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PlaceKing’s Blockhouse, Devil’s Peak, Cape Town.
… but the King's Blockhouse, a massive stone structure 7m square, located on a prominent point on the Devil's Peak, was …
PlaceThe Fountain and Garden of Remembrance, Chatswood-Sydney. Willoughby Park Centre
… from the Western end of nearby Chatswood Park in 1952. The square upper canopy is supported by carved Corinthian columns …
ArticleCode Name Rae book launch soon
Rajaluxmi Pillay (also known as Rajes) was born in 1944 in Pietermaritzburg and grew up in Kimberley. She studied in Britain between 1963 and 1966, before…
The National Anthem
… Reverend JL Dube's Ohlange Zulu Choir. It became a popular church hymn that was later adopted as an anthem at political …
ArchiveThe 16th of December in South Africa by Wolfram Kistner
… proposed in 1869 to the synod of the Dutch Reformed Church that the battle of Blood River should be annually … celebration of December 16 as a day of the…
ArticlePan Africanist Congress timeline 1959-2011
… hand themselves over to the police for arrest at Caledon Square. Leaders of the march are detained and released on the … Members of APLA opened fire on a…
District Six: 3,000 ex-residents on land claims waiting list by Diana Mellow (GroundUp), 23 September 2016
… African, and coloured neighbours as a child. “I went to church with my neighbours because my friends used to go with … groups in reaction. The Anglican…
Islam
… Muslims see at as the centre of the world. It is a large square building that is covered in black cloth embroidered …
ArticleFreedom Charter timeline 1948-1961
… centres. Dr Moroka addresses 50 000 people in Freedom Square Fordsburg 26 June, Defiance Campaign launched. Groups …
Bibliography: Missionary settlement in southern Africa
… Press. M'CARTER, Rev John. 1869. The Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa: An Historical Sketch. Edinburgh: W … Statistical Survey of the World Mission of…
PlaceRandjieslaagte Beacon, Parktown, Johannesburg
… site Randjeslaagte, the area of the town was nine square km. Randjeslaagte was a piece of ‘uitvalgrond’ – land … the East to Ntembi Pilisio Street in the…
PlaceNgema Tribal Trust, Mpumalanga
Ngema Tribal Trust falls under the, Mkhondo Local Municipality Gert, in Sibande District of Mpumalanga , South Africa . The Area of Ngema Tribal Trust is 79.61…
ArticleThe Freedom Charter by Norman Levy
… of the COP campaign was taken up by women: ANC members, church congregants, trade unionists and housewives attended … need for an open-ended document,…
Remembering the enslaved in Cape Town by Sam North
… the ‘Memorial to the Enslaved’ installed by the City at Church Square in 2008 created more angst than it provided closure. …
South African and World leaders
… turned them away, but they sang ‘Nkosi Sikele i’Afrika’ in Church Square in Pretoria in solidarity and mourning. For her … apartheid. Beyers Naudé, a…
PlaceWinnie Mandela Drive, Johannesburg
… land. They were consolidated into open land of 12 thousand square meters. The site was laid out as the new road would … and sidewalk cafés, excellent…
ArticleBantu education and the racist compartmentalizing of education
… all the mission schools closed down. The Roman Catholic Church was largely alone in its attempt to keep its schools …
ArticlePolokwane/Pietersburg Timeline 1835-1995
… victory in elections. 1925 Formation of Zion Christian Church Afrikaans becomes an official language together with …
ArticleThe Transkei
… else, the missionaries, most of them from the Wesleyan Church, exercised great influence over the principal Chiefs. …
Learning about local history through pictures
… like the Old Slave Lodge Museum, Groote Kerk (the oldest church in South Africa) and the Company Gardens. It has also …
PlaceAlbertynhof, Kimberley
… the Poor and Relief and Secretary of the Dutch Reformed Church in Transvaal and 1949 to 1956 Secretary of the Federal … (1945-'47), he wrote a published…
PlaceParsonage House Museum, Port Elizabeth
… Elizabeth and was built by Rev Francis McClelland of the Church of England, who arrived in 1820 with the Irish party … the Governor of the Cape granted him…
EventSimon Petros Matseke, prominent in African social and political life, dies in Pretoria
… As a devout Christian, Matseke was active in the Lutheran Church, but later joined the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AMEC) in which he serves as…
PlaceFirst Raadsaal
… school building north of the Orange River. It served as a church until 1852, and was then used by the Legislative … housed until 1915, after which it was…
PlacePhilippi
… uncovered section of the Cape Flats Aquifer - a 630 square kilometre underground water system, most of which is …
PlaceCape Floral Areas, Western Province
… extremity of South Africa. It measures nearly 90,000 square kilometers ! It is one of the world’s great centres …
Resolution of the Executive Committee of the AAC, February 15, 1936 46
… 00. We shall be better away from the vicinity of Marshall Square. Bill (Rostion?) is delighted to be getting into a …
Keynote address on the launch of Mafika Gwala’s Collected Poems Howard College, UKZN, 6 October 2016 by Mandla Langa
… some able-bodied worshippers belonging to the Ethiopian Church (Ibandla laseTopiya), to start a great trek to … Himalaya or any of the watering holes dotting…
PlacePhiladelphia
… a portion of his land to the local brethran to build a Church. This is possibly why Philadelphia, meaning love of … weekend breakaway. Dominating the town is…
PlacePiquetberg
… of whom 6,894 were literate In 1833 the Dutch Reformed Church constituted a parish in the district of Piquetberg. … Grootfontein for the purpose of…