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EventThe first weather forecast for the Union is issued
… was issued by A.G. Howard of the Union Weather Service from the branch office in Cape Town a few days later. The … assistance in simultaneous meteorological…
PlaceClumber, Eastern Cape
… 1820 to Dr Thomas Carlton, leader of a party of settlers from Nottinghamshire. In October 1893 its name was changed to … called Clumber was established on a…
EventThe first Boer Trek to Angola that started in 1874 reaches Lake Ngami (Thirstland Trek) in 1875
… to the exodus of Boer/Afrikaans families, most of them from the districts of Pretoria and Rustenburg, through … ideas. The movement comprised of several…
EventGhanaian President Kwame Nkrumah calls on world leaders to impose “total economic and political sanctions” on South Africa
… government, and South African aircrafts were prohibited from flying over the rest of the continent. In addition, the … to convince the United Nations (UN) to…
EventThe British government closes its consulate in Angola
… closed its consulate and evacuated British citizens from Angola. This was a subsequent to increasing tensions in … government in the mountainous region of…
EventUN troops arrive in Congo to help deal with the political crisis
… troops followed Patrice Lumumba’s request for assistance from African countries and the United Nations. The secession … happened shortly after the country…
EventThe condition of Edwin Smith, the youngest baby in SA to undergo open-heart surgery, improves
… Smith, Edwin was less than a day-old when he suffered from a congenital heart problem which preventing the smooth flow of blood from the heart to the lungs…
1983, Volume 7 Dawn page 3 Article: Response to a Crisis
… deploys its strategies in every other field, stretching from blatant bribery to political blackmail, from naked military aggression to parliamentary reforms…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers by D.D.T Jabavu
… These papers are selected from a number of essay and address published from time to time and are here brought together after the …
Gandhi, Tamils and the Satyagraha in South Africa by E.S Reddy
… them to carry passes, the merchants, mainly Muslims from Gujarat, were in the lead. But soon most of them dropped … and women were invited to join, seventeen…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - New Factories, New Workers
… From the book: Working Life - Factories, Township and … that were needed. We have seen that much the profit from the mining industry went back to investors…
Chapter VII - Democracy?
… From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph In January 1957 … a black man having the same surname caused some confusion from time to time, but not as great…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Early Writings
… From the book: Freedom In Our Life Time by Anton Muziwakhe … about by the mentioned factors, drives many Natives from country to town. How should I work to…
ArchiveUnomsa for African Renaissance by Thobeka Sinxo
… story about a gothic heroine, Nomsa Ntobeko, who migrates from the Eastern Cape to work as a teacher in the Karoo. BODY … about a gothic heroine named Nomsa…
'Native life' 100 after Sol Plaatje published it by Janet Remmington, Brian Willan, Bhekizizwe Peterson (Mail and Guardian), 30 September 2016
… in South Africa: Past and Present (Wits University Press), from which this edited extract of the editors’ introduction … to a significant piece of…
Centenary of the 1913 Land Act By Colin Bundy, 18 April 2013
… relative wealth of share-cropping families who returned from Lesotho with their flocks and herds at the end of war. … precipitated the eviction of hundreds…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 8
… From the book: A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African … The lights had just gone off in the cinema as he ran back from the pavement to the entrance…
PlaceFairview Wine and Cheese Estate, near Paarl
… An immigrant from Lithuania, the young Charles Back I, landed on these … responsibility for the farm upon his father’s passing. From the start, Charles…
PlaceCircle of Kramat's, Cape Town
… Legend goes that it is this circle that protects Cape Town from earthquakes and National disasters. Kramats or Mazaars, … is in the Muslim cemetery in the Bo…
Briefing to organisation of African Unity Kampala, September 8, 1990
… were prowling around the country. There was also violence from the state agencies. As a result of the failure of the … these elements, there was a widespread…
Baroness Castle of Blackburn opened an exhibition on the history of the Anti-Apartheid Movement at the opening session of the Symposium
… Commons I never set foot in the place except to spit at it from outside on the pavement. But as I was listening to the … a boycott, Macmillan didn't support…
Document 52 - LA. Jordaan, “A Critique of Mr. W. P. van Schoor’s.The Origin and Development of Segregation in South Africa” Discussion, 1, 3, June 1951
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary … work which represents a radical and decisive departure from all the histories hitherto written on…
ArchiveChimamanda Ngozi Adichie: A Reformist-Feminist by Charles Nwosu
… writing and storytelling that span societal issues from race, identity and love to reformist-feminism. … coups and counter-coups that rocked the Nigerian…
PlaceSalt River
… with Woodstock in one Municipality. The Railway Line from Cape Town, reached Salt River on 13 February 1862. … visitors a taste of the people of the Mother…
PlaceThree Anchor Bay
… in fact right where the two Suburbs meet, just 10 minutes from the City Centre of Cape Town. Actually the beautiful … is popular, particularly with sea…
PlaceOld Locomotive “Emil Kessler”, Johannesburg
… by Emil Kessler of Esslingen in Germany. It was brought from the coast by ox-wagons and was unloaded piece by piece … Baden State Railway (Großherzoglich…
EventGerman torpedoes sink the SS Mendoza close to Durban
… 1942 the SS Mendoza sailed without an armoured escort from Mombasa to Durban under Captain B.T. Batho. On board the … that the SS Mendoza was sunk. At about…
EventAbdul Samad Minty, anti apartheid activist, is born
… for the suspension of the South African Olympic Committee from the Olympics. In 1969 he published his study on the … to the 50th General Conference:…
EventMapungubwe is ‘discovered’
… South Africa, Zimbabwe and Botswana and is located 75 km from Messina. One thousand years ago, Mapungubwe appears to … The civilization thrived as a…
EventGambia is admitted to the United Nations
… In the centuries to follow, tribes of Mandingoes and Susus from the Fouta Djalon Plateau of Guinea established … parts of the Gambia ruled by Britain were…