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PlaceCarnarvon District, Karoo
… of the Karroo, and because of its semi-arid nature, its main economic activities were of a pastoral nature. The …
EventThe Johannesburg International Airport is officially renamed OR Tambo International Airport by President Mbeki.
… OR Tambo Airport is South Africa’s main airport for domestic and international flights. It is …
EventElectric lights are installed in Adderley Street, Cape Town.
… its first electric lights installed. Today the street is a main attraction for tourists in Cape Town. It is in close …
ArchiveApartheid - a vigilant witness
… been seen. His contribution remains an indispensable chronology of the struggle against apartheid of that period. … media. Around at the time but to emerge…
PlaceRondebosch
… Shopping Area, a small Business District as well as the Main Campus of the University of Cape Town . The leafy Suburb … lie in the Centre of the Suburb,…
ArchiveConclusion by Howard Barrell
… actually changed between 1976 and 1986 - indeed, from the 1960s. Vula would be the final attempt by the ANC - or, more … struggle, particularly the disaster…
CHAPTER 10 - CONCLUSION
… actually changed between 1976 and 1986 - indeed, from the 1960s. Vula would be the final attempt by the ANC - or, more … struggle, particularly the disaster…
Liberation organisations
… Theology, which originated in Latin America in the 1960s, became popular in the 1980s. The Christian message was … leader, Martin Luther King, an activist in…
PlaceAlicedale a Village in Albany District
… name is: 'EQora' Alicedale is a Railway Junction, on the main Railway Line between Johannesburg and Port Elizabeth. …
EventInternational Labour Organisation and UN meet over apartheid in SA
… United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid. The main aim was discuss the South African situation and what …
Fortieth Anniversary of the 1946 Mine Strike
… as an alternative to compound life. They were, in the main, men who understood nothing of the cities, which lay … product (16% of the total national income)…
Community histories of Rustenburg
… a long life, and passed away at the age of 102 in the 1960s. The main street in Rustenburg was named after her in the 1990s. …
Afrikaner
… authors and poets contributed to every genre and in the 1960s protest literature was published, criticising the … began with the “Groot Trek”. Around this…
From Segregation to Apartheid
… 1930s continued after World War II and into the 1950s and 1960s. What was seen as backward and uneconomic methods of …
ArticleBlack Consciousness and student revolt in the Cape
… crackdown on political organizations in the early 1960s, new organizations emerged to fill the political …
ArticleTransvaal Indian Youth Congress (TIYC)
… in the armed struggle, prison and exile life Early in the 1960s, TIYC leaders like Ahmed Kathrada played a critical …
ArchiveApartheid under siege, 1984-1988: actions and reactions
… between actions and reactions that arose between the main protogonists during the political upheavals of 1984-1988 …
EventPolitical activist Mohammed Shaik is born
… and was involved in sabotage operations until 1988. His main targets were government buildings, economic …
EventSA cross-border raid in Maputo kills several
… the South African forces as Joe Slovo, one of the raid's main targets, and was shot at a roadblock. Numbers of people …
EventFormer Springbok captain Bobby Skinstad is born
… http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2006/11/14/srmysp14.xml …
EventTraditional Bushman artist Vetkat Regopstaan Kruiper, aged 38, dies suddenly from natural causes
… Vetkat had many artistic skills including music. His main passion however was for the veld and animals. Despite …
EventPieter Jacobs Marais reports discovery of gold
… met with some success. The discovery of the Witwatersrand Main Reef by the two brothers H.W. and F.P.T. Struben in …
PlaceBattle of Muizenburg Monument, Muizenburg
… ball to be found was when they recently resurfaced the Main Road just in front of the Posthuys building. … fort at Muizenberg but were repelled. In the…
PlaceRiverside Mosque and Mausoleum, Umgeni, Durban
… Indian Ocean, and built a humble wood and iron House. The main Builder was an Italian. When the Musjid, was completed, … The Dawakhana (Clinic) was situated…
PlaceMiddle Campus, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch
… and Lower Campuses together are often referred to as the 'main campus' The Campus as it stands today was laid out by …
EventJosiah Mutabuzi Isaya Kibira is the first African to be elected president of the LWF
… commitment to the cause of the ecumenical movement, the main building at the headquarters of the All Africa …
EventMass arrests in Pondoland
… primary responsibility for dealing with the revolt. The main tool used was mass detentions. Statements made to the …
EventAfrican leaders issue a call for African unity
… solution to their challenges was the unification of the main African political organisations into the All African …
EventSA Prime Minister H. F. Verwoerd stabbed to death
… Parliamentarian Service Officer Dimitri Tsafendas stabs main architect of apartheid Prime Minister H.F. Verwoed to …
EventKuruman missionary Robert Moffat is born
… of Kuruman. The Moffats returned to Britain in 1870. The main achievement of Moffat was translating the Bible into …