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PlaceCasa Labia,198 Main Road, Muizenberg
… in 1901, and subsequently built his residence upon it, a large dwelling designed in a neo-Renaissance style with features reminiscent of a … Italian Envoy…
PlaceBo-Kaap Museum
… as the Malay Quarter , the Bo-Kaap’s origins date back to the 1760s when numerous “huurhuisjes” (rental houses) were … place to discover the real history of…
PlaceSouth African National Museum of Military History
… The Museum of Military History offers adults a fascinating look at all forms of war vehicles and weapons. … with the visual spectacle of its displays, from…
Document 32 - League of African Rights, Petition, 1929
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison … Document 32 - League of African Rights, Petition, 1929 A…
EventNatal Indian Organisation delegation meets Premier Smuts
… Indian Organisation (NIO) was founded on May 4 1947 by A. I. Kajee and others who had left the Natal Indian Congress … (NIC). The NIC had grown more radical…
EventThe South African Bureau of State Security (BOSS) is established
… Service Amendment Act of 1969. This Act did not give a full brief for the agency, but in 1972 the State Security … (1972) laid out the purpose of BOSS. The…
EventSA Special Forces accused of train violence
… the Benrose massacre on 13 September 1990. He also named a Zimbabwean who had allegedly been involved in train … both stated that they saw themselves as…
EventANC celebrates its 79th anniversary in Durban
… in Durban on 8 January 1991 for the first time as a legal organisation. At the time of the celebrations the ANC … was imprisoned while others skipped the…
EventLouis Trichardt, Voortrekker leader, is born near Oudtshoorn 225 years ago
… the interior of South Africa. The Voortrekkers decided to leave the Cape Colony for various contested and … British rule) and "pull" factors (including the…
EventBoeremag bomb blasts rock Soweto and Bronkhorstspruit
… railway lines running through the township. The damage to the railway lines was estimated at approximately R2 … could not go to work. One of the explosions…
EventFormer Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere dies
… Mwalimu Nyerere died of leukaemia aged 77. Nyerere became a symbol of the struggle against colonialism in Tanzania and to other African countries including…
EventArrival of Chinese labourers in South Africa
… A labour shortage at the gold mines on the Rand resulted in … of the Gold mining industry was also one of Milner's plans to further development in South…
PlaceUnion Buildings, Pretoria
… light sandstone and is over 275 m long. It is built in a semi-circle design with two wings at either side. The wings represented the union of a formally…
ANC National Working Committee statement following its meeting held on the 20th January 2014, 21 January 2014
… the Headquarters of the ANC. The meeting received a briefing from Comrade Aaron Motsoaledi, the Minister of … of the exorbitant cost of medicine in our…
Declaration on Apartheid and its Destructive Consequences in Southern Africa
… International political processes leading to the " Declaration on Apartheid and its Destructive … and Government on the question of Southern Africa' as a…
PlaceJunction Avenue Theatre
… formed in 1976, and it was organised and conceptualised by a group of White students from the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits University) in a bid to…
Imbewu Yesini
… questioning the narratives and expectations assigned to us as women and men. "Imbewu Yesini" bears witness to the wounds that have come to separate us. It…
EventInternational Labour Organisation (ILO) suspends South Africa
… in Geneva. The resolution was passed by thirty-two votes to fourteen with two abstentions. The ILO objected to South … people to work as manual workers and…
EventThe Herstigte Nasionale Party is established
… (HNP) (Reconstituted National Party) was established as a right wing splinter group of the South African National … SA prime minister, General J.B.M. Hertzog…
EventChief Buthelezi considers registering the IFP for April 1994 election
… his Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP). The elections were set to take place on April 27. This announcement emerged after … the day before. Both the IFP and the ANC…
EventAmerican Troops pull out of Somalia
… American troops a re pulled out of Somalia following a series of gun battles Somali militias under the Command of … General Mohammed Farrah Aidid. American…
EventAnnexation of the Orange Free State is announced
… C R de Wet of the Orange Free State (Boer Republic) failed to defend their capital town Bloemfontein. The British … from the Free State capital was delayed…
Ikwezi
… Ikwezi, a Xhosa word meaning "rising star", was a Marxist-Leninist journal devoted to proletarian socialist revolution in Southern Africa, …
ArchiveBantu Homelands Citizenship Act, Act No 26 of 1970
… Act to provide for citizenship of certain Bantu homelands and for the issue of certificates of citizenship to Bantu persons; in connection therewith to amend…
David Goldblatt: “Particulars” (1975) by The ASX Team, 16 May 2013
… “I seem to have an innate propensity which has been fed by life … sometimes enables and demands…” “My first awareness of a bodily particular that I can…
PlaceRehoboth
… Rehoboth is a Town in Central Namibia and lies on a high elevated plateau with several hot springs. Khoikhoi … of the Cape Colony in 1868. They were granted…
PlaceOriental Plaza, Fordsburg, Johannesburg
… Indoor bazaar with shops selling bargains from clothing to home-ware to spices, plus food stalls. Established in the … newly built Oriental Plaza. Today,…
PlaceOnderstepoort Veterinary Research Institute
… was associated with Sir Arnold Theiler, Nobel Laureate and a pioneer in the field of veterinary research. It was declared a National Monument under old NMC…
PlaceWorkers’ Museum, Johannesburg
… The excellent Portrayal of Life as a Migrant Worker, found at the Worker’s Museum in Newtown, Johannesburg , was master-minded by Henry Paine, a local…
EventThe Defiance Campaign against apartheid laws begins
… Following the adoption of a Programme of Action in the 1949 annual congress, the ANC … was launched. It was announced on 6 April 1952 that a campaign to…