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PlaceRosmead
Middelburg Road was a Cape Government Railway station and was formally established on about 2 April 1883, when the Railway Line from Cradock was inaugurated…
EventRoger Joyce Bushell, Auxiliary Air Force pilot famous for his escape from the German prisoner of war camp, is born in Springs, Transvaal (now Gauteng)
Roger Joyce Bushell was born in Springs, Transvaal (now Gauteng) to British parents. He lived in South Africa until he was 14, when his father sent him to…
EventThe longest cricket test match in history is played between South Africa and England in Durban
Today marks the anniversary of the longest cricket test match in history. The game was played between South Africa and England in Durban. The game continued…
EventConstruction of the Victoria Falls Bridge and the railway line are completed
The Victoria Falls Bridge was constructed in 1905 at the height of British penetration of Northern and Southern Rhodesia. The brainchild of Cecil Rhodes, the…
ArticleThe 52nd ANC National Conference - Polokwane 2007
The 52nd African National Congress (ANC) National Conference took place from 16 – 20 December 2007 at the University of Limpopo in Polokwane. This conference…
ArticleThe Founding of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF)
According to the EFF’s publication ‘The Coming Revolution’, Julius Malema had earned the title of Commander-in Chief of the Economic Freedom Fighters when he…
A New Date For the Founding of the South African Society of Artists, and it’s Second Annual Exhibition of 1898
WHILE THIS EXHIBITION AND CATALOGUE purport to mark the centenary of the founding of the South African Society of Artists (SASA) in 1902, it is actually the…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Contextual Overview
Figure 1.1. With his call to put “America First”, Donald Trump is the latest recruit to a dangerous nationalism. Flagrantly authoritarian figures like Donald…
ArticleA timeline of Zuma-Gupta issues from Nenegate to the firing of Pravin Gordhan
1993 The Guptas arrive in SA. 1994 The Guptas establish Sahara Computers. The Guptas fund Essop Pahad’s publication, The Thinker. 2002 Jacob…
Message to the Seventh Congress of the South African Communist Party by O. R. Tambo, April 1989
Comrade Joe Slovo, General Secretary of the South African Communist Party, Comrade Dan Tloome, Chairman of the South African Communist Party, Distinguished…
Biography of Hugh Masekela by Fardin Rahman
Hugh Masekela is recognized as one of the most famous and influential musicians of all time from South Africa due to his role in spreading awareness about his…
Biography of Miriam Makeba by Narcy Negrete
Abstract Miriam Makeba was a South African singer, daughter, mother, and an antiapartheid activist. After she was exiled from South Africa in 1960, she used…
EventLesotho's deputy Prime Minister shot
Lesotho's Deputy Prime Minister, Selometsi Baholo, is shot dead by dissident soldiers during an apparent kidnapping attempt. They also seize four cabinet…
Place'Aardoringspruit', Brandfort in the Free State Province
This is a Watercourse extending East to West, 14 km West around the Area of Brandfort..The name is thought to be taken from the Walafrida Geniculata or 'Aarbos…
EventSouth African historian Charles van Onselen is born.
Charles van Onselen was born on 14 August 1944, in the South African town of Boksburg, Gauteng (then Transvaal).[i] van Onselen has become one of the most…
The Mission: A Life for Freedom in South Africa by Denis Goldberg
Foreword by Dr Z. Pallo Jordan Preface Chapter 1 Break down the walls Chapter 2 Respect for all, Childhood in Cape Town, 1933 – 1949 Chapter 3…
PlaceFort Wynyard
On June 11, 1795, a squadron of British warships anchored in False Bay. In reaction the commander of the Cape forces ordered that a new battery, Kijk-in-de-pot…
EventNathaniel Nakasa, South African journalist and writer, dies in exile
Ndazana Nathaniel Nat Nakasa was awarded the The Niemann Fellowship to study journalism at Harvard University in the US but the government rejected his…
PlaceOld Railway Station Museum, Uitenhage
This is an engaging structure, with a high pitch roof, dormer windows and ornate fretted timber details. Built on Market Street in the year of the opening of…
PlaceRoodepoort Town School, Rex Street
The Roodepoort Town School was established in the 1890s and its premises, including a School Building and a Hall, were opened on 8 October 1913. In 1914 the…
EventCurnick Ndlovu, Trade Unionist, is arrested.
Curnick Ndlovu was the secretary of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) and a member of the African National Congress (ANC). He was a leader of…
EventColoureds are removed from the voters roll
The South African parliament, which was dominated by the Afrikaner nationalist majority, embarked on a series of campaigns to remove Coloured people from the…
EventYouth rage follows the funeral of Victoria Mxenge
Political violence by the youth began after the funeral of assassinated Victoria Mxenge, a civil rights lawyer, who was respected and liked by the Congress of…
EventThe Sunday Times political journalist is suspended
The senior political writer of the Sunday Times, Ranjeni Munusamy, was suspended by the newspaper after her admission that she passed a story on spy…
EventFour ANC members killed in an ambush near Piet Retief, eastern Transvaal
On 8 June 1988, Surendra Lenny Naidu, Lindiwe Mthembu, Makhosi Nyoka and Nontsikelelo Cothoza, all African National Congress (ANC) members were shot dead when…
EventRev. Michael Scott besiege the UN for justice regarding Herero people
On 29 December 1948, a well known human rights activist Rev. Michael Guthrie Scott, who lived in South Africa, besieged the United Nations(UN) for justice…
Chapter 5 -The Character, Role and Significance of SASO
In this chapter I now interpret the character, role and significance of SASO. To this end, I draw on the analysis of the previous two chapters, the chapter…
Call for Participants: Academy for African Urban Diversity
DEADLINE: 14 MAY 2017 The African continent is rapidly urbanizing. If this point is agreed upon by a wide variety of actors—from media, to governments, UN…
PlaceDoornkop/Doornsluiten
Doornkop/Doornsluiten farm was located in Utrecht, a town in Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). To the west lay Annandale farm which was acquired by the South African…
PlaceChatsworth, Suburb of Durban
The origin of Chatsworth Chatsworth is a historically Indian township located in Durban some 14km south-west of the City centre, in the Umhlatuzana River…