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PlaceGroote Kerk, Adderley Street, Cape Town.
… urgent. On 16th December 1677, Commander Johan Bax and his Council set aside a suitable area in the Company’s garden … 1700, Governor Willem Adriaan van der…
ArchiveWomen and the Satyagraha Campaign
… them economic relief as well as to begin the training of his army of Satyagrahis. In the two or three years that they … from crossing the Transvaal/Natal…
I have written it by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - International Support: UNO - 1947
… the House of Assembly this week, almost indicated this in his speech. The Prime Minister was able to get the Indian … for India, Mr. R.M. Deshmukh, who was…
ArticleThe history of Migrant Labour in South Africa
… [11] . Workers worked under exploitative conditions as the death rate of workers in 1903 was eighty per thousand and …
PlaceBaxter Theatre, Rondebosch- Cape Town
… the establishment of this theatre as it had always been his desire to “develop and cultivate arts in Cape Town and …
ANC to convene Provincial Memorial Services in honour of Madiba, 8 December 2013
… members of the public to leave their tributes for Madiba, his family and our nation. The Condolence Books shall be laid …
ArchiveVisualising the web of state capture, November 7, 2016
… Some of the key players included President Zuma, his son, Duduzane Zuma, the Gupta brothers and their various …
SAHO Commemorates 40 Years Since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue by Thembinkosi Khumalo
… PAC. Khumalo is also involved in community upliftment in his hometown, Madadeni in Newcastle. Dear Students of 1976 I …
PlaceMandela Capture Site, Howick in Kwa Zulu Natal
… the whole: of solidarity. Mandela's incarceration cemented his status as an icon of the struggle, which in turn helped …
PlacePort St. Johns
… see a sangoma (traditional healer) strolling along in all his finery, hear the thumping sound of kwaito music from a …
PlaceUnion Tavern and Stables, Simonstown
… owner of that Property by not ending in bankruptcy. During his tenure he let it, as a Private Dwelling. In 1833, he …
PlaceOlivedale , Randburg
… chicken Farm and planted an Orchard of 50,000 Peach Trees. His house and surrounding Structures where Built by Italian …
EventThe last Apollo Moon mission returns to Earth
… valley. On it was written, "Here man completed his first explorations of the Moon, December 1972." Eugene …
EventPiet Retief’s Great Trek manifesto is completed
… gangs were the first grievance Retief mentioned in his manifesto. Many farmers believed that in the country's …
EventBritish Parliament passes the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act
… slaves was fined £100 for every slave found on board his ship. However, this law did not put a complete stop to …
PlaceFlagstaff
… In 1877 Zachariah Bowles and his partner, a Mr Owen, established a trading store on the …
Document 25 - Letter from E. R. Roux to John Gomas, 23 July 1956
… showed - were those trained by the Party. Solly and his aides were never really good interracialists. Trade …
EventThe first large group of French Huguenots arrive at the Cape
… the French to be interÂspersed with the other burghers. His reasoning for this integration was 'that they could learn …
PlaceLutheran Church, Martin Melck House and Sexton House, Strand Street, Cape Town.
… since that time. When Martin Melck originally built his warehouse, he also made allowance for the eventual …
3. Charge of assault against an estate manager
… on, at the same time struck me with a whip which he had in his hand, twice on the legs. Fearing that he would strike me …
PlaceAmanzimtoti, South Coast of Kwa-Zulu Natal
… of the Zulus. During one of Shaka’s campaigns, he and his army stopped to rest here. He was brought a Calabash …
PlaceCamp’s Bay, Cape Town
… 220 enslaved people taken from Benin. Her father was given his freedom in 1659; the first male slave to be freed . He …
Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis - Introduction
… only a little of the language, it was clear that his variety had all the well-known signature features of Kora … notable South African English poet, Thomas…
PlaceArthur Newton's- Rock Seat in the Comrades Marathon
… started running at the relatively late age of 38 and ran his first Comrades in 1922, to publicize his outrage at a land dispute with the South African … He…
ArticleThe Johanna
… the Cape’s torturous weather prevented Captain Brown and his navigator from getting an accurate idea of their …
Apartheid power in crisis
… pressure forced the minister to retreat somewhat from his original position, resulting in a major victory for … the acting general secretary of the UDF, was…
ArticleBrenda Fassie’s 1997 hit song Vulindlela still raises questions about South Africa as a nation
… in 1990. It was about Mandela, who’d been imprisoned for his struggle against apartheid. Although Mandela had just … Mandela becoming the country’s first…
Chapter 5: The Socio-Economic impact of Vigilantes and Political Violence in Kwazulu-Natal
… vigilantism against the ANC and UDF, should any member of his party be attacked. It implicated that UDF and ANC … members should be hunted down and killed…
ArchiveMandela's release - what a day this was in our history
… arrived in a Mercedes Benz, followed by a van carrying his bodyguards. Marshals tried to guide them to the back … Jackson insisted in going in through “the…
PlaceThembuland
… severe military pressure from the combined armies of his enemies, Chief Ngangelizwe and his Ministers approached the nominally-independent Cape … The Cape…