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Kirstenbosch Summer Sunset Concerts 2017
… The Kirstenbosch Summer Sunset Concerts run annually from the end of November until the beginning of April. …
PlaceOns Huisie, Bloubergstrand, Cape Town
… tourist destinations in the Cape Peninsula. Visitors come from across the world and experience our exquisite West Coast …
PlaceOak-Villa Cottage, Baviaanskloof Road
… was a humble fisherman's cottage whose construction dates from the 1850s. It was declared a National Monument under old …
PlaceVenda
… until Coal-mining began in the 1980s. Most of the men from the Area were Migrant Workers and their wages made up …
PlaceNewington Road Victorian Houses, Port Elizabeth
… 1903. Not only is the building worth a look, but the views from here are spectacular. Likened to Melville in …
PlaceAthenaeum building, Belmont Terrace, Port Elizabeth
… The building dates from the late Victorian period and has impressive …
EventSekonyela, chief of the Batlokwa, dies in the Wittebergen Reserve, Herschel district.
… people. He effectively took over the chieftainship from his mother queen Manthatisi in 1824 settling in …
EventUN concerned about Fischer’s arrest
… Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood. Kruger, …
EventMuhammad Ali defeats Charles Liston in the World heavyweight title fight
… A couple of days later Ali began training at Martin's gym. From the very beginning, Ali took his training seriously. He … Osenberg, J. (n.d.), 'A Biography…
EventUN report accuses Katangan President and Congo President of conspiracy to murder Patrice Lumumba
… Africa believe that the regime of Mobutu Seseko benefitted from the demise of Lumumba. In fact, it has since been …
EventHendrik Verwoerd becomes Prime Minister
… Prime Ministers that South Africa was changing from a monarchy to a republic and to argue his case to remain … Anon, (2007) 'Hendrik Verwoerd Drive is no…
EventOver 400 Kikuyu suspected to be part of the Mau Mau movement are arrested in Kenya
… states was established under Modibo Keita. He withdrew from the French community and established an economy aligned …
EventSeretse Khama is re-united with his British wife
… acquired his education in South Africa and he graduated from Fort Hare University College with a B.A. degree. … SAHO, President Seretse Khama , from South…
EventThe Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act is introduced
… March 1946 and passed in June 1946. This prevented Indians from occupying land outside certain exempted areas and was an …
EventUmkhonto We Sizwe, military wing of the ANC, claims responsibility for power station blast
… Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood. …
EventWinnie Mandela is banished to Brandfort
… telephone booth between 10 am and 4 pm waiting for calls from friends and relations. However, when friends, like Helen …
EventEnforcement of military conscription for all white males in SA
… degree was granted, but hardly any White men were exempt from conscription.Conscripts formed part of the SADF and … Political History: a chronology of key…
EventIngrid Jonker, SA poet, commits suicide.
… the cause of the poor and the lot of black South Africans from the position of a common humanity. Jonker's work was …
EventSouth Africa relinquishes sovereignty over Walvis Bay
… back to this day in history search archive Walvis Bay, from the Dutch for "Whale Bay", is situated in Namibia, along … Political History: a chronology of key…
EventNelson Mandela condemns the Lockerbie bombing, the first mass killing of Americans by terrorists
… leader Muammar Gaddafi. Mandela defied criticism from the United States of America to meet Gaddafi. In 1999, … Nelson Mandela's statement on the Lockerbie…
EventUS House of Representatives approve Bill to impose stricter sanctions on Apartheid South Africa
… within 180 days of its proclamation. This despite protests from some quarters that argued that doing so would result in …
EventSlachter’s Nek rebels are hanged
… as one of the causes of the Great Trek that took place from 1835-1846 …
Event18 mineworkers die in Carletonville
… Twenty highly trained rescue workers lifted twenty miners from the mine immediately after the accident. They were …
EventMuziwendoda Mdluli, National Intelligence Agency (NIA) security chief is found dead
… [Accessed 19 February 2015].|Statement from the Ministry of Intelligence Services on the Death of …
EventThe Dutch Reformed Church decides that Afrikaans may be used alongside Dutch during services
… of the Bible. The Gospel of Mark was fully translated from Dutch into Afrikaans in 1878 and although never …
EventWilliam Brown becomes the first South African officer killed during World War I
… 160 officers and 5 648 other ranks, embarked for England from Cape Town. During December 1915, it was decided to send …
EventFormation of the South African Native National Congress
… the Pan African Congress (PAC) and the ANC were banned from the country in accordance with the newly passed Unlawful …
EventGeneral Louis Botha wins elections
… the first Prime Minister of the Union holding office from 1910 to 1919. Botha appointed Jan Smuts as his Minister …
EventSA colonies meet to consider and adopt the South Africa Act, which leads to the Union of South Africa
… British Parliament which created the Union of South Africa from the British Colonies of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, …
EventGeneral De la Rey protests British mistreatment of women and children
… down the farms that the Boers received their supplies from. This was known as the scorched earth policy and … Rey protests British mistreatment of women and…