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PlaceWupperthal Mission Station, Clanwilliam
… a very rugged wilderness, 72 km southeast of Clanwilliam and about 250 km from Cape Town . This picturesque place has … from where two Rhineland missionaries…
PlaceMbotyi, Eastern Cape
… For the adventurer wanting to explore the many unique and wild treasures this coast has to offer, Mbotyi offers the … privileged opportunity to visit the…
PlacePhilippi
… Springfield was established sometime before December 1896, and in August 1898 its name was changed to Philippi. Philippi … in the 1980s, at more-or-less the…
PlaceSouth African Library, Cape Town
… National libraries: the South African Library in Cape Town and the State Library in Pretoria. It was declared a National … Gardens in Cape Town. Inside the…
PlaceMelrose House, Jacob Mare Street, Pretoria
… transportation business that operated between Kimberley and Pretoria. With his newfound wealth he commissioned … stately Victorian mansion complete with…
PlacePreller-Rondawels, Pelindaba
… in 1920 for the building of the Hartbeespoort Dam and a Township development. The Township remained in the planning stage for a long time and when finally…
EventW. E. B. Du Bois (95), writer, scholar, intellectual, Pan
… activists. He was a key founder of the NAACP, the largest and oldest civil rights organization in the United States, and from 1910 to 1934 served it as…
The Trust Feed Massacre
… occurred in December 1988 which shocked the nation and forever changed the lives of the close-knit community of … attacked at 3 am, by assailants who kicked…
PlaceRegina Mundi, Catholic Church, Soweto
… The Church forms part of the rich History of Soweto and is the largest Catholic Church in South Africa – able to … The Church played a major role in the…
A short history of the oldest graves in Plettenberg Bay by Patricia Storrar (The Heritage Portal), 12 September 2016
… effort to restore these graves to some semblance of order and dignity after more than a century of neglect was made by a small committee of four residents of…
Document 118 - Johannesburg District Communist Party, Call to a Non-European United Front!
… TO A NON-EUROPEAN UNITED FRONT! TO ALL ASIATICS, COWURED AND AFRICAN PEOPLE SEGREGATION THREATENS US The Government proposes to drive Asiatic and Coloured…
ArchiveSt James Church Massacre
… Church in Cape Town, South Africa left 11 people dead and 58 wounded. At about 7:30pm, on Sunday 25th July, while … a hymn of worship, a group of gunmen…
55. S.A.I.C. deputation sees the Minister of the Interior, 1925
… on 16 November 1925. They opposed the Areas Reservation and Immigration and Registration Bill, and also urged the Government to agree to a round-table …
PlaceWaaihoek Farm
… bottom of a pot of mealie-meal. AFRA worked on land rights and agrarian reform in Natal. Its main aim was to assist Black rural people whose tenure was…
PlaceCathcart District, Eastern Cape
… The District of Cathcart was created in January 1877, and it was raised to a fiscal divisional on 1 December 1879. … gliders take off from the nearby hills,…
PlaceDiepkloof, Soweto
… covers an Area of approximately 2,50218 square kilometres and houses a Population of approximately 104 098 persons … Census). It is located on the Eastern…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Johannesburg
… the DR Church Johannesburg, being the DR Church Jeppestown and the DR Church Johannesburg East , Irene. The new congregation started off by having its…
Address to the Summit of the International Conference on Financing for Development, 21 March 2002
… President Vicente Fox, Your Excellencies, Heads of State and Government, Your Excellency, Mr Kofi Annan, Secretary … to "eradicate poverty, achieve sustained…
Chapter 2 - SADF Speaks...
… filth scars the clarity of its skies. It is a precious and beautiful memory for those who have experiÂenced it. … by searchlights, frightening off the usual…
Pravin Gordhan on a leash by Daniel Silke (Politics Web), 16 May 2016
… intrigue befitting more authoritarian regimes like China and Russia where state (and governing political party) linkages into business and crony capitalism…
PlaceDie Grootkerk in Bosmanstraat
… part in the shaping of the Reformed Church tradition in and around Pretoria. It also had a very interesting part to … responsible for almost every single …
PlaceEthiopia
… West, South Sudan to the South West. Kenya to the South and Djibouti , to the North East. The Ethiopian Kingdom was … Ramidus Kadabba (c. 5.8?5.2 million…
PlaceSt Thomas’ Church, Ridge Road, Berea, Durban
… In 1835, Captain Allan Gardiner retired from the navy and went to Natal to begin Missionary work amongst the Zulus. … Zulus as a whole were singularly…
Document 10 - Letter from Nelson Mandela to Sir de Villiers Graaff, leader of the United Party
… by every articulate group amongst the African, Coloured and Indian communities, who constitute the majority of this … on crisis. We have been excluded from…
’I am not prepared to sell the birthright of the people to be free’
… them all on the grounds that he rejected the bantustans and all who collaborated in their establishment and maintenance. Mandela's response to the latest…
ArchiveMemories of Trafalgar High, District Six by Warren Ludski
… forced the residents out onto the grassless Cape Flats and razed their homes. What remained, ultimately, were the churches, mosques, the schools and the odd…
PlaceCircle of Kramat's, Cape Town
… it is this circle that protects Cape Town from earthquakes and National disasters. Kramats or Mazaars, the holy shrines … in the outlying districts of Faure,…
ANC President Nelson Mandela’s press statement on the Bisho Massacre King William’s Town - 8 September 1992
… Africa is a country traumatised by centuries of violence and the most brutal exploitation. It requires immense courage, tempered by patience and sensitivity…
45. Mass meeting at the Empire Theatre, Johannesburg, 1906
… History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai On 11 September 1906, a mass meeting of … in the Gujarati sections of the…
Margaret Thatcher's role in SA's transformation by FW de Klerk, 5 December 2016
… After we both retired from politics Baroness Thatcher and I, and our spouses, met on several occasions and became friends. I would like to share with you my …