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… in 1937; active in 1943 anti-pass campaign and 1949 Western Areas train boycott. …

… National Congress (ANC) propaganda leaflets exploded in Cape Town and in Johannesburg.  Similar occurrences were also … was found by a member of the public. At the Grand Parade, Cape Town, an explosion sent hundreds of ANC pamphlets into … the Rand Daily Mail building. During an interview with Cape Times Police Commissioner General J.P. Gous, said that …

… refugee, Francois Villion (later Viljoen), arrived at the Cape. By 1692, a total of 201 French Huguenots had settled at the Cape of Good Hope. The Huguenots were French Protestants who … religious freedom. Simon van der Stel (Governor of the Cape) set aside land for Huguenot settlement in Franschhoek …

… political activists working in the coloured communities of Cape Town. While many communities in the Western Cape were highly politicised during the 1980s, a … of political defiance against the apartheid state. In the Western Cape, the Soweto uprising triggered student revolts …

… Hettie McCleod was born on 27 June 1922 in Goodwood , Cape Town , Cape Province (now Western Cape ). She was the youngest of five children (three … and reality: Portraits of Women’s Lives in the Western            Cape 1948-1976”. HSRC Press: Cape Town. …

… National Union of South African Students, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, 28 November to 3 December 1981. … NUSAS National Directive for health: report to Congress, Cape Town, 1981 …

… Africa, John Fairbairn left England and arrived in the Cape in1823. Soon after his arrival he founded a school which … Fairbairn’s efforts paid off when in April 1829 the Cape Colonial government gave an undertaking to guarantee the … of the press. Fairbairn died suddenly at the Wynberg, Cape Town home of his son-in-law, advocate F.S. Watermeyer, …

… day the Joe Slovo informal settlement situated outside Cape Town was devastated by a shack fire. Seven people, … homeless. For the first time, a helicopter was used in Cape Town to exterminate a shack fire. … Joe Slovo informal settlement outside Cape Town is devastated by a fire. The Star, 17 January …

… the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) in Cape Town in 1972 and took part in the nationwide ‘Free … production at the Koeberg nuclear power station in the Western Cape. After obtaining his DPhil at Oxford, Christie … is currently Dean of Research at the University of the Western Cape (UWC). …

… On 4 December 1809 Cape Town was hit by an earthquake measuring 6.5 on the … Milnerton fault, running across the  Milnerton area, the Cape Flats and  right through to the city center. In 1809 … 4x4 Community Cape Town 1809 earthquake anniversary [online] Available at: …

… in the Department of History in the University of Cape Town. The study focusses on Cape Town's black African population, tracing the development … Africans in Cape Town: state policy and popular resistance, 1936-73 …

… Adam Small was born on 21 December 1936 in Wellington, Cape Province (now Western Cape) to a mother of Muslim Indian heritage and a … Cape) in 1959, and in 1960, at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) – of which he was one of the founders. …

… on 17 October, involving the conversion of Newclare, Western Native Township and the southern part of Clarem …

… on 17 October, involving the conversion of Newclare, Western Native Township and the southern part of Clarem …

… 5.6 earthquake, which strikes the Mascara region of western Algeria. Another sou …

… 5.6 earthquake, which strikes the Mascara region of western Algeria. Another sou …

… An armed group kills 29 people in south-western Algeria in the worst violence since President …

… William’s Town is attended by some 15,000 people. Twelve Western diplomats are present, including …

… An armed group kills 29 people in south-western Algeria in the worst violence since President …

… of Artists under the Sun, is born in Dikonana, Zeerust, Western Transvaal.  …

… of Artists under the Sun, is born in Dikonana, Zeerust, Western Transvaal.  …

… miners are shot by police and twenty-seven injured at the Western Deep Levels mine, Carletonville, in a confront …

… Western countries, under which SA, decide to implement an …

… Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battles of Belmont, western front, and Willow Grange, Natal front, started on the …

… Parts of western Johannesburg are plunged into darkness when an …

… The Prime Minister announces that eight very important Western intelligence agents, held by the Soviet Union, and …

… in battalions. They waited at the Rosebank depot in Cape Town to receive training till they were ready to be … Fifth Battalion boarded the Mendi ship. They sailed out of Cape Town at noon. The captain of the Mendi ship was Henry … The SS Mendi began its journey from Cape Town to Plymouth …

… was born in Tarkastad in the Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape ) on 18 December 1946, the third child of Mzingaye Biko … for the meeting, perhaps through an invitation from a Western government. But the logistics and security issues … Steve asked Peter Jones, a BPC activist based in the Western Cape , to travel to King William’s Town to help run …

… who were African National Congress (ANC) activists in Cape Town. Thus, she grew up in a politically active … in Kliptown, south-west of Johannesburg. She was the Western Cape delegate to the women’s march on the Union Buildings on … and Reality, Portraits of Women’s Lives in the Western Cape 1948-1976, (Human Sciences Research Council), …