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ArchiveThe Western Cape- Coloured and White Preference Area- Some Implications : Paper presented at National Conference 1980
… The Western Cape- Coloured and White Preference Area- Some … The Western Cape- Coloured and White Preference Area- Some …
In Conclusion: The Decline and Fall of the Tricameral Parliament
… While the tricameral parliament was designed to co-opt Coloureds … the security forces, which were unable to suppress the revolt. After the African National…
BiographyWilliam Mothipa (Willie) Madisha
… Willie Madisha grew up in the Atteridgeville Township of Pretoria. He completed his … over the same allegations. Madisha then went on to join the Congress of…
ArchiveThe Coloured Labour Preference Area Policy: Paper presented by Cape Western Region to National Conference 1983
… The Coloured Labour Preference Area Policy- Paper presented by Cape Western Region to National Conference on 11 March 1983 … The Coloured Labour Preference…
BiographyWalton Zacharias Fenyang
… Fenyang was born in 1877 in Thaba 'Nchu distric in the Orange Free State. An early treasurer of the African National Congress (ANC) and for some years the …
The monthly mail shipping line contract between England and the Cape Colony starts with the steamboat Dane.
… The monthly mail shipping line contract between England and the Cape Colony starts with the steamboat Dane. …
The Chamber of XVII orders Jan Van Riebeeck to restrict the allocation of farms at the Cape
… The Chamber of XVII orders Jan Van Riebeeck to restrict the allocation of farms at the Cape …
The parliamentary building at the top of Adderley Street, Cape Town, is occupied for the first time.
… South African Encyclopaedia: prehistory to the year 2000 .  Unpublished papers with SA History Online. … The parliamentary building at the top of…
Building on the railway station in Wellington starts. The first train from the Cape arrives 4 years later.
… Building on the railway station in Wellington starts. The first train from the Cape arrives 4 years later. …
A Dutch ship, the Rosenberg, carrying Huguenots (Protestant refugees from France), leaves for the Cape from the Netherlands.
… A Dutch ship, the Rosenberg, carrying Huguenots (Protestant refugees from France), leaves for the Cape from the Netherlands. …
EventS.P. Botha, Minister of Water Affairs, proposes new schemes to ease the Western Cape’s water supply problem
… Minister of Water Affairs, proposes new schemes to ease the Western Cape's water supply problem During his opening of the Cape Show on 4 March 1970, Minister…
Dr Abraham Faure (79), registrar and secretary of the Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church in the Cape Province and founder of De
… Dr Abraham Faure (79), registrar and secretary of the Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church in the Cape Province and founder of De Honigby , first church…
PlaceAfrica South Art Initiative (ASAI), University of Cape Town
… company, specializing in research and publication on the visual Arts in Africa. ASAI began in 2005, concerned with the lack of engagement by South African…
'The People Accept the Challenge of the Nationalists' Statement issued by the National Executive of the A.N.C., April 6, 1963
… THE PEOPLE ACCEPT THE CHALLENGE OF THE NATIONALISTS. OUR … of illegality under which it is produced. THE SPIRIT OF REVOLT. The mass political action will…
EventFirst Tramway Company in Cape Town commences operations, with a horse
… Public transport in South Africa commenced in Cape Town in May 1801, when a weekly coach service from Cape Town to Simon's Town was announced. Many years…
ArticleBantu education and the racist compartmentalizing of education
… In 1949 the government appointed the Eiselen Commission with the task … Bantu Education Act, 90% of black South African schools were state-aided mission…
BiographyThomas Mbeki
… and born about 1900. About 1924 he enrolled in the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) night school in Ferreirastown, Johannesburg and soon joined the…
BiographyPhillip Qipu Vundla
… before finding work in Johannesburg as a mine clerk. In the mid-1940s he was an organiser for the African Mineworkers' Union and also served on the National…
BiographySamora Machel
… Samora Machel was born in 1933 and was raised in the village of Chilembene. He was a member of the Shangana … quickly to have the Frelimo government…
EventEban Abba, Israeli statesman is born in Cape Town
… Eban Abba, Israeli statesman was born in Cape Town South Africa, on 2 February 1915. He is the son of Abraham and Alida Sachs-Eban. His parents moved to ……
BiographyPeter Sexford Magubane
… a Kodak Brownie camera. After completing high school, the young Magubane worked at a number of odd jobs but he … to get a job at Drum magazine as a driver…
BiographyRaymond Hoffenberg
… was born in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape) on 16 March 1923. He went to school in Port Elizabeth … grateful to his English teacher,…
BiographyWendy Heather Woods
… 1941 in Mthatha (formerly Umtata), Transkei (now Eastern Cape Province ). An outstanding pupil in school, she … After training as a librarian, she became a…
EventSouth African writer J.M. Coetzee is born in Cape Town.
… Born John Maxwell Coetzee in Cape Town to Afrikaner parents, Coetzee uses his initials as his pen name. He studied at the University of Cape Town and…
EventConservative Party leader, Dr Andries Treurnicht, dies in Cape Town.
… 19 February 1921 on Middelpos farm in Piketberg, Western Cape. In 1942 he enrolled at the University of Stellenbosch where he became the member of … SCA. He…
BiographyRick Turner
… Turner ↵ Richard “Rick” Albert David Turner was born in Cape Town, Western Province, on 25 September 1941, the only … of Black students. Turner was invited…
BiographyHarry Heinz Schwarz
… he was to be arrested. Schwarz and his family arrived in Cape Town, Cape Province (now Western Cape). He attended … Tamboerskloof School and later South…
PlaceWooden Bridge over Lagoon, Milnerton, Cape Town
… The Bridge was Built in 1901 using Jarrah Wood by the Royal Engineers to provide an Entrance to a Cannon … Trench. Since its Erection it was in constant use…
BiographyJameson Gilbert Coka
… Coka was born in 1910 on a white farm near Vryheid, Natal, the son of a sharecropper. He won a bursary to Adams College, … his schooling to junior…
PlaceUniversity of Fort Hare, Alice- Eastern Cape
… Parliament, Thursday, 9 October 2025 – The Select Committee on Education, Sciences and the Creative Industries has noted with sadness the violent protests at…