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EventFirst Tramway Company in Cape Town commences operations, with a horse
… replaced by petrol, diesel and trolley bus systems by the early 1960s. In 1985 a tram service was reintroduced in …
EventBrenda Fassie, South African singer and diva, dies in her sleep at Sunninghill Hospital
… Thwala. Her career skyrocketed in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. Things seemed to all go downhill in the mid …
EventSouth African woman, Janice Bronwyn Linden, is sentenced to death in China for smuggling drugs
… in foreign prisons for drug related crimes. In the early hours of 12 December 2011, Linden was executed by …
PlaceCradle of Humankind, near Johannesburg
… Sterkfontein alone has produced more than a third of early hominid fossils ever found prior to 2010 . The Dinaledi …
PlaceBacksberg Wine Estate & Cellars
… in time, some wine grapes. Once wine making started in the early 20’s the wine was sold either to the KWV, or in bulk to … for overall performance at the SA…
PlaceMahaking, formerly known as Mafikeng
… Barolong boo Ratshidi who settled in the area during the early nineteenth Century. The Barolong spelling of using an ' … becomes "place of gold" and Mangaung…
ArchiveThe All-African Convention: The Awakening of The People by I.B. Tabata
… speeches, polemics, that was created in the course of the early campaigns of the liberatory movement in South Africa from the early forties to the sixties;…
PlaceSteadville, Ladysmith
… and Steadville was led by Chief John Ndlovu. In the early 1920s, urban areas set up advisory boards because … hill –Umbulwane can also be seen (Ntando PZ…
BiographyDr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo
… and a world-wide anti- apartheid movement." - ES Reddy Early life Dr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo was born on 5 September … this meeting was elected the General…
PlaceAgtersuurberg, Eastern Cape
… Early name for the present Venterstad district, Eastern Cape. … Early name for the present Venterstad district, Eastern Cape. …
PlaceGreenmarket Square, Cape Town.
… Town's sea front. Greenmarket Square probably developed early on when the VoC brought vegetables from its adjoining …
PlaceMcgregor Museum, Kimberley
… originally located in Chapel Street, but was moved in the early 1970s to a larger building, the old Kimberley …
PlaceJutten Island, Saldanha Bay
… modern times.The wreck was re-found and salvaged in the early 1970s, yielding almost exclusively Dutch silver …
EventFormer ANC President, Oliver ‘OR’ Tambo, is born
… President in 1969 after the Morogoro Conference. In the early hours of 23 April 1993, Tambo suffered a massive and …
EventHugh Masekela, South African musician, is born
… that same year. Masekela returned to South Africa in the early 1990s and continues to produce music and perform …
Artist Bill Ainslie is born
… was born in Bedford, Eastern Cape as a descendent of an early British settler who had arrived in the Cape Colony in …
EventMike Gatting’s rebel cricket tour is curtailed
… the second leg of the tour, which would have taken place early in the 1990-91 season. In return, NSC agreed not to …
EventAWB leader, Eugene TerreBlanche, is convicted of attempted murder and assault
… TerreBlanche came to the public eye during the early nineties when the AWB stormed the World Trade Centre …
EventKing Leopold II of Belgium hands over the administration of the Congo to the Belgian parliament
… to the workers. One of such incident, which occurred in early 1900s, was widely covered by the media across Europe. …
EventPAC leader Robert Sobukwe is born
… boys and one girl. Sobukwe was exposed to literature at an early age by his oldest brother. His earliest education was …
EventJ.J. Hadebe replies to Thabo Mbeki’s plea
… role during the tense negotiations that took place in the early 1990s and subsequently paved the road to the first …
EventGerrie Coetzee becomes the first South African boxer to win a world heavyweight title
… of stamina. If he couldn’t knockout an opponent in the early rounds of the match, he would often tire in the later …
EventDouglas Portway, European-based South African artist, is born in Johannesburg
… fact, removed from the possibility of being art” Portway’s early paintings had a strong ethnic influence to them, but …
PlaceShell House, Johannesburg
… Investments (HCI). It could be Housing 500 families by as early as next year. Shell House was the ANC’s first …
Resistance Photography and Mobilization of the Resistance, 1946-1976
… and studied "leading" foreign photographers, much like the early South African photographers of the Royal Photographic … primary way that Drum expanded its…
ArticleSita’s story
… our family. When my Grandfather left South Africa all the settlers also left to pursue a life of material gain. Most of … and go to bed at around 8.30 pm My…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 3: The Scramble for Africa: late 19th century
… framework of long-range trade. The Ashanti and their early contact with European traders and explorers The Ashanti … came under considerable European…
ArticleEuropean missionaries in southern Africa: the role of the missionaries
… sermonising ever did from the pulpit. Local acceptance of early missionaries in the eastern Cape hinged more upon their … never hidden too far below the…
Concluding Remarks
… What I hope my focus on the early Seventies has revealed is that "protest" took root in … that socio-political art was very much in evidence in the early…
Chapter 4 - The Township Uprising, September-November 1984
… and students embarked on the largest stayaway since the early 1960s. This remarkable action had a huge impact on … themselves at plant level. The economic…