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EventThe first Cape to Rio yacht race takes place
… the South African challenge. Unfortunately she sheared a main rudder post early in the race. The 3 600 nautical mile …
EventSomerset concludes a treaty with Ngqika (aka Gaika)
… power and died a few years later. Ngqika then became the main chief over the Xhosa west of the Kei River. He promised …
EventThe Angolan government announces a unilateral ceasefire
… elections. Many Angolans felt that Savimbi had been the main protagonist of the war and that his death meant a …
PlaceRed Location Museum
… of struggle in South Africa. The boxes are housed in the main exhibition space and each box is 6 meter by 6 meter and … http://artefacts.co.za/main/Buildings…
The Polly Street Era
… students, intellectuals and theologians from the late 1960s and the resultant theatrical and literary art forms … to reflect social reality, and the…
ArchiveAt the Pompidou by Jeremy Harding, 26 April 2018
… By the time he turned to photography for a living in the 1960s, Johannesburg, the gold rush capital, had more than two … in his studies of Some Afrikaners,…
Doing Oral History
… It is located alongside the R103, which used to be the main road to Johannesburg. It is typical of many places in … The tenants did not farm but worked in…
Article16 June 1976 - Soweto Uprising
… Expenditure on Bantu Education increased from the late 1960s, once the apartheid Nationalist government saw the need … read on Down with Afrikaans Countdown…
"Strategy and Tactics" - Statement adopted by the ANC at the Morogoro Conference, April-May 1969 (abridged)
… of these regimes built with the help of imperialism. The main pillar of the unholy alliance of Portugal, Rhodesia and … on the basis of absolute democracy…
Term 1:THE HUNTER GATHERERS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA
… Other bands believed that the healing came from the main god. … painting shows a San figure gaining great power from his main god. The San were said to use…
ArticleThe turbulent 1950s - Women as defiant activists
… Subsequently Johannesburg and Cape Town were to become the main FSAW centres. An energetic, skilled organiser who had … intimidation, and the banning of…
Enuga S Reddy: Notes on meeting with Dr. Cassim Jadwat -1997
… South Africa. [He moved to the United States in the early 1960s(?)] 1920s As a child I heard Mrs. Sarojini Naidu speak …
Chaskalson transcended his bias and loyalties by Tony Leon, 4 December 2012
… Party (SACP) drew attention to the fact that, in the 1960s and 1970s, Chaskalson was "an underground member of the …
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 2 (2001-2022)
… There are a number of further reflections contained this chronology which can be added to those mentioned in Part 1. …
EventThe Black People’s Convention (BPC) holds its first National Congress
… Kgware was elected as the BPC's first president. The main theme of the Congress was that Black people were …
PlaceRoyal baFokeng Stadium
… Seating Capacity was increased from 38 000 to 42 000, the Main West Stand was expanded and renovated, a new cantilever …
PlaceBoys High School, Pretoria
… Boys High Coat of Arms Its neoclassical red-brick style main school buildings date from 1909, maintaining provincial …
PlaceCity Hall, Pretoria
… and is decorated with large paintings. The massive main auditorium has a large stage and can accommodate …
PlacePolokwane Game Reserve
… reserves in South Africa, the Polokwane Game Reserve’s main attraction must be the amount of ground one can cover on …
EventAlbert Luthuli is elected as an ANC President
… South Africans, it became known as the ANC in 1923, and it main aim was to seek the political, social and economic …
EventUS Secretary of State Colin Powell is heckled by activists on the closing day of the World Summit.
… - nobody was silent." The Johannesburg Declaration was the main outcome of the Summit. Critics dismissed it as lacking …
PlaceGrey Street Complex
… Municipal boundaries. The area took its name from the main street, named after Sir George Grey, the British …
PlaceBoksburg, the Witwatersrand
… of the South African Republic, W. Eduard Bok. The Main Reef Road linked Boksburg to other major mining towns on …
EventWayne Ferreira was born on this day
… Ferreira founded a the Wayne Ferreira Trust Fund, with the main aim of financially supporting young South African tennis …
PlaceAmatikulu, a Nature Reserve in Kwa-Zulu Natal
… River. The 4 x 4 trail in the Amatikulu is probably the main attraction and even sedans can manage the initial part …
EventCourt verdict made on the sinking of the SS Mendi
… Darro that ultimately caused the sinking of the Mendi. The main witnesses in the investigation were the masters of the …
PlaceOld Town House, Greenmarket Square, Cape Town.
… decided to establish a fire brigade for the town, with its main station next to Greenmarket Square. A vacant lot facing …
PlaceThree Anchor Bay
… along the edge of the lawns on the Seaside Walkway. The main reason for staying in the pretty Bay of the City is the …
PlaceElim
… which dominates the village, lie on the axis of the main road! …
EventDelagoa Bay railway line is officially opened
… in Natal and the Cape. Subsequent to discovery of the main gold reef on the Rand in 1886 the matter gained even …