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EventAlexandra Action Committee member is shot dead in Johannesburg
… Congress (ASCO) was shot dead through the window of a church hall while he attended an Alexandra Youth Congress …
PlaceAll Saints Mission, Eastern Cape
… is also commemorated by members of the Eastern Orthodox Church as well as some Protestant Churches, such as Anglican, …
EventSouth Africa mourns the passing of Beyers Naudé, apartheid struggle stalwart and Afrikaner cleric
… health had been deteriorating over the past six months. Church leader and close friend Desmond Tutu said " Beyers …
Documents, speeches, Awards, and articles relating to Desmond Tutu
… of Churches , first Black Archbishop of the Anglican Church in South Africa , Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town, …
ArticleAfrapix
… white minority rule in the 1980s. Initially, the Inter-Church Media Project (IMP) headed by Rev Bernard Spong …
PlaceBathurst, Eastern Cape
… the arrival of the settlers. The oldest unaltered Anglican church building in South Africa is St. John's in Bathurst. … He also built the Wesleyan chapel …
PlaceVryburg, Bophirima Region
… boasts a couple of National Monuments including: A stone church built in 1904 by the London Missionary Station . The … Kinderdam ,(half way between Vryburg…
PlacePrimville, Soweto- Johannesburg
… ‘upliftment’ of Africans in Johannesburg) Walter Sisulu Square in the heart of Kliptown , Soweto, is South Africa’s … traders, event coordinators and…
EventChoirmaster and composer Kumalo dies
… was even after that date at times commissioned to write church music. …
PlaceMbaula Village, Phalaborwa
Located in the Limpopo Province outside of Phalaborwa. This Area of Mbaula stretches over an area of 3.032 squared kilometers. There is a Population of 2 700…
Journal of Black Theology
… perspective and in light of the teachings of the Christian Church. Feminist theological issues and liberation …
EventScottish missionary, Robert Moffat arrives in Northern Cape
… in the valley of the Kuruman River, where Moffat built a church, once the largest building on the high veld. …
PlaceDarters Pass, Northern Cape
… from the mother parish of Clanwilliam, a place for a Church was required. A site was chosen on the Farm; 'Wilgenhoutskloof' and the Church the first in…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches held at Pretoria on 28 March 1983, Volume 59
… President of the Methodist Conference of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa, of the Commission of Inquiry into …
EventElectric lights are installed in Adderley Street, Cape Town.
… like the Old Slave Lodge Museum, Groote Kerk (the oldest church in South Africa) and the Company Gardens. During …
EventThe first Afrikaans Hymn book is published
… respectively. These developments established Afrikaans as church language. …
EventThe Town Victoria West is founded under the name Victoria, named after Queen Victoria
… small town in the Western Cape. In 1844 the Dutch Reformed Church bought a farm in the area and named it Victoria, after …
ANC statement on the death of Adelaide Tambo, 31 January 2007
… aged 82, was among those arrested and marched to the town square. Here the old man collapsed. As she waited for him to …
PlaceSouth African National Art Gallery
… Cape Town. It housed in the Old Town House on Greenmarket Square, built in 1755 in Cape Rococo style. Donated by Sir …
PlaceRepublic of Griqualand West or the Digger's Republic
… on the Griqualand West Supreme Court, on the Market Square in 1882 and took two Years to complete, opening in …
PlaceShri Jagannath Puri Temple, Tongaat
… of Tongaat, Province of Natal, and measuring (12 269) square feet. Vishwa Shakti; a local free Hindu newspaper and …
Article1946 Indian Passive Resistance Timeline
… requesting permission to hold a meeting at John Nicol Square (Red Square), Pine Street, Durban following the Governor General’s … After a mass meeting of…
SEME by Richard Rive and Tim Couzens
… overseas (Tiyo Soga was ordained into the Presbyterian Church in Scotland in the 1850s, for instance) but he was one … he was later ordained as a minister of…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - The Early Years at the Rand
… tents, shacks and rough tracks. Then came the market square, noisy with traders, farmers, peddlers and transport … the life of this growing camp on the veld…
EventTwenty former SA political prisoners launched a campaign against apartheid laws
… apartheid laws by delivering political speeches at a church service outside Cape Town. Their campaign came a month …
EventLeprosy expert Dr Kok is born
… Helena Kok, medical missionary of the Dutch Reformed Church and authority on leprosy, was born in Brandfort, …
PlaceBredasdorp, Overberg
… was established with the building of a Dutch Reformed Church in 1838 on the farm Langefontein. Mayor van Breda is … town established and finally laid out,…
Visit of Graca Machel, 9 October 1991
… from the PAC, Azapo, SACP, SACC, Cosatu and individual church leaders have also been invited. Issued by: The …
EventCape Coloured Board agrees with the Department of Education on the establishment of an Art Centre for Coloured children
… was being conducted privately at St. Philip’s English Church School in Cape Town. The Department also took into …
EventSA artist Mizream Maseko is born
… under the Sun. Maseko was a deacon of the Zion Christian Church (ZCC). …