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PlaceKalk Bay, Southern Suburbs- Cape Town
The Village of Kalk Bay was probably established in the 17th Century as a small community of lime burner's who mined the nearby deposits of limestone. Its name…
Document 69 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa, Johannesburg, to the Cape Town branch, 22 March 1937
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 69 - Letter from the Workers' Party of South…
Will the real PAC please stand up? by Phumza Sokana
INFIGHTING within the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) is far from over as two factions in the party battle with each other over the legitimacy of this weekend’s…
PlaceShri Jagannath Puri Temple, Tongaat
The property, with the Historic Indian temple thereon, being the remainder of Lot 79, Tongaat Township, situated in the Township of Tongaat, Province of Natal,…
PlaceSt Thomas’ Church, Ridge Road, Berea, Durban
In 1835, Captain Allan Gardiner retired from the navy and went to Natal to begin Missionary work amongst the Zulus. Although the Zulus as a whole were…
PlaceFresnaye, Cape Town
Fresnaye is situated between Signal Hill and Sea Point, a few kilometer's to the West of Cape Town's Central Business District (CBD). Fresnaye was…
PlaceCabo Verde
Cape Verde (or Cabo Verde as the nation now prefers to be called) is located on an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, just off the West coast of Guinea-Bissau…
Chapter V - South Africa belongs to all who live in it
From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph The Congress Alliance, functioning with a closely co-ordinated leadership, was working on the preparations for the…
PlaceFort Schanskop
After the Jameson Raid in 1896, Pres Paul Kruger of the “Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek” decided to protect Pretoria by constructing forts in strategic places…
EventJoaquim Chissano succeeds Samora Machel as president of Mozambique
Following almost 400 years of Portuguese presence, Mozambique became an independent state in 1975. A civil war broke out between two factions FRELIMO, backed…
EventPetronella Nellie du Toit South African soprano singer is born
Nellie duToit was born on 17 December 1929 in Pietersburg (now Polokwane) into a musical family. Thus, Nellie du Toit began her singing career at tender age of…
EventThree British mercenaries are sentenced to death for their part in the Angolan civil war
In January 1976, a group of 100 mercenaries crossed over from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (then Zaire) to Angola in order to support The National…
EventPort Natal is renamed Durban in honour of Sir Benjamin D’Urban, governor of the Cape Colony from 1834 - 1837
On 23 June 1835 Port Natal was renamed Durban in honour of Sir Benjamin D'Urban, governor of the Cape Colony from 1834 - 37. It is thought that the first…
PlaceCompensation, Settlement near Durban
Compensation is a Settlement 43 km North-East of Durban, on the route to Umhlali-Tongaat. The Area of Compensation got its name from Compensation Farm acquired…
PlaceZeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa- (MOCCA)
The building that plays host to the new Zeitz MOCAA has been a part of Cape Town since the early 1900's. At 57 metres, the Grain Silo was once the tallest…
PlaceDe Rust, Little Karoo
The Little Karoo Village of De Rust, lying in the crook of a bend in the road somewhere between the Feather Capital of Oudtshoorn and the fold Mountains of…
PlaceuMgungundlovu, Dingane's Royal Kraal
The uMgungundlovu was formerly known as Dingane's Kraal and royal Capital. He took power, after assassinating Shaka, his half-brother. Its name is derived…
PlaceWagenaer's Reservoir, Sanlam Golden Acre-Cape Town
In the heart of the 'Mother City', Golden Acre Shopping Centre has been a key part of everyday life in Cape Town since 1979.This shopping-Centre on the site of…
PlaceKeetmanshoop
In 1908, Gottlieb Redecker was the official builder of the German Colonial Government’s Works Department, drew up plans for a new Post Office building in…
PlaceGrassy Park, Cape Town
Grassy Park is one of the Southern Suburbs of Cape Town set on the Cape flats, just east of the M5 and the Princess Vlei, and closest to the suburbs of Ottery…
PlaceTugela River and Waterfalls, in the Drakensberg
Tugela River is the largest River in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa. It rises as a stream on the 3,050-metre high, Mont-aux-Sources Plateau near the…
ArticleThe Landless People’s Movement
In July 2001, The Landless People's Movement (LPM) was formed by leaders of various landless people of South Africa in response to evictions of farm workers…
ArticleSharpeville Massacre, 21 March 1960
At the annual conference of the African National Congress (ANC) held in Durban on 16 December 1959, the President General of the ANC, Chief Albert Luthuli,…
ArticleSona Patterns - Revisiting the Contributions of the People in Sub-Saharan Africa to Modern Mathematics
To many, modern mathematics and Africa are not synonymous. Open any school mathematics book and the role of African scholars has been relegated to the category…
ArticleIndustrial and Commercial Union Timeline 1919-1989
1919 The Industrial and Commercial Union (ICU) is formed in Cape Town after World War I, with a membership of 24. The Industrial and Commercial Union (ICU)…
PlaceKuboes, Northern Cape
Regarded by the local people as the heartland of the Nama Culture, the little Town of Kuboes lies nestled between the Mountains of Ku Boesberg to the North,…
PlaceGqeberha was Port Elizabeth, Nelson Mandela Bay
Port Elizabeth is now known as Gqeberha. The name change was approved by the South African government in 2021 and is an Xhosa name, the language of the local…
EventThe birth of the Treatment Action Campaign
On 10 December 1998, International Human Rights Day, a group of about 15 people protested on the steps of St George's Cathedral in Cape Town to demand medical…
The First South African side to play in the sub-continent: Boer Prisoners of War in 1901 (Part 1 of 2) by Arunabha Sengupta (Cricket Country), 12 October 2015
The Colts from Colombo and the Boer prisoners-of-war who played a two-day match in July 1901. Back (left to right): Phillipus Ooosthuizen (scorer – Boers),…
ArticleSouth African National Students Congress (SANSCO)
Background to the formation of the South African National Students Congress (SANSCO) The emergence of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) and the adoption…