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ArchiveState of the Nation Address by President Cyril Ramaphosa, Cape Town City Hall, 8 February 2024
… we stood in the long, winding queues to vote, we turned to one another and spoke of our joy. We embraced friends and … and each school day she received a…
EventPeter Lindenberg, South Africa’s powerboat champion
… Sports Hall of Fame in 2008.[vi] He retired from Formula One powerboat racing 18 months prior to his planned …
Message by Albert Luthuli, 1 May 1955
… great uncertainty has set in everywhere in the land. No one is sure of his home any more; in various parts of the …
Biennale Dak’Art 2018 : Open Call for Submissions - Deadline: 31 Jul 2017
… articles and critical texts on the artist’s work, and one or more testimonials by acknowledged experts (optional). …
An open letter from Desmond Tutu to Aung San Su Kyi, 7 September 2017
… you scratch the surface we are all the same, members of one family, the human family; that there are no natural …
Artist. Activist. Historian. This man is preserving the past to protect the future (beautifulnews.co.za)
… Nevertheless, he continued to create, and that same year one of his woodcuts won the first of many awards. As a man …
PlaceWalter Sisulu National Botanical Garden, Krugersdorp/Roodepoort
… a row. The Walter Sisulu Botanical Garden in Ruimsig , is one of eight botanical gardens in South Africa. It covers …
PlaceImizamo Yethu, Hout Bay
… and Zaire ; living in the buffer zone of Imizamo Yethu. One hypothesis posited is; that these people entered the …
PlaceMilnerton
… area began to grow steadily. Today, Milnerton has become one of the fastest growing areas in the Western Cape . … area began to grow steadily! Today,…
PlaceRustenburg House, together with its Summer House, Main Road, Rondebosch.
… Residence, where they could Entertain important Visitors, one of them being Commander Hakius, who died here in 1671. In …
PlaceKimberley, Northern Cape
… due to a shortage of natural surface water, but mostly, one would suspect, to a diggers taste for beer or something …
PlaceMelrose House, Jacob Mare Street, Pretoria
… audio guide. Every year Melrose House is the location for one of the most popular Antique Fairs in the country where …
PlaceIrene Concentration Camp and Gravesite
… Camp was built with the intention that it would be one of the camps that would house Boer woman and children, …
Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
… Black political activity in the 1960s was a very different one from that of the previous decade. The apartheid …
PlaceEquatorial Guinea
… investment. As a result, Equatorial Guineans became one Africa's most educated population. In the 1950s a move …
Appeal For Funds For New Age, January 1956
… in order to turn back the tide of apartheid tyranny. One of the most important and indispensable weapons in all …
EventDr Albert Hertzog confirms that television would not be introduced in South Africa
… man to set foot on the moon in 1969, South Africa was one of the few countries unable to watch the event live. …
EventPeter Mokaba is born
… UDF Regional Youth Coordinating Committee. He was one of the founding members of the South African Youth …
EventSouth Africa heeds United Nations call to assist Korea
… the Korean conflict. The South African Air Force was also one of the first in the world to operate combat jet aircraft, …
EventHajara Ibrahim appears before a Nigerian Islamic court to launch an appeal against her conviction for adultery
… flogging, amputation and stoning for crimes like adultery. One of the first instances when Sharia law in Nigeria was …
EventUnesco lists Robben Island as a World Heritage Site
… during the colonial period were Sayed Abdurahman Moturu, one of Cape Town's first imams, and the Xhosa prophets, …
EventAnglo-Boer War 2: The siege of Okiep, in Namaqualand, starts
… arrived from Port Nolloth and ended the siege. This was one of the last military actions by Boer forces, as the war …
EventDe Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd. is founded to exercise control over diamond production in South Africa
… of marine diamonds off the coast of Namibia. De Beers was one of the first South African companies to address the …
PlacePhillipton
… "stirring up" the Khoi, he was repeatedly censured and, at one stage, prevented from returning to Philipton after the …
EventParliament convenes to consider the resignation of President Thabo Mbeki
… the Democratic DA) secured fifty votes. There were forty one spoilt ballots. Motlanthe was sworn in as the third …
EventDay of Reconciliation celebrated as a public holiday in SA for the first time
… tasked with promoting reconciliation and national unity. One way in which it aimed to do this symbolically was to …
PlaceClearwater, Now Known as Griquastad- in the Northern Cape
… Crime Novel has been written about the infamous murders by one of South Africa's leading reporters, Jacques Steenkamp, …
PlaceMariammen Temple, Pretoria
… upon layer of horizontal tiers in true Dravidian style and one which closely follows the Silpa Sastras. The plain …
WE HAVE THE KEY TO FREEDOM NOT THE OPPRESSOR, December 16, 1957
… forward look and co-operativeness that should drive every one of you to do his best for the Freedom cause. It should … Africa in particular that our struggle…
ArchiveEmily Hobhouse - Beloved Traitor by Elsabe Brits(The Heritage Portal), 14 September 2016
… where a final chapter should have started. I suppose if one is a pacifist one cheers Emily Hobhouse for her courage and her opinionated … is insulted when a…