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PlaceCamp’s Bay, Cape Town
… 220 enslaved people taken from Benin. Her father was given his freedom in 1659; the first male slave to be freed . He …
ArticleThe Johanna
… the Cape’s torturous weather prevented Captain Brown and his navigator from getting an accurate idea of their …
PlaceVolksrust, Mpumalanga
… Areas, people living in Volksrust also suffered under the apartheid Groups Areas Act legislation. Before 1994, Black …
PlaceRocher Pan Nature Reserve
… this area in 1839 looking for improved summer grazing for his livestock. Rocher and his workers closed off the mouth of Papkuils River, forcing …
PlaceHeidelberg, Gauteng
… a trading store on the farm; 'Langlaagte'. It was at his initiative that the town was laid out and proclaimed in … unimpressive little place'. He came…
ArchiveChapter 11 - SACTU in the Congress Alliance
… professionals, housewives, etc. Organisational work for the stay-at-home must not be confined to the … To achieve the next successful national stoppage of…
PlaceNairobi National Museum, East Africa
… set aside land at the Museum Hill and construction work started at the current site. It was officially opened on …
PlaceMangaung Metropolitan Municipality, Free State
Mangaung is a Sesotho name meaning "Place of Cheetahs". Legend has it that when the first settlers arrived, they were stunned by the vast plains, that were…
EventPresident Cyril Ramaphosa appoints Justice Raymond Zondo as Chief Justice
… vacant. President Ramaphosa has accordingly indicated his intention, once the new Chief Justice assumes office, to … Juris degree from the University of…
Burundi: A year later, still in crisis by Simon Allison (Daily Maverick), 05 May 2016, South Africa
… on the table, ranging from a few dozen officers who would work with Burundian police to a muscular, 3,000-strong …
Regional Formation Schools.” Report in SASO Newsletter, September 1970
… national problems in a sane and sober manner, and would work out solutions which sought to preserve and safeguard the …
PlaceNorthern Cape
… During the survey, IPPs indicated their willingness to work with the Municipalities in addressing the needs of the …
Nelson Mandela Correspondence with family
… bodies slumped in sleep through sheer exhaustion. The work routine repeated itself in the endless rising and …
Archaeology - A way of discovering the past
… slept, cooked and made tools. Sometimes it is possible to work out what people ate, how they adapted to their …
If we want to understand African history, we need to understand the Battle of Adwa by Hannah Giorgis (Pambazuka News), 02 Mar 2016
… The name “Adwa” always sounded so regal coming from his mouth, at once both strong and comforting. For much of … officials; and he formally denounced the…
Archive”Native Union”. Article by Pixley ka Isaka Seme, in October 24, 1911
… when man shall have learned to co-operate, not only with his own kith and kin but also with all peoples and with all … ignorance today. A great Paramount…
Document 7 - Draft declaration of unity provisionally adopted at Unity Conference, Bloemfontein, 17 December 1943
… Land Acts were passed, depriving the Non-European of his land, prohibiting him from buying land and forcing him to … level. It is through lack of political…
An interview with Mr. A.W.G. Champion
… money for six months. We forced this employer to pay all his recruited labour for the next three or four months … forced him to dissolve the government in…
EventFormer ANC President, Oliver 'OR' Tambo, is born
… deregistered from the institution and could not complete his Bachelor of Science honours degree. The son of Nzimeni and Julia, Tambo dedicated his entire…
EventS.P. Botha, Minister of Water Affairs, proposes new schemes to ease the Western Cape's water supply problem
… to ease the Western Cape's water supply problem During his opening of the Cape Show on 4 March 1970, Minister of … it more efficiently." Four decades from…
PlaceThaba Bosiu, Lesotho
… I, the kingdom’s founding father, throughout most of his mid-19th Century reign. Sotho oral tradition has it that … of Night’ - was so named by Moshoeshoe…
PlaceClarendon Circle, Johannesburg
… from an Aristocratic English Family, with Ancient Roots. His full Name was; George Herbert Hyde Villiers, 6th Earl of … served as Chief Scout of the Boy…
PlaceKommetjie, Cape Town
… and emigrated to the Cape in 1891. There he married his childhood sweetheart, Ines Mattiello, and rapidly became …
Document 19 - Communist Party of South Africa, Memo on S.A.F.N.T.U. (1930)
… votes for and three votes against, and the Chairman gave his casting vote against. The next was contained in a letter …
EventThe hijacking of an Egypt Air passenger jet to Malta ends in bloodshed.
… to 25 years in jail, though he served only seven. After his release, however, he went to Nigeria where the …
EventSlave rebellion at the Cape led by Louis of Mauritius. Over 300 slaves and Khoi Khoi servants from outlying farms marched on Cape Town demanding their freedom
… visiting Spanish sea captain. Hooper and Kelly rode up by his side, disguised as British officers. They managed to …
The Khoikhoi carry out a series of raids on the free burghers’ herds
… of European colonisation. Unfortunately for Doman, his earlier attempts at Khoikhoi trade with the Dutch, …
PlaceCookhouse, Eastern Cape
… Roodewal Farm, Somerset East, Eastern Cape of Good Hope. His two wives are buried with him. The first wife was Susanna …
PlaceBathurst, Eastern Cape
… Famous settler Jeremiah Goldswain bought it for his son-in-law in 1853. He added rooms where the forge had …
21. Pariah constables pollute Hindus
… and the Trooper did not like him he was sent here to join his brother Munsamy who has been here for about one year. As …