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Funeral arrangements afoot for Mama Dideka Mhlaba, 20 January 2010
… in consultation with ANC Luthuli House headquarters on funeral arrangements, which will be made public in due … Mama Mhlaba at her home in Summerstrand, Port…
PlaceBoschendal Wine Estate, Cape Town
… and local communities prosper. It has since been resold on October 31, 2003. Set in the Drakenstein Valley surrounded … access to the entire farm where they…
David Goldblatt,The Transported of KwaNdebele by L'oeil De La Photographie, 26 September 2016
… still going, will only be more reverberative as time goes on.” Goldblatt’s photographic essay on homeland transport, The Transported of KwaNdebele, … he…
EventEarthquake shakes up Tulbagh
… At about 10:04pm on 29 September 1969, the Boland farming towns of Tulbagh, … region near Tulbagh. The earthquake measured a sizable 6.3 on the Richter’s…
PlaceMandela Capture Site, Howick in Kwa Zulu Natal
… kilometres outside Howick, KwaZulu-Natal, suddenly took on profound consequence. Armed apartheid police flagged down … was pretending to be the chauffeur…
PlaceCoffee Bay, Wild Coast
… and flipper like hands and feet. A beautiful girl living on the Wild Coast, in a village near a lagoon, cut off from … off the Wild Coast and the beans were…
Call for Papers ‘Rethinking “Apartheid’s Golden Age”: South Africa, c1966-1979’, Colloquium to be held at the University of Pretoria, 20 June 2016
… On 20 June 2016, the Department of Historical and Heritage … at the University of Pretoria will host a colloquium on South Africa’s ‘long 1970s’, defined as…
PlaceSouth African National Archive in Cape Town
… PWD during which attention has been deliberately focussed on preserving and revitalising culturally significant … Buildings and the restoration of the Palace…
PlaceFranschhoek, Western Cape
… in the Country are found in Franschhoek, there are high on 30 Wine Cellars and over 28 Restaurants from which to … for the more energetic! There are plenty…
ANC President Nelson Mandela’s statement at the dinner hosted by Prime Minister Bildt of Sweden 20 May 1992
… We have not only had the opportunity to brief you on the current political developments and proposals on the way forward, but we have also paid great…
A City within a city: Vestiges of the socio-spatial imprint of colonial and apartheid Durban, from the 1870s to 1980s by Leonard Glenn Rosenberg
… of the city’s heritage, is largely absent in publications on Durban’s history. This dissertation addresses this issue and focuses on an old part of Durban,…
EventTricameral Parliament inaugurated
… On 3 September 1984, Members of Parliament convened in Cape … Democratic Front (UDF). The United Nations Commission on Human Rights rejected this 'new…
EventViolence breaks out at the University of Zululand
… the outbreak of political violence at the institution on 29 October 1983. Five of those killed were students who … activities of the UDF posed a threat to…
EventFirst celebration of National Heritage Day
… vein of celebrating shared culture rather than focusing on cultural divisions, a recent initiative by the … celebrate their common roots by having a braai …
PlaceFlagstaff
… and his partner, a Mr Owen, established a trading store on the site of present-day Flagstaff. The Town owes its name … every Sunday as a signal to…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - NOSIPHO MAJEKE: A Biographical Note
… she continued to contribute to many journals, articles on the history of the Southern African liberation movement. … these writers. Among the student…
PlaceNqamakwe
… economy they were now attempting to enter, they began, on their own initiative, to collect funds and to lay down the … to the amaMfengu and the High School…
Address at the Third African Renaissance Festival, Durban, 31 March 2001
… urgent challenge of ending poverty and underdevelopment on our Continent. This is a massive task that will take us … we confront in this regard is that we…
PlaceDorkay House (1952)
… in response to the apartheid government’s restrictions on creative freedom for Black musicians. Dorkay House became … of King Kong: An African Jazz (1959)…
ANC`s urgent court application in view of DA march, 12 February 2014
… to Chief Albert Luthuli House tomorrow. The DA insists on bringing fully armed security company in its march to … that guarantee. It is evident that the DA…
Isitwalandwe / Seaparankoe the Highest Award of Honour, 1955 - 2014
… of the rare bird" and was traditionally bestowed only on the bravest warriors of the people, on those who distinguished themselves in the eyes of all the …
Place'Aba Mponjwana', Drakensberg Mountains
… Zulu name for ridge on the Mountains in Drakensberg, including such Peaks as … weave through indigenous forests, while boat cruises on the Blyde Dam offer a…
Place'Aardoringspruit', Brandfort in the Free State Province
… when a Voortrekker elder; Jacobus van Zijl; built a Church on his Farm: 'Keerom' . This in Afrikaans means: 'Defend … because the first ever Aeroplane in…
ArchiveThe ANCs first armed military operation: the
… People's Union (ZAPU) and crossed the Zambezi River on 31 July 1967 into Rhodesia. Their mission was twofold: the … ANC's military wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe …
PlaceNelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum, Port Elizabeth
… formerly the King George VI Art Gallery. It was opened on 22 June 1956 and renamed in December 2002. The collections … researchers wishing to see specific…
PlaceBellville, a Suburb of Cape Town
… Mile Stone. It was originally founded as a railway station on the line from Cape Town to Stellenbosch and strand. … for the young at heart with a vibey…
PlaceAlphen; Constantia Road, Constantia- Cape Town
… was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 30 June 1973. Nova Constantia , Constantia Valley. This … was declared a National Monument…
PlaceFraserburg
… of Worcester and was proclaimed a separate division on 12 December 1853. In about January 1890 its Southern … 3,151 were literate The building known as the…
EventNathaniel Nakasa, South African journalist and writer, dies in exile
… for a passport. This forced him to leave the country on an exit permit and leaving in that manner meant he would … suicide by jumping from a high-rise…
EventJohn Fairbairn (70), journalist and outspoken critic, dies in Cape Town
… together with his friend and colleague Thomas Pringle went on to become the editors of The South African Commercial … Town home of his son-in-law, advocate F…