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PlaceThe AVA Gallery
The history of the AVA Gallery echoes the social, political and cultural changes that took place in South Africa. Previously known as the South African…
A short history of the oldest graves in Plettenberg Bay by Patricia Storrar (The Heritage Portal), 12 September 2016
In the following article Patricia Storrar provides a brief history of the Harker graves in Plettenberg Bay. The piece was published in the 1977 edition of…
PlacePondoland
The territory known as Pondoland or, more correctly Mpondoland, incorporated the divisions of Bizana, Libode, Ngqeleni, Port St John's, Tabankulu, and Umsikaba…
PlaceBarton Keep, Jacob Mare Street, Pretoria
This imposing Victorian dwelling was erected in 1888 by EF Bourke, who later became the first mayor of Pretoria. It is one of the last remaining examples of…
PlaceSilikamva High School, Penzance Estate-Hout Bay
There vision is for the positive transformation of Individuals and Communities through the creation of a School environment that fosters Academic excellence,…
EventThe inquest into the death of Black Consciousness leader, Steve Bantu Biko, opens in Pretoria
Steve Biko died naked and unattended on the cement floor of a cell in a Pretoria prison hospital after it had been established that he had suffered some kind…
EventThe Soweto Uprising leaves 174 blacks and two whites dead following 10 days of rioting
The student-led protests in Soweto in 1976 known as the Soweto Uprising claimed many lives and left many injured. The protests began in Soweto schools and…
EventThe launch of the Progressive Women’s Movement of SA
On 8 August 2006, hundreds of women gathered in Bloemfontein to launch a new national women’s movement, a non-profit organisation called the Progressive Women…
EventThe NPA does not pursue charges against Wouter Basson, former chemical weapons expert of the SADF
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) announced that it would not start a fresh prosecution of Dr Wouter Basson, former chemical weapons expert of the South…
EventMbeki unveils Women’s Monument at Union Buildings
President Thabo Mbeki unveiled the Women's Monument at the Union Buildings in Pretoria. The aim of the monument was to commemorate the role of women in the…
EventThe railway line between Cape Town and George is opened.
On 25 September 1907, the railway line connecting George to Cape Town was opened. This railway connection was a significant infrastructural development, as it…
EventCecil John Rhodes is buried in the Matopos
Empire-builder and former prime minister of the Cape Colony, Cecil John Rhodes, was buried in the Matopo Hills, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Rhodes visited England…
EventRestitution of Land Rights Act is signed
The Restitution of Land Rights Act, restoring the rights of those dispossessed by discriminatory land legislation dating back to the 1913 Land Act, was passed…
EventKenyan independence hero Bildad Kaggia dies after a long illness
Bildad Mwaganu Kaggia was a nationalist and a freedom fighter. Kaggia joined the Kenyan army when the Second World War broke out and was deployed in London as…
EventStruggle icon Nxele Makana drowns while escaping from Robben Island
Post the Fourth Frontier War 1811-1812, the Cape Governor, Sir Charles Somerset, made a verbal treaty with Gaika, the supposed paramount chief of the Western…
Descom Bulletin
In 1982, Neil Aggett, a Trade Unionist and Medical Doctor became the first white political prisoner to die in the detention under the custody of the security…
EventGerard Moerdijk, SA architect of several church buildings and the Voortrekker monument, dies
Gerard Moerdijk, the architect whose most famous work is the Voortreker Monument in Pretoria, died on 29 March 1958, aged 68 years old. Moerdjk matriculated at…
PlaceCalitzdorp, Route 62
Calitzdorp is a Town on the Western side of the Little or Klein Karoo in the Western Cape Province of South Africa and lies on South Africa's, Route 62.The…
PlaceAggeneys, a Town at the foot of the Aggeneys Mountain in the Namaqualand
Town at the Southern foot of Aggeneys Mountains, about 60 km West of Pofadder. It has been suggested that the name is derived from the Nama language, meanings…
PlaceGanyesa
The massive North West Province of South Africa is home to Ganyesa, which is formally part of the Kagisano / Molopo Municipality. This is a rural Village that…
PlaceDiamond Hill Battle, Garden of Remembrance
The site of the Battle of Diamond Hill, which took place on the 11th and 12th June 1900, in which 14000 British soldiers and 4000 Boers engaged in battle…
EventNuclear Test Ban Treaty signed
Representatives of the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain sign a Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which prohibited the testing of nuclear weapons in…
EventThe apartheid government establishes a Department for Coloured Affairs’ (CAD)
Long before the inception of apartheid "Coloured" people in South Africa occupied this precarious position between White and Black South Africans. This…
EventDate is set for constitutional talks
Delegates from twenty groups (SA government, 'homeland' governments, political parties, political organisations and non-governmental organisations) agreed,…
EventDisinvestment moves by two major companies
In a shocking move a major European company, Barclays Bank, announced that it was selling its remaining 40 per cent holding in its South African associate,…
EventBessie Amelia Head, SA novelist dies
Bessie Amelia Head was born on 6 July 1937 in Pietermaritzburg to Bessie Amelia Birch, a White woman and a Black unnamed father. Due to the apartheid policies…
Foreword - The Congress of the People and Freedom Charter Campaign by Ismail Vadi, New Delhi, 1995
BETWEEN THE FREEDOM FRONT, THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS AND THE SOUTH AFRICAN-GOVERNMENT/NATIONAL PARTY TAKING NOTE of the Constitution of the Republic of…
PlaceuMnambithi was called Ladysmith
Ladysmith today acts as a commercial centre for the large surrounding farming district became the centre of attention during the Anglo Boer War. After it it…
PlaceStump Memorial, near Doornkop
This is the spot where the cottage stood where Jameson surrendered to the Boer forces after the Jameson Raid (previously marked by a cut off tree stump). The…
EventUS Senator Edward Kennedy visits SA
In January, Senator Edward Kennedy of the United States visited South Africa to show his anti-apartheid support to the South African people. He was hosted by…