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EventPortuguese navigator Bartholomew Dias erects the first stone cross on the South African coast
… as ship captain is in an account of an expedition sent by Portuguese King JoÁƒÂƒo (John) II to Guinea in December … oldest monument. Remains of this cross…
EventPresident Thabo Mbeki leads a government delegation to the funeral of former state president, P.W. Botha
… strikes and protests around the country. Botha responded by implementing a nationwide state of emergency in 1986, … He resigned from the National Party and…
EventA Dutch ship, the Rosenberg, carrying Huguenots, leaves for the Cape from the Netherlands
… Netherlands fleeing religious persecution brought about by the ascendancy of Catholicism in France. The Edict of … state subsidies in 1707. One of the…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 93th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2005
… central aim that must inform the detailed work done daily by the vanguard movement for the social transformation of our … our people towards the creation of…
PlaceTenterden, 60 Durban Road, Wynberg
… but 67 minutes later, they made a difference in ours… By KAREN WATKINS July 7, 2016 Behind an electric fence on … Road, the ramshackle Tenterden often…
EventUnited Democratic Front member dies after asthma attack
… claiming that Mr Mbuyiseli Songelwa was urgently attended by the medical team on the same day of the attack. …
Condolence book for Comrade Ahmed Kathrada, 28 March 2017
… Street, Johannesburg from 14h00 this afternoon. Issued by the African National Congress Enquiries Zizi Kodwa 082 330 …
ArchiveDirector’s Report on the Activities of the Chris Hani Institute for the period October 2012 to September 2015
… in 2003 to promote the values and principles practised by Chris Hani and others in their struggle to serve the …
PlaceAllemansfontein, a Farm in the Eastern Cape
… Cape. Former name of the Farm- Almondsfontein, given by Colonel Robert Jacon Gordon, who was the Commander of the … New Dictionary of South African Names by…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches held at Pretoria on 17 May 1983, Volume 70 and Volume 71
… into the South African Council of Churches (SACC), chaired by the Honourable Mr Justice C F Eloff, to inquire into, …
ArchiveCivil Society vs. the State: identity, institutions, and the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
… Movement in South Africa between 1966 and 1979. It begins by critiquing prevailing structuralist theories of regime …
ArchiveThe National Committee for Liberation (ARM), 1960-1964: sabotage and the question of the ideological subject
… MA degree in History at the the University of Cape Town by Andries du Toit. The dissertation gives an account of the …
ArchiveSPRO-CAS Occasional Publication Number 9: Law, justice and society
… in Apartheid Society. Content includes: Statement by the Members of the Commission; The image of the law in the …
PlaceMaitland Road
… Milestones where used to measure distance, by the early settlers, in Cape Town. A Post Office known as … New Dictionary of South African Place Names by Peter…
ArchivePromise of hope
… on white photo two young boys crying; text: What is needed by the black people of South Africa is not sticking plaster; …
ArchiveSome aspects of the South African industrial revolution
… address in the Hoernle Memorial Lecture series deliverd by Dr. H.J. Van Eck. He describes very clearly the economic …
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.5 No.2 Jan-Mar 1961
… the Future of France, Claude Bourdet, with a tail-piece by Papas. The Declaration of the 121, Robert Barrat. The …
PlaceGoede Hoop Wine Estate
… first bought this farm in 1928 and today it’s still run by the family with Pieter Bestbier (now a third generation …
PlaceChurch Square,Spin Street- Cape Town
… and, at a later stage, the eastern boundary was defined by a spinning factory. Originally the square served as the …
PlaceHouse of Parliament, Cape Town
… within six minutes after being called and alerted by the police guarding the parliamentary precinct. ( links …
EventThe QwaQwa homeland receives self-government status
… was one of the ten homelands in South Africa introduced by the apartheid government. It was home to the Batlokoa and …
EventTwenty former SA political prisoners launched a campaign against apartheid laws
… their release, launched a campaign against apartheid laws by delivering political speeches at a church service outside …
EventAnnesu de Vos, SA poet, is born.
… history. When she was 16, her first book was published by Tafelberg Publishers in Cape Town. Two years later her …
EventInsulin is first introduced to the American public
… Insulin was discovered by Frederick G. Banting in 1921. Banting was working with …
EventTutu leads biggest anti-apartheid protest march in South Africa
… views and experience especially in reconciliation by promoting harmony among all South African. …
EventRhodesian Prime Minister, Ian Douglas Smith, declares a state of emergency
… Smith, declared a state of emergency. This was prompted by the United Kingdom’s (UK) refusal to grant Zimbabwe …
EventFrance supplies two new combat submarines to South Africa
… and states opposing South Africa. States supported by the Soviet Union included Angola, Mozambique, and …
EventBoxing legend, Dingaan Thobela thwarts a hijacking at his home in Johannesburg
… 'The Rose of Soweto' arrived home only to be greeted by hijackers as he was about to enter his Kelvin home. One of …
EventA delegation of seven Coloured leaders meets with SA Prime Minister Vorster to discuss the future of the Coloured community
… 1970s the Coloured Labour Party strengthened its position by forging an alliance with six members of the Coloured …
EventThe Bantu Homelands Citizenship Bill is passed
… After 1976 three black homelands were granted independence by the Republic of South Africa; Bophuthatswana, Venda and …