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PlaceEritrea
… Eritrea is a country in the Horn of Africa located on the Red Sea. A fact reflected in its name, which is an Italianized version … route that such powers as…
PlaceWynberg Park, Southern Suburbs
… Every Summer, an array of colourful Hydrangeas blossom to create a carpet of colour. In the 1890s, the land for what was then … municipal councillor William…
PlaceRailway Station, Muizenberg
… This impressive building surmounted by a Clock Tower was built in 1912-13 and was officially opened … of Railways & Harbours, Mr Henry Burton. It was…
PlaceOld Town House, Greenmarket Square, Cape Town.
… and sophistication, so then its management committee began to require a meeting place to discuss the affairs of the Burgher … when ruinous fires had already…
PlaceAlbert Jackson School, Port Elizabeth
… Declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 4 January … The school's Founders Day is held on 8 September each year to coincide with the laying…
EventPenny Heyns, South African swimming star, is born.
… 1974 in Springs, Transvaal. Her parents later moved to the Natal South Coast. She attended Doon Heights Primary … she later earned her Degree in Psychology…
EventThe South African Football Association (SAFA) is founded
… Association (SAFA) was founded on 8 December 1991 after a long period of racial segregation. Mluleki George was elected to serve as the interim chairman for…
EventBomb meant for Kangaroo Court judge, May Ledwaba kills sleeping William Ledwaba
… William Ledwaba (16) was killed during a bomb attack on his home in Atteridgeville, Pretoria. In … The fourth applicant, Jan Hattingh Cronje had suffered a…
EventCharles Darwin and the HMS Beagle reached the Galapagos Islands
… the people think about the world in which they live.On a mission to survey the South American coast, the Beagle reached San … the inhabitants of the…
EventSA judge jails former state assassin Eugene de Kock for more than 200 years
… During the Apartheid regime, Eugene de Kock was a colonel in the South African Police force. He acted as the … either executing anti-apartheid activists or…
EventKen Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian author and environmental activist, is executed
… English at the Government College Umuahia. He took up a post as a Civil Administrator during the Nigerian Civil War and wrote … he was dismissed for his…
EventSouth African Defence Force (SADF) attacks a Namibian refugee camp in Cassinga, Angola
… the South African air force flew over Cassinga, allegedly a Namibian refugee camp in Southern Angola. It was the South … Force’s (SADF) largest airborne…
Introduction
… in various parts of South Africa, were channelled into a concerted movement which aimed at eradicating the various … way in which satyagraha campaign…
EventSoweto students march against government’s language policy
… It all began as a peaceful protest march, but ended with violence, tears, blood and death of a 13 year old boy, Hector Peterson. The Soweto uprising began ……
ArchiveThe Fragility of Existence by David Goldblatt (www.aperture.org), 6 February 2018
… Region, 6 December 2014 © the artist Except perhaps for a thread of elegance that runs through most of her work, not … Region, 9 January 2015 © the artist…
PlaceApartheid Museum, Johannesburg
… were prevalent Apartheid was declared by United Nations as a crime against humanity, and therefore the struggle against Apartheid became a universal struggle…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Johannesburg
… Square. However, not long afterwards they were obliged to look for an alternative venue, presumably because the … the congregation's dire financial situation…
EventPolice found burnt body near KTC squatter camp, Cape Town
… the South African police services found the burnt body of a man near the KTC squatter camp in Nyanga East. A Police spokesman reported that he was not the…
ArchiveAddress at 46664 Concert, by Nelson Mandela, 27 June 2008, London United Kingdom
… Friends, 20 years ago London hosted a historic concert which called for our freedom. Your voices carried across the water to inspire us in our prison cells…
ArchiveInterview with Duma Nokwe
… (1927-1978) who was Secretary-General of the ANC from 1958 to 1969. Born to working class parents in Evaton, he studied at St. Peter's … the underground…
TRAC (Transvaal Rural Action Committee) Newsletter, 1983 - 1990
… TRAC, the Rural Action Committee, established in 1983 as a project of the Black Sash, published this Newsletter with … threat of forced removal in the…
EventThe first Indian people, 197 men, 89 women and 54 children, arrive in Natal
… The first Indian people in South Africa are reported to have arrived on board the Truro from Madras to work in the sugar cane plantation in Port-Natal. The…
EventMarie Vogts, botanist and pioneer of the Protea industry, dies in Stellenbosch
… Marie Vogts was a botanist who specialised in the Protea plant. She obtained a PhD in 1971 with a thesis on autecology and a variation of … as a lecturer at…
Zindzi Mandela is born
… and his second wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela was born in a year of turmoil, during which the ANC was banned and … the run from the police. In 1977 Winnie…
EventSAFCA distances itself from boycott of South African goods
… African Federation of Consumer Associations (SAFCA) issued a statement distancing itself from a body called the South African Consumers Association (SACA),…
EventGovernor-General Sir Patrick Duncan dies
… Patrick Duncan, died in Pretoria at the age of 72. He came to South Africa as Sir Alfred Milner's private secretary in March 1901 and remained in SA until…
EventSouth African refugees leave Lesotho
… undisclosed number of South African refugees have decided to leave Lesotho voluntarily. Most of the refugees belonged to various liberation movements banned…
EventFather Smangaliso Mkhatshwa served with restriction order
… A year after the 1976 Soweto Student Uprising, the former … Mayor, Father Smangaliso Mkhatshwa, was served with a five years restriction order for his…
EventSA is suspended from World Meteorological Organization
… World Meteorological Organization (WMO), which was created to facilitate international cooperation in the establishment … Kalley, J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor,…
EventPresident FW de Klerk tells Parliament that South Africa had constructed six nuclear fission devices
… On 24 March 1993; South African President F.W. de Klerk announced the existence of a South African nuclear programme as well as the fact that … devices. …