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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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
PlacePearston, Eastern Cape-Karoo
… Karoo, had its origins as a parish of the Dutch Reformed Church. Since 1850 parishioners would gather in the shade of … Casper Lotter, to celebrate communion…
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…
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 …
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 …
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. …
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. …
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 …
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,…
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…
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…
PlaceWarden, Thabo Mofutsanyana Municipality
… 2013). There is a larger than most Dutch Reformed Church (seating as many as 1750 people at a time), and lies … road has been recently upgraded. Its stone…
PlaceClermont, a Township of Durban
… one can see the women of each denomination wearing their church uniforms with pride. Today it is a well known for … named after his wife Christiaane. In 1867…