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General Adolf von Trotha replaces Theodor Leutwein as governor of German South West Africa.
The German Foreign Minister, Friedrich von Holstein, denounces the French plan to partition Morocco.
ArchiveIndian Opinion Vol.53 No.43 and No.44 Nov 1954 Special Diwali Issue
The Rev. Hendrik Carel Vos Leibbrandt, archivist and librarian, is born in Cape Town.
PlaceMostert’s Mill, Rhodes Drive, Mowbray
… In 1657 the VOC granted land on the slopes of Table Mountain to a number …
South Africa in the 1900s (1900-1917)
… a commission from the Dutch East India Trading Company (VOC) to establish a refreshment station for passing ships. … response to the colonists' growing…
PlaceThe South African Police Service Museum
… include two coins from the Dutch East-India Company (VOC) era and a depiction of the Battle of Muizenberg . There …
ArticleSlave Resistance
… Slavery was introduced to the Cape Colony by the VOC in its desire to boost the agriculture and food supply …
BiographySumboornam Pillay
Sumboornam (Sam) Pillay, who later became known as Sam Moodley, was born in 1948*. She grew up in the multi-cultural community of Dundee, Northern Natal (now…
PlaceNewlands
… and an oak plantation. It remained the property of the VOC, and over the years became a gracious residence for …
PlaceRondebosch
… 1670 this had been contracted in the Dutch East India's (VOC) , records to Rondeboschje . Despite its early origins … 1670 this had been contracted in the…
PlaceGreen Point
… German stone mason who had previously been employed by the VOC, and was now working for the new administration as …
BiographyProfessor Kader Abdul Asmal
Kader Abdul Asmal was born on 8th of October in 1934, in the small rural town of Stanger, KwaZulu Natal (then Natal). Young Asmal was raised in a vibrant,…
The People's Past: Towards Transforming the Present by Luli Callinicos (Critical Arts Vol 4 No 2), 1986
Sunny Venkatruthnam, University Of Durban-Westville, Documentation Centre, Oral History Project, “Voices of Resistance”, 16 July 2002
BiographyPhathekile Holomisa
Phathekile Holomisa was born on 26 August 1959 in the Eastern Cape. He went to the University of Natal during the mid 1980’s where he received a Bachelor of…
BiographyEve Hall
Eve Hall was born on 20 March 1937 in Paris, France, to a Jewish father and a German mother. When the Second World War broke out, her father was on a visit to…
BiographyHalton Cheadle
Michael Halton Cheadle was born on 30 July 1949. He received a BA Honours and BProc from UNISA. Cheadle then completed a Bachelor of Law from Witwatersrand…
International Boycott of Apartheid Sport by Mary Corrigall
With special reference to the campaigns in Britain by the Anti-Apartheid Movement Paper prepared for the United Nations Unit on Apartheid in 1971 1 The…
PlaceRust en Vreugd, Buitenkant Street, Cape Town
… in 1778 as a residence for the Dutch East India Company's (VOC) Cape fiscal, Willem Cornelis Boers. The Rococo Fanlight, …
PlaceCape Province- 'Province of Good Hope' or previously the- Cape Colony
… a small trading post run by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) from the Netherlands. Sailing ships on their way to … a small trading post run by the Dutch…
ArchiveDeclaration of the OAU ad-hoc Committee on Southern Africa on the question of South Africa
Organisation of African Unity declaration on the question of South Africa. Statement that apartheid must be liquidated. Includes statement of principles,…
Herero tribesmen near Okaharui, German West Africa (now Namibia) defeat German forces under Major Von Glasenapp.
Address by ANC President, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, to the OAU Ad Hoc Committee for Southern Africa Arusha, 28 April 1992
Mr. President, The Honourable Heads of State Your Excellencies Honourable Ministers Allow me to express my great appreciation to you for affording me the …
BiographySolly Mokoetle
Solly Mokoetle was also known as Solly Mpoli in Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) circles, Solly Mokoetle left the country during the first half of 1976. As the influx…
BiographyPitika Ntuli
Born in Springs, situated east of Johannesburg, Pitika Ntuli grew up with a keen interest in art. As a young man, he got involved in politics, and he was an…
BiographyArthur Albert Hugh Adams
Albert Adams was born At the Crown Gold Mine near Johannesburg on 23 June 1929. Adams was a child of Indian and Cape Coloured parents. His father had emigrated…
PlaceStone Chapel, Tokai, near the Porter Reformatory School
… received special attention during the 1780's when the VoC , fearing a British attack on the Cape , accepted the …
EventSmallpox Epidemic Strikes at the Cape
… sent to the slave lodge of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) to be laundered. Within weeks the Company slaves were …
PlaceSlave Lodge, Cape Colony
… Good Hope. About the conditions of Enslaved People at the VOC Company, Slave Lodge in Cape Town. He stated with grave …