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… Cape Town has a substantial Jewish community, the majority of … Lithuanian immigrants. By 1863, the Jewish congregation in Cape Town had grown to such an extent that a new building was … Schul was built alongside the Old Schul, and opened by Cape Town's first Jewish mayor, Hyman Lieberman. Today, the …

… a frontier can change. Before the Dutch arrived at the Cape, there was no frontier. The Dutch settlers began to move further and further away from Cape Town, eastwards and northwards, in search of land to live and farm on. As they moved, the Cape frontier moved too. As they moved into the southern …

… 1884 by Thomas Upington, then Prime Minister of the Cape Colony. The building, designed by James Tennant, of the … Drill Hall, Darling Street, Cape Town …

… the Cold War, which was the competition for power between Western (capitalist) and Eastern bloc (communist) countries … of the Berlin Blockade, as it became known, was to force Western Allied forces to surrender control of Berlin by … Western countries, including South Africa, implement an …

… after marrying, she spent three years in the field in western Tanzania just north of Lake Malawi, where she and her … this study, she took up a post at the University of Cape Town in 1952. This remained her intellectual home until … of Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cape Town from 1952 to 1973.  Monica dispelled many myths …

… made a parliamentary address at the University of Cape Town (UCT). This was called the 'Day of Affirmation …  Kennedy, R.F ., Robert F. Kennedy University of Cape Town, South Africa N.U.S.A.S. "Day of Affirmation" … Kennedy, American politician, speaks at the University of Cape Town about the racial inequality of apartheid …

… is a 224 bed Public Hospital situated in Taweni, Eastern Cape. The Hospital provides services to the Flagstaff area, … Holy Cross Mission & Hospital, Eastern Cape …

… erected as one of the first phases of the University of Cape Town's Groote Schuur campus. Among the famous residents … Smuts Hall, University of Cape Town …

… South African Indian Congress (SAIC) Executive met in Cape Town and pledged full support to the Passive Resistance … SAIC Executive meets in Cape Town …

… Victorian Gothic-style Clock Tower is an icon of the old Cape Town Harbour. It was the original Port Captain's Office … https://www.cape-town-heritage.co.za/heritage-site/clock-tower.html … Clocktower, Table Bay Harbour, Cape Town …

… (ODA) in partnership with the Shipwreck Museum, Cape Agulhas Municipality and Radio Overberg 98.4fm are … The 2014 Cape Agulhas Treasure Tracks …

… rebellion against the government and request help from the Cape, whereupon Leander Starr Jameson would lead a heavily … a shot. Rhodes, who had to resign as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony after the Raid, had lost the support of the … increasingly anti-imperial John X Merriman, now dominated Cape politics. Chamberlain was cleared of complicity by a …

… in 1961 at Rhodes University, Transkei (now Eastern Cape Province). Neame received a bursary to study at the … North End Prison in Port Elizabeth (now Gqeberha), Eastern Cape Province, where she was served with additional charges … that she had been living in Cape Town, Cape Province (now Western Cape), and White people were not yet allowed to be …

… Jan van Riebeeck brought the Reformed religion to the Cape and the practice of this religion played an important … church on our shores. The first Sunday service at the Cape was held on board on 14th April 1652. After settlers … little house, was enlarged to become one of the finest old Cape buildings, but was eventually demolished to widen …

… Nelson Mandela's address to rally in Cape Town on his release from prison …

… from the Workers' Party of South Africa, Johannesburg, to Cape Town comrades. …

… the Bantustan policy, were banished from Langa location in Cape Town, [Western Province, now Western Cape] on 23 October 1962. Hani, a ‘slight, …

… George Hallett was born in 1942   District Six , Cape Town. He then moved to Hout Bay, Cape Town to live with his grandparents. Thereafter he moved … A Photographic Journey | Helderberg Photographic Society | Western Cape, South Africa, 2009 Portraits of African …

… Gladys Thomas born was in 1935 in Salt River, Cape Town . She was adopted by a family in Lakeside, Cape Town in Western Cape as she was an orphan. She grew up in Lakeside, Cape Town, Western Cape with her foster parents until she was a …

… van Riebeeck set off from Texel in The Netherlands for the Cape of Good Hope. Van Riebeeck had signed a contract with … Van Riebeeck lands at the Cape …

… Malherbe was born on 28 May 1881 in Dal Josafat in the Cape Colony, to P. J. Malherbe, a founder of the Genootskap … to the Afrikaans novel and was set on a wine-farm in the Western Cape. It was vivid, again drawing from Malherbe’s own … life of a small community of fishermen in a coastal Western Cape village. The story centres on the inner life of …

… Robert Shell was born in Cape Town, South Africa on 13 February 1949, the only child … his undergraduate and Honours degrees at the University of Cape Town in 1973 and 1974 respectively, his Honours degree … at Stellenbosch. [vi] Within weeks, the University of the Western Cape (UWC) interviewed Robert for the position of …

… Mslaba “Dumile” Feni was born on 21 May 1942 in Worcester, Western Cape. His mother died when he was only five or six years old and he went to live with relatives in Cape Town until the age of eleven. He then began working for …

… of its pan-African vision. Leon Levy passed away in Cape Town, Western Cape Province, South Africa, on 31 January 2026. …

… a little Village just 37 km South of Porterville, at the Western entrance to the Nuwekloof Pass that links Tulbagh to … Gouda, Cape Winelands …

… the Martyr stands at the bottom of Parliament Street in Cape Town and was erected to provide a place of worship for … St George’s Anglican Cathedral, Cape Town …

… joined by a few thousand people from the Eastern Cape who hoped to find work in the Western Cape, started again in 1991/92 to set up their own … Masiphumelele is one of the smaller townships of the Western Cape. There is a lot of movement between families who …

… The South African National Archive has repositories in: Cape Town; Pretoria ; The Free State , in Bloemfontein . The Old Cape Archives, a National Monument and most prominent architectural landmark in Queen Victoria Street, Cape Town , has now been fully refurbished and restored as …

… Nelson Mandela’s address to Cape business leaders Cape Town, 24 March 1994 …

… (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 4, p. 424 … Fearon Fallows, first Astronomer Royal at the Cape, arrives in Cape Town. …