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BiographyMohamed Farouk Asvat
… al Qalam; The Jo'burg Book: a guide to the city's history, people and places; Inleiding Tot Die Reg En …
ArchiveFrom Lithuania to a false start in Johannesburg and settling in Cape Town, Carmel Schrire and Gwynne Schrire (The Heritage Portal), 21 September 2016
… is entirely the wrong conclusion. This volume adds to the history of Jewish settlement in South Africa and throws light on Cape Town social history in the…
PlaceHout Bay Museum
… museum is a hidden treasure with collections of Hout Bay’s history that goes back to 1652. When the Dutch colony … Bay valley and her inhabitants. There is…
PlaceRhodes Memorial, Vredehoek- Table Mountain
… He is among the most prominent figures in South African history. Rhodes rose to prominence as a Financier, … Founder of the De Beers Company of mines. In…
PlaceMcgregor Museum, Kimberley
… knowledge of the Northern Cape. Displays include natural history, the Siege of Kimberley , a Hall of Religions and the … Ancestors Gallery, depicting three…
PlacePort Elizabeth and the City Hall
… river. Port Elizabeth, now known as Gqeberha, has a rich history rooted in British colonialism and the influx of … in the Eastern Cape's economic development…
EventThe Afrikaans Protestant Church, a breakaway faction of Dutch Reformed Church, is formed
… 19 May 2011] Boddy-Evans A. (n.d.), ‘This Day in African History: 27 June,’from African History, [online] Available at www.africanhistory.about.com, …
EventPresident Paul Kruger and Sir Alfred Milner meet in Bloemfontein to discuss the franchise question
… and left for Europe. References: Anon, (n.d.), ‘The history of the War,’ from Paperspast, [online] Available at … Johannes Paulus "Paul" Kruger, from South…
The Final Prize: My Life in the anti-apartheid struggle by Norman Levy
… and the most exciting years of this country's recent history, Norman Levy's autobiography combines a narrative of … experience with South African economic…
EventStart of the Muslim community’s Tana Baru Cemetery Uprising
… the most significant political events in the 19th Century history of Cape Muslims. In commemoration of the 124th … Centre to the Tana Baru Cemetery. Related:…
EventEleven African demonstrators are shot dead by Rhodesian police in Salisbury
… by now. References: Boddy-Evans A. ‘This Day In African History’, from About African History, 01 June, [online], available at …
Side By Side: The Autobiography of Helen Joseph
… forces, this book is a contribution to their courageous history by a woman who is herself a part of that history. “a history of struggle told from it's heart…
PlaceMostert’s Mill, Rhodes Drive, Mowbray
… and it stands tall as a testimony to the constructive history of South Africa. The thatched roof revolves to allow … popular tourist spot for young and old,…
The National Anthem
… note that the sheet music is in .pdf format (245 KB). History A proclamation issued by the (then) State President …
ArticleRock Art
… possible (Lewis-Williams, D. 1981). Ethnology and oral history has been used to obtain information about "Bushman" …
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement (BCM)
… seen some of the most turbulent events in South African history, the first signs that the apartheid regime would not …
European Revolutions 1750-1850
… between 1750 and 1850. Change is the driving force in history. Without change there would be no progress. As a …
ArticlePretoria: The Founding of the City
… [i] Wright, E. (ed.). 2015. Oxford dictionary of world history. United Kingdom: oxford Press. page 536 ↵ [ii] …
Formation and launch of the UDF
… 1983 the UDF leadership sought unions support. ( For more history on the UDF, click on the hyperlink above. ) Growing …
ArticleDebating Stellenbosch University’s Language Policy
… P. Svensson, eds., Agricultural transformation in a global history perspective, 139. ↵ [6] N. Worden, Slavery in Dutch … language of the Union of South…
The Construction of Whiteness/Blackness And The Invention of Miscegenation In South African Literary Texts of the 1920s and 1930 by Itala Vivan
… British culture in that particular phase of South African history: including that of British liberal thought as well as … the old wonderful unknown primitive…
PlaceGazebo, Civic Square
… survive in Southern Africa, the one above at the Natural History Museum in Bulawayo and the other in the Museum Africa … deteriorated and in 1964 it was sent…
EventScores of people are killed in Boipatong, Vaal
… 24 May 2012) Boddy-Evans A. ‘This Day In African History’, from About Africa History, [online], available at www.afriacanhistory.about.com …
EventThe first Non-White South African Table Tennis team participates at the World Championship
… World Cup finals. References: Resha R. (1957), 'Sporting History is Made' from New Age, 14 March 1957 (Available at … 'Football in South Africa - timeline'…
EventDr. Rhoodie is arrested
… The information scandal: africacrime-mystery.co.za History: south-african-hotels.com South African History Online: sahistory.org …
EventDr. Margaret Roach ‘Killie’ Campbell, collector of Africana, dies in Durban
… where she is said to have developed a profound interest in history. Campbell was well known for her private collection … to write their family stories, in…
EventSecurity Council examines violence in South Africa
… in South Africa. Click here to read our This Day in History entry: Major political organisations sign the … here to read the resolution. References: South…
Cutting Through The Mountain
… is primairly a collection of portraits it is also a 'history-in-the-round' of the last sixty years, as seen from a … on the same events creates a three…
PlaceAngola
… Angola has a long and rich history, and is home to some of the largest historical … Early Inhabitants of Angola Because of a reliance on oral history, and…
PlaceStutterheim, Amatola- Eastern Cape
… of the Eastern Cape province. Stutterheim has a rich history that makes for fascinating reading. From the Xhosa … any African literature and fiction for…