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EventWinnie Mandela charged with kidnapping
… a front for the political mobilisation of township youths to stand against apartheid. Jerry Richardson abducted Seipei … boys from the Methodist manse in…
EventAmanzimtoti blast kills five
… bin, was executed by hanging in 1986. In a submission to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), the African … MK, mainly from Swaziland . The aim of…
EventMoses Kottler, A leading South African sculptor of his time, is born
… Kottler was born in Joniskis, Lithuania. Sources differ as to the date of his birth; some give it as 11 June 1892, … New Group. The organisation's aim was,…
EventThe Simelela Rape Survivors Centre in Cape Town reports on rape in Khayelitsha
… oldest a grandmother aged seventy-six. From August 2005 to July 2006 the Centre treated 743 rape cases, an average of two to three a day. The Simelela Rape…
EventSA raises concern with the Dutch government
… The South African government instructed its ambassador to The Hague to inform the Dutch government of its displeasure over a grant of 100,000 guilders being…
EventUN investigative team visits SA
… under-secretary-general, visited South Africa from 9 to 10 June to meet representatives of the Government, political parties and organisations. The…
SAHO Commemorates 40 Years since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue by Roanne Moodley
… and photographed. It tipped something. Whether it set out to do so is largely irrelevant, we have learnt that nothing … and nothing determines its impact…
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Glossary
… is the same as AH 304 in the Islamic calendar alienate - to cause to feel isolated; lose or destroy support or sympathy … trap - Fish traps of this kind can…
“Let us dream you, forbidden landscape”: the Storming project sings change, 17 July 2017
… ‘It’ll work someday’. There’s no such thing. If we have to change things, let’s change them radically now.” – Ray … can’t relegate the activism of the late…
Archaeology - A way of discovering the past
… there was personal involvement, memory can be relied on. To know about events earlier than this, elderly relatives and friends may be able to recall their…
PlaceLimpopo Province
… course first Northeast and then east for about 1,800 km, to the Indian Ocean . From its source the river flows Northward to the Magaliesberg , cutting the…
ArchiveInternational Bulletin, No 20, December 1988
… African Communist Party. Issue covers an SACP delegation to Scandanavia, a letter sent to comrade Meir Vilner, General Secretary of the Communist Party in…
PlaceMarket Theatre
… the demise of the apartheid regime in the 1990’s. Due to the fact that the Market Theatre ran as a non-racially … ran as part of the Market Theatre. The Lab…
PlaceTanzania
… Gama explored the East African coast in 1498 on his voyage to India. By 1506, the Portuguese claimed control over the … Omani Sultan Seyyid Said (l804-56)…
EventA Dutch ship, the Rosenberg, carrying Huguenots, leaves for the Cape from the Netherlands
… from the Dutch East India Company for the Huguenots to settle at the Cape. This was because like the Dutch, the … were Calvinists. Along with the Dutch, they…
ArchiveDurban and Districts Council of Churches Cultural Festival 10 June 1990
… youth. Different choirs and other groups were invited to perform and show off their talent. The topic for the … death. The various speakers were encouraging…
ArchiveNegotiations, armed struggle and the ANC
… Congress. Covers the African National Congress approach to negotiations and the armed struggle in a historical … context, what negotiations should be…
EventWomen call for alternative ways of conscription
… of women called on the government at a press conference to permit those men who refuse to serve in the army to make their contribution to the nation in a …
ArchiveGroup Areas Development Act, Act No 69 of 1955
… The Act was to provide for the control of the disposal and for the … development of such areas, and for the said purposes to establish a board and to define…
PlaceThe AVA Gallery
… that was founded in Cape Town in 1850. The Society aimed to form a permanent art gallery and art library that … Western Cape became the primary focus of AVA…
A short history of the oldest graves in Plettenberg Bay by Patricia Storrar (The Heritage Portal), 12 September 2016
… the Heritage Association of South Africa). Thank you to the University of Pretoria (copyright holders) for giving us permission to publish. In the second…
PlaceCape Point and the Lighthouse, at the Southern Point of the Cape Peninsula
… . Table Mountain and the City of Cape Town are close to the Northern extremity of the same peninsula. Rugged … of great historical interest with many a…
PlacePondoland
… 1899 provisions of Proclamation 314 allowed for Umsikaba to be partitioned into the divisions of Lusikisiki and … also known as "no-mans-land", were ceded by…
PlaceBarton Keep, Jacob Mare Street, Pretoria
… under old NMC legislation on 16 July 1982. Two blocks to the west of Melrose House is Barton Keep. As the name … suggest a French chateau or medieval…
ArchiveSt James Church Massacre
… Sunday 25th July, while the congregation of 1400 listened to a hymn of worship, a group of gunmen burst into the church … it this way: "I saw this man kick…
PlaceSilikamva High School, Penzance Estate-Hout Bay
… believe that every student should have the opportunity to discover and develop their own talents and potential. … and physical, development necessary for…
EventThe inquest into the death of Black Consciousness leader, Steve Bantu Biko, opens in Pretoria
… for a person who had died in detention. Police admitted to keeping Steve Biko shackled and naked for two days, but … dismissed allegations of assault. As it…
EventThe Soweto Uprising leaves 174 blacks and two whites dead following 10 days of rioting
… and spread across the country. The unrest was a response to the introduction of Afrikaans as the medium of … of the oppressor. The government’s proposed plan…
EventThe launch of the Progressive Women’s Movement of SA
… 8 August 2006, hundreds of women gathered in Bloemfontein to launch a new national women’s movement, a non-profit … regardless of their background. The…
EventThe NPA does not pursue charges against Wouter Basson, former chemical weapons expert of the SADF
… of the Pretoria High Court and the Supreme Court of Appeal to deny the state leave to appeal against the ruling. Basson had been prosecuted and … High Court…