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PlaceMkhambathi Nature Reserve
… . (This name can differ in spelling slightly, accordingy to local dialect.) With newly built Bridges of extraordinary complexity! Visitors have a range of…
ArchiveConcentration camps in the South African War? Here are the real facts by Fransjohan Pretorius, (The Conversation), February 18, 2019
… War Museum, Bloemfontein SA Image source More than a century after 48 000 people died in concentration camps in … comments by British Conservative MP Jacob…
ArchiveThe Moral Problem of Winnie Mandela by Paul Trewhela (Dailymaverick.com), 6 April 2018, South Africa
… by Spotlight.Africa Winnie Madikizela Mandela was not a safe pair of hands. True, life was far easier, calmer and … or during the eight years in which she…
PlacePretoria Boys High School
… This school was declared a National Monument. Pretoria Boys High School, also known as 'Boys High' . It is a public, tuition charging, English medium boys…
PlaceUniversity of Fort Hare, Alice- Eastern Cape
… challenges despite government efforts, students resort to this kind of behaviour. This is unacceptable.” “We are … who spent formative Years at Fort Hare. …
ArchiveKora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis
… by many difficulties, so that it has taken far longer to bring it to fruition than initially expected. This makes … to see this work finished. I have been…
PlaceSenegal
… Senegal is bounded to the north and northeast by the Sénégal River, which … point of the African continent. The Gambia consists of a narrow strip of…
ArchiveHugh Lewin, 1939–2019, RIP by Jennifer Malec, 17 January 2019
… Johannesburg yesterday. Born in Lydenburg in 1939, to English missionary parents, Lewin attended Rhodes … for his activities in the African Resistance…
PlacePhilippolis, Free State
… Orange River, this Southern Free State Town also belongs to the False Karoo, a Geographical Region of dry scrub that transforms to … houses huddle together…
ArchiveTerrorism Act 1967, Act No 83 of 1967
… The Act was to prohibit terroristic activities and to amend the law relating to criminal procedure; and to provide for other incidental …
Statement of the African National Congress and the South African Tamil Federation National Working Committee, 14 November 2014
… made it abundantly clear that the Tamil community was here to stay and to be part of the solution in South Africa to build a strong state and a South African…
PlaceAnnis River, near Kuboes in the Northern Cape
… about 14 km South-East of Kuboes. The name is said to mean, 'the one which is well known, primarily referring to … used by travellers in former times. The…
ArchiveThe Black Sash: a case study of liberalism in South Africa 1955-1990
… Thesis submitted to the Faculty of Social Studies, Sub-Faculty of Politics, … from its inception in 1955 until 1990. By means of a periodised narrative, this…
PlaceNewington Road Victorian Houses, Port Elizabeth
… Victorian double-storey, semi-detached dwellings forms a unique terrace erected in the late 19th century, and survives largely unaltered to the present day…
EventNelson Mandela is born
… Cape ). Mandela became involved in politics while being a student at Fort Hare University after he met Oliver Tambo, … declared 18 July as Nelson Mandela…
EventHendrik Verwoerd becomes Prime Minister
… office, Verwoerd realised his republican dream, when a White-only referendum supported his plea for a republic. This was also the first time in 12 years of…
Known as Black Tuesday’, the New York Stock exchange collapsed sending economic shockwaves throughout the world and throwing the global economy into depression
… urbanization and an increase in poverty as people battled to find employment. The diamond and the agricultural sectors … from 16.6 pence in 1928 to 4.4 pence…
EventIan Smith of Rhodesia and Henry Kissinger meet in Pretoria
… States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger met in Pretoria to discuss majority rule for Rhodesia. South African Prime … peace in Rhodesia, but to no avail…
EventEnforcement of military conscription for all white males in SA
… the Navy. Service in any of these divisions was restricted to White South African males.Prior to the Amendment Act, … over the age of 16. Deferment to…
EventBambatha Rebellion
… started at the end of 1905, when government introduced a new £1 poll tax on top of existing hut and dog taxes. After … unification of South Africa mining…
EventThe decisive Battle of Bembesi (Bembasi) is fought in the First Matabele War (Ndebele), Zimbabwe
… Africa, had ordered British Administrator Leander Jameson to set up the 1893 Campaign. The Battle: On 1 November 1893 the Matabele warriors carried out a…
PlaceCurry's Post
… Curry’s Post is a beautifully scenic area in the heart of the Midlands … Meander that lies between Mooi River and Howick . It has a quaint history that…
EventDavid Livingstone “discovers” Lake Nyasa
… Born in Scotland in 1813, Livingston was a renowned explorer, doctor and missionary. Of course, he is … (now in Mozambique) and commander of an expedition to…
EventHaile Selassie, deposed Ethiopian emperor, dies
… of Ejersa Gor, in the Harar Province of Ethiopia. Heir to a 13th century dynasty, he ascended to the throne of … by the 1970s, Emperor Selassie’s apparent…
ArchiveThe Final Prize: Family - chapter 1
… I literally fell into politics at the age of fourteen, a happening that set my life on a path to prison, exile and finally return to South Africa. What …
PlaceFirst Raadsaal
… Click on image to enlarge The oldest remaining building in Bloemfontein, the … National Museum. The modest building of dung floors and a thatched roof was…
EventMass funeral for those killed at Sharpeville commemoration
… Eighty thousand Blacks attended a mass funeral in KwaNobuhle township for the twenty-eight people killed by police during a demonstration in Langa on 21…
PlaceKoopmans de Wet House, 35 Strand Street, Cape Town
… the 18th century by Governor Willem Adriaan van de Ste l to a rich merchant, Reynier Smedinga. Tradition has it that Smedinga, who had previously been a ship…
PlaceGreen Point
… area about Green Point was initially used by the Dutch as a cattle grazing station. After the British annexed the Cape in 1806, they began to hold horse…
PlaceGouritsrivier, Near Mossel Bay
… mentions Hieronimus Cruse, -who first crossed it from East to West in 1667 after he had gone by sea to Mossel Bay . Cruse found there a Hottentot tribe, the…