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EventFirst Tramway Company in Cape Town commences operations, with a horse
… Public transport in South Africa commenced in Cape Town in May 1801, when a weekly coach service from Cape Town to Simon's Town was announced. Many years…
ArchiveBibliography by Howard Barrell
… Giliomee, H., The Rise and Crisis of Afrikaner Power (Cape Town: David Phillip, 1979). ANC, ANC Speaks. Documents and … Party-Building (Beijing: Foreign…
Chapter Five - The Fighter for Black Unity: 1935 - 1945
… Gomas, Bill Andrews, Henry Cookson, Ray Alexander (Simons), John Gomas Richard Ndimandi, Mrs Mkwena, Nimrod Kota, John Gomas at Cape Town Gardens, 1964…
EventFearon Fallows, first Astronomer Royal at the Cape, is born in England
… observatory at the Cape of Good Hope. He arrived in Cape Town on 21 August 1821 to investigate possible sites, but it … due illness. He died of scarlet fever…
PlaceRailway Station, Main Road, Wynberg
… 1883. The final extension, to the Naval Base at Simon's Town, opened on 1 December 1890. The line was Electrified … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern…
Araminta de Clermont
… Isle Of Man, United Kingdom, 1971. Lives and works in Cape Town. Studied at University College London (Architecture), … London (Photography) and Ruth Prowse…
ArticleA list of South African Shipwrecks
… commissioned in 1882 and was the first vessel to use Cape Town's new Robinson dry-dock. In December 1897 she was sold … the Cape, as well as a single north…
ArticleFederation of South African Women by Skylar Jayes
… Keywords Federation of South African Women, Ray Alexander Simons, Hilda Bernstein, Pretoria, Nursing Amendment Act The … of the Communist Party of South…
EventFearon Fallows, the first Astronomer Royal at the Cape, is born
… After a long battle with scarlet fever he died in Simon's Town on 25 July 1831. Fallows was buried at the Royal … (1970) Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern…
Biography of Miriam Makeba by Narcy Negrete
Abstract Miriam Makeba was a South African singer, daughter, mother, and an antiapartheid activist. After she was exiled from South Africa in 1960, she used…
ArticleThe 1913 Mineworkers’ Strike
… the public and parliament to its knees. According to Simons and Simons, what the Worker was saying was that: ‘In principle, … a motion of sympathy for the…
PlaceDwarsvlei Farm, Karoo
… officer and one of his uncles was at one-time commander of Simons Town , naval station . Henry Nourse was born on the 23rd … and one of his uncles was at one…
PlaceMLR-cannon, Middle North Battery, Simonstown
… until 1885. It was mounted at Middle North Battery Simon's Town in 1896 where it still exists. The gun, carriage, slide … It was mounted at Middle North…
PlaceDutch and British Coastal Fortifications at the Cape of Good Hope (1665 to 1829)
… at the western end of the Grand Parade in central Cape Town (Fig. 2). The Fort De Goede Hoop was basically an … None of these redoubts has survived the…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 3 Contextual Overview
… Grade 10 Learner’s Book”, Oxford University Press, Cape Town, 2011. …
Chapter 6 - TOWARDS HOME
… and the return of certain exiles such as Ray and Jack Simons. Following this meeting, the Party organs, the African … - Johannesburg, East Rand, West Rand,…
ArticleChanges in modern forms of communication
… South African postal system began in 1781, mail workers in Simons Town, Saldana Bay and Robben Island had to handle official … created in 1853. By 1860 post…
EventThe birth of the Treatment Action Campaign
… protested on the steps of St George's Cathedral in Cape Town to demand medical treatment for people living with the …
ArticleCape Town Timeline 1300-1997
… Dutch with the coast of Southern Africa. Timeline: Cape Town 1600-1699 The Castle of Good Hope. Source: … 1685 Groot Constantia wine farms established 1693…
The Rise of Women’s Trade Unionism in South Africa by Peter LaNasa
… leadership of women like Johanna Cornelius, Ray Alexander Simons, Emma Mashinini, and Lydia Kompe, women were able to … the movement, including Johanna…
Formation and launch of the UDF
… UDF launch at Mitchell's Plain in Cape Town. Source: http://www.nelsonmandela.org In the late 1970s … in a community hall in Rocklands, Mitchell’s Plain in…
ArticleTimeline of South African photographic books and exhibitions 1958 - 2003
… business - Industrial Photography (Pty) Ltd - in Cape Town . Photographer, Ernest Cole , starts his career as an … of the Cape , published by Tafelberg-…
ArticleTimeline of the History of Rugby in South Africa
… recorded rugby match in South Africa at Green Point, Cape Town, Western Cape between the Army and the Civil service. …
PlaceMuizenberg and Marina da Gama
… Post and is located in False Bay, on the road between Cape Town and Simon's Town . It was named after Wynand Willem Muijs , Sergeant in … Zimbabwean -born…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in exile
… taken to the security branch offices at Culemborg in Cape Town for interrogation. Sponsoring the Lesotho Liberation … completed. These classes were taught by…
PlaceCape Point and the Lighthouse, at the Southern Point of the Cape Peninsula
… of South Africa . Table Mountain and the City of Cape Town are close to the Northern extremity of the same … currents help to create the micro-climate of…
List of deaths in detention
… East Rand Kei Road Jail, East London Caledon Sq., Cape Town Held:Modderbee Prison Died: Far East Rand Hospital … Held: Verster Prison, Paarl Died: Tygerberg…
ArchiveRemembering Hugh Masekela: the horn player with a shrewd ear for music of the day by Gwen Ansell (The Conversation), 23 January 2018
Trumpeter, flugelhorn-player, singer, composer and activist Hugh Ramapolo Masekela has passed away after a long battle with prostate cancer. When he cancelled…
Hugh Masekela: the horn player with a shrewd ear for the music of today, not yesterday, 29 October 2017
When trumpeter, flugelhorn-player, singer, composer and activist Hugh Ramapolo Masekela cancelled his appearance at the recent Johannesburg Joy of Jazz…
BiographyRobert Gabriel Mugabe
… 7,000 people that was staged at Harare (then Salisbury)’s town hall popularly known as Stoddart Hall. This protest was … in Zimbabwean Popular Culture, PhD…