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PlaceSunset Beach, Cape Town
… Sunset Beach is located on Cape Town ’s lower, West Coast Region. The suburb of Sunset Beach after which it is named. (AS PER … exposed shoreline, Sunset…
EventThe Khoi and San National Language Body is officially launched in Upington, Northern Cape
… Even though none of the Khoisan languages form part of the eleven official languages of South Africa, they are still highly regarded. The government set up…
BiographyNellie Jibiliza
… who were African National Congress (ANC) activists in Cape Town. Thus, she grew up in a politically active … of South Africa (CPSA) gatherings in 1942, later…
ArchiveStatement by the Honourable R F Botha, Minister of Foreign Affairs: Cape Town, 20 March 1984
… by Pik Botha, Minister of Foreign Affairs, regarding the progress of the Joint Monitoring Commission and condemning the statement issued by the President of…
BiographyLesedi Billy Masetlha
… Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng).He was one of the six children in a family with roots in the northern Transvaal.His parents adhered to the Bahai ……
EventTwo actors, Athol Fugard and Zakes Mokae arrive in Cape Town to stage a play on the ‘Colour-bar’
… actors, Athol Fugard, 29, from Port Elizabeth, author of the two - man play "The Blood knot" and his co-actor Zakes Mokae, 27, from Johannesburg arrived in…
BiographyDr Gurunathen (Guru) Kistnasamy
… Thaniachallam Kistnasamy Naicker, worked as a builder at the local Huletts Sugar Mill and his mother, Shanbagavalli, … this at Chatsworth High and the…
ArchiveNUSAS National Directive for health: report to Congress, Cape Town, 1981
… Report by the NUSAS Health Directive to the 59th Annual Congress of the … National Union of South African Students, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, 28…
PlaceGordons Bay, Cape Province
… Gordons Bay is a picturesque coastal Village, nestled at the foot of the Hottentots Holland Mountains and the False … from Somerset West and Strand and only…
EventSir Benjamin D’Urban, for whom the city Durban was named, assumes office as Governor of the Cape of Good Hope
… Benjamin D'Urban was born in Suffolk, England and joined the British Army in 1793. He soon rose to prominence, … and Toulouse. As part of his foreign…
EventJoe Slovo informal settlement outside Cape Town is devastated by a fire
… On this day the Joe Slovo informal settlement situated outside Cape Town was devastated by a shack fire. Seven people, … homeless. For the first time, a…
ArchiveAfricans in Cape Town: state policy and popular resistance, 1936-73
… Thesis presented for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of History in the University of Cape Town. The study focusses on Cape Town's black…
BiographyGcinisizwe Sylvester Khwezi Kondile
… Kondile also known as Sizwe or Tshonyi [1] was born on the 6th of October in 1957. He was originally from Port … police abducted him [7] . He was brought to…
PlaceDarters Pass, Northern Cape
… official Passes that leaves you wondering if you're in the right place. The Pass has only one gentle curve towards … the second Anglo-Boer war. This Pass is…
PlaceLiesbeek River and Park, Cape Town
… River is only 9 km long and arises as several streams off the Eastern slopes of Table Mountain above Kirstenbosch , … Jan van Riebeeck, commander of the…
PlaceDinorben Farm, Eastern Cape
… and is located in Joe Gqabi District Municipality, Eastern Cape, South Africa. The estimate terrain elevation above seal level is 1942 … the most easily…
BiographyIrene Menell (nee Manderstam)
… Manderstam) spent her early life moving from one place to the next, completing her primary and secondary schooling in … Province (now Gauteng), she enrolled…
PlaceTyume Valley, Eastern Cape
… The Tyume Valley is situated in the Eastern Cape Province, inland from East London about 120 km is the town of Alice, where Fort Hare University is located. …
PlaceAakaap/Rietfontein, Northern Cape
… is a Town in ZF Mgcawu District Municipality , in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa , (LINK PROVIDED IN FURTHER … forming the mid-Northern section…
PlacePringle Bay, Cape Overberg
… The little seaside village of Pringle Bay is one of the towns … to live here permanently. Only an hour’s drive from Cape Town, Pringle Bay offers an idyllic…
Die Eerste Vryswartes Van Stellenbosch - 1679-1720 by Prof. J.L. Hattingh, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, 1981
… [THE FOLLOWING IS A SUMMARY OF SECTION 3 OF THE ABOVE … Dr. Boeseken, in her book "Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700", gives some details of his…
BiographyLouis Botha
… Louis Botha was born near Greytown in Natal in 1862. He was the son of Voortrekker parents and was brought up on a farm … a young soldier, Frederich Boot, or…
PlaceMendi Memorial, Eastern Cape
… The actual wreck lies off The Isle of Wight, in the English … Many of these men were from Pondoland, in the Eastern Cape, and the Royal Family of the Western…
BiographyConnie Mofokeng
… Mofokeng was a member of the Soweto Student Representative Council (SSRC) at the time of the Soweto uprising . After the uprising she was … violence broke…
BiographySelloane Ethel Leisa
… Province (now Gauteng) where she trained as a nurse. The city exposed her to racial and gender discrimination … feeling shocked and eventually spurred her to…
PlaceLabia Theatre, Cape Town
… The Labia Theatre is 65 years and older, originally an … opened by Princess Labia in May 1949, as a theatre for the staging of live performances. For the…
PlaceTaj Hotel, Cape Town
… The venue combines two buildings—the Temple Chambers, also known as the Board of Executors, … Heritage Buildings, all 176 rooms at our 5 star hotel in Cape…
BiographyJosias Ratshilumela Madzunya
… Josias Ratshilumela Madzunya was born in the Sibasa area of the northern Transvaal in about 1909, a member of the Venda tribe,the son of a polygamous Venda…
BiographyThemba Thomas Mazibuko
… attended Orlando West High School and became a member of the South African Student Movement (SASM). In 1974 as a … by police and some of his fellow students…
BiographyMonty Johannes Motloung
… his matric as he was interrupted by his involvement in the Student Uprisings . In January 1977 Motloung left for Swaziland with his friend Sam Kenneth Mnisi…