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PlaceBo-tuin, Hof Street, Gardens.
… developed in about 1820 by Johannes Zorn. It consisted of a gabled House which, together with a long Building serving as slave quarters and stables placed at…
EventProtest against pass laws in Langa
… Blacks assembled in the Langa township outside Cape Town to protest against new pass laws. Delivering a fiery speech to the crowd Dora Tamana, a member of…
EventAbortion legislation is passed
… Termination of Pregnancy (CTOP) Act. The law allows women to terminate pregnancies on request within the first twelve … beyond that point. However, despite…
EventZimbabwean politician and trade unionist Morgan Tsvangirai is born
… which later became ZANU-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) and was a strong supporter of then Prime Minister Robert Mugabe . Tsvangirai later grew to oppose Mugabe’s…
EventTranskei Constitution Act No 48 commences
… 48 commenced. The history of this Act could be traced back to April 1961 when the Transkei Regional Authority appointed a committee to investigate the…
PlaceTunisia
… Tunisia is bounded by Algeria to the west and southwest, by Libya to the southeast, and by the Mediterranean Sea to the east and north. Used as a Roman, Arab…
EventChad gains its independence
… The French received considerable resistance in the 1920s to their plan to make Chad a French protectorate – under the command of conqueror Rabih … the…
PlaceHout Bay Museum
… The Hout Bay Museum is situated right next to the Hout Bay Tourist Office just off Main Road behind the … Garage. Just like the town, the cottage style…
EventEnglish ship “Caesar” with William Pearse on board bound for Bantam arrives
… "politely requesting to take in water freely & to buy some refreshing from the … [Journal] "... through the Blessing of the Almighty we had a faire view of…
PlaceMaitland
… February 1862. The 1891 census indicated that Maitland had a population of 2,035. By 1904, this number had risen to 5,071. Maitland is situated in the…
EventSolomon Kalushi Mahlangu is born
… Solomon Kalushi Mahlangu, a soldier of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of the … in Mamelodi, east of Pretoria. Mahlangu left the country to join the…
EventLuthuli Combat Detachment crosses the Zambezi
… until late 1968. Fearing possible leakage of information to the Rhodesian and South African Forces, the area where the crossing was to take place was kept…
EventThe African National Congress is found guilty
… According to a report published by The Star on this date , the report … President Nelson Mandela announced the appointment of a second commission of inquiry,…
EventGoldstone Commission investigate the Bisho Massacre
… At the request of President F. W. de Klerk, the commission of inquiry, headed by Judge … Oupa Gqozo, military ruler of Ciskei, for refusing to give…
EventSouth Africa deports Donald “Dolan” Acheson
… Donald "Dolan" Acheson is purported to have been deported from South Africa on the 31 March 1991, … Acheson was an Irish hit man, purportedly part of a…
EventThe first British Settlers arrive in Algoa Bay
… border of the Cape Colony, later called British Kaffraria, to strengthen the border against incursions by hostile Xhosa … them by the government, were…
EventBotha found Guilty
… Botha guilty of contempt for repeatedly ignoring subpoenas to testify in public before the country's Truth and … apartheid era. Botha was fined ten thousand…
EventTrevor Manuel unveils GEAR
… In a long-anticipated move the recently appointed Minister of … and Redistribution (GEAR), which committed the government to tighter fiscal policy and the…
EventThe Draft South Africa Act is signed
… the franchise question very contentious. Natal, who feared to lose its English identity in a predominantly Afrikaner state, favoured a federation. The…
EventKenyan mediates in SA election deadlock
… Kenyan Professor Washington J. Okumu urged Chief Buthelezi to participate in the forthcoming general election. Inkatha … Party (IFP) agreed following talks…
EventJaramogi Oginga Odinga, Kenyan independence leader dies
… in Bondo, Nyanza Province in Kenya in 1912. Odinga was a member of the second largest ethnic group in Kenya, the … Luo. He entered politics in 1947 and soon…
EventDouglas Portway, European-based South African artist, is born in Johannesburg
… After his first solo exhibition in 1945 he gained such a reputation that he became the first South African to be awarded a travel grant from the Institute of…
EventPassbook laws relaxed
… In July 1986, South Africa was in a state of martial law, with a nation-wide State of Emergency having been declared in June of the same year. To counter the…
Chapter 2 - Jewish Trade Unions in Cape Town 1903-1907: A Socio-Historical Study
… South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - 1921 by Evangelos A. Mantzaris INTRODUCTION Labour is a neglected aspect in … material conditions in the Cape Colony…
PlaceWestern Cape Province
… Europe settled . The Europeans brought slaves from Malay to serve them, and the Malay culture became part of South … German and Malay were spoken, these were…
Lekota and George resign ahead of disciplinary hearings, 3 November 2008
… regional chairperson Mluleki George were submitted to the ANC shortly before they were due to appear before the … Lekota faced eight charges, including…
SABC’s Matthews was Motsoeneng’s willing enforcer-in-chief: FJT (TMG Digital), 28 June 2016
… A statement by the FJT leadership described Matthews’ … that Matthews is as much culpable for allowing himself to have been part of in the first place‚ at…
ArchiveAddress at 6th Annual Nelson Mandela Lecture, by Nelson Mandela, 12 July 2008, Kliptown Soweto
… gentlemen, We have for years remarked about people coming to such events primarily to see what an old man looks like. To see a ninety-year-old in real life…
PlaceNqweba was called Kirkwood, Eastern Cape
… Kirkwood, in the heart of the Sundays River Valley, close to the town of Addo and the Northern regions of the Addo … Wildlife Festival in June of every year…
PlaceMagwa Waterfall, Lusikisiki-Port St. Johns
… remaining tea estate just outside Lusikisiki which is only a fifty minute drive from Port St Johns , (43,0 km) on the … Wild Coast that is accessible, …