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EventSA artist, Bongiwe Dhlomo, is born
… she studied printmaking at the Evangelical Lutheran Church Art and Craft Centre at Rorke's Drift. Between 1980 …
EventThe Pope arrives in Lesotho
… arrives in Lesotho Pope John Paul , leader of the Catholic Church arrives in Lesotho amidst a hijacking crisis that …
EventThe Dutch East India Company decides to send French Huguenot refugees to the Cape
… Protestants who were members of the Calvinist Reformed Church that was established in 1550. From the mid 1500s until …
PlaceVrede
… that were built there. The frontage of the Dutch Reformed Church features a Burghers Memorial to fallen Boers and a …
PlaceCape Maclear, Malawi
… was set up by a group of members of the Free Church of Scotland. Before the missionaries arrived, the area …
ArticleLouis van Mauritius and the Slave Revolt of 1808
… including imprisonment on Robben Island. [iii] Greenmarket square in the 1830s Image source While on paper it may seem …
ArticleNdebele architecture and settlement patterns
… The cattle byre, although still central, was now in a square shape, and was located opposite the home of the senior …
Nelspruit the Segregated city
… doors in the 1970s and 1980s. In June 1968, the central square was renamed Presidentsplein, reflecting the …
ArticleThe History of May Day in South Africa
… of Johannesburg. It culminated in a meeting on Market Square, which was addressed by socialists. Eventually those …
Indian South Africans timeline 1950-1959
… Africa (CPSA) even though he addressed its meetings at Red Square. But in spite of its own assessment clearing him, the …
A short history of the oldest graves in Plettenberg Bay by Patricia Storrar (The Heritage Portal), 12 September 2016
… 19th century and all of them died long before St. Peter's Church (Anglican) was built in 1879-80 in the Village of … All but two in fact, died before the…
South African Tragedy: Jail Part Lovers by Joseph Lelyveld (New York Times), 5 January 1983
… the interrogation rooms on the 10th floor of John Vorster Square, the security police headquarters here. Soon she came … shuttling between him and her. Her…
PlaceBotshabelo Mission Station, near Middleburg
… and is unique blend of Western and Sotho Architecture. A Church was built in 1868 using a total of 300,000 bricks that were made locally. The Church was…
PlaceUbuhlebezwe Municipality (previously Sisonke District Municipality), Highflats
… had the original wood from the Local Forests and an iron Church. The brick Church built later in 1933 and is also home to the Himmelberg …
PlaceDiepsloot, Johannesburg
… into a bustling neighbourhood covering approximately 5 square kilometres with a population of more than 350,000. …
PlaceTheewaterskloof Dam, Villiersdorp
… cubic metres of water when full. The surface area is 48 square kilometres that makes it something of an inland lake, …
PlaceGauteng Province
… with a series of Theatres, Museums and Monuments – Church Square , Union Buildings , Melrose House and the Voortrekker …
PlaceMichaelis School of Fine Art
… , which is housed in the Old Town House on Greenmarket Square , the first art museum in Cape Town. Hiddingh Campus …
PlaceNamaqua Coastal Route
… rand, MeerKAT will be incorporated into the complex Square Kilometre Array (SKA) instrument, which when fully …
PlaceCompany Gardens in Cape Town
… (actually an old fire-alarm bell from Greenmarket Square original town hall) dates to 1855, while later layers …
Africa South
… and the socialists. Subjects covered issues around the church and the state; the political situation in South-West …
PlaceRiversdale, Western Cape
… In August 1838 the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) at Swellendam established a new Parish on the … In August 1838 the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) at Swellendam…
EventMass protest against the circumstances of Neil Aggett’s death
… White opposition politicians, lawyers, academics and church leaders to lead demands for the end of prolonged …
EventConnie Mulder announces banning off WCC officials from SA
… purposes', and the climate of suspicion between Church and State thickened. …
EventPolice head admits to Khotso House bombing
… bombing of Khotso House as an attack on the heart of the Church, its mission and being.” Click here for van der …
EventM.T. Steyn is sworn in as president of the Orange Free State
… by a great crowd and took place at the Dutch Reformed Church in Bloemfontein. Steyn, who was not yet forty years of …
EventSir Harry Smith, governor of the Cape, dies in London
… He is buried at St Mary's, Whittlesey and has a section of church named after him. His wife, Juana, died on 10 October …
PlaceWinterton, Kwa Zulu-Natal
… spectacular of the Drakensberg! The Winterton Museum on Church Street has a display on the History of farming in the … to the South African (Anglo Boer) war…
ArticleJohannesburg the Segregated city
… and financial activity became located south of Market Square, bringing together banks, broker’s offices, … be completed soon after were the Law Courts on Von…
ArticleSouth African General Elections 2019 - List of Political Parties
… punishment and land expropriation without compensation. Church figures linked to the ATM have been alleged to be … religious party, the CPM is led by New…