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PlaceRugby Museum, V & A Waterfront, Cape Town
… The Rugby Museum has one of the largest private collections of rugby memorabilia and is one of its kind in the world, a must-see for rugby fans, the…
BiographyJoyce Patricia Nokhuthula Khoza
… Born 1945, Groutville. In 1967 she attended the Teachers’ Training Course, Adam’s College, Amanzimtoti; in 1969 she took the Special course in Arts and…
BiographyJustice Gizenga Mpanza
… arrived in Durban in 1954, he went to Lakhani House, where the trade union offices where situated. Here he met Stephen Dlamini who was holding discussions…
BiographyDr. Neville Edward Alexander
… Neville Edward Alexander was the first of six children of Dimbiti Bisho Alexander, a … James Alexander, a carpenter. It was in the rural Eastern Cape that…
PlaceAan de Doorns, Western Cape
… The name is Dutch for 'at the thorns'. A Settlement situated just 8 km from Worcester on the R 43 to Villliersdorp. Aan de Doorns has one of the … /gecko…
EventRiots erupt in East London, Eastern Cape
… Riots erupted in East London, Eastern Cape after strike meetings were banned by the government. 17 protesters were killed, as well as an Irish Nun who was…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Freedom Day celebrations, Bisho Stadium, Eastern Cape, 27 April 2007
… of Arts and Culture, Pallo Jordan, Premier of the Eastern Cape, Nosimo Balindlela, Ministers and Deputy Ministers, … and the police to form and strengthen…
PlaceAll Saints Mission, Eastern Cape
… An Anglican Mission in the Xuka River valley, 4 km East of Ngcobo. Established in 1860-61 by Rev. John Gordon, named thus because the Land on which it was…
BiographyTeboho MacDonald “Tsietsi” Mashinini
… 1957 in Central Western Jabavu, Soweto. Mashinini was the second son of Ramothibi, a lay preacher in the Methodist … demonstration.They were joined by…
BiographyOliver Kgadime Matsepe
… on 22 March 1932 in Tafelkop, Groblersdal district. He was the son of Malua Matsepe, senior police sergeant and the grandson of Chief Bloeu of the Kopa tribe…
PlaceMiddle Campus, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch
… The Upper, Middle and Lower Campuses together are often referred to as the 'main campus' The Campus as it stands today was laid out … when the South African…
PlaceAMabele, Eastern Cape Railway Station
… 14km South-East of Stuterheim on route to Kei Road. The name is of Xhosa origin and refers to the AmaBhele clan. … AMabele, Eastern Cape Railway Station …
PlaceBree Street 173, Cape Town
… The two-storey building with cast-iron balcony dates from the late 19th century and houses a number of commercial … Bree Street 173, Cape Town …
BiographyChristopher Ndodebandla Dlamini
… was born in Benoni, Transvaal, on 10 October 1944, one of the five children of Anna and Gilbert Dlamini, a worker in an … of elected students' representative…
The mayor of Cape Town, Hyman Lieberman, opens the large synagogue in the city.
… The mayor of Cape Town, Hyman Lieberman, opens the large synagogue in the city. …
The British government again restricts the Cape Colony to the old Fish River boundary.
… D.W. (ed)(1972). Dictionary of South African Biography, Cape Town: Human Sciences Research Council, v. 3, p. 685 … The British government again restricts the…
The Promise of the Impossible Revolution: The Cape Town Industrial Socialist League, 1918 - 1921
… The Promise of the Impossible Revolution: The Cape Town Industrial Socialist League, 1918 - 1921 …
EventNearly 200 People are killed in the Bulhoek massacre in the Eastern Cape
… prophet Enoch Mgijima , more than 180 people were killed. The battle started after police issued an ultimatum demanding that the Israelites evacuate land…
BiographyTerry Bell
… 1961 Joe Gqabi recruited him “briefly and in error” into the then recently banned African National Congress (ANC). He subsequently joined the Congress of…
BiographyMichael Matlala
… Limpopo Province] in June 1953, to haMatonzi near the Shingwedzi area of the Kruger National Park. However, since they indicated … Secondary School, and…
BiographyProfessor Kader Abdul Asmal
… Kader Abdul Asmal was born on 8th of October in 1934, in the small rural town of Stanger, KwaZulu Natal (then Natal). … Professor of Human Rights at the…
ArchiveIn 1986 there were 153,000 empty white school places: In 1986 there was a shortage of 193,000 places in black schools.
… In 1986 there was a shortage of 193,000 places in black schools. …
BiographyDr. Hans Merensky
… was born on 16 March 1871 in Botshabelo. His father was the famous missionary and writer, Alexander Merensky. Hans … a new house on his farm he donated money…
BiographyGriffiths Mlungisi Mxenge
… Griffiths Mlungisi Mxenge, the eldest son of Johnson Pinti and Hannah Nowise Mxenge, was … located five kilometres from King Williams Town, in the Eastern…
PlaceBreakwater Prison, near Alfred Docks, Cape Town
… Monument under old NMC legislation on 18 December 1970. The Breakwater Prison was constructed in 1860 to house British convicts working on the breakwater,…
Sparfacus Club October Revolution Celebrafions, Oddfellows Hall, 70 Loop Sfreet, Cape Town, 6 November 1937
… Revolution Celebrafions, Oddfellows Hall, 70 Loop Sfreet, Cape Town, 6 November 1937 …
BiographyPatrick Mosell Molaoa
… in 1925, he grew up in Alexandra Township and attended schools in Basutoland, Johannesburg, and Kimberley until matriculation. He was one of the first…
EventAmy Biehl is murdered in Cape Town
… mob of youths in Gugulethu, a township just outside Cape Town, and stabbed to death. Biehl was driving three co-workers to their homes in the township, when…
PlaceRichtersveld Cultural and Botanical Landscape, Northern Cape
… The 1600 square kilometers in area is the Richtersveld Cultural and Botanical Landscape. This is a dramatic Mountainous Desert in the Northern Cape of South…
PlaceZonnebloem College, Cape Town
… The College was founded in the 1850s on the farm Zonnebloem (sunflower) by controversial Cape Governor Sir George Grey in his drive to strip the Xhosa … new…