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PlaceSouth African National Archive in Cape Town
… The South African Archive is made up of records pertaining … The South African National Archive has repositories in: Cape Town; Pretoria ; The Free State ,…
EventThe University of South Africa is officially opened, replacing the University of the Cape of Good Hope.
… South Africa’s biggest University, the University of South Africa (Unisa) was officially opened on 2 March 1918. It had been known as the University of the…
About 600 students from five secondary schools march to Bontheuwel. On their way they are confronted by four riot squad vans. T
… About 600 students from five secondary schools march to Bontheuwel. On their way they are confronted …
BiographyJames la Guma
… Province). A trade unionist and political activist, was the elder of two children born to an itinerant cobbler, … James Mansfield, who lived in Parow on the…
EventFirst enslaved people arrive in Cape Town
… On 28 March 1658 the Dutch East India Company (VOC) ship the Amersfoort, … the beginning of almost 200 years of slave trade at the Cape. The Amersfoort was…
BiographyPitness (Stalwart) H. Simelane
… Pitness Simelane was born in 1910. He was a leader of the African National Congress in Natal in the 1950s. As a teacher in the 1930s he helped establish…
Cape Slave Naming Patterns by Robert Shell
… When Robert Semple visited Cape Town in 1804 he correctly noted the significance of the naming pattern for Cape Slave owners: It may here be observed that…
PlaceOld Town House, Greenmarket Square, Cape Town.
… As the town of Cape Town grew in size and sophistication, so … committee began to require a meeting place to discuss the affairs of the Burgher Council…
BiographyAmbrose Makiwane
… his enrollment. Makiwane got involved in politics and the labour movement after finishing high school but before … and people on the ground particularly in…
BiographySiyabonga “Bhele” Nomvethe
… where he played for Claremont Blizzard and Sabatha FC, the amateur clubs that saw him make his way to Johannesburg … his professional career. He joined…
PlaceKuGompo was called East London, Eastern Cape
… (Afrikaans-'Oos-Londen'), is a Port City is situated in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. It lies at the mouth of the … Harbour to service the…
ArchiveLetter from W P J Schmidt, Chief Director of the Western Cape Administration Board to the Secretary of the Ciskei Commission
… Letter from the Western Cape Administration Board to the Secretary of the … population statistics of the Xhosa people in the Western Cape, for the Ciskei…
PlaceRust en Vreugd, Buitenkant Street, Cape Town
… The original date of construction of the dwelling has not … its present form, by Willem Cornelis Boers, the notorious Cape Fiscal, who owned the estate…
ArchiveLetter from L C Koch, Chief Director of the East Cape Administration Board to the Secretary of the Ciskei Commission
… Letter from East Cape Administration Board to the Ciskei Commission, supplying population statistics of the Xhosa people residing in the Eastern Cape for a…
Baron Pieter van Rheede, appointed governor of the Cape who died at sea on his way to the Cape, is born in Utrecht, the Netherl
… Baron Pieter van Rheede, appointed governor of the Cape who died at sea on his way to the Cape, is born in Utrecht, the Netherl …
Cape Times reports that the Cape Town City Council has voted to reject the Group Areas Act of 1966 and to request that the enti
… Cape Times reports that the Cape Town City Council has voted to reject the Group Areas Act of 1966 and to request that the enti …
Sir George Napier becomes Governor of the Cape. The date of his arrival at the Cape is given as early in 1938 by Potgieter (19
… (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 8, p. 39. … Sir George Napier becomes Governor of the Cape. The date of his…
BiographyMduduzi Richard Shabalala
… Shabalala completed his primary and secondary education in the township. In 1982 Lamontville was one of first Black … his uncle, Joseph Masinga, who went…
BiographyAchmat Dangor
… where he grew up. He completed his secondary education at the Fordsburg Indian High School. He joined the Labour Party … Mattera . This group performed at…
EventThe Simelela Rape Survivors Centre in Cape Town reports on rape in Khayelitsha
… The Simelela Rape Survivors Centre in Cape Town reported that almost half of the rapes in Cape Town's Khayelitsha township involved girls under … Smart Cape …
EventDevastating storm hits Mount Ayliff, Eastern Cape
… left homeless, when a severe storm hit Mount Ayliff in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. The then Provincial Affairs … issued a statement saying…
PlaceWellington, Western Cape
… The picturesque town of Wellington is a scenic 45-minute drive from Cape Town . The train station is built on land donated to … to be brought into…
Say It out Loud - The 1906 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 2nd January, 1906
… From the book: Say It out Loud by Mohamed Adhikari The 1906 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 2nd January, 1906 1 Dr Abdurahman rose to deliver … fairly…
BiographyRobert Tunsi
… Tunsi was born in 1914. He was a businessman and he joined the African National Congress (ANC) in 1937. He was chairman of the committee which built the…
State of the Nation Address by His Excellency Jacob G Zuma on the occasion of the Joint Sitting of Parliament, Cape Town, 12 February 2015
… of the Constitution in every school. From this year, schools must also practise the African Union anthem, in … success fills us with immense pride. I would…
ArchiveHow a slave from Mauritius led a rebellion in Cape Town by Nigel Worden (Ground Up), 30 March 2016
… In this drawing of Greenmarket Square in Cape Town in 1764, a slave in chains appears to be driven by a master on the left side of the image. Some four…
BiographyMtutuzeli Dudu Pukwana
… on 18 July 1938 in Walmer Township in Port Elizabeth . The young Pukwana grew up studying the piano at his home and … Pukwana met musician Chris Macgregor…
Say It out Loud - The 1923 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 3rd April, 1923
… From the book: Say It out Loud by Mohamed Adhikari The 1923 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 3rd April, 1923 1 Two years have gone by since our … prevent…
ArchiveIntroduction to the Labour position in the Western Cape: a short historial survey
… The Black Sash … Introduction to the Labour position in the Western Cape: a short historial survey …
Hendrik Becker (61), commissioner at the Cape, dies in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
… Hendrik Becker (61), commissioner at the Cape, dies in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. …