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ArchiveOne hundred years of an air force inspired by General Smuts, by John Kane-Berman (PoliticsWeb), 18 July 2018
… of the Royal Air Force (RAF). Nearby in Parliament Square stood the statue of Jan Christiaan Smuts, often …
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 …
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…
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…
EventUmkhonto We Sizwe, military wing of the ANC, claims responsibility for power station blast
… attack on the Koeberg nuclear power plant, and the 1983 Church Street bombing in which 19 people were killed. MK was …
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. …
PlaceDessenhoek, Durban
… donation. After witnessing the poor condition of the Church and Clinic in the Dassenhoek Community, Peter … Rasmussen from 'City Hope Nation Changers' – a…
PlaceKakamas, Northern Cape
… Africa. This interesting town was originally built by a church and named after the Khoi word for ‘poor pasture’. The … the end of the 19th century. In 1897,…
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,…
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…
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;…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
ArticleA Luta Continua Dialogues, Episode 1: Student Activism
… and insincere “activism” when the school posted a black square for #BlackOutTuesday on 2 June 2020, in solidarity …
PlaceSteynsburg
… Zuurberg Mountain Range in the Eastern Cape. At only 17.4 square kilometres. It is now a little Town of about 8 000 …
PlaceVereeniging, a City in Gauteng
Vereeniging is a City, in Gauteng Province of South Africa. It has a population of more than 350,000 people. It is located on the banks of the Northern loop of…