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PlaceCape Floral Areas, Western Province
… Inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2004, the property is located … the Cape Floral Region. CapeNature has raised the alarm on the growing threat of…
Appeal For Funds For New Age, January 1956
… of more fascist attacks from the Strijdom police state on their fast dwindling rights. Our African womenfolk face … Our Coloured people stand to lose their…
EventW. E. B. Du Bois (95), writer, scholar, intellectual, Pan
… of The Crisis, Du Bois published numerous important works on race. By the time of his death in 1963 he had written 17 … four journals, and greatly…
EventSADF officers dismissed
… by the SADF, set up under Lieutenant-General Pierre Steyn. On 18 December General Steyn presented his preliminary … the President a report as such but gave a…
EventBelgium annexes the Congo Free State
… through the region, and returned to Europe to report on the vast commercial opportunity of Africa. At this stage, … successful in their colonial expeditions…
EventAnglo-Boer War 2: The siege of Okiep, in Namaqualand, starts
… confined much of the rural populace to internment camps. On the eve of defeat, General Smuts decided to lead a … Port Nolloth, as two British gunboats were…
EventDe Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd. is founded to exercise control over diamond production in South Africa
… On 13 March 1888, De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd. was … by Barney Barnato. Diamonds were discovered in 1860 on De Beer's farm, in proximity of Kimberley, a…
PlaceFrankfort
… Frankfort is a small farming town situated on the banks of the Wilge River in the Free State province of South Africa. The town was laid out in 1869 on the…
EventSouth African cricket player Aubrey Faulkner, great all-rounder in the early 20th century, is born
… took 29 wickets at 21.89 - more runs than any other player on either side and second only to Ernie Vogler as top … school had earned worldwide fame. While…
PlaceThe Free State National Botanical Gardens, Bloemfontein
… Several Sites were investigated in the City Centre, on the Slopes of Naval Hill, part of the Farm Brandkop and … State President Jim Fouche, officially…
PlaceClearwater, Now Known as Griquastad- in the Northern Cape
… the Town's Hospital. Dr. Robert Moffat and his wife Mary, on their way to the Town of Kuruman , were residing in … breed. An infamous murder in Griekwastad…
PlaceMariammen Temple, Pretoria
… was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 10 September 1982. This is the most impressive Gopuram … to structural elements and the seven…
PlaceParow
… Parow '. Johann Heinrich Ferdinand Parow was born on 1 March 1833 in a Province of Deutschland. During a great … the family that helped Captain Parow after…
EventCecil John Rhodes, South African statesman, is born
… Cecil John Rhodes was born on 5 July 1853 in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England. … British empire that would rule all of Africa. Rhodes died on 26…
EventIsmael Mahomed became first black judge appointed to the Supreme Court of South Africa
… whites were allowed. In August 1999 he wrote judgement on Patricia de Lille’s case, where the African National … members of Parliament, which a court could…
EventArchbishop Owen Cardinal McCann becomes South Africa’s first cardinal.
… to the Government, he made a particularly strong attack on its racial segregation policy and related matters. His … he stated. In 1988 Cardinal McCann…
EventLaurie Bloomfield takes picture of rioting in Cato Manor, Durban
… On 24 January 1960, Laurie Bloomfield, a photographer for the … worked as a photographer for the Daily News, before moving on to become pictures editor for…
EventSACTU launches a national potato boycott.
… against slave-like labour conditions for Black workers on potato farms. In areas like Bethal in Eastern Transvaal … recruited workers were expected to work…
EventZulus attack Indians in Durban
… The attack on Indians by Zulus in January 1949 has generated a great … Indians. Indian businesses, families and communities were on the receiving end of the…
EventA group of White men attack and assault Indian Passive Resisters
… At 20:10 on 23 June 1946 a group of White men attacked and assaulted … Resisters. The hooligans launched another attack at 23:15 on the same day in which…
EventPrime Minister Vorster holds talks with Dr. Kissinger
… the United States Secretary of State, Dr. Henry Kissinger, on 23 and 24 June in West Germany to discuss the Rhodesian … events in southern Africa. Kissinger…
EventMaria Groesbeek is hanged for the murder of her husband, Christian Buys
… her a divorce. After being sentenced to death by hanging on November 1969, Groesbeek was executed on 13 November 1970 at the age of 33. …
EventThe father of Rosalind Ballingall joins the search for his missing daughter
… of a Rand Mine's executive, Rosalind left Cape Town on 11 August 1969 to spend the weekend at a popular hippie … as to her whereabouts made the search more…
EventNelson Mandela is elected Deputy President of the ANC
… headquarters from Zambia to Johannesburg, South Africa. On 11 February 1990, Mandela was released from Victor Vorster … the country to address rallies…
EventGeneral Lothar Neethling sues Vrye Weekblad and the Weekly Mail
… On 20 January 1990 General Lothar Neethling sued the Vrye … that Neethling has supplied him with toxin to be used on anti-apartheid activists. Justice Johan…
EventNkuma and Mahlalela sentenced to death
… Mpapne that took place in 1986. The state argued its case on the alleged evidence that the two were the ring-leaders of … courts to hear new evidence, which…
EventThe National Union of Mineworkers start South Africa’s longest wage strike
… Chamber of Mines. Approximately 360 000 Black miners went on strike over wage and working conditions. It lasted for three weeks costing the Chamber of Mines…
EventThe ‘Hospital and Lunatic Asylum’, the first civilian hospital in Cape Town, is opened
… in Green Point, which was then in the outskirts of town. On 1 August 1818, the 'Hospital and Lunatic Asylum' was … was known as the 'Old' Somerset Hospital…
EventSpringboks beat Scotland at Murrayfield
… South Africa's tour of the British Isles finished on an upbeat note as Jake White's experimental young side … tries came from the 21 year old wing Bryan…
EventThe Ncome Museum is opened
… a major confrontation between the Voortrekkers and amaZulu on 16 December 1838. The Ncome Monument and Museum Complex is situated on the KwaMathambo side of…