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PlaceDiep River
… tarts, biscuits and pies. It is a one-stop-shop for all your bread needs, as well as functioning as the local …
EventMore than a dozen people are killed, including seven children, in Kwamakhutha Massacre
… provincial Black politics, with the conflict carrying all the characteristics of an undeclared civil war. The …
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ArchiveRobert Shell: A tribute By Martin Plaut, 05 February 2015
… died. Sandy, his lovely wife, broke the news in an email. All day I have had him in the corner of my mind, for Rob was …
PlaceThe Fourth Raadsaal, Bloemfontein
… As a result new tenders were called for, to cover all work still outstanding, and the contract was awarded to …
PlaceGannahoek Farm
… opposed this because they would be forced to get rid of all their livestock. Furthermore, they were terrified that …
ArchiveFrom Lithuania to a false start in Johannesburg and settling in Cape Town, Carmel Schrire and Gwynne Schrire (The Heritage Portal), 21 September 2016
… Review of The Reb and the Rebel Jewish Narratives in South Africa 1892-1913. Edited by Carmel Schrire and Gwynne … volume adds to the history of Jewish…
EventOlive Shisana was born on this day
… Olive Shisana was born in the town of Pietersburg, South Africa, on the 27th of November 1950. [1] She holds a BA … which she obtained from the University of…
PlaceHarbour Board Building, Port Elizabeth
… Finally in 2021, with the aim to distance South Africa from its colonial past and represent the authentic South Africa, the name was changed to Gqeberha. (…
EventThe Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act is introduced
… The Ghetto Act brought about a turning point in South Africa's international relations and standing in the world community. The position of Indians in South…
EventBishop Desmond Tutu leaves for the USA to meet with American President Ronald Reagan
… his support for economic sanctions to be imposed on South Africa. While many European countries had boycotted South Africa both economically and culturally,…
EventFormer premier of Mpumalanga, Afrikaans poet and lawyer, Mathews Phosa is born
… (ANC) political campaigner and lawyer. He left South Africa in 1985 for Mozambique after being tipped off by the … we Sizwe, directing its military…
EventFirst sextuplets in the world to survive their infancy are born in Cape Town
… their infancy on 11 January 1974, in Cape Town, South Africa. The three boys (David Peter, Grant Vincent and Jason … born at Mowbray Maternity Hospital, in…
EventLeague of Nations is formed
… Botha were the two representatives of the Union of South Africa. Smuts also played an important role in the drafting … of the Covenant of the League. Most…
EventThe World Health Organisation (WHO) declares Aids a worldwide epidemic
… (WHO) declared the disease a worldwide epidemic. Africa has the highest rate of infection than any continent, with South Africa having the highest of any…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 3 Glossary
… order which was passed by Von Hindenburg and it suspended all articles in the constitution that guaranteed peoples key …
EventEdward Roworth, SA landscape painter, dies in Somerset West
… a British born South African artist. Roworth came to South Africa in 1902 with the British forces during the Anglo-Boer … At the end of the war Roworth…
EventBafana Bafana wins over Ghana
… The South Africa senior national football team, Bafana Bafana, secured 1-0 victory over Ghana, a co-host of the 2000 Africa Cup of Nations contest at Kumasi…
EventGifted writer and actor William Modisane is born
… was born in Sophiatown, Johannesburg. Modisane left South Africa in 1959 and while in exile he published his only and … of the educated Black man. The book…
EventMaude Francis Eyston Sumner, SA painter, is born
… born in Johannesburg. Born in 1902 in Johannesburg, South Africa, Maud Sumner lived in South Africa, London, England, and Paris France. She died in 1985 ……
Democracy in Action
… by the Institute for a Democratic Alternative for South Africa (IDASA), outlines the extensive efforts of the … dialogue and bring about meaningful change in…
PlaceThaba Bosiu, Lesotho
… siege. The expansive flat-topped summit is protected on all sides by formidable sandstone Cliffs, yet it is watered … to the Plateau. The Plateau also offers…
PlaceTsolo, Eastern Cape
… riding off to Umtata for reinforcements, Welsh advised all concerned to fall back upon his residency at Mditswa … number included thirty five men, women and…
PlaceWorkers’ Museum, Johannesburg
… Labour Hostel Compound and documents the History of South Africa’s Migrant Workforce, from the first arrivals to … Workers who were recruited from throughout…
PlaceSastri College, 1 Winterton Walk, Durban
… High School and Teachers Training College, built in South Africa , was opened in October 1929. This double-storey … was appointed as Agent of the Indian…
PlacePretoria, now known as Tshwane
… The Administrative capital of South Africa , Pretoria, or the ' Jacaranda City' is best known for … of the Transvaal in 1860; administrative capital of South…
PlaceHouse Schoch, Boschdal, District of Rustenburg
… father Wilhelm August Schoch, a Swiss immigrant to South Africa. and the author of a book entitled 34 Jahre Im Lande … for his children, supply interesting…
PlaceSenegal
… area of Casamance. Senegal is known as the “Gateway to Africa”, located at the western most point of the continent. … move the capital inland, Dakar will…
PlaceCape Province- 'Province of Good Hope' or previously the- Cape Colony
… it became one of the four provinces of the Union of South Africa in 1910. When the Union of South Africa was formed in 1910, the original Cape Colony was ……
20th Time of the Writer
… Approximately 20 writers from South Africa, Africa and different parts of the world will feature in this … As we successfully celebrated the 20th edition of…