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PlaceWelgelegen Homestead, next to Mosterts Mill
… who then established a Farm he named Welgelegen. After his death the estate changed hands a number of times until … the end of the 18th century by either…
PlaceParow
… for the Captain. Parow died on 4 December 1910 , in his house in Cassibelle, Maitland. His wife, JW Timmerman, died ten years prior. They did not …
ArchiveWorld Press Photo Exhibition 84
… with red Arabic writing on it. Small photo of man on his chest. Grey poster with black lettering. …
EventRadical politician, journalist, teacher and co-founder of the African National Congress (ANC) branch in Cape Town, James Thaele passes away
… He was born in Basutoland (Lesotho) in 1888. Thaele lost his ANC Western Cape leadership position to A.V. Coto in the …
Freedom In Our Life Time by Anton Muziwakhe Lembede
… Cultural Activities Tributes to Lembede After His Death Note Bibliography …
ArchiveNatal and the 1960 Republican Referendum
… of History, University of Natal, 1990. The author focusses his research with an interest in "secessionism" and the …
ArchiveImperialist conspiracy in Africa
… political events in South Africa, covering eleven years of his exile from 1963 to 1974, in keeping the flow of the …
ArchiveExcerpts from long interview given by President O R Tambo to Associated Press correspondent, Mr Nicky Hanks on 7th June 1980 in Lusaka
… 1980 in Lusaka. Discusses actions of Gatsha Buthelezi and his stance on school boycotts, malnutrition in South Africa …
EventButhelezi boycotts first session of CODESA
… leader of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), announced his intention not to attend the first session of CODESA. He …
EventAfrikaans linguist H J Terblanche is born
… language. He died on 23 March 1977 and shortly afterwards his autobiography, Jare van Storm en Drang , was published a …
EventLord Kitchener And Louis Botha engage in doomed peace talks during the Second Anglo-Boer War
… came to nothing, resulting in Kitchener changing his military tactics and setting up barbed wire and block …
EventOscar Pistorius South African sprint runner is born
… which is a congenital absence of the fibular in both legs. His legs were amputated below the knee when he was eleven …
ArchiveDon listen to the evil talk of the troublema
… first half of title, showing man with snakes coming out of his mouth and boys listening to him. Artwork on right hand …
PlaceNamaqualand
… The first civil commissioner was appointed in 1860. He had his seat at Komaggas which is 40 km South-West of Springbok … 1852, Sir James Alexander made an…
Address by Nelson Mandela to the closing session of the 50th National Conference of the ANC Mafikeng, 20 December 1997
… of its people is appreciation, first and foremost, of the work of the ANC. In the early years when I was all green and … with the people. During that period,…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the workshop for Human Rights Education Durban, 21 September 1994
… system has come under criticism, including by members of his workshop. We have noted the proposal for the … tasks. I merely wish to encourage you in your…
My Spirit Is Not Banned - PART 4 by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… belongs to them, and there is nobody who can claim it as his own. South Africa belongs to the people of South Africa, … We women have pledged from the outset…
EventSouth African cricket player Jonathan ‘Jonty’ Rhodes is born
… Kwazulu Natal) on 27 July 1969. Better known as “Jonty”, his diving run-out of Pakistani’s Inzamam-ul-Haq during the …
PlaceKruger chairs (Die twee Krugerstoele) in the Paul Kruger Church (Geref. Kerkgebou) in Church Street, Pretoria West.
… in Pretoria . This church still has the chairs Paul and his Wife used to sit on during services, with the same Dutch …
EventManne Dipico resigns from parliament
… Dipico, resigned from the National Assembly to concentrate his effort on the upcoming local elections scheduled for 1 …
EventSouth Africa will subscribe to the UDHR
… inaugurated state president, Nelson Mandela, announced in his first State of the Nation Address to Parliament that …
EventSouth African Cricketer, Dave Nourse ,is born in England
… country. A bowler and left- handed bats man, Nourse made his first-class cricket debut for natal two years later. …
ArchiveAre there South Africans? by Sir Keith Hancock
… delivered by Sir Keith Hancock in which the title of his talk questions the integrative or disintegrative trend of …
ArchiveBiography of Naphtali Mbuti Nkopane
… August 1944 on a farm near Nigel in the Transvaal. In 1949 his family moved to Evaton in the Vaal, in August 1984 …
EventForeign Affairs Deputy Minister Pahad is born
… 1985. A banning order was served on him, which restricted his movements and prevented him from attending public …
EventNeil Aggett dies in detention
… person to die in detention since 1963. At the time of his untimely death, he was 28 years old. …
EventKing Hassan II of Morocco dies
… hospital in Rabat. Hassan's death was announced by his son and successor Crown Prince Sidi Mohammed on national …
ArchiveClothing Workers Union: we demand jobs and a living wage for all
… the poor of this world to be rich in faith and to inherit His kingdom? He promised those who loved Him? Is it not the …
PlaceStellenberg, Stellenberg Avenue, Kenilworth
… Vogel in 1697 but it was almost immediately transferred to his youngest son, Frans van der Stel, on extremely favourable … settle at the Cape, who was known…
PlaceKronendal, Main Road, Hout Bay.
… in a blue top, grey pinafore and a bonnet. He remarked to his wife: “What a funny hat that woman is wearing.” He … and had dressed up to play a practical…