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Interview with Harry Gwala conducted by Tony Karonat, January 1989, Dambuza Pietermaritzburg
… schools. And I remember attending another one in Cape Town - a Party school, they called it a 'summer school', but … who were conducting those classes in…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 3 Contextual Overview
… Grade 10 Learner’s Book”, Oxford University Press, Cape Town, 2011. …
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…
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 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. …
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-…
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…