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ArticleGreat Trek 1835-1846
… came for them to leave they found that no Dutch Reformed Church minister from the Cape was prepared to accompany the expedition, for the church synod opposed…
Document 71 - Spartacus Club October Revolution Celebrations Oddfellows Hall, 70 Loop Street, Cape Town, 6 November 1937
… Dr. Msomi, head of the school. Scene 3. In town, a church entrance. Characters: A white man, Lukosi, Police … Anna, Nkomo, Ntombela. Scene 5. A room…
PlacePacaltsdorp
… It was built of materials similar to the great stone church, except that it was plastered on the outside. A new … home of the "Akkertjie"- Pre-primary School…
PlaceColesberg, Northern Cape
… out about a central axis dominated by the Dutch Reformed church, and its dwellings were distinctive for their square, flat-roofed construction, a form of…
BiographyJudge Jan Hendrik Steyn
… States of America (USA). He joined the Dutch Reformed Church ministry and was a tireless secretary of the British …
BiographySantu Mofokeng
… Identity, The Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm. Writings 'Train Church'. From South Africa· New Writing, Photographs and Art. …
BiographyHendrik Frensch Verwoerd
… became an assistant evangelist in the Dutch Reformed Church. After four years they returned to South Africa and …
BiographySimon van der Stel
… Thus when the French resisted and lobbied for their own church, which the Heren XVII (the directors of the VOC ) …
BiographyDr Abdullah Abdurahman
… Given the segregated and vastly inferior system of church schools available to Coloured people it was …
ArticlePort Elizabeth Timeline 1799-1986
… west of Port Elizabeth it covered an area just under 14 square miles. When Muller died in 1845 his farm was inherited … number of stands were also reserved…
ArticleAfrican Heritage Sites
… The ruins of the former Christian holy city contain a church, a baptistery, basilicas, public buildings, streets, … patios crowd along narrow streets around…
Community histories of Rustenburg
… to establish permanent schools. To become a member of the church was in any way a higher priority than being taught at … and ten farm schools with 333…
PlacePeddie
… by dressed stone walls with loopholed opening, and its square watch-tower, built in 1841, housed a cannon on its … in 1862, the property was given over to…
PlaceCity Hall and Francis Farewell Gardens, Durban
… outing to the building. And it is outside the City Hall’s Church Walk steps that crowds invariably gather to make their … City Hall, including cleaning…
Mission Stations - T-Z
… provided by the congregation of S Peter's, Eaton Square, London. Without their timely aid we should have been … it, or still less to erect a more seemly and…
South African Youth Revolutionary Council (SAYRCO)
… day, students were called upon to march to John Vorster Square Police Station to demand the release of political … gathered at different points to march to…
Colonial history of Rustenburg
… Schutte and Phillip Snyman, both members of the Kerkraad (Church Council). When Spruit fell out with the council, … decision which led to the formation of…
Pretoria the Segregated city
… established for Blacks in 1951. Located 16km east of Church Square, this township also fell within the Pretoria … in 1960, Laudium, which is situated 12 km…
PlaceEdenburg, near Bloemfontein
… 1862 when the farm Rietfontein was purchased to built a Church and an active Berliner Missionary Station, the oldest … of its kind in the Free State. At the…
Jonas Malheiro Savimbi
… In 1958, he was granted a scholarship from the United Church of Christ to attend university in Lisbon, Portugal, …
PlaceSouth African National Archive in Cape Town
… Buildings and the restoration of the Palace of Justice on Church Square, Pretoria , are examples, particularly with regard to …
BiographyBessie Amelia Head
… child welfare organizations. She attended a Catholic church and school and remained ignorant of the Heathcotes not …
BiographyJohannes Henricus Brand
… and together with Dr John Brebner, a Scot, and the NGK church, they greatly improved education in thei republic. …
European Societies in the Middle Ages
… than the country that they lived in. The Roman Catholic Church was a very rich and powerful social institution in … was the Pope, who lived in the Vatican…
Increasing repression and the turn to the armed struggle
… handed themselves over to the police for arrest at Caledon Square. On the 25 March between 2000 and 5000 people marched to Caledon Square led by Kgosana and…
Digging deeper into our history by Nicole Mccain (News24), 13 September 2016
… walls of the National Mutual Building of Australasia, on Church Square, lie over 150 000 historical artefacts. These … walls of the National Mutual Building…
ArticleDurban Timeline 1497-1990
… subsequently used as a market, and now known as Farewell Square. July, A second party under Francis Farewell arrived … Henry Cloete. 1843 Durban’s first…
BiographyTeboho MacDonald “Tsietsi” Mashinini
… second son of Ramothibi, a lay preacher in the Methodist Church, and Nomkhitha Mashinini, and was one of 13 children …
BiographyJosiah Tshangana Gumede
… and sisters had moved to Queenstown. Run by the Anglican Church, the institute was a sister school to the white St … belongs to the people.’ Referring to the…
ArticleKey sites in and around Soweto
… Tabor Technikon Hector Peterson Memorial Jabavu Methodist Church Jabavu Swimming Pool Jomo Sono's House Kaizer Motaung … Power Park Protea Polize Street*…