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Theft at Luthuli House, 12 October 2003
… In response to a number of media enquiries, the ANC wishes to clarify the following: 1. A person or persons gained access to the ANC`s national headquarters…
PlaceRailway Station, Main Road, Wynberg
… 1981. The Wynberg Railway Company was established in 1861 to build a railway line from Salt River Junction to Wynberg, which opened on 19 December 1864. In…
PlaceKnysna, Garden Route- Western Province
… at The Heads, and who drew the first map of the estuary) to the Governor of the Cape Colony, Lord Charles Somerset - … by the early 1800s, the current…
PlaceCoornhoop Dovecot, Dixton Road, Mowbray
… In 1657-58 land in this area was granted to 14 free burghers, who were expected to devote themselves to the planting of wheat for the new settlement. Their …
PlaceMalay Quarter, Cape Town
… of the oldest parts of Cape Town, and is one of the few to have retained some of its historical character. It … third quarter of the 18th century, when Cape…
EventThe possessions of Piet Retief are auctioned
… Piet Retief's visit to Dingane's kraal in October 1837 was the beginning of an … prospect of negotiating a land deal that would have led to his group being…
PlaceOliewenhuis Art Museum
… Oliewenhuis Art Museum is committed to collect, conserve and exhibit works of art which represent … the heritage of South African art on behalf of and to the…
PlacePampierstad
… derived its name from; a cardboard material that was used to build informal shacks in the apartheid era. Many people were forcibly relocated to Pampierstad…
ArchiveCorrespondence between Jack Simons and Cape Town Chief Magistrate
… Letter from Jack Simons to the Chief Magistrate of Cape Town requesting relaxing of banning orders. Includes request to visit his son and daughter and to…
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Chapter 1 - The First Farmers by Jeff Guy
… of this journey the road on which we are travelling seems to be straight and the way ahead clear. The journey is … changes. A new road intersects with ours;…
A Brief History of Mali by US Department of State updated 01 October 2015
… great pride in their ancestry. Mali is the cultural heir to the succession of ancient African empires – Ghana, … frontier, was a powerful trading state from…
ArchiveAfrican languages should be at the center of educational and cultural achievement by Abdi Latif Dahir (Quartz Africa)
… government officials caught unawares, scrambled to find translators. Chissano’s historic speech constituted … meetings. Chissano said that he spoke in…
PlaceLanga Township, Cape Town
… regulations of the 1902 Location Act were expanded to create a more formal structure for African Urban … administration. In 1923 the Urban Areas Act was…
PlaceBurkina Faso
… landlocked country in West Africa . It is bounded by Niger to the east, Mali to the north and west, and Benin , Togo , Ghana , and Ivory Coast to the south…
EventMilitary service becomes compulsory for White South African men.
… The Defense Amendment Bill, designed to make military service compulsory for White young men, was … (SADF), or the South African Police (SAP). They were used…
A French minister, Pierre Simond, joins the Huguenots at the Cape by order of the Heeren XVII (Lords Seventeen)
… the practice of the reformed Huguenot religion, he fled to Zierikzee in the Netherlands and accompanied the Huguenots to the Cape on 29 August 1688, by order…
EventRobert McBride is arrested in Mozambique
… in gun running. They called for a commission of inquiry to investigate allegations of McBride's complicity in the … movement; some believed he might have…
ANC statement on the death of Adelaide Tambo, 31 January 2007
… our nation, a daughter of our soil who dedicated her life to the freedom of our people. Together with all South … the ANC extends heartfelt sympathies and…
ArchiveThe Mission by Denis Goldberg - Foreword by Dr Z. Pallo Jordan
… As the only White amongst those convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in the Rivonia Trial, Denis Goldberg … was consequently an exceedingly lonely…
Chapter 1 - Introduction
… into national, provincial, and local spheres. In order to avoid the tensions and conflict inherent in this … was adopted, which obliges each sphere of…
PlaceUNISA’s Department of Art History, Visual Arts and Musicology
… Cape of Good Hope . It is one of the few that continued to provide tertiary education to all races even during the dark days of formal racism. The … Pretoria…
Document 7 - Draft declaration of unity provisionally adopted at Unity Conference, Bloemfontein, 17 December 1943
… affecting all Non-Europeans in the conference has come to the following conclusions:- ”¢ That ruler of South Africa, … educational, fiscal and administrative…
EventGeneral Law Amendment Act No 37 is approved
… This Act was an amendment to Section 17, the ninety-day detention law. This meant that any commissioned police officer was empowered to detain, without…
EventA meeting titled “Conference for Concerned South Africans” is held, bringing together homeland leaders and conservative Afrikaner parties.
… for a Democratic South Africa (Codesa), a body set to discuss a new constitution for South Africa. They felt … should he not be consulted on several issues,…
EventElectricity cut off in Tumahole township
… electricity and rent boycott, with financial support to service arrears caused by the non-payment of services. The … with less than 10% of water, which was…
EventAfrikaans is declared an official language of South Africa
… According to Act 8 of 1925, Afrikaans became one of the official … South Africa. The development of Afrikaans can be traced to arrival of settlers to the…
EventGideon Scheepers executed
… spot because of fear that his commando would attempt to recover it. Efforts to trace his grave and approaches to the British authorities to reveal its…
EventThe South African War: The lifting of the siege of Mafeking
… Kruger issued an ultimatum, instructing the British to withdraw their soldiers from the border of the Transvaal. When the British failed to heed the…
EventAmina Lawal’s sentence upheld
… who defended her free of charge, Lawal was granted 30 days to appeal against the decision. Amina's lawyer filed another appeal to the Upper Sharia court of…
EventBafana Bafana, SA’s National soccer team, wins the Africa Cup of Nations Final
… tournament. They had been unbanned just four years prior to the tournament and were generally thought of as the … in the 1994 edition of the tournament, they…