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Adapted from De Rietfonteyn: Founding of Grahamstown By Elron Kleinhans
… During the early frontier wars of the 1790s, he abandoned his farm and headed westwards for security. The house was … Cape Colony. When Col John Graham of…
PlaceBreederivier/Breede River, Western Cape
The Breede River enters the sea at Witsand in the Indian Ocean, forming a large estuary in the Western Cape of South Africa. The mouth is located in San…
PlacePort Alfred
… of the River mouth as a Port was realized, and in 1843 work commenced on the West and East piers, at the new mouth …
PlaceLiesbeek River and Park, Cape Town
Liesbeek River is only 9 km long and arises as several streams off the Eastern slopes of Table Mountain above Kirstenbosch, winding through: 'Bishopscourt,…
PlaceHermannsburg School and Mission Museum, (Greytown)
… Saxony, Germany resulted in great interest in mission work. Pastor Louis Harms trained suitable young men as …
PlaceSodwana Bay National Park
… KZN Wildlife administration model has been shown to work well whereby the eco-tourism operations provide …
EventThe Durban Supreme Court cancels the SA government's announcement concerning reclamation of the Ingwavuma region
… of Development and Cooperation, Dr. Piet Koornhof made his speech to the KwaZulu Legislative Assembly. …
Document 139 - “The coming Anti-African Bill”. Workers’ Voice.6.2. December 1947
… Council should be compelled to throw in its weight and work with the African unions in this struggle, but the main …
Address to Foreign Correspondents association Johannesburg, 26 November 1998
… globalisation and the imperatives of interdependence. Your work, we have no doubt, has contributed to the understanding …
Preface
… is a photographic print in a newspaper reÂcording the work against the audience on the occasion of its exhibition. …
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 1: Hunter-gatherers and herders in Southern Africa
… the painting shows a San figure gaining great power from his main god. The San were said to use the power from the … in the community. The role of chief…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1900-1909
… Transvaal comes down with smallpox, but the isolation of his contacts and his removal to hospital prevents any spread of the disease. …
Indian Slaves in South Africa: Notes for monograph, 26 June 1995
… to be taken with caution. The following are from three of his nine tables. TRANSACTIONS PERTAINING TO SLAVES COMPILED … 1.31 Total 3…
ArticleSudan’s Revolution
… pressures on the TMC to some degree. Furthermore, in his corruption trial in August, Al-Bashir admitted [vi] to … million was found in the ex-president’s…
Post-Election Political Violence
… A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman As South Africa went to … A Crime Against Humanity -…
PlaceWitwatersrand, Johannesburg (Gauteng)
… vacant mining lands in the heart of the city. The end of apartheid, in 1994 , brought a large influx of rural …
African People’s Organisation (APO)
… He also informed Rubusana through the newspaper of his cooperation and intended alliance. Consequently the APO …
PlaceCape Town City Hall, Darling Street
… to democracy. On February 11, 1990 mere hours after his release from prison, Nelson Mandela made his first public speech from the City Hall’s Main Balcony. ……
EventANC's economic plans
… Congress (ANC) Deputy President Nelson Mandela stated that his party was prepared to abandon its long-held policy of …
EventPAC leader, David Sibeko shot dead in Dar-es-Salaam
… in the PAC in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. At the time of his death, Sibeko was based New York. The death of Sibeko …
PlaceKhorixas, Town in Namibia
… area but was unable to get enough water from it to sustain his family and herds of animals. David soon began to have … means 'questionable' or 'uncertain' in…
PlaceSchoenstatt Retreat and Conference Centre, Cape Town
… Spiritual Director in the Pallottine Minor Seminary . His educational goals were clear: "The young men were to … completely gives herself. Whoever responds…
PlaceKnysna Lagoon, Garden Route- Western Province
… be an idea to transport the timber by sea and commissioned his friend George Callender, to investigate the possibility … Outeniqua to land by sea, using the…
PlaceCarletonville
… role of imperial Europe and its slaving agents. Central to his critique is a demythologising of the role of the Zulu … violently, and detailed regional…
PlaceAlexander Bay, Namaqualand
… Royal Geographical Society (which he had co-founded) On his exploration, expanding into Namaqualand and Damaraland, …
PlaceBraamfontein, a Suburb of Johannesburg
… that he had acquired from Lourens Geldenhuys and his brother Frans. The Company would go on to develop the …
Ahead of the Bushfire Festival: Five things you might not know about Swaziland
… access to the specialised medical care that he needs for his diabetic condition. Human rights lawyer Thulani Maseko …
PlaceBerg River
… in 1869 by Martin Melck when it attacked and killed one of his employees. The Berg Rivers native fish contain some …
ArchiveSt James Church Massacre
… this man kick open the door next to the stage and holding his rifle from the hip he opened up on us spraying bullets …
Solitary confinement
… and he was there when I came out. Whoo! He got a shock of his life. He said, 'Mai! Jhoo! Is that you? Why do you look …