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ArticleThe Impact of Colonialism
… Dutch East India Company (known by the Dutch abbreviation VOC) was established in 1602 to conduct Dutch trade with the … the Khoikhoi to use the guns against…
PlaceWagenaer's Reservoir, Sanlam Golden Acre-Cape Town
… or Board of Directors of the Dutch East India Company, (VOC), instructed Zacharias Wagenaer, the only German Governor … or Board of Directors of the Dutch…
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) joins the highest-ranking sports leaders in Africa to issue a declaration denouncing
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) joins the highest-ranking sports leaders in Africa to issue a declaration denouncing
The British Sports Council urges the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and all other international sporting governing bodie
Albert John Luthuli is elected president-general of the ANC. scnc.udw.ac.za/doc/TEXTS/dcc
PlaceVredenhof Organic Farm, Somerset West
… in 1498 sailing around the Cape. Dutch East India Company (VOC), established a refreshment station in 1652 at the Cape … farms. These farmers were to supply…
Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism - Chapter 2 - The Development of a Colonial Slave Society by Wayne Dooling
… in 1652 when the Vereenigde Oost-Indisch Compagnie (VOC), a great merchant corporation with its headquarters in … Cape Town today. From within the walls of…
PlaceCape Town, Western Province
… soil in 1652. He was sent by the Dutch East India Company (VOC), to establish a Supply Station for ships on their way … after Van Riebeeck had established…
BiographyBabette Brown
A tireless advocate for justice and equality in South Africa, the United Kingdom (UK), and all over the world, Babette Brown was born in 1931 in Johannesburg,…
Journal of Student Affairs in Africa - Vol 3 Issue 1 - Student Power in African Higher Education, edited by Teboho Moja
Going Full Circle on Khoekhoe Origins by Alan G. Morris, (The Digging Stick Vol 31, No 1), 2014, South Africa
The Church of the Vow in Pietermaritzburg is consecrated and Erasmus Smit is inducted as its first minister.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) passed a resolution barring any athlete from the Olympics who competes in South Afric
Count Carl Gustav von Rosen, a Swedish pilot, defies Nigerian air defences by flying supplies in to Biafran rebels.
EventThe South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee is founded
On the 13 January 1963, the South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee (SAN-ROC) was founded by Dennis Brutus. The committee was specifically established to…
BiographyShadrack Fuba Zibi
Chief of the Mbuto (Mbuthweni) section of the Hlubi group of tribes, was the son of Fuba III and the grandson of Zibi II. He was educated at Love dale…
Review of African Political Economy Vol. 40 No. 138 edited by Nicolas Pons-Vignon, Aurelia Segatti and Ray Bush
Thozamile Botha, Chief Executive Officer of the telecommunications company Ikwezi Group and chief negotiator for the ANC on Loc
Baron Paul Julius von Reuter, founder of the Reuters News Agency, is born as Israel Beer Josaphat in Germany.
The commissioner of mines, Carl von Brandis, is appointed as the first landdros of Johannesburg, responsible for the administra
In the German village of Herrnhut, religious reformer Count Nicolaus von Zinzendorf, aged 27, organises a group of Bohemian Pro
Victor (Vic) Toweel, (bantamweight) becomes SA’s first universal boxing champion by beating Manuel Ortez of the USA in Johannes
The German Fifth Panzer Army under General Gustav von Vaerst begins to evacuate from Tunis. Rommel departed on 9 March.
The first Comrades marathon (87 km) is run by Vic Clapham and his friends who initiated it as a reunion.
In German South West Africa Captain Kurt von François moves his administrative headquarters to Windhoek, seven months after er
Basil Neo Sipho Bridgeman (Doc) Bikitsha (77), veteran journalist and story-teller who wrote for Drum and various newspapers, d
PlaceSlave Church Museum
… The slaves belonging to the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in the Slave Lodge mostly gained access to the church …
BiographyHarold Wolpe
Harold Wolpe was born on 14 January 1926 in Johannesburg to a Lithuanian Jewish family. Wolpe graduated with a BA in Social Studies in 1949 and an LLB in 1952…
BiographyMarion Monica Sparg
Marion Monica Sparg was born in East London and was one of six children. She grew-up in a white middle-class English-speaking South African family in the…