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PlaceRoyal baFokeng Stadium
… Africa. This stadium hosts a number of Football, Rugby and Athletics Events, and is the Home Ground of the Platinum Stars Football Club. … from 38 000 to 42…
PlaceRiverside
… trader who settled in Griqualand East in the 1860s and made his home at Riverside. A notorious miser whose mode … a vast fortune through a string of trading…
EventThe First Anglo-Boer War: Boers defeat the British at the Battle of Majuba
… The poverty and vulnerability of the South African Republic (Transvaal) … Anglo-Boer War (1880-1881). There were 4 decisive battles and several sieges during…
EventMahatma Gandhi leaves the Tolstoy Farm 1913
… Mahatma Gandhi , a champion of passive resistance and non-violent campaigns left the Tolstoy Farm in Transvaal … people, he left behind only his friend…
EventThe Pretoria Supreme Court orders for an inquiry into the doctors' treatment of Steve Biko at the time of his death
… Pretoria Supreme Court ordered the South African Medical and Dental Council (SAMDC) to hold an inquiry into the … by Port Elizabeth security police on 18…
Address at the 22nd Congress of the Socialist International, 27 October 2003
… Chairperson, Comrades and Friends: As has been indicated, this Panel is scheduled … topic of a new multilateralism for sustainable development and security…
PlaceInanda, Phoenix
… as a residence/base of operations of Mahatma Gandhi, and as birthplace of the syncretic Nazareth Baptist Church. … HIV rates this leads to not many reaching…
PlaceRepublic of Griqualand West or the Digger's Republic
… contested by the Boer republics of the; Orange Free State and the Transvaal ,. As well as various other groups like the KhoiKhoi , Koranas under Andries…
PlaceBattle of Muizenburg Monument, Muizenburg
… Given the turmoil in Europe and the importance of the Cape sea-route to India the British … Elphinstone to secure the Cape as a refreshment station and as…
Appeal For United Front, July 1948
… for full democratic rights, was made by Dr. Yusuf Dadoo and Dr. G. M. Naicker, respectively Presidents of the Transvaal Indian Congress and the Natal Indian…
EventB.J Vorster steps down as Prime Minster
… the Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk (Dutch Reformed Church) and of the Broederbond, an Afrikaner secret society. In 1961, … Vorster was appointed as Minister…
XI - The Verdict
… six to eight hours after the infliction of the injury, and we accept that the latest that the head injury could have … that neither doctors nor police could…
PlaceKwaZulu-Natal Literary Trails (under Heritage Routes)
… heritage, from the legacy of prominent Indian writers and political figures in Grey Street in Durban, to the … history, the Rider Haggard trail includes key…
30. Potchefstroom traders: we please the poorest class of customers
… History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai The agitation by anti-Asiatic vigilante … an emphatic contradiction. Some of us…
PlaceCalitzdorp, Route 62
… Klein Karoo in the Western Cape Province of South Africa and lies on South Africa's, Route 62 . The Farm, on which Calitzdorp stands, was granted to JJ and…
PlaceGordonia Division
… Magisterial district and division in the North-West in the Cape Province. Named … Prime Minister of the Cape Colony four times between 1878 and 1902. It was…
EventThe first Boeing 707 jet aircraft arrives in South Africa
… used to transport cargo or passengers, as more reliable and efficient aircraft's such as the latest Airbus and Boeing variants have replaced it in that role…
EventThe Bethal Treason Trial resumes
… Congress (PAC) members, which began in December 1977 and had already taken over 100 court sessions, resumed in Bethal (also known as State v Mothopeng and…
EventNomsa Mapongwana is assassinated
… dead at night in her home in Lingelethu West. Mapongwana and her husband woke up to the sound of shots being fired from the front and rear windows of their…
EventElectricity cut off in Tumahole township
… provide municipalities facing a consumer electricity and rent boycott, with financial support to service arrears … The cut-off included other services such…
EventSADF mounts raids on ANC targets in neighbouring states
… carry out raids on alleged ANC targets in Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Several people are left dead or injured. The … the ANC's operational headquarters in…
EventPope John Paul II appoints 31 cardinals, three from Africa
… Cardinal Anthony Olubunmi Okogie, Ghananian Peter Turkson, and the Sudanese Gabriel Zubeir Wako. However, the … of Wako had serious political implications…
EventA plan designed to fight Italian forces, Operation ‘Agreement’ is executed in Libya
… Operation 'Agreement', raid by British, Rhodesian and New Zealand troops on Tobruk, Barce, and Benghazi was planned to destroy installations, shipping and…
Arise! Vukani!
… anti-imperialism, anti-ethnicity, anti-collaboration and anti-sexism. It was an initiative by working, unemployed and student youth residing in Soweto,…
WhatsYourHeritage
… of Cape Town Graduate School of Business Solution Space and the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Solution Space Philippi Learning…
ArchiveThe rehabilitation scheme: a new fraud
… in which the Black man is kept as a slave to the White man and to invariably create wealth or him. A plan directed for … scheme. The government felt that…
PlacePolokwane Museum
… of the region. The Polokwane Museum is a fascinating and interesting place to visit, situated in Polokwane, across the way from the Civic Centre and The…
EventEzrom Kgobokanyo Sebata Legae is born
… Johannesburg. He studied at the Polly Street Art Center and Jubilee Art Centre under Cecil Skotnes and Sydney Kumalo. When Kumalo retired in 1964, Legae…
EventMxenge murder accused Dirk Coetzee found guilty
… Pieter Combrinck finds Dirk Coetzee, Apartheid policeman and Vlakplaas assassination squad Commander together with Almond Nofomela and David Tshikakalanga…
EventAlan Charles Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian is born
… Alan Charles Rusbridger is an English journalist and editor of The Guardian newspaper. He was born in Northern … Rusbridger was five years old. He later…