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PlaceBethelsdorp, Algoa Bay -Eastern Cape
… Back in 1802, the establishment of a Missionary Village on a deserted farm near Algoa Bay, now Port Elizabeth, became a thorn in the side of the colonial…
EventLanga, Nyanga and Gugulethu students march through the Cape Town CBD
… marched without notice or public declaration through the Cape Town CBD unhindered. On 2 September the ban on public gatherings throughout the country was ……
Petrus Borchardus Borcherds, adjunct fiscal and member of the Council of Justice at the Cape, is born in Cape Town.
… Petrus Borchardus Borcherds, adjunct fiscal and member of the Council of Justice at the Cape, is born in Cape Town. …
WWI: A new battalion consisting of Cape Coloured men, called the Cape Corps, is established with the view of being dispatched
… WWI: A new battalion consisting of Cape Coloured men, called the Cape Corps, is established with the view of being dispatched …
WWI: A new battalion consisting of Cape Coloured men, called the Cape Corps, is established with the view of being dispatched
… WWI: A new battalion consisting of Cape Coloured men, called the Cape Corps, is established with the view of being dispatched …
The first tramway company in Cape Town, the ‘Cape Town and Green Point Tramway Company’, commences operations with a horse-draw
… The first tramway company in Cape Town, the ‘Cape Town and Green Point Tramway Company’, commences …
BiographyLeslie Rubin
… The son of a rabbi, Leslie Rubin was born on 5 August 1909 in District Six , Cape Town, Cape Province (now Western Cape), then a multiracial district … . …
EventAlfred Milner becomes High Commissioner and Governor of the Cape Province
… became High Commissioner for South Africa and Governor of the Cape Province in 1897. His efforts to gain political rights for the "Uitlanders" (foreigners…
EventThe ‘Hospital and Lunatic Asylum’, the first civilian hospital in Cape Town, is opened
… In the early 1800s, there was only one hospital for army men in the Cape, as well as a naval hospital in Simonstown. So, in order to set up the first…
EventHendrik Andries Hanekom, SA actor dies in the Strand, Cape Town
… professional theatre. Hendrik died on *14 January 1952 in the Strand, Cape Town. Throughout his career, Hanekom promoted folk … His productions also helped…
EventCommodore Dieter Gerhardt’s trial begins in the Cape Town High Court
… The trial of Commodore Dieter Gerhardt on charges of spying for the Soviet Union began in the Cape Town High Court. The Judge President granted an … South…
PlaceSeal Point Lighthouse, Cape St. Francis
… Commissioned on 11 May 1950 The Cape Seal lighthouse lies within the Robberg Nature and Marine Reserve on the seaward tip of what is known as Cape Seal in…
BiographyNokugcina Elsie Mhlophe
… been writing and performing on stage and screen for the past 21 years. Gcina Mhlophe has written many children's … Swahili and Japanese. Her work is used…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the 1995 National Conference of IDASA Cape Town, 18 August 1995
… expressed in your theme for this conference in the Western Cape. You are right to confront the difficult issues which … importance. Democratic local…
BiographyLesetja Kganyago
… Township, Johannesburg, in Gauteng Province in 1965. At the age of five, he moved to Northern Province, now known as … known as Polokwane, and returned to…
EventA 13-year-old Welsh school-girl’s letter reaches the wrong hands
… that her letter would be passed on to any African girl in Cape Town. The letter was addressed to the “Head girl, any non-European Secondary School, Cape Town…
Richard Victor Selope Thema
… were Pedi speaking but not originally belonging to the Mamabolo tribe who, through early contact with … his parents were not Christians, Thema attended…
PlaceKirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens, Cape Town
… National Botanical Garden lives up to its reputation as the most beautiful garden in Africa and one of the great … the setting of Kirstenbosch, against the…
BiographyAubrey Mokoena
… West, Johannesburg during World War II. He grew up in the township, but due to his mother’s bad health was brought … in contact with his family, and they…
ArchiveA study of resettlements in the Eastern Cape: the case of Mdatsane
… Report on the establishment and development of Mdatsane resettlement area. The report also outlines the socio-economic impact caused by relocation of African…
PlaceHershel Memorial Obelisk, Claremont-Cape Town
… The most significant memorial [to Sir John Herschel] is the Herschel obelisk. On 28 November 1838 the Cape Governor, Sir George Napier, presided over a…
Event2000 Students march through Cape Town
… A day after the peaceful 1 September march 2000 students from Langa, … and Gugulethu once again marched through the heart of Cape Town's CBD to protest and…
Chapter 4 - Another Victory for Trade Unionism: The 1918 Cape Town Musicians’ Strike
… From: Labour Struggles in South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - 1921 by Evangelos A. Mantzaris Nineteen-eighteen was a significant year for Cape Town (and…
A mass meeting is held in Cape Town to petition Queen Victoria to grant the Cape responsible government.
… A mass meeting is held in Cape Town to petition Queen Victoria to grant the Cape responsible government. …
A mass meeting is held in Cape Town to petition Queen Victoria to grant the Cape responsible government.
… A mass meeting is held in Cape Town to petition Queen Victoria to grant the Cape responsible government. …
BiographyAlfred Milner
… and colonial administrator, became Governor of the Cape and High Commissioner of South Africa in 1897. He pushed … equal status with Dutch/Afrikaans in the…
BiographyMakholeka Matthews Meyiwa
… to George and Anne Meyiwa who were peasant farmers and was the last of eight children. Meyiwa attended Georgedale … involved in the trade union movement,…
EventThe four corner stones of the castle (Kasteel de Goede Hoop) at the Cape are laid
… On 2 January 1666 the four corner stones of the Castle of Good Hope (Kasteel van Goede Hoop) at the Cape were laid by Zacharias Wagenaer, Johan van Arckel, ……
PlaceDutch and British Coastal Fortifications at the Cape of Good Hope (1665 to 1829)
… The Cape Peninsula is surrounded by oceans on three sides and … East India Company (also known as the VOC) founded the Cape settlement in 1652. As it was…
PlaceDutywa, Eastern Cape
… The Town was founded in 1858 as a Military Fort after a … Colony raiding party and local people. It is named after the Dutywa River, a tributary of the…