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PlacePacaltsdorp
… Post Office was built in 1971, today it is home to the George Municipalities Areas Office. … Pacalt, Johanna Anderson (wife of Rev…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 1: World War II (1939 - 1945)
… Malaya, Singapore, and Burma. A Marine of the 1st Marine Division draws a bead on a Japanese sniper with his tommy-gun as his companion ducks for cover. The…
ArticleThe role of gender in Ndebele architecture
… into an area for the woman and one for the man. This division, being the subject of "left hand" and "right hand" … "hot", most particularly where two women…
ArchiveSteve Mokone: the striker who broke the apartheid barrier
… his schooling first. And so it was Coventry, of the Third Division (South) - then the fourth tier of English football - … were not necessarily the most…
EventPolice open fire to disperse a rioting crowd in Cato Manor, Durban
… centre of Durban; it was named after Durban’s first mayor, George Christopher Cato. The area has a remarkably rich …
PlaceGrey Institute/School, Port Elizabeth
… During the 1850s Sir George Grey, Governor of the Cape from 1854-61, played a …
EventSolomon Kalushi Mahlangu is born
… of severe brain damage. The third member of the group, George Mahlangu, managed to escape. His final words are …
EventPolitical activists seek refuge in the British Consulate in Durban
… of the United Democratic Front (UDF), Mewa Ramgobin, George Sewpersahd, M.J. Naidoo, Billy Nair and Paul David …
EventBotha found Guilty
… George Magistrate Victor Lugaju found former President P.W. …
EventFormer South African Prime Minister, P.W Botha, dies
… by his second wife Barbara. Botha was discharged from the George Medi-Clinic two weeks ago, after he went in for a …
EventSir Harry Smith, governor of the Cape, dies in London
… He was recalled from South Africa in 1852 and replaced by George Cathcart. After leaving South Africa, Sir Harry …
ArticleLand, Labour and Apartheid
… invented the idea of separate homelands that emphasized division and difference between the different tribes in South …
Apartheid - A Crime Against Humanity: The Unfolding of Total Strategy 1948-1989
… of the liberation movements. Another example was the Division for Strategic Communications, a sub-structure of the …
ArticleThe Influenza epidemic
… relatives. The Commissioner of Police of the Transkei Division stated in his annual report for 1918 that The …
Conflict among civic organisations
… cohesion in their struggles. Another example of this division was highlighted in the formation of the Disorderly …
ArticleNew identities and the construction of heritage
… to create a new national identity from a divided legacy of division and discrimination. However, we continue to be …
PlaceTulbagh, Western Cape
… 1896 its Northern Districts were separated to form the new division of Vanrhynsdorp. With the exception of the Olifant's River Valley , the division was…
PlacePomeroy- Solomon Linda
… The original Town name of Pomeroy- was derived after Sir George Pomeroy-Colley who led the ill-fated British force … 1867 in memory of James Henry Hamilton…
PlaceKnysna Lagoon, Garden Route- Western Province
… housing and ship building by the Dutch colonists . When George Rex a Timber Merchant, from Cape Town arrived in the … to transport the timber by sea and…
ArticleThe Empty Land Myth
… has a number of proponents in some Afrikaner communities. George M. Theal, 1890s Source In the 1890s, the renowned South African historian George McCall…
EventSouth African President Thabo Mbeki hails Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf for making history by becoming Africa's first elected woman president in post-war elections
… old Harvard-educated technocrat, defeated football legend George Weah who secured only 40,6% of the votes. Though …
PlaceNzhelele Nature Reserve
… The superior administrative division is Vhembe District Municipality, Limpopo, South …
Grassroots
… the oppressed communities of Oudtshoorn, Mossel Bay, George, Ladismith, Swellendam, Calitzdorp and many other …
EventThe 104mm field-gun known as ‘Long Cecil’ is test fired for the first time
… The 104mm field-gun designed by American George Labram and manufactured in the De Beers workshop in …
EventFirst postage stamp in Africa is issued in the Cape Colony
… was a unique design for a stamp during this period. Sir George Cathcart, Governor at the Cape at the time, had …
EventSANDF soldiers strike
… attention by President Nelson Mandela who ordered General George Meiring to look into their grievances. However, …
ArticleThe Daily Dispatch
… in South Africa. Furthermore, under the leadership of George Farr, the newspaper donned a new header in lower case …
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Support from persons and Organisation - 1947
… that those South African Indians who seek to create a division will do harm to themselves and to the great cause of …
EventRioting and destruction in Cato Manor and Durban continues
… people arrived in the area. In 1957 the apartheid spatial division of races further affected living areas. The …
EventThe fall of the fortress town of Tobruk
… the units taken prisoner were the Second South African Division that comprised of more than 25 000 men and made up a …