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PlacePhilip Irrigation Tunnel and Missionary Station, Hankey
… His aim was to purchase land to grow maize for the society’s main mission station at Bethelsdorp and to spread the gospel. For … in 1822. Two years later he…
BiographyPetros Sipho Sibusiso Mkhize (Mkize)
… limiting African land ownership to just 7% of South Africa's territory and creating the conditions that would force … of African workers who formed the…
ArticleGrade 10 - Topic 6: The South African War and Union
… and destructive modern armed conflict in South Africa’s history. It was an event that in many ways shaped the …
Formation and launch of the UDF
… UDF launch at Mitchell's Plain in Cape Town. Source: http://www.nelsonmandela.org In … and launch of the United Democratic Front (UDF) on 20 August 1983 in a…
ArticleShip list of Indian Indentured Labourers
… Indians then their records may be traceable from the Who's Who or from family records and correspondences. The Home … Documentation Centre has a complete set…
PlaceOrange River
… Botswana and Namibia . The Orange River is South Africa's longest and one of it's major Rivers! The Orange feeds the Gariep dam, which at 6 … of River flows…
David Lurie
… He is a self taught photographer. Lurie has held over 20 exhibitions locally and internationally. His work also … for “Cape Town Fringe: Manenberg Avenue is…
David Lurie
… He is a self taught photographer. Lurie has held over 20 exhibitions locally and internationally. His work also … for “Cape Town Fringe: Manenberg Avenue is…
ArticleZion Christian Church (ZCC)
… went to Lesotho in 1920; there he joined Edward Motaung’s Zion Apostolic Faith Mission and was ordained as a bishop of the ZAFM for the … his son who…
ArticlePedi & Anglo-Pedi Wars 1876-1879
… a subordinate chief always a Pedi of the paramount chief's house. This gift confirmed the subordinate's chieftainship, and through the union, the paramount…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1800-1899
… in what came to be known as the Transkei and Ciskei. Smith's invasion formed part of what came to be known as the Nine … counties, towns and villages and…
Statement at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Struggling People of South Africa (Soweto Day), 16 June 1989
… to convey our heartfelt congratulations to Ambassador J. N. Garba, under whose leadership the Special Committee has … conditions with the sole purpose of…
ArticleBiography of Mongane Wally Serote by Matthew Williams
… Afrikaner National Party gaining power in 1948, the people’s struggle against apartheid took many forms, including … Serote." Voice Compassion Education. 3…
ArticleA brief history of domestic service in South Africa
… black African males did so in the Witwatersrand and Natal's coastal colony [x] . Due to employer complaints about the … domestic labour . Young African…
ArticleTransport and General Workers Union (TGWU)
… PUTCO bus company workers’ strike of June 1972. TGWU’s headquarters were in Johannesburg, with branches in the … (TUACC) in 1974. By the 1980s its membership…
ArticleCongress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa
… so as to undermine the reach of the power of chiefs. Mission schools, and the subsequent increase in economic … many years and had resulted in the deaths of…
ArticleThe ANC’s MK Special Ops Unit Material - Yunus Carrim Collection - Interviews
… Special Operations Unit Project Interviews, Guy Malamba, 20 December 2025, eThekwini MK Special Operations Unit … Operations Unit Project Interviews, Teddy…
EventTrade unionist Clements Kadalie dies in East London
… Clements Kadalie, was born in April 1896, near the Bandawe mission station in Nyasaland, now Malawi . After being educated at the Church of Scotland mission…
EventEgyptian President Sadat formally accepts an invitation to visit Israel. The Egyptian foreign minister and his deputy resign over the proposed visit to Israel and the Arab nations are in uproar
… Anwar Sadat's visit to Israel came about after he delivered a speech in … "On This Day: 18 November." News24.com Sadat's "Sacred Mission" TIME. 28 November…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1960s
… office, several African affairs offices and electric power stations near Johannesburg and Port Elizabeth. 18 December, … Botswana, then London and becomes a…
PlaceFish River Canyon
… The World’s second largest Canyon with grand landscapes, breath-taking … 10 kilometres from the well-known view point- Hell`s Bend, at the Hobas Restcamp …
EventNamibian artist, John Ndevasia Muafangejo, dies
… and spent his childhood tending cattle in his father's kraal. After his father's death in 1955, his mother moved to the Anglican mission station at Epinga in…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1970-1979
… that it would be resuming arms sales to South Africa’s apartheid government. 1971 Thabo Mbeki is deployed to … at the involvement of British business in…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 1 The Ming Dynasty
… a government examination [11] . During Emperor Taizu’s reign, an office called the Censorate (Yushati) was made … feminist, arguing that women should be…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter VI - The Wesleyans take a hand
… the middle twenties they had started laying their chain of mission stations among the Bantu tribes. The Rev. William Shaw first … judging the nature of the…
Books and further reading links relating to Right to Organise
… Trouble in Natal - 20 00 Women rioted in Cato Manor over living conditions and …
ArticleThe South African Society of Artists and its exhibitors, 1902-1950
… Society of Artists made a major contribution to the nation's visual arts in the first half of the 20th century. Writing …
The Colonial Photographic Discourse and Censorship – Challenges for Resistance Photographers
… photography in South Africa, the South African government's censorship laws, and how those censorship laws pertained to … played the dual role of garnering…
PlaceDiep River
… near Wynberg, on the Cape Town-Simonstown road. Rathfelder's Inn, as it soon became known, was famous for its hospitality and in the 1840's became the…
PlacePaternoster, West Coast
… of colour; like the bright yellow shutters of the Town’s Library, or the engine red of 'Die Winkel' on Paternoster’s , front door. Or even, the lacquered…