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BiographyLewis Nkosi
… Durban, Kwa-Zulu Natal and was educated at local schools before enrolling at M. L. Sultan Technical College in Durban. Nkosi began his writing career at the…
Britain returns the Cape formally to the Netherlands and the flag of the Batavian Republic is hoisted on the Castle. The agreem
… (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. p. 202 & 516 | Kruger, D.W. (ed)(1979). … bygewerk deur D.W. Kruger; 3de…
EventSouth African player Thabo Mngomeni is born in Cape Town
… midfield player, who was awarded Kick Off's accolade for the Goal of the Decade for his goal for Bush Bucks in 1997, is born in Cape Town. Mngomeni once…
BiographyJoe Mkhwanazi
… Joe Mkhwanazi was born on 8 March 1928 in Mandlanzini at the Empangeni District in Natal (now KwaZulu Natal). After … he worked as a teacher between 1949 and…
PlaceFetcani Pass, Eastern Cape
… There are many Mountain Passes in the Highlands of the Eastern Cape and Fetcani Pass is no exception, functioning as a … gravel Passes in this mountainous…
PlaceRawsonville, Winelands of the Western Cape
… Rawsonville is situated merely an hour's drive from Cape Town in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. These are the wineland areas … Rawsonville is…
PlaceTownship Tours of Cape Town
… South Africa is a country famous for its diverse cultures. Cape Town is a particularly cosmopolitan city, with people … by specific cultural groups. And a…
Conservative Revolutionaries - Anti-Apartheid Activism at the University of Cape Town 1963-1973 by Robert Erbmann, Oxford University, 2005
… Introduction The 1960s are often described as a unique period of activism, … 1963, to the banning of all protest in the centre of Cape Town in June 1973,…
PlaceThe Company Gardens, Cape Town.
… When the Dutch first settled in the Cape in 1652, Governor van … not be complete without a visit to the Company's Garden in Cape Town city centre. Home to…
PlaceBloubergstrand, Tableview -Cape Town
… Bloubergstrand is a Suburb of Cape Town , 25Km North of the City! The beach at Bloubergstrand is a popular location … Africa. The Dutch (under control of…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Conference of the Association of African Universities: Cape Town, 22 February 2005.
… President of the AAU, Professor Lamine Ndiaye, Vice President of the AAU, … Naledi Pandor, Vice Chancellor of the University of Cape Town, Professor Njabulo…
PlaceGroenberg Mountain, Western Cape
… Groenberg is a mountain and is located in Cape Winelands District Municipality, Western Cape, South Africa. The estimate terrain elevation above seal level…
BiographyBaldwin ‘Ben’ Sipho Ngubane
… Baldwin ‘Ben’ Sipho Ngubane was born on 22 October 1941 at the Inchanga Roman Catholic Mission in Camperdown, Natal (now … 1960 and went on to graduate with…
BiographyMxolisi Mgxashe
… Mxolisi “Bra Ace” Mgxashe was born in 1944. He joined the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) in Cape Town in the 1960s and took part in the march, in Cape Town’s…
ArchiveChapter 2 Respect for all, Childhood in Cape Town, 1933 – 1949 by Denis Goldberg
… in soapy washing-up water. “But, Mum, you’ve got to hold the book to see if I’m saying it right.” “Oh, just say it.” … Later, my father insisted they leave…
EventWestern Cape High Court suspends pebble bed modular reactor at Koeberg
… The Western Cape High Court set aside Western Cape provincial Department of Environmental Affair's decision to permit the construction of a pebble bed…
The Anglican church joins the growing confrontation between church and state, when the Archbishop of Cape Town, the Most Rev. W
… The Anglican church joins the growing confrontation between church and state, when the Archbishop of Cape Town, the Most Rev. W …
The Heeren XVII refuses the catching of whales, suggested by Van Riebeeck to supplement the income generated at the Cape.
… The Heeren XVII refuses the catching of whales, suggested by Van Riebeeck to supplement the income generated at the Cape. …
The first recorded appearance of Halley’s Comet in the southern hemisphere is entered in the diary of the Cape governor.
… The first recorded appearance of Halley’s Comet in the southern hemisphere is entered in the diary of the Cape governor. …
Smallpox epidemic strikes the refreshment station at the Cape, after arriving with the crew on a Dutch ship. The disease wreaks
… Smallpox epidemic strikes the refreshment station at the Cape, after arriving with the crew on a Dutch ship. The …
Janssens, governor of the Cape, capitulates with the last of the defending force, after which the second British occupation of
… Janssens, governor of the Cape, capitulates with the last of the defending force, after which the second …
The first French Huguenots leave the Netherlands for the Cape, with vine shoots from France with them on the ship.
… The first French Huguenots leave the Netherlands for the Cape, with vine shoots from France …
PlaceBisho, Capital of the Eastern Cape
… This is the Capital of the Eastern Cape Province . The Office of the … Bisho has many major Buildings which include: 'the Eastern Cape Government Offices …
PlaceCape Columbine Nature Reserve
… Near Paternoster on the West Coast. One of the highlights being the Cape Columbine Lighthouse about 5km away along a gravel road. … It is the furthest…
BiographyMewa Ramgobin
… beginnings became a successful farmer. Ramgobin attended the Inanda Government Aided Indian School. In 1949 he attended the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) run…
EventANC revolutionary propaganda leaflets exploded in Cape Town, Johannesburg, and Durban
… National Congress (ANC) propaganda leaflets exploded in Cape Town and in Johannesburg. Similar occurrences were also … revolutionary propaganda leaflets was…
BiographyMolly Fischer
… Susanna Johanna Fischer (nee Krige) was born on the 23rd of February, 1908 on the family’s smallholding in … children and gave a series of talks in municipal…
PlaceGreat Fish River, Eastern Cape
… The Great Fish River, distinguishable from the Namibian Fish … River by the word ‘great’, that runs through the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, flows…
PlaceMthatha Airport, Eastern Cape
… Mthatha Airport serves the charming Town of Mthatha (affectionately known as Madiba Country) in the Eastern Cape Province. It is the Hometown of many great…
EventJohn Fairbairn (70), journalist and outspoken critic, dies in Cape Town
… Regarded as the father of free press in South Africa, John Fairbairn left England and arrived in the Cape in1823. Soon after his arrival he founded a school…