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PlaceGouda, Cape Winelands
… is a little Village just 37 km South of Porterville, at the Western entrance to the Nuwekloof Pass that links Tulbagh to Wellington. "The Town does not…
PlaceZoar, Western Cape
… lie adjacent to one another on Route 62, they are both on the Missionary Route (that includes Mamre, Genadendal, … survival. Their History goes something…
PlaceSoebatsfontein, Northern Cape
… The name of this small Village ('fountain of pleading') comes from a Spring in the middle of the Village. Legend has it that a man named Hendrik Stievert ……
PlaceTarkastad, Eastern Cape
… Set against the dramatic Winterberg Mountains, between Cradock and … from Port Elizabeth, Tarkastad is a typical Karoo town on the banks of the Tarka River,…
PlaceKranshoek, Western Cape
… in Eden District Municipality. Kranshoek was founded in the early years of the 20th century by a group of Griqua trekkers under the leadership of Abraham le…
PlaceKatberg, Eastern Cape
… from Hogsback and close on two hours from East London, the little town of Katberg lies in enviable countryside. … soft green valleys with forested ravines -…
PlaceMiddledrift, Eastern Cape
… in Amathole District in an area that was formerly part of the Ciskei. It has a population of 2 140 (2011). It has a … Middledrift, Eastern Cape …
BiographyAhmed Timol
… Ismail Dindar. His father came to South Africa in 1918, at the age of 12, from India. He was one of six children, with … Ismail, Mohammed and Haroon. As…
YWCA Building, 178 Long Street, Cape Town
… The building was restructured in 1903 by J Parker, of the architectural firm Forsythe & Parker, and was dedicated to the memory of Minnie and Maria Bam, the…
PlaceKlein Zoar, Wemyss Road, Brooklyn, Cape Town
… The house probably dates from the 18th century and is alleged to have been the home of Wolraad Woltemade who, in 1773, performed the … Klein Zoar, Wemyss…
BiographyLuli Callinicos
… and is of Hellenic descent. She began her involvement in the struggle for democracy at an early age. She began her career teaching history at schools and was…
Marthinus A. Bergh leaves for the Netherlands to raise the grievances of the Burghers against the Cape government at the States
… Marthinus A. Bergh leaves for the Netherlands to raise the grievances of the Burghers against the Cape government at the States …
BiographyEugène Ney Terre’Blanche
… Afrikaner nationalist parents on January 31, 1944. The progenitor of the Terre'Blanche name was a French … from Toulon (Provence) France, who arrived at the…
Cape Town Launch of A to Z of Amazing South African Women
… The Book Lounge and Modjaji Books are deilghted to invite you … Ambre Nicolson is a writer and editor who lives in Cape Town. Before and after obtaining…
EventAuthor and playwright Ronald Harwood is born in Cape Town
… Ronald Harwood was born Ronald Horwitz in Cape Town on 9 November 1934. He left Cape Town for London to pursue a career on stage. In London, he received…
Document 69 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa, Johannesburg, to the Cape Town branch, 22 March 1937
… One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 69 - Letter from the Workers' Party of South Africa, Johannesburg, to the Cape Town branch, 22 March 1937 WORKERS'…
ArchiveSummary notes of a meeting between Minister Silvino da Luz, Foreign Minister of Cape Verde and Messrs D W Auret and J Marx of the Department of Foreign Affairs: Praia, Cape Verde, 24 February 1986
… Notes from a diplomatic meeting between the Foreign Minister of Cape Verde and representatives from the Department of Foreign Affairs. The release of Captain…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki at the Millennium Debate of the Joint Houses of Parliament, Cape Town, 19 November 1999
… Madam Speaker; Presiding Officers of the National Legislature; Premiers; and Honourable Members We meet today on the premises of the National Assembly to…
Extract from a speech by the Honourable the Prime Minister during the Cape National Party Congress at East London on 3 September 1975
… On this occasion the Prime Minister dealt with the policy of separate … Rhodesia and they went there in the first instance not to join in Rhodesia's struggle…
EventThree cases of Buboinic plague are reported in Cape Town
… Three cases of Bubonic plague were reported in Cape Town, South Africa. The first cases of Bubonic plague in Cape Town emerged on 1 February 1901. The…
ArticleThe Founding of the SANNC
… After actively petitioning the National Convention and being ignored during 1910 and … • Native beer, is it a national beverage? • Native schools and…
Document 68 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa, Johannesburg, to the Cape Town branch, 26 February 1937
… history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew The origins and development of Trotskyism 171 Document 68 Letter from the Workers' Party of South Africa,…
ArchiveOpening address at the 59th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of Cape Town, 1981.
… Acting-president's opening address at the 59th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of Cape Town, Cape Town from 28…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 3 - Politics and Consciousness in Cape Town Communities, 1980-1985 by Sean Field
… political activists working in the coloured communities of Cape Town. While many communities in the Western Cape were … the building of sustainable…
BiographyRamnie Dinat
… Ramnie Naidoo, the daughter of Ama and Narainsamy Thambi Naidoo , worked in the Transvaal Indian Youth Congress (TIYC) since her … 1967, with her two small…
BiographyDorothy Adams
… born in 1928 in Wellington , 72 kilometres north-east of Cape Town . Wellington had been declared on the farm of Champagne in 1840, and it grew as the result…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to Parliament National Assembly, Cape Town, 5 February 1999
… 10, 000 classrooms. It is because the doors of all public schools are open;it is because the higher education … other areas to guarantee our people's…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the South African Communist Party Cape Town, 28 July 1996
… Chairperson; General-Secretary of the SACP, Charles Nquakula; General-Secretary of COSATU, Sam … Congress, bring you warm fraternal greetings;and we join…
BiographySaul Sibusiso “Minus Khosing” Mashinini
… his set of teeth told of his remarkable brilliance. At the age of about 11, he helped his father find an ageing uncle in the deep rural of the Orange Free…
How a mysterious ghost ship brought cosmic disco to Cape Verde: A new compilation documents the strange history of the African country’s groove-laden sound, formed following the discovery of a boatload of synths(The Guardian), 24 May 2016
… In a calm morning in March 1968, a shipment carrying the latest Korgs, Moogs and Hammond organs set off from … been marooned on the São Nicolau island of…