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In the name of art - A reflection on fine art
… Let these images be a tribute to the many artists who have died too soon and too young. … art, like all art, must of necessity be understood within a…
PlaceCora Terrace Houses (1,3,5,7,9,11), Port Elizabeth
… This beautiful Georgian home was built in the 1850’s to house soldiers guarding the port of Port Elizabeth. … distance to St. George’s cricket stadium, and…
EventMandela threatens armed struggle
… Mandela warned that if the South African government fail to take effective steps to end the current violence in the country, the only defence … order to…
EventMgqwetho,the first poem of Nontisi is published
… Cizama. She is the sole significant female Xhosa poet up to now and her work is only now being rediscovered. She contributed close to ninety poems, which…
SAHO Commemorates 40 Years Since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue by Sindile Moya
… was involved in protests on the ground, as well as helping to organise collaborative efforts between different schools in Langa. Moya is currently a full…
PlaceRondebosch Fountain, Main Road, Rondebosch.
… trough used for the watering of horses, and consists of a round cast-iron drinking bowl supported on legs in the form of horses' hooves. A post topped by a…
PlaceAnton van Wouw House, Museum- Pretoria
… It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 23 June … brick finish is typical of the materials that Eaton liked to use in his designs…
PlaceBritish Kaffraria, now the Border Region
… captured territory, and by January 1835 they had begun to retreat, taking herds of captured cattle with them. The … the Governor of the Cape, Sir George Grey…
ANC ‘Military High Command’ Leader Interviewed
… Service 4th July 1986 South African police today launched a campaign to fight a spate of urban bombs. There have been about a dozen bomb …
ArchiveThe Way History is taught in South Africa is ahistorical, – and that’s a problem by Natasha Robinson (theconversation.com), 7 June 2018
… History may soon be a compulsory school subject until Grade 12 in South Africa. A task team established by the country’s minister of basic … critical…
ArchiveHow the apartheid regime burnt books – in their tens of thousands, 24 October 2018
… advice of the State Librarian one fine day in the 1970s, a truck transported thousands of books and magazines from Pretoria’s Central Police Station to a…
PlaceMaynardville Open Air Theatre
… The Maynardville Open Air Theatre is a popular and central part of Cape Town’s art scene – chiefly … performances and its ballet nights. In addition to the…
ArchiveEmergency Convocation of Churches in South Africa: package of preparation material
… Convocation of Churches in South Africa was decided upon to work on and develop effective non-violent actions to pressure the government to the negotiation…
Elections Programmes for Deputy President, Secretary General & Treasurer General, 16 May 2011
… walkabout at the Cape Town Station 09h30: Walkabout, door-to-door and public meeting in Atlantis 11h00: Walkabout, door-to-door and public meeting in…
Apdusa Views
… that issue it was stated: "Apdusa Views sees as its task to act as a watchdog of the oppressed people. We intend to comment to … inferior" races; the…
EventPaarl Riots report submitted
… On 25 June 1963 Mr. Justice H. Snyman submitted to parliament a final report on the 1962 Paarl Riots. The report analysed … determined effort to destabilise…
EventWorld Health Day
… Health Day ever since. The purpose of World Health Day is to create awareness about health care and working conditions, and through training and support,…
EventSouth African Prime Minister, John Vorster resigns
… the grounds of ill health. Surprisingly, he was available to fill the ceremonial State President position, which was vacant. Vorster was forced to resign…
EventAdriaan Vlok, Minister of Law and Order, announces a ban on the carrying of pangas, bush knives and axes weapons in “conflict situations”
… Party (IFP) supporters during the negotiations that led up to the first democratic election in South Africa was the … years. However, to many people these…
EventMigrant workers ransack Phola Park
… In the middle of the night, a group of migrant workers aligned with the Inkatha Freedom … the early hours of the morning forcing women and children to seek…
EventPope John Paul II appoints 31 cardinals, three from Africa
… policies of Islamacisation and Arabisation, which sought to transform the country into an Islamic-Arabic country. … policy, many Christians were forced to…
EventRobert Mugabe assures the SADC that the 9-10 March election in Zimbabwe would be free and fair
… election in Zimbabwe would be free and fair. According to a statement issued at the end of the day-long … country. The 'report' compiled by the two judges…
EventSpanish Flu strikes South Africa
… This started the worst pandemic ever in South Africa. Of a total population of just over 6 million at the time, nearly half contracted the disease, while…
EventAlan Paton is born
… graduated from Maritzburg College in 1918; he went further to study at the University of Natal, where he graduated with … distinction in physics. After…
EventHilda Bernstein passes away
… an aneurysm. In 1932 Bernstein and her mother immigrated to South Africa from England. She worked in the advertising … Labour Party League of Youth, of which…
EventThe Cape Agulhas lighthouse begins operating
… Contrary to popular belief, Cape Agulhas and not Cape Point is the … caused numerous shipwrecks. Therefore the construction of a lighthouse at Agulhas was…
EventLord Charles Somerset arrives in the Cape as Governor
… Somerset was the Governor of the Cape Colony from 1814 to 1826. He arrived in the Cape on 6 April 1814 as Governor with a mandate to further develop the…
The fall of the ANC: what caused it by Chris Kanyane (News24), 11 December 2016
… It used to be that the ANC was set up much more like the Zion … (the glorious movement of our people). It called itself a church (an allusion to the ANC…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at a banquet in honour of her majesty Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands Pretoria, 30 September 1996
… in exile' edited by R.M. Segal. The Sharpeville Massacre - A watershed in SouthAfrica by Reverend Ambrose Reeves (1966 … struggle against apartheid by David…
Racists Humiliated - O. R. Tambo Interviewed by Michael Wolfers, Sechaba, March 1976
… these liberation movements over Portuguese colonialism is a victory for the people of South Africa, for the continent … independence celebrations, the ANC…