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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…
PlaceCompensation, Settlement near Durban
… Compensation got its name from Compensation Farm acquired by Edmund Morewood in 1849, where in 1851 he produced the … from Reunion Island. This Are was…
EventFirst celebration of International Women’s Day
… Women's Day. It has become an occasion marked by women's groups around the world. This day is also … On this day, South Africa remembers the role played by…
PlaceColesberg, Northern Cape
… The settlement was laid out about a central axis dominated by the Dutch Reformed church, and its dwellings were … more arid regions of the Cape. Residents…
EventSuppression of Communism Act, No. 44 of 1950 approved in Parliament
… industrial, social or economic change in the Union by the promotion of disturbances or disorder, by unlawful acts or omissions or by the threat of such acts…
PlaceSt George’s Anglican Cathedral, Cape Town
… featuring six stone Pillars whose places are marked today by Oak Trees on the Cathedral steps. It opened at Christmas … to see it being Built. The Current…
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…