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PlaceVredenburg, West Coast
… was established in 1875, initially as a Dutch Reformed Church congregation to serve the surrounding Communities because the closest Church, was in Hopefield…
ArticleMiriam Makeba: Activist on Two Fronts by Connor Kirkpatrick
… to live with her grandparents who put a high priority on church. There she was exposed to and fell in love with … in their group, the Cuban Brothers. They…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 3 Glossary
… of a religion that are usually a part of the Christian Church. Constitution The system of laws and principles that a …
EventThe National Library of South Africa is founded
… von Dessin, who bequeathed his books to the Dutch Reformed Church in 1761 to serve as the foundation of a public …
EventArchbishop Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
… of Churches, first Black Archbishop of the Anglican Church in South Africa, Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town, and …
EventCar bomb explodes outside Air Force headquarters
… (ANC) cadres, Freddie Shangwe and Ezekial Maseko, drove to Church Street in Pretoria and parked their vehicle in close …
EventSusanna Kok, SA medical missionary whose work led to the effective diagnosis and treatment of leprosy, dies
… and became a missionary for the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC). In 1936, she began to work with leprosy …
EventThe Azanian People’s Liberation Army (APLA) disbands
… members of APLA opened fire on a congregation in St James Church in Kenilworth, in Cape Town, killing eleven people and …
My Spirit Is Not Banned - PART 1 by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… special clothes so we look very pretty and then we go to church, the whole family. My father was a steward in that Methodist church. I used to enjoy it a lot…
PlaceMalgas Island, Saldanha Bay
… is an upwelling system . It is a small island, about 8.300 square kilometers. It is almost rectangular and fairly flat, …
PlaceRooi-Els, Western Cape
… The top end of Anemone Street acts as something of a 'town square' - the Rooi Els Grill, Eco Centre, coffee shop and …
ArticleRemembering and Celebrating South Africa’s Iconic LGBTQI+ Women
… Jewish faith, she was baptized into the Roman Catholic Church in 1976. In the same year, the Soweto Riots took … identity, Gross was stripped of her clerical…
AAM and UN: partners in the international campaign against apartheid
… embargo against South Africa at an AAM rally in Trafalgar Square. None of the Western countries accepted membership in … first met the leaders of the AAM. It…
PlaceGriquatown
… few which the missionaries themselves had planted; the church sunkto a barn-like building of reeds and mud; the … building dates back to 1826 and was the…
ArticleInanda Seminary and its Influence on Education in South Africa by Claire Wilt
… expected to fully adapt to the ways of the school (and church) and were held to this by living on the campus along … to be supported and managed by the…
PlaceMooivallei, Dairy Farm
… to agriculture at Bonnievale. The Myrtle Rigg Memorial Church Mary Myrtle Rigg contracted meningitis in 1911 and … of her death record that she asked her…
Chapter 28. I Fight Back
… Hall, pushed me into a prison van and drove me to Marshall Square. There, I was searched and made to take off my collar … extremely unattractive. The cell…
EventHumphrey Khoza, former chief executive officer of Uthingo Management (Pty) Ltd and director of several other companies, is born in Germiston
… Durban, 2004. Khoza also served as leader of a grassroots church and cited his religion as a powerful influence over …
EventAmy Biehl is murdered in Cape Town
… Biehl's death occurred exactly a month after the St. James church massacre, where the Azanian People’s Liberation Army … South African History Online , ‘St…
EventMigrant workers ransack Phola Park
… the " Weekly Mail " reporters, who were at the Catholic Church near the scene, that police vehicles provided migrants …
EventStompie Seipei’s murderer goes to jail
… abducted Seipei and three other boys near the Methodist Church (Manse), Soweto and took him to Winnie Mandela's home. …
EventDisinvestment moves by two major companies
… Africa Movement in the US was launched mainly by Black and church groups in November 1984. Early in 1985 it became a …
EventSADF mounts raids on ANC targets in neighbouring states
… a bomb explosion outside the Air Force headquarters in Church Street, Pretoria on May 20 1983 resulted in injury of …
EventNoble South Africans win Nobel Peace Prize
… Norway. Bishop Desmond Tutu, noted bishop of the Anglican Church and former general secretary of the South African …
PlaceWupperthal Mission Station, Clanwilliam
… farms. The Village today consists of an old thatched Church, a store, and terraces of neat thatched-roofed little …
Die Eerste Vryswartes Van Stellenbosch - 1679-1720 by Prof. J.L. Hattingh, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, 1981
… fact. On 5 May 1675 Louis christened himself in the Cape's Church, describing himself "a sane person and free young man … been 45 years old when he became a…
PlaceThe Gallows Museum Exhibition
… would hang over the “blood catchment pit” which is a big square shallow pool with a drain in the middle. In the corner …
PlaceCape Columbine Lighthouse
… HC Cooper *Primary structure material of construction: Square masonry tower painted with, with red lantern house. …
Chapter One - From Abbotsdale to Kimberley
… In May 1877 two boards were established at Abbotsdale: a Church Board whose main concern was religious affairs and a … addition, erfholders had to 'donate'…
David Goldblatt, TJ, 1948-2010 - review by Claire Guillot, 25 January 2011
… stands a flashy but deserted monument, the Walter Sisulu Square of Dedication. "They spent millions of rand to build a …