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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…
PlaceClairwood Hospital, Durban
Clairwood Hospital, a public hospital operated by the KwaZulu Natal Health Department, is situated in Durban South, KwaZulu Natal. Hospital services include a…
ArticleDefining culture, heritage and identity
… Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) (2002) described culture as follows: "... culture should be …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1960s
… districts, including every important urban area, and that 18 regiments of the Citizens Force have been mobilised to … justice. 6 May, The Government states…
PlacePretoria High School for Girls, Park Street
… white schools to embrace the "New South Africa." In 2002 Girls’ High celebrated her centenary with an Open Day …
PlaceSierra Leone
… its attacks. The official ending of conflict in January 2002 left some 50,000 people dead after the decade-long civil …
PlaceEthiopia
… did not help matters either, coupled with the drought of 2002. The two groups agreed that Eritrea would have an …
Cataloguing the archive of the Anti-Apartheid Movement
… and the archive available to researchers by the spring of 2002. The earliest papers in the collection date from 1959 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
Chapter 4 - The role of the Communist Party in the ANC by Richard Monroe
… what the leader of the workers has to say about this.'" [18] What position? What position did Kotane, or other CP … , London, 1975, p. 165.) [17] Ibid. , p…
PlaceSignal Hill
… as Signal Guns. The Castle received the latest English 18 pounders, because the very loud report of the Cannons … relay used to remotely fire the Gun. The…
Prehistory: Pre colonial farmers in Gauteng
Prehistory of Southern AfricaFarming people did not inhabit the Greater Johannesburg region until the Late Iron Age. Then, beginning in the 15th century,…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1930-1939
… Reserve, and he subsequently leaves Adam's College. 15-18 December, Five hundred delegates arrive for a convention … in December 1935. May, The Native Trust…
PlaceLazanou Wine Farm
… Josef Lazarus and Candice Stephanou bought the farm in May 2002 when it was operating as a wholesale indigenous plant … Josef Lazarus and Candice Stephanou…
ArticleSocialism
Socialism is a political and economic ideology aiming to create a society where all members distribute resources and wealth equally. It is based on the belief…
Lives on the Line: An Invitation to a Gripping True Story
… seat to a piece of untold history. Event Details: Date: 18 September 2025 Time: 17:30 for 18:00 RSVP is essential. [email protected] / 031 303 9214 …