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EventEdgar Wallace (56), author and newspaper editor in South Africa, dies in Hollywood.
… in London in 1875. His mother, unmarried and struggling to make a living, gave him up for adoption when he was nine years … songs and poetry. He soon left…
EventPolice open fire, killing 34 striking mine-workers at Marikana
… mine-workers at Marikana , North West Province. As a result, 78 people were left wounded while more than 250 … people were arrested. The protesting miners…
EventButhelezi boycotts first session of CODESA
… Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), announced his intention not to attend the first session of CODESA. He considered the decision taken by the Steering Committee of…
EventWorld Council of Churches representatives barred from entering South Africa
… During a meeting with representatives of the World Council of … Vorster reaffirmed that he would not consider allowing a WCC delegation to come to South…
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…
SAHO Commemorates 40 Years since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue by Roanne Moodley
… own future- without media coverage- while June 16 remains a beacon in our past) I wonder about the differences that may exist between you and I. Me, a middle…
PlaceNew Brighton Location
… African War the British military authorities imported a large number of horses from Argentina. Unfortunately their … McNamee, Boastville, Elundini and…
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Glossary
… is the same as AH 304 in the Islamic calendar alienate - to cause to feel isolated; lose or destroy support or … have left behind them artefact - an object…
What the lives of two South African music giants tell us about culture under apartheid by Gwen Ansell (The Conversation), 13 July 2017
… in South Africa, Soweto Blues, regularly asserted: I’m not a politician. How could this be, the interview team wondered, … emerged was: I didn’t say I wasn’t…
“Let us dream you, forbidden landscape”: the Storming project sings change, 17 July 2017
… ‘It’ll work someday’. There’s no such thing. If we have to change things, let’s change them radically now.” – Ray … as ‘personalities’, evading the content…
Archaeology - A way of discovering the past
… there was personal involvement, memory can be relied on. To know about events earlier than this, elderly relatives and … almost impossible for people who…
PlaceLimpopo Province
… like Venda, Gazankulu and Lebowa. The Limpopo River is a river the South African Province, Botswana , Zimbabwe and … River) in the Witwatersrand , South…
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…