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EventThe first British Settlers arrive in Algoa Bay
… arrived in Algoa Bay, (now Port Elizabeth) on board of twenty-one ships, the first being the Chapman. They numbered about 4500 and included artisans,…
EventEllis Park soccer stampede kills 43
… year old Sphiwe Mpungose were under the fatalities. Nine of the injured remained on the critical list. The stadium has a capacity of 60,000 but eyewitnesses…
EventThe Neptune, with 288* convicts on board, enters Simon’s Bay, with strong resistance from Cape inhabitants
… in Simon's Bay (now Simonstown) in the Cape, after being met with a furious city population in Table Bay. In … Lord Grey intended to establish a penal colony…
Gender and deviance in South African industrial schools and reformatories for girls, 1911-1934 by Linda Chisholm
… 1945 edited by Cherryl Walker Between 1926 and 1934 waves of 'insubordination', 'defiance' and 'riots' surged through a … finely calibrated means for both…
Rustenburg the Segregated city
… the Segregated city Towards Union The Afrikaner character of the town persisted after Union in 1910, and there was … to the area. The population, according…
Chapter 2 - Historical Background
… Africa itself. The Constitution was not a product solely of negotiation in the Constitutional Assembly. Experiences in … of taxation, are labouring under…
EventSouth Africa deports Donald “Dolan” Acheson
… deported from South Africa on the 31 March 1991, having being fingered as the triggerman in the assassination of Namibian lawyer Anton Lubowski. Acheson was…
"We have Decided to Liberate Ourselves": Address to the Royal Commonwealth Society by O. R. Tambo, London, 23 June 1986
… eight months ago to the day, in Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas, Heads of State and Government of the Commonwealth countries … of that country's problems…
ArchiveSouth Africa in World War One, 31 October 2018
… In the second of a series of scholarly articles leading up to Armistice Day on 11 … 1909). The South African leaders saw their interests as being closely…
Full speech - Mamphela Ramphele: Rekindling the South African dream
… to invite you to join me on a journey to build the country of our dreams. I ask those of you of my generation: let us cast our minds back to the … when we…
Interview with Swami Gounden by Vino Reddy, 29 May 2002
… I am Vino Reddy from the Documentation Centre of the University of Durban-Westville. This morning we … in this country? SG: I was politicised…
EventSouth Africa allowed to compete in the Olympics again
… After being banned from the Olympic games for 21 years, the …
Chapter 1 - Striking a balance between Tribalism and Christianity
… GUMEDE’S BIRTH AND CHILDHOOD Josiah Gumede, who for much of his formative years offers no apology for his close … William and three or more sisters, the…
PlaceMauritania
… Mauritania, Country on the Atlantic coast of Africa. Culturally it forms a transitional zone between the Arab-Amazigh (Berber) populations of North Africa…
Imijondolo
… a shack or informal housing), is Omar Badsha's second book of photographs. Badsha's groundbreaking book documents how … radically different life in the…
PlaceHout Bay Museum
… cottage style museum is a hidden treasure with collections of Hout Bay’s history that goes back to 1652. When the Dutch … to ‘Wood Bay’ in Afrikaans). Soon…
ArchiveThe Mandela I knew by Saths Cooper, 6 December 2013
… to 1982 I got to know him intimately and had the advantage of interacting with him on a daily basis. These were less … best and worst in ourselves to emerge…
PlaceAluin Krantz West, a Farm Near Alexandria
… Located in the Sundays River Valley, in the District of Cacadu District Municipality, Eastern Cape. Aluin Krantz … elevation Above Sea Level is; 199 metres…
Cutting Through The Mountain
… Cutting Through The Mountain is a collection of interviews with South Africans - most of them prominent and all of them Jewish - who fought against … and…
ArchiveFrom eNcome over Bloedrivier to eNcome and Beyond by Ben Khumalo-Seegelken
… 16 December 1838 circulated among the earlier inhabitants of that region on the one hand and the trekker– and … uncritically with the result of it presently…
PlaceBloukrans Bridge Rest Camp, Southern Region
… span arched bridge, located in the Southern Cape region of South Africa . The bridge is one of three commissioned on the so called ‘ Garden Route ’ to … each…
EventBanned PAC Leader, Robert Sobukwe, is refused an exit permit to leave SA
… 22 June 1971 a Pretoria court ruled that the former leader of the banned Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), Robert Sobukwe, … allowed to use his exit permit …
EventA.G. Visser, SA physician and poet, dies in Heidelberg, Transvaal
… on 1 March 1878 on the farm Zaaifontein, in the district of Fraserburg, South Africa. Visser attended the Huguenot … in Scotland to study medicine. In 1918,…
Event15 000 applications for gold mining permits received per week in Johannesburg
… The discovery of diamonds (1867) and gold (1886) transformed South African from an agrarian society at the edge of world trade into a globally integrated…
EventChina promises to increase imports from Africa
… Due to the rapid development of the Chinese economy in recent years, China has emerged as a potential successor to the West with regard to being the premier…
ArticleSouth Africa needs a national holiday on 16 November to acknowledge its indentured
… AND CIVIL SOCIETY ABOUT A MONUMENT AND SOME KIND OF OFFICIAL RECOGNITION OF THE ARRIVAL DAY OF INDENTURED LABOURERS SINCE THE 1990S. … and therefore lies at…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1930s
… 9 July, The Executive of the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) meets in Durban … 1930 J.T. Gumede is voted out of office as president for being too close…
ArchiveBlack Sash / Sash
… originally published as Black Sash, is a detailed record of the activities of the Black Sash organisation: the petitions, protests, … efforts of these women…
EventThe first mountain zebra foal is born in at the National Mountain Zebra Park
… no two individuals look alike. There are two subspecies of Mountain Zebra, namely, the Cape Mountain Zebra and … Zebra. These two subspecies used to be a…
EventA South African spy is released from jail
… be involved in the amnesty and repatriation process then being negotiated by the ANC and the South African government. The report on the working group of the…