with Switzerland to support the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP)
… The achievements of RDP include the building of over one million houses between 1994 and 2001, the provision of …
Nelson Mandela Correspondence around property and land
… better house. The house itself was originally a municipal one, and like all other municipal houses, the plan was drawn …
PlaceOliewenhuis Art Museum
… It is the only museum of its kind in the Free State and one of the youngest art museums in the country. Oliewenhuis …
PlaceThe Fountain and Garden of Remembrance, Chatswood-Sydney. Willoughby Park Centre
… North and South faces of the base of the Memorial. Above one of the plaques is a decorative carving of Crossed Swords, …
2. Moothen pleads for his wife to be returned
… twenty-four years and by whom was born to me five children one of which is deceased and four left with me to look after, …
PlacePampierstad
… Breypan/ Jan Kempdorp. Pampierstad served two purposes; one was house people forcibly removed from elsewhere and the …
PlaceColesberg, Northern Cape
… Governor of the Cape 1828-34. For many years it remained one of the most remote outposts of European settlement at the …
PlaceConstitutional Court of South Africa, Johannesburg
… and Braamfontein, overlooking central Johannesburg, and is one of the most important tourist attractions in South …
Chapter 2 - Jewish Trade Unions in Cape Town 1903-1907: A Socio-Historical Study
… language and cultural groups: the Anglo-German Jews on the one hand; and the Yiddish-speaking of the other. The … cent of the Jewish population of the Cape,…
PlaceSunset Beach, Cape Town
… Sunset Beach was considered to be the upper or northern part of Milnerton Beach but, with the newly established …
PlaceCala, Eastern Cape
… A Town in the Sakhisizwe Local Municipality, part of the Chris Hani District Municipality. With a … A town in the Sakhisizwe Local Municipality, part of the…
PlaceVhembe District Municipality
… level is 1206 metres. Vhembe is situated in the Northern part of Limpopo Province , sharing borders with Zimbabwe in …
Opening address by Albert Luthuli to the Twenty-second Biennial Conference of the South African Indian Congress, 19 October 1956, Gandhi Hall, Johannesburg
… in the country, especially black and white relations. No one is more conscious than I of the difficulties that have to … and security of home,…
PlaceFree State Province
… It was originally a Boer State and then (from 1910) one of the traditional Provinces of South Africa; it was … changed to the Orange River Colony . In 1910,…