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Cape Town Book Sale 2017
… around the very first Cape Town Book Sale, and we are here to tell you that you have a right to be excited. From Friday, 16 to Sunday, 18 June 2017 the V&A…
PlaceThe Dakawa Arts and Crafts Centre
… The Dakawa Arts and Crafts Centre, a skills training project based in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape … known as the Dakawa Development Centre, it began as a…
EventDulcie September's 's life commemorated at Athlone High School
… path of resistance against the apartheid regime. She was a member of the Cape Peninsula Students’ Union (an affiliate … Apdusa. She then joined the Yu Chi…
PlaceXanadu Nature Estate, Hartebeespoort
… and overlooks the majestic Magaliesberg Mountain Range. A natural Wetland runs through the Estate and the Estate is Home to over 280 different Bird species…
PlaceSalt River
… is not known but in 1665 the Settlement is recorded to have overlooked a Fjord over the River and to have consisted of an Inn and several Fishermen's…
PlaceThree Anchor Bay
… Three Anchor Bay is a small anchorage in Table Bay. Its name was first recorded in Dutch records of 1661, and probably refers to a defensive chain which…
EventDelagoa Bay railway line is officially opened
… line was officially opened by Paul Kruger. Its link to Pretoria was completed on 20 October 1894.The railway line was completed a few years after the end of…
PlaceCote D’Ivoire or Ivory Coast
… Ivory Coast is a West African State bordering Ghana in the East, Burkina … Mali in the North, and Guinea and Liberia in the East. To the South lies, the…
EventSouth African photojournalist and member of the Bang-Bang, Club Kevin Carter, commits suicide
… Kevin Carter, a South African photojournalist and Pulitzer Prize winner, … winning the Pulitzer Award for feature photography of a controversial picture…
EventThe Flag of the Union of South Africa is hoisted on Prince Edward Island
… an area of 47 square km. After World War II, Britain moved to incorporate both Prince Edward and Marion Island under a government as they realised that…
EventEditors oppose legislation on media control
… opposed the apartheid government's planned legislation to establish a statutory media council. The proposed Newspaper Press Bill, … under Prime Minister BJ…
EventWolraad Woltemade drowns at sea after saving 14 people from a sinking ship
… On 1 June 1773, the Jonge Thomas, a Dutch East India ship, was anchored at the mouth of the … River in Table Bay. In the early hours of the morning, a storm…
EventPresident Robert Mugabe defends land reform programme
… regime, who despite mediation by South Africa, has failed to come to a politically equitable solution. Added to the woes of the … that critique voiced by…
EventSouth African artist Gerard Sekoto is born
… Gerard Sekoto was born on 9 September 1913 in Botshabelo, a mission station established by the German missionaries … (now Mpumalanga). He was the son of…
PlaceRaadsaal, 95 St George’s Street, Bloemfontein
… Historical Building in the Free State, dating back to 1849, it is the oldest building left standing in … story of the Free State and its establishment. It is…
EventRand Daily Mail publishes exposé of conditions in Homelands
… opposition paper, The Rand Daily Mail, covered a feature article dealing with the appalling conditions in one of the government’s Bantu Homelands. In…
After Apartheid - Social Identities in the New South Africa Vol. 1
… Many South Africans are struggling to come to terms with the new conditions in their country, in a world increasingly finding its way forward through the ……
Foreword, By Nelson Mandela
… of our struggle for liberation. Monty, as we all referred to him affectionately, was a generous, jovial man with sufficient political foresight to … cut…
EventGertrude Shope, former president of the ANC Women’s League, is born
… Johannesburg, but grew up in Zimbabwe. She was trained as a teacher and went on to teach in Natal and Soweto. When she was 29 years old she … (ANC) and soon…
EventThami Mnyele, SA artist and member of MK, is killed in Gaborone
… Thamsaqa 'Thami' ka Mnyele was a talented graphic artist and a political activist. Due to his political activities, Mnyele was forced to leave his … H-Net A…
EventThe Transvaal Indian Congress takes a stand on Fietas removals
… The Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) passed a resolution on the Johannesburg area "Fietas", (the name by which Pageview and Vrededorp was known).They objected…
EventLesotho addresses political exiles in the country
… government invited all South African political refugees to make formal application to leave the country, to indicate … through South Africa would be arranged…
EventMangope calls out troops as unrest flares in Bophuthatswana
… the persistant tensions in Bophuthatswana homeland came to a head after the homeland's government decided against … and the African National Congress (ANC)…
EventWinnie Mandela charged with kidnapping
… of Stompie Seipei Moeketsi in December 1988. Moeketsi was a young activist and member of the infamous Mandela Football Club, established by Winnie Mandela as…
EventAmanzimtoti blast kills five
… Five civilians were killed and forty injured in a bomb explosion in the Sanlam shopping centre in Amanzimtoti … Andrew Sibusiso Zondo, who detonated the…
EventState of Emergency enters 100th day
… Location: back to this day in history search archive The state of emergency … after it was announced on July 20. P W Botha in an attempt to suppress growing…
EventSoweto High School under siege
… South African Defence Force soldiers, travelling in a convoy of more than ten armoured vehicles, surrounded the … high school in Soweto and arrested 200…
EventMoses Kottler, A leading South African sculptor of his time, is born
… Kottler was born in Joniskis, Lithuania. Sources differ as to the date of his birth; some give it as 11 June 1892, … He settled in South Africa in 1915 and…
EventA plan limiting admission of black students in white universities is withdrawn
… The government withdrew its plan to place a limit on the number of black students admitted to … of Fort Hare), was established on the site of Fort Hare, a…
EventThe Simelela Rape Survivors Centre in Cape Town reports on rape in Khayelitsha
… with the youngest survivor aged one and the oldest a grandmother aged seventy-six. From August 2005 to July 2006 the Centre treated 743 rape cases, an…