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PlaceVergelegen Wine Estate
Vergelegen Wine Estate is situated in an exclusive upmarket Area of Somerset West, about 50 km East of Cape Town. The Area was named after Lord Charles…
ArticleInqaba ya basebenzi
Inqaba ya basebenzi, published in London by the Marxist Workers' Tendency of the African National Congress documents the workers' struggle for national…
PlaceNxuba (formerly known as Cradock)
Cradock is a Historic Town that has retained much of its 19th-Century charm. Its beautifully restored Victorian and Karoo-style buildings, combined with its…
ArticleSan hunter-gatherer society in the Later Stone Age
Lived off the environment The earliest hunter-gatherers in southern Africa were the San people. They mostly survived by hunting Gemsbok and other antelope…
ArticleInfecting the City Public Arts Festival
Infecting the City is an annual arts festival that takes place in communal areas of Cape Town and Mbombela, Mpumalanga, South Africa. The festival aims to…
PlaceMooi River, a Town of the Midlands Meander- Natal
Mooi River was originally named: 'Lawrenceville'- after the Irish farmer who formalized its settlement during the 1800's. The Village took its enduring name…
PlaceBitterfontein, Western Cape
In the Northernmost part of the Western Cape, along the Northwestern plain, lies a relatively isolated Village located in the Knersvlakte Region, called…
PlaceLydenburg, Mpumalanga
The Town of Lydenburg, in Mpumalanga Province, was founded in 1850 by the company of Voortrekker leader Andries Potgieter who had abandoned their first…
PlaceSibudu Cave, North Coast near Ballito (can be spelt Sibhudu)
… Mazel of the Natal Museum . According to scientists, few places on earth have such a complete record from the Middle … University of Tubing-en in ,Germany …
The South African War
The South African War To this day the reasons for this conflict remain the source of much emotive debate (read more). Regardless of who provoked the war,…
ArticleCODESA 1 Timeline
21 August 1989: OUA publishes the publishes the Harare Declaration. January 1991: Nelson Mandela calls for an all-party congress to negotiate the way to a…
Biography of Mandla Langa by Carol Sale
… goals. Mkhize describes Langa's writing as dream-like with places where race will not be an issue as the ulimate goal. …
ArticleGrade 11 - What were the consequences when pseudo-scientific ideas of Race became integral to government policies and legislation in the 19th and 20th centuries?
… Society Some believe that the Aborigines should be kept in places of safety, outside the European society some felt that …
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1900-1909
… from Natal Indian Congress and gifts from well wishers. Places costly gifts in community trust. October 18, Sails …
PlaceVlakplaas, Pretoria
Vlakplaas is a Farm about 20-kilometres West of Pretoria. Established in 1979, a 100-hectare Farm nestled in the Hills outside Pretoria, on the Hennops River…
PlaceBotlierskop, Private Game Reserve
Set on the foothills of the magnificent Outeniqua Mountains near Mossel Bay and George in a Malaria Free area in South Africa's Garden Route, Botlierskop…
EventMike Gatting's rebel cricket tour is curtailed
Negotiations between the National Sports Council (NSC) and the white South African Cricket Union (SACU) on the rebel cricket tour by Mike Gatting's England…
EventStart of the Muslim community's Tana Baru Cemetery Uprising
The first arrival of Muslims in South Africa took place in the 17th century, when Malay slaves were brought to the Cape. This was followed by the arrival of…
PlaceChurch Square, Pretoria
Church square is in the historic centre of Pretoria! The founder of Pretoria, Marthinus Pretorius declared the square to be used as a church yard and market…
From Segregation to Apartheid
The gains achieved by the White minority in the first four decades of the 20th century were, by the 1940s, increasingly under threat however, as African…
Eyewitness accounts of the Sharpeville massacre 1960
The day of the Massacre, mourning the dead and getting over the shock of the event © Baileys African History Archive (BAHA) Tom Petrus, author of 'My Life…
ArticleTransvaal Indian Youth Congress (TIYC)
The Transvaal Indian Youth Congress (TIYC) was formed in Transvaal (now Gauteng) as the youth wing of the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) in 1945. Its…
ArchiveThe arch agitator of the Union by Shula Marks, 31 January 2019
… and local authorities.” As at other times and in other places, the men felt threatened by the militancy of their …
Document 123 - Statement of Dr Y. M. Dadoo, Secretary, Non-European United Front (Transvaal), before the Court, 6 September 1940
… sign: "Europeans Only." Trams, Lifts, Hospitals, Trains, Places of Amusement, Libraries, Universities, Skilled Jobs, …
Address by ANC President, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, at the opening of the 37th congress of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies Carlton Hotel, Saturday, 21 August 1993
… religious communities to establish and maintain their own places of worship, their own communal organisations and their …
62. Congress defends its stand on the colonisation scheme
… of Natal and meetings of protest have been held in various places. A demand was made that the Natal Indian Congress …
41. Statement of Indians to the Transvaal Constitution Committee, 1906
… ghettos. And in these, too, except in one or two places, Indians are only monthly squatters. In Pretoria and …
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - New Workers, New Unions
… with the growing white middle class socially and in public places, and most aspired to become like them. As a result …
Pretoria Socialist Society
… of 1945, as substituted by Section 27 of Act 54 of 1952, places serious and far-reaching restrictions on the right of …
ArticleGrey Street Complex timeline 1800-1999
… Group Areas Act, and our homes, businesses, jobs and places of worship destroyed, but we are now denied the …