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PlaceOatlands, Simonstown
… 2 April 1808, pointing out that the main house required 10 square feet of new ceiling, 224 sq. feet of plaster on the …
PlaceOld Post Office, Fleming Street, Port Elizabeth
… Feathermarket Hall). The Post Office (1897) facing Fleming Square with its “Rhineland” style tower, has on its corner …
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'…
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. …
PlaceMiddleburg, Mpumalanga
… resulted from this idea. In 1864, The Dutch Reformed Church bought the farm of 'Sterkfontein' and in 1866 the town … the Memorial Museum, Meyer’s Bridge,…
Re-emergence of resistance, 1980-89
… province, and addressed the members of the Zion Christian Church gathering at Easter in 1992. He shared the stage with … of our organisation belong to the…
ArticleGarveyism: Early 1900s philosophy
… Africans for many years, and at least one major separatist church still flies a flag of Garvey's colours. …
PlaceNqweba was called Kirkwood, Eastern Cape
… at Enon in 1818. Sacraments are still given in the little church - teak window frames, yellowwood rafters and brass …
EventPope Paul VI proclaims 22 new African saints. The saints, known as the Blessed Martyrs of Uganda, were a group of converts who were persecuted and martyred from 1885
… a public Holiday in Uganda and is marked worldwide on the Church calendar in honor of the Uganda Martyrs. …
EventTanzania gains independence
… of the region, German missionaries from the German Church Missionary Society preceded French interaction. East …
EventTrade unionist Clements Kadalie dies in East London
… in Nyasaland, now Malawi . After being educated at the Church of Scotland mission station, he was trained as a …
EventMass Democratic Movement (MDM) begins their Defiance Campaign
… significant anti-apartheid movements, and comprised of 400 church, civic and student organisations- with a membership of …
EventPresident Paul Kruger (78), dies of heart failure in Clarens, Switzerland
… returned to South Africa and he was buried in the Pretoria Church Street cemetery on 16 December 1904. References: "This …
PlaceKilnerton Training Institution
… with his brother Charles, of the Methodist movement in the Church of England. He had a vision of the World as his parish … by the Governor, but on land…
PlaceThe Company Gardens, Cape Town.
… 18 hectares of land and it extended from Tuyn Street, now Church Street, towards Table Mountain, and coincided more or … with spaces being carved out for the…
PlaceStilfontein
… south-west of Johannesburg. Sondela Nature Reserve is a 40 square kilometer nature reserve nearby. This area is in the …
PlaceRondevlei Nature Reserve
… Nature Reserve . Rondevlei bird sanctuary extends for 2.2 square kilometres across a permanent wetland and a huge …
PlaceYMCA-Cape Town and later Athlone, as well
… Area. Its first meeting was held at Green Market Square. This YMCA is the oldest in Africa and has been based … Town, with its first meeting being held at;…
Biography of Michael Scott from an email contribution by Lorna Richmond, 25 November 2015
… The CRJ placed Scott in direct opposition to the then Church establishment and the South African Government. … previously addressed an audience bigger than…
PlaceGhwarrie Poort
… of the dam wall. The beautiful Dutch Reformed sandstone church is a National Monument and each Easter is one of the … Class 19D steam locomotive that stands…
EventThe United Democratic Front (UDF) is dissolved
… anti-apartheid movements, comprising of over 400 workers', church, civic and student organisations. The non-racial …
PlaceBoksburg, the Witwatersrand
… Office, the Law Court, St Michaels and All Angels Anglican Church, Hechter-Shuiz Museum, and a few gold mines. Other …
PlaceKoringberg
… one of many in the areas to have its roots in the church. It was only when the community broke away from the Dutch Reformed Church in neighbouring towns of…
PlaceFugard Theatre, Cape Town
… century warehouses with a portion of an old gothic style church at its centre. This section of the building would … become the Fugard, and it still has the…
ArchiveThe 1957 Alexandra Bus Boycott and its unsung heroes by Roseinnes Phahle, June 2019
… in a small hostel at Christ the King, an Anglican church in Sophiatown. The accommodation was arranged for me … monastic order, the Community of the…
ArchiveBiography of Ruth First by Cole Deal Ruth Demissie
… First was arrested on August 9, 1963 and taken to Marshall Square Police Station under the General Law Amendment . She was at Marshall Square for the first…
PlaceSt. Mary's Cathedral, Cape Town (also known as the: 'Parish of Our Lady of the Flight into Egypt'
… did numerous other religious Buildings. The Dutch Reformed Church in Pretoria is known as the 'NG Moederkerk '. The … (£5000 being the original estimated…
Death of ANC Education Secretary, Seretse Choabi, 29 August 1991
… 2350 Rockville, Soweto, proceeding at 9am to the Methodist Church, Rockville, Soweto. At 12 noon the cortege will …
PlaceAmandelboom, Town in Northern Cape
… glory, waking saints and sinners alike before the Sunday Church services begin. Amandelboom was the original name of …