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Say It out Loud - The Coloured People and the Franchise, 1906
… From the book: Say It out Loud by Mohamed Adhikari The Coloured People and the Franchise , … the introduction of Self Government. It has now been shown by a…
Say It out Loud - The 1935 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 2nd January, 1935
… From the book: Say It out Loud by Mohamed Adhikari The 1935 Presidential Address, Cape Town, … the Union after 1902, was violently disrupted in 1910 by that…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 9
… Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community by C. H. Calpin Kajee was always acutely aware that his Congress was not recognised officially by…
Chapter XIV - End of an era
… From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph I drove back alone to Johannesburg, to my … the same family, and to forbid publication of statements by banned…
EventAndre Botha, South Africa’s bodyboarding champion saves a life
… On 8 December 2015, Andre rescued an American surfer by the name of Evan Geiselmann from drowning whilst surfing … wipeout.[iv] Video footage showed Andre…
PlaceBotshabelo
… Society's influence spread throughout the Transvaal. By 1900 there were more than thirty six stations and nearly … bible in Sepedi or North Sotho. The…
PlaceAlgoa Bay, East Coast of Cape of Good Hope
… Old name for Algoa Bay was Angra da Roca named in 1488, by Bartolomeu Dias when he was the first European to land … Coast of the Cape of Good Hope. It is…
ArchiveStatement Celebrating Ten Years of Democracy, ANC Chief Whip Nkosinathi Nhleko, 10 May 2004, Parliament Cape Town South Africa
… celebrations of the First Decade of Freedom. The objection by DA and ID to Mr FW De Klerk addressing the Joint Sitting … These parties allow their judgment…
PlaceFirst & Second River Temple's
… Hindu Temple that was built in Africa. It was washed away by floods in 1905 / 1906. Another Temple was built on the … East towards the Umbilo River, however…
PlaceCasa Labia,198 Main Road, Muizenberg
… of a Venetian palazzo. The property was bought in 1939 by Princess Ida Labia. It was declared a National Monument … conference centre and music venue. The…
PlaceLeeuwenhof, Official Residence of the Premier of Cape Town
… stands on the slope of Table Mountain. It is reached by an avenue of oaks that leads off Hof Street where the road makes a bend. Partly hidden by high pine…
PlaceKing’s Blockhouse, Devil’s Peak, Cape Town.
… line of defence, known as the French line , was extended by the addition of three blockhouses up the slopes of Devil's … Memorial and hike up the trail. You…
PlaceMalay Quarter, Cape Town
… piece of land but this has been restricted over the years by incursions from commercial development and the threat of … brought to the Cape began to make…
PlaceBo-Kaap Museum
… at the Bo-Kaap Museum, this 20-minute Audio Tour is guided by Shereen Habib, who has served as a guide for over twenty … a nineteenth-Century Muslim family …
PlaceGreat Brak Rivier
… The village of Great Brak Rivier was founded by Charles Searle, an English paper-mill hand who, together … to prosper and soon expanded their business…
PlaceComoros
… Ahmed Abdallah Abderemane was removed from government by foreign mercenaries and three years later he returned to power by force. In 1989 rebel groups…
EventViolence erupts during Defiance Campaign
… the riots followed after a Black person was shot dead by a railway policeman on the New Brighton railway station. … planned acts of defiance of unjust laws…
EventSir Abe Bailey, Rand mine magnate, dies.
… worked as a stock broker and financial agent in Barberton. By 1894, he had become the head of the Bailey Group of gold … (now Zimbabwe), and was therefore…
EventDonald James Wood journalist and Anti apartheid activists is born
… the ideology of separate development he entered politics by joining the Federal Party. In 1957 he contested for a … Dispatch. He integrated black, colored…
EventPetronella Nellie du Toit South African soprano singer is born
… Toit began her singing career at tender age of nine, and by the age of sixteen she began to sing opera. After … music in South Africa in 1976. In 1980 Nellie…
EventUDF activist Toto Dweba’s mutilated body is found
… Dweba's uncle, police officer Maxwell Dweba, was contacted by the Empangeni police station and told to fetch his … Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)…
EventHundreds of thousands of people killed as tsunamis devastate large swathes of South and Southeast Asia, coming as far as South Africa
… Lanka, South India and Thailand were also hit very hard by the tsunami. States of emergency were declared in Sri … mentioned above, many other countries were…
EventThe Rand Revolt breaks out
… The end of World War I was followed by a global depression that affected South Africa as well. … employment of Black workers in positions previously held by…
EventNavanethem (Navi) Pillay is born
… After completing her degree she commenced her legal career by doing her articles in Durban under the guidance of … activists from different political…
EventField Marshal Lord Roberts is appointed British supreme commander in South Africa
… and sent him to South Africa. Roberts, accompanied by Lord Kitchener, arrived in South Africa early in 1900. … had been going. To ensure Roberts succeeded,…
PlaceAddo Drift, Sunday's River in the Eastern Cape
… encountered inland from the sea, and was frequently used by visitors travelling from the coast into the South African … hands at least three more times until…
EventMalawi voters take part in the first multiparty election in three decades
… political offences at one time or another during his rule. By 1992, Banda's grip had begun to weaken. External pressure, including threats by aid donors…
The Lusaka Years: The ANC in Exile in Zambia, 1963 to 1994
… and oral sources, the book, which is also informed by participant observation, provides a vivid account of this … government and the transition from…
PlaceOliewenhuis Art Museum
… first floor and is devoted exclusively to works produced by South African artists. It has a solid foundation of early … art museums in the country…
2. Moothen pleads for his wife to be returned
… A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai Moothen had the … whom I am married to for upwards of twenty-four…