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EventJan van Riebeeck's statue, presented by Cecil John Rhodes, is unveiled in Cape Town
… On 18 May 1899, a statue of the first European to settle at the … celebrations. References: This day in History: 18 May [online] Available at: news24.com …
ArticleThe Jacob Zuma Presidency - 2009 to 2017 (March)
… estimated to have been worth of $2- billion in value. [18] A successful World Cup was also an incentive for boosting … ↵ [17] Africa Check, 2015. ↵ [18]…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1900-1909
… the Cape Colony. Similar to the Dealers Licenses Act, No 18 of 1897 in Natal, municipal licensing officers are … to Indians. 1 January, A poll tax of £3 on…
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew
… St Phillips School, Chapel Street. District 6, Cape Town, 18 January 1923 Document 12 - Letter from T. W. Thibedi19 to … from E. R. Roux to W.G. Ballinger,…
ArticleA tribute to a great struggle stalwart Paul David by Siva Naidoo
… Congress (ANC) in 1959 in the prime of his youth. He was 18 years old at the time. When the ANC was banned in 1960, he …
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 3 Glossary
Authoritarian: A system where people are expected to obey all authority and rules, even though some of these rules and regulations may be unfair and cause the…
2012 ANC National Policy Conference: Statement on the update of Conference Proceedings,28 June 2012
… of plenary will continue until they break for dinner at 18:30 and resume at 19:45. It is expected that plenary will …
EventTwo prisoners sentenced to death for sodomy
Claas Blanc and Rijkaert Jacobsz were two prisoners on Robben Island who had been accused of ‘mutually perpetrated sodomy’ according to trial records from the…
Place'Agoada de Saldanha', Saldanha
Early Portuguese name in 1503, of Table Bay. Meaning 'watering place of Saldanha', it was given in honour of Admiral Antonio da Saldanha who was wounded there…
PlaceMLR-cannon, Middle North Battery, Simonstown
… Museum Day) 16 June 12H00 (Youth Day) 18 July 12H00 (Mandela Day) 24 September 12H00 …
PlaceEastern Fort/Battery and Blockhouse, Chapman’s Peak, overlooking Hout Bay, Cape Town
Early Dutch Settlers soon realised that Hout Bay could serve as an alternative anchorage when prevailing winds made Table Bay unsafe. However, successive Dutch…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Zoutpansberg
… He immediately initiated plans for a new church and on 18 October 1872 the structure was consecrated and served as a …
EventThe SA author and journalist, Herman Charles Bosman, shoots and kills his stepbrother David Russell during a quarrel
… of the North West Province (then North-West Transvaal). On 18 July 1926, while home on vacation in Johannesburg, he …
EventNomsa Mapongwana is assassinated
… a Lingelethu West minibus to the depot at 04:00 on 18 October and ordered number plates to be put onto the …
EventRebels take control of Kinshasa, Zaire
… On 18 May 1997, Laurent Kabila, at the head of a rebel army, …
EventApartheid police officers admit to the killing of Biko before the TRC
… the outskirts of the Eastern Cape town of Grahamstown on 18 August 1977 and taken to apartheid security police …
EventThe Cape Agulhas lighthouse begins operating
… Smith, Michell and the 90 odd workmen who had laid over 18,000 cubic feet of cut-masonry. The lighthouse was based on …
EventVoortrekkers are defeated during the Battle of Boomplaats
… Available at www.voortrekker-history.co.za [Accessed: 18 July 2011] Wallis, F., 2000. Nuusdagboek: feite en fratse …
PlaceLesotho
… the extension of the Lesotho Exemption Permits by another 18 months. The announcement comes weeks after the arrest of … decision to extend the Lesotho…
EventPeter “Terror” Mathebula dies
… On 18 January 2020, Peter “Terror” Mathebula South Africa’s … from boxing in 1983. Peter “Terror” Mathebula died on 18 January 2020, in Leratong Hospital,…
"Our struggle is for progress": Statement by Albert Luthuli, 15 June 1962
… despotism and degradation that befell the peoples of Nazi Germany, Fascist Spain and Portugal. It is only the …
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Glossary
… the title assumed by Adolph Hitler when he became ruler of Germany Hertzog Bills - Prime Minister J.B.M. Hertzog …
ArticleA History of the Springbok Legion
… culture. Subsequent to the invasion of the Soviet Union by Germany, several white communists joined the UDF, thus also …
Zuma to grow ANC membership in tribute to Madiba, 17 July 2011
… drive towards the one million membership, on Monday, July 18, at the historic Lilies Leaf farm in Rivonia - where the …
EventThabo Mbeki, former President of SA, is born in Idutywa, Transkei
… Mvuyelwa Mbeki was born in Idutywa in Transkei on June 18 1942. Both his parents were activists. His father, Govan …
EventNotorious role of Ferdi Barnard is disclosed
… Military Intelligence (MI) officials and approved. On 18 November 1992 President W.F. de Klerk appointed Lt-Gen. …
Event7 People are killed during a SATS strike
… date as 10 January, the numbers killed as 6 and injured as 18. The bloody clash took place during a violent nine week …
EventUS House of Representatives approve Bill to impose stricter sanctions on Apartheid South Africa
… On 18 June 1986, the House of Representatives of the United …
EventNongqawuse’s unfulfilled prophecy
… and nothing happened, other dates were set, including 18 February 1857. Disappointment followed disappointment, …
EventSteven Biko is arrested.
… Trust Fund to aid political prisoners and families. On 18 August 1977, he was arrested on his way home from a …