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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…
ArchivePhotography and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… continuously as guns” sprinkle the scant literature on photography in South Africa. 2 Resistance photography has … censorship. 4 While many authors…
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 1 - The Necessity of Utopian Thinking
… system, the existence of nation states, the polity, and so on-as natural entities imposing certain rigidities on our behavior. We see our area of choice in…
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid by Dr Peter Alegi
… Stars Football Club. The focus then shifts to his service on the executive of the Durban and District African Football … (or Ndebele) rebellion in Southern…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 4
… of a few individuals buying houses and occupying them on the fringes of the Indian areas. It affected Europeans … to see the other man's point of view…
29. Removal to locations: the people are terrified
… Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, vol. 3, pp. 86-90. On behalf of the Indian community in Johannesburg, I beg to … Hajee Dada, Mr. H. O. Ally, Mr. Abdul…
ArticleHIV/Aids Origins
… the results of a new study presented at the 7th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, suggested that …
ArticleMatabele Wars 1836-1896
… the European powers into the region. When Mzilikazi died on 9 September 1868 near Bulawayo, his son, Lobengula, became …
ArticleKingdoms of southern Africa: Great Zimbabwe
… An Arabic inscribed coin from Kilwa, a Swahili trade city on the coast of East Africa, also confirm Great Zimbabwe's …
ArticleCape Youth Congress (CAYCO)
… youth movement had been under discussion from 1981. On the eve of its launch in 1983, groups of African arrived …
EventDie Burger publishes the term 'Apartheid' for the first time
… On 26 March 1942, an article was published by an Afrikaner … and in the case of South Africa, the implicit emphasis was on the racial differences between…
PlaceEerste Rivier, Cape Town
… Eerste River. It was acquired by the Cape Government on 1 January 1873. The Village of Eersterivier is the site of … Eersterivier as "A very pretty and…
ArchiveZambia, the ANC and the struggle against apartheid 1964-1990
… support for the ANC. While the focus of the study falls on Zambia's support for the ANC, the following issues have … the ANC under the refuge of a host state…
PlaceMaclear/Nqanqarhu
… of this procession was painted by the San in a cave on the Farm of' Ben Strachan'. This is located in the Inxu … the Tsolo district. Dinosaur Footprints were…
EventFormer African Springbok captain, Welile Nkohla dies
… On 23 July 2017, Welile James Nkohla, also known as ‘Bomza’, … after a long battle with cancer. Nkohla was born on 22 February 1946. He started playing…
EventBafana Bafana legend Philimon Raul Masinga dies
… On 12 January 2019,legendary Bafana Bafana striker Philimon … after a long battle with cancer. Masinga was born on 28 June 1969 in Klerksdorp, North West…
Symposium: Memory in a time of freedom
… also be presented along with 3 other community projects on Saturday 24th October after 3pm. Cost: R100 per day or … Claremont Histories will give a 10…
PlaceNew Somerset Hospital, Beach Road, Green Point
… was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 2 April 1971. New Somerset Hospital is a government/public … accredited antiretroviral (ARV)…
PlaceLeinster Hall, 7 Weltevreden Street, Gardens
… Leinster Hall was built in the 1850s by Sebastian Hofmeyr on a plot of land that previously formed part of the farm … was declared a National Monument under…
PlaceSt Saviours Church Anglican Church and Cemetery, Bowwood Road, Claremont
… Claremont, Cape Town, South Africa. St. Saviours has stood on its present Site since 1854 and has immense Historical … was declared a National Monument under…
EventProfessor John Fleming “Jack” Brok dies
… On 3 July 1983, John Fleming (Jack) Brock died – he was a … Medicine at the University of Cape Town. Fleming was born on 27 March 1905 in Port Elizabeth,…
PlaceDoringbaai, Cape West Coast
… Doringbaai is a picturesque little Town on the Cape West Coast near Strandfontein and Langebaan, … Papendorp. The Bay was originally used as an anchorage…
PlacePublic Library, Port Elizabeth
… from Twickenham. The Library was officially opened on 29 July 1902. It was built in the late Victorian style … was declared a National Monument under old NMC…
PlaceDonkin Heritage Trail, Port Elizabeth
… It consists of five dwellings in Donkin Street, facing on to the Donkin Reserve, one at 14 Constitution Street and … delights of the Historical City can be…
PlaceBourke's Luck Potholes
… the lowveld. It crosses the Kruger National Park and flows on to Mozambique where it flows into the large Corumana Dam, … Moambe, before it finally joins the…
EventThe twentieth anniversary of the arrest of Nelson Mandela is marked by a call for his release by China
… KwaZulu-Natal, shortly after his return to South Africa on completing six months’ military training in Oujda, … 1962, he was sentenced to five years'…