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EventSolly Sachs addresses Garment Worker’s protestors
… addressed 15 000 workers on the steps of the Johannesburg City Hall during a protest meeting organised by the Garment … a mass meeting of striking garment…
PlaceJan De Waal House, 93 Bree Street, Cape Town
… Table Mountain is the main highway leading out of the city towards Cape Town International Airport and the Southern Suburbs. The popular De Waal Park, one of…
ArticleThe South African War 1899-1902
… October 1899 – November 1899 The first battle took place at Talana, near Dundee in northern Natal on 29 October … was not clear. On 30 October 1899 the…
PlacePrincess Vlei Conservation Area
… a specific achievement.. It has long been used as a place for water immersion Baptism. Church groups come every … not find a way to live more sustainably…
EventTogolese football player, Sheyi Emmanuel Adebayor is born
… He was born to parents of Yoruba descent in the city of Lomé. After a talent scout spotted him playing, he … He has since played for big European teams like…
The Mountain Committee
… to have been burnt down. The most serious clash took place on June 6 in a valley adjoining Ngquza Hill, between … suddenly emerged from the bushes…
EventThree cases of Buboinic plague are reported in Cape Town
… on 1 February 1901. The disease then spread across the city resulting in the establishment of segregated residential … with Africans being forced to move to…
ArticleThe Freedom struggle in Bloemfontein
… early years of the 19th century as it became the meeting place for discussions that would ultimately shape politics in …
ArticleGrade 10 - Topic 4: Transformations in southern Africa after 1750
… of the ‘wars of Shaka’. Wars and disruptions took place, but most of them were not caused by Shaka and the …
PlaceCato Manor Heritage Centre, Durban
… ‘Durban System’, which was administered and implemented by city officials, links themes explored at the Cato Manor … visitors with an ideal opportunity to…
PlaceAkasia- a Complex of Suburbs, of Pretoria
… Church, was in the center of the Neighborhood. As the City of Pretoria grew in light of industrial expansion in the … Akasia. This suburb is in the Northern…
Documents, speeches, Awards, and articles relating to Albert John Luthuli
… civilisations of Egypt and Greece , but always took place through intermediaries, which of course raised the … through violence and conquest. European…
Epidemics Affect Everyone By Elron Kleinhans
… ways and means to improve the Sanitary state of the city in 1867. In times of crisis, the Council found the need … in Grahamstown,through strict control…
ArticleEOAN Group
… move affected the group’s connection to the busy cultural city life of Cape Town. Ebrahim Medell, an acclaimed …
June 17
… 300 predominantly white Wits students marched through the city centre to protest the killing of schoolchildren. As they …
PlaceDonkin Heritage Trail, Port Elizabeth
… forms a unique row of terrace houses, and is one of the city's most prominent landmarks. The Donkin Heritage Trail … History and Architectural delights of…
EventMartin Luther King, Junior, is born
… stimulated by the arrest of Rosa Parks. Parks boarded a city bus and refused to give up her seat for a white person. … policy in South Africa. In America,…
PlaceQueens Fort Military Museum, Bloemfontein
… attacks by local Basotho tribes. This Museum overlooks the City and is known to have been used as a Military Hospital, … the Museum, taking in this History…
ArticleRand Rebellion 1922
… labour that would serve their own interests in the first place, without disturbing the racist social order that had … strike turned into open revolution in a…
ArticleGrade 6 - Term 2: Explorers from Europe find southern Africa
… its power at the same time as the Renaissance was taking place. Europeans knew very little about Africa at this stage … him famous and he was appointed court…
ArticleThe 1913 Women’s anti-pass campaign in the Orange Free State
… repeated by APO in May 1908 when it said: “In the first place we would point to the harshness of the regulation … 1913, a group of between 200 and 800 women…
Constructing the Union of South Africa; negotiations & contestations, 1902-10
… Socialist League). Jewish Trade unionism in the Mother City at the turn of the 20th century and Uncovers the … constitution Constitutional discussions…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 4: Turning points in modern South African History since 1948
… Bantu Education Act (1953) , conceived it: “There is no place for [the African] in the European community above the … Education. In the 1980s very little…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1990-1999
… 50 000 people from the steps of the Cape Town City Hall. 19 February, Nelson Mandela was issued with his … against the Ciskei government and the Bisho…
PlaceBonteheuwel
… conceived as a letting scheme owned by the then Cape Town City. The construction of housing in Bonteheuwel (proper) … conceived as a letting scheme owned by…
BiographyJames Steven Mzilikazi Khumalo
… Teachers Association of South Africa (ATASA), which took place in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State (now Free State) in …
The National Anthem
… version or translations of Nkosi and the words vary from place to place and from occasion to occasion. …
In Conclusion: The Decline and Fall of the Tricameral Parliament
… to the entire country a year later, and which would be in place for the duration of White rule until June 1990. Out of … power was no longer parliament but…
ArticleThe Early History of Rugby in South Africa
… first official rugby match in South Africa. The match took place at Green Point in Cape Town and was played between the … Africa's first Black president. His…
Say It out Loud - The 1909 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 13th April 1909
… in formally opening the Congress, said that, in the first place, he thought they would expect him to thank their worthy … in the draft South Africa Act it…