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PlaceBeaufort West, Cape Town
… 1837 and therefore the oldest Municipality in South Africa! John Molteno bought some land in the arid, Beaufort … 1837 and therefore the oldest Municipality…
PlaceDundee
… birding and fishing”, hiking and horse trails, are all on offer. This is where the Anglo Boer War of 1899-1902 … It is also the home to the Coal Mine Museums…
EventSA signs investment incentive agreement with the USA
… of the investment incentive agreement between South Africa and the US in 1993 ensured that the two countries … Since the signing of the agreement the USA and…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 4 Essay Questions and Answers
… Shaka Zulu emerged in the early 19th Century in South Africa. It was initially believed that Shaka was the main … of many leaders that played a role in…
PlaceWits Art Museum
… and historical art from South, West and Central Africa. The Wits Arts Museum hosts an array of events and art …
Statement of the African National Congress and the South African Tamil Federation National Working Committee, 14 November 2014
… was here to stay and to be part of the solution in South Africa to build a strong state and a South African nation …
Statement on naming of OR Tambo International Airport, 31 October 2006
… Department of Transport and the Airports Company of South Africa (ACSA) for their respective roles in the successful …
PlaceAi-Ais, Namibia
… Park which includes both the Richtersveld in South Africa and Ai-Ais in Namibia. The hiking routes from Ai-Ais, …
Kirstenbosch Summer Sunset Concerts 2017
… whilst they watch the sun set and listen to some of South Africa's best live music performances. Concerts go ahead …
PlaceWoutersen Vault, Wessels Road, Green Point.
… whose son, Sir John Wessels, became Chief Justice of South Africa. Various members of the ‘family lived on the estate. …
Cape Flats Details - Life and Popular Art in Cape Town’s Townships
… and Coloured townships of Cape Town by one of South Africa’s most talented, but least recognized, documentary …
PlaceMoletzie Bird Sanctuary
… as it protects the Cape Vulture! Endemic to Southern Africa, but a few individuals have been recorded from Zambia. …
EventEllen Phyllis Hellmann, social anthropologist and executive member of the SAIRR, dies in Johannesburg
… Johannesburg in 1908. Her father had immigrated to South Africa from Germany in 1894. She studied Social Anthropology …
EventNelson Mandela is born
… released in 1990. Mandela was elected president of South Africa in 1994. In 1999, at the end of his first term in …
EventThe Alabama, American raider of the Southern States during the American Civil War, arrives in Saldana Bay for provisions
… War arrived in Saldana Bay, on the west coast of South Africa, to resupply. During the course of the American Civil …
EventSeretse Khama is re-united with his British wife
… Bangwanto tribe. Seretse acquired his education in South Africa and he graduated from Fort Hare University College …
EventUmkhonto We Sizwe, military wing of the ANC, claims responsibility for power station blast
… Horrell, M. (ed) (1982). Survey of Race Relations in South Africa 1981, Johannesburg: South African Bureau of Race …
EventMinister announces compulsory education for Black children
… Whites. Click here to read more about education in South Africa. …
EventWiehahn Commission Report tabled in parliament
… of 1976 to look at industrial relations system in South Africa. Two years later the commission made recommendations …
EventArthur Elias Letele, medical doctor and prominent ANC leader who went into exile in Basutoland, dies
… Upon his release, he was given 30 days to leave South Africa. He returned to Lesotho in 1961 and continued his …
EventIngrid Jonker, SA poet, commits suicide.
… to the struggle for human rights and democracy in South Africa". On 24 May 1994, in his State of the Nation Address …
EventIvory Coast’s new prime minister, Daniel Kablan Duncan, takes office
… was one of the most prosperous countries in French West Africa, but by the 1980s was crippled by world-wide recession …
EventTurkish newspapers criticise of ANC leader Nelson Mandela for refusing to accept Turkey’s peace award
… [Accessed 30 April 2010] Turkey and South Africa: Toward the Second Decade (online), available at: …
EventSACP is legally re-launched
… secretary of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) Moses Mayekiso.The grouping of the membership …
EventNelson Mandela meets President P.W. Botha to begin negotiating the end of apartheid
… in 1988-1990. The unfavourable economic situation of South Africa, due to sanctions and lack of foreign investment, as …
EventJacob Abraham Uitenhage de Mist and his daughter Augusta leave on an exploration of the interior
… a journey into the Cape of Good Hope and the interior of Africa in 1802 and 1803 by Jonkvrou Augusta Uitenhage de … et al. (eds)(1971) Standard…
EventAn international measure is adopted in Antwerp to block rebel groups from trading conflict diamonds
… of African rebel groups, which have in turn funded some of Africa's most vicious civil wars. These rebel groups include …
EventWWI: battalion consisting of ‘Cape Coloured men’, called the Cape Corps, is established
… was established with the view of being dispatched to East Africa in 1916 to fight on the side of the Allies in World …
EventSANNC (ANC) meeting is attended by a large number of people
… by a large number of people, men and women, from South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, and Swaziland. The meeting was … Plaatjie, S. 1996. Native Life in South…
EventSA artist Ernest Methuen Mancoba is born
… studies in 1938. Mancoba never returned to live in South Africa again, but visited the country after 1994 for his …