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Funeral arrangements afoot for Mama Dideka Mhlaba, 20 January 2010
… her husband who was Eastern Cape Premier and ambassador to three African countries, she served the people of the Eastern Cape with distinction. She was born…
Place'Aguada de Sao Bras', Mossel Bay
… be traced back, with the help of Archaeological deposits, to more than 164 000 years. They have since built a modern-day Dias Museum Complex, on the site…
PlaceCoffee Bay, Wild Coast
… natural phenomenon.) "The hole is quite literally a geographical marvel!" It is an offshore stack of rock through which the elements have eroded a hole. The…
PlaceCamp’s Bay, Cape Town
… 1663. Her parents arrived at the Cape in 1658 as part of a group of 220 enslaved people taken from Benin. Her father was given his freedom in 1659; the first…
EventPiet Retief’s Great Trek manifesto is completed
… English in the Graham's Town Journal on 2 February 1937. To understand the mass emigration of the Afrikaans frontier … (Afrikaners) out of the Cape Colony…
PlaceRosemount
… by suburban residential development, and in about 1909 a portion of the Farm was developed into the Suburb of … Nature Reserves The East London Coast Nature…
In search of the good society: Social policy in South Africa after twenty years of democracy
… for its entire people, but it was one that had sought to create another society, namely, the good society. The … Charter, 1955; Ready to Govern: ANC policy…
SACTU press release in ‘New Age’, 22 November 1962
… their struggle for living wages and their opposition to Job Reservations and all discriminatory laws? Does he … longer heard, the people will abandon their…
PlaceAmathole Mountain Region, Eastern Cape
… stinkwoods, yellowwood trees, gorgeous Cape Chestnuts, and a myriad other indigenous trees. Some of the peaks are decked … over 2000 metres, providing…
ANC Deputy President`s Election Campaign Programme, 6 May 2011
… ANC Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe will on Sunday lead a campaign programme in Ekurhuleni as part of the organisation`s election programme to maximise…
PlaceDorkay House (1952)
… Dorkay House, a building at the south end of Eloff Street in downtown … of South African Artists, which was formed in 1952 by a group of Black artists with…
EventChumani Maxwele ignites the #RhodesMustFall Movement at UCT
… On 9 March 2015, Chumani Maxwele threw human excrements at a statue of Cecil John Rhodes that was situated on the campus … University of Cape Town, on Rugby…
Place'Aba Mponjwana', Drakensberg Mountains
… Peak, the Bell, the Outer Horn and the Inner Horn. Said to mean 'Ridge of Horns'. One of the largest green canyons in the world, the Blyde River Canyon is a…
EventOne of the most infamous murders in South Africa takes place
… 19 year old Marlene Lehnberg hired Marthinus Choegoe to assist in the brutal murder of 48-year-old Susanna … and Choegoe first assaulted Mrs van der Linde…
PlaceRotunda, Bay Hotel- Camps Bay
… The Victorian Rotunda, a landmark in Camps Bay, is a beautiful, geometrical domed building, was the epitome of … was part of the then mayor, James Riddell…
PlaceWrensch House, 77 Lower Wrench Road, Observatory
… and Victorian architectural features. It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 26 June 1981. The House stands on a property once…
PlaceAlphen; Constantia Road, Constantia- Cape Town
… The Alphen Estate was granted to Theunis van Schalkwyk in 1714. Its Historic Homestead is a square plan double-storey manor House with a well proportioned…
EventCharlotte Maxeke, politician and founder of the Bantu Women’s League of South Africa, is born
… born on 7 April 1847 in Fort Beaufort in Cape Town. From a young age Maxeke showed musical talent. She finished primary school early and her parents moved to…
EventNathaniel Nakasa, South African journalist and writer, dies in exile
… Nat Nakasa was awarded the The Niemann Fellowship to study journalism at Harvard University in the US but the government rejected his application for a…
PlaceOld Government Building, Church Street, Boksburg
… was completed on or before 10 April 1891. From 1902 to 1958 the building housed the local magistrate and his staff, but after they were moved to a new…
EventPrime Minister opens SA's first atomic reactor
… Minister of South Africa and apartheid mastermind, Dr H.F. Verwoerd opened South Africa's first atomic reactor, … was not intended for the production of…
EventAfrikaner nationalists rebel against a Union Jack in new South African flag
… June 1927, Afrikaner nationalists rebelled against plans to have a Union Jack (the British flag) in the centre of the national … a national flag for the…
EventColoureds are removed from the voters roll
… by the Afrikaner nationalist majority, embarked on a series of campaigns to remove Coloured people from the common voters rolls. On 14 … people marched…
EventGeorge Msimang, artist, is born
… in art began at school although art was not offered as a subject. He left Lamontville High School in 1968 after completing Standard VIII. He came to the…
EventWW2: British 8th army marches into Tripoli
… capital in this World War Two battle. This was part of a series of battles that initially started with the Italian … by the Axis forces, ultimately denying…
EventPolitical activist Molly Blackburn is born
… Port Elizabeth, for the Progressive Federal Party (PFP). A year later she became involved in the advice office of the … faced South Africa.The National Party…
EventThe last sitting of an all-white Parliament
… South Africa was recognised as a republic and pursued a political course in which Blacks, Coloureds and Indians were denied the right to parliamentary…
EventPresident Vorster challenges Dr Rhoodie
… In a lengthy statement, President B.J. Vorster challenged Dr. Eschel Rhoodie to release any document that would implicate him in the … into the affair. The…
EventDaily Dispatch editor, Donald Woods, arrives in Britain with his family
… Donald James Woods, editor of the banned Daily Dispatch a newspaper based in East London arrived in Britain with his … the apartheid government's publication…
EventPAC leader Robert Sobukwe is released
… anti-pass campaign of 1960 and harshly sentenced to three years in prison. At the end of his sentence, Parliament enacted a General Law Amendment Act, which…