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PlaceTree Garden, President Brand Street, Bloemfontein
… five orange trees (although the orange trees are in the main courtyard, not in front of the building). By the end of …
PlacePinetown and its Museum
… Natal (1873-75). At the heart of the town and just off the main road lies the Pinetown Library complex housing both the …
PlaceSouth African College High School
… 186 year-old record of growth and excellence, SACS in the 1980s and early 90s, led the Open Schools’ Movement, making …
ArchiveObituary of Benita Parry (1931—2020) by Professor David Johnson
… 2020. In a series of brilliant essays written in the 1980s and 1990s, subsequently re-published as Postcolonial … community of sympathetic interlocutors. …
Article16 June 1976 - Soweto Uprising
… the struggle against Apartheid and Bantu Education. In the 1980s very little education at all took place in the Bantu … read on Down with Afrikaans Countdown…
ArticleThe formation of the SANNC/ANC
… back into the ranks of the urban and rural poor. The main aim of the South African Native National Congress …
Vasco da Gama’s Voyage of ‘Discovery’ 1497
… made regular voyages using Mossel Bay and Mombasa as their main replenishing posts. Oriental silks, satins and spices, …
Art lost in a time of struggle by Mary Corrigall
… conservative even. Social art with political change as its main objective isn't able to further art's own goals. …
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions 1994 - 2014
… civil society organisations in the country. The ANC's main purpose in developing and implementing the RDP was to …
“Exodus without a map”: What happened to the Durban moment? by Edward Webster
… that took a creative turn in Durban in the 1970s and early 1980s. In Part Two, I examine the idea that, by failing to … that emerged in South Africa during…
AAM and UN: partners in the international campaign against apartheid
… apartheid, especially in the countries which were the main collaborators with the South African regime. This also … of the Special Committee. The World…
Document 10 - Letter from Nelson Mandela to Sir de Villiers Graaff, leader of the United Party
… Coloured Convention movement which has the backing of the main bodies of Coloured opinion. A substantial European body … yet to hear from this most important…
PlaceLouwsburg, Zululand
… Louwsburg is a little Village on the main road to Pongola, about 70 kilometres East of Vryheid and … situated about seventy kilometres East of Vryheid on the…
ArticleRemembering and Celebrating South Africa’s Iconic LGBTQI+ Women
… worked actively as an anti-apartheid activist in the late 1980s and early 90s, particularly concerned with the … (GALA). “Kewpie Photographic Collection, ca…
ArticleBrenda Fassie’s 1997 hit song Vulindlela still raises questions about South Africa as a nation
… 1964, she began her rise to fame in the townships in the 1980s but soon took over the nation’s airwaves. She died at …
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 2 (2001-2022)
… There are a number of further reflections contained this chronology which can be added to those mentioned in Part 1. …
PlaceBertrams, Johannesburg
… which to explore the City. In addition, it is close to the main Transport Routes, which grants easier access to the OR …
PlaceKenilworth
… extensive gardens. Across the railway line and south of Main Road, away from the mountain , Kenilworth still offers … extensive gardens. Across the railway…
PlaceSomerset Road, Green Point
… straight out of the CBD at Riebeek Street through to the Main Road in Seapoint. Since the new Green Point Stadium was …
PlaceJan De Waal House, 93 Bree Street, Cape Town
… De Waal Drive against the prominent Table Mountain is the main highway leading out of the city towards Cape Town …
PlaceThaba Tshwane or Voortrekkerhoogte
… around the end of May for specific commemorations, but main services are in November. …
PlaceSouth African National Museum of Military History
… Home to some of the rarest Aircrafts in the World. The Main Courtyard features several Memorials, including one …
EventViolence erupts during Defiance Campaign
… laws were committed by bands of volunteers in all the main centres of the Union. The initial stage of the campaign …
EventSir Abe Bailey, Rand mine magnate, dies.
… gold mines and was fast establishing himself as one of the main mining magnates on the Witwatersrand. Through his …
EventAZAPO is re-launched in Roodepoort
… saw the capitalist system rather than apartheid as the main oppressing force in South Africa and believed that class …
EventPaedophile Gert van Rooyen and mistress commit suicide
… after which the walls were demolished and the kitchen and main bedroom scoured with sonar equipment for secret …
EventPort Natal is renamed Durban in honour of Sir Benjamin D’Urban, governor of the Cape Colony from 1834 - 1837
… original copy) and another settler Isaacs constitute the main source on the Zulu people during the rule of Shaka and …
EventLouis Trichardt, Voortrekker leader, is born near Oudtshoorn 225 years ago
… for a better life in better country). There were two main routes that the Voortrekkers could follow into the …
EventBoeremag bomb blasts rock Soweto and Bronkhorstspruit
… bomb blasts rocked Soweto. Seven of the blasts occurred on main commuter railway lines running through the township. The …
EventRoman Catholic Bishop Augustin Misago, cleared of genocide charges
… more than 800 000 Tutsi and sympathetic Hutu dead. The main charges related to the fact that the Bishop, refused to …