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Addis Video Art Festival to Cape Town Hosted by ALMA MARTHA
… FRIDAY 17 February 2017 Screenings and a light shared meal from …
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Wynberg
… cruciform plan as the old structure. This was completed on 17 March 1899 at a cost of £4000. It was declared a National …
EventBeatles records are banned by the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), due to John Lennon’s previous ‘Jesus’ comments
… Des Lindberg (11; Die Gezoem van die Bye), A-Cads (17; Hungry for Love), and Four Jacks and a Jill (20; Jimmy …
EventFormer Vaal policeman Gerhardus Peens admits his role in the Boipatong Massacre
… the Vaal Triangle (now Gauteng) township of Boipatong on 17 June 1992 when several people were killed and others …
EventBeginning of the Waterberg Battle in the Herero Revolt
The German colonisation of Namibia, then German South West Africa, took place in 1884. The Herero, a pastoral and nomadic group, had begun to move into Namibia…
PlaceGraaff-Reinet Division
… on 26 August 1785 and its boundaries were proclaimed on 17 July 1786. However, over the next century these underwent …
PlaceSastri College, 1 Winterton Walk, Durban
… a National Monument under the National Monuments Act on 17 March 1989 . …
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Bloemfontein
… Wocker was commissioned to design a church at a cost of £17,500. The old building was demolished whilst services …
EventWalter Sisulu's appeal is dismissed
… was arrested at Liliesleaf farm, Rivonia, under Section 17 Act 37/1963 and charged with sabotage and attempt to …
The Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA): CODESA 2
… – 15 June 1992 Mass action and Boipatong Massacre on 17 June Rumours of Police Involvement and ANC break off … at the second plenary of Codesa, the Boipatong…
EventMoïse-Kapenda Tshombé becomes the Prime Minister of the Congo
On 10 July 1964 MoÁ¯se-Kapenda Tshombé, leader of the Confederation of Tribal Associations of Katanga, became the Prime Minister of the Congo (now known as…
Notes on the Life of Ernest Cole 1940–1990 by Gunilla Knape
This book and exhibition are an attempt to construct a clear picture of Ernest Cole, a complex man whose work is little known, especially in his own country,…
EventNuclear Test Ban Treaty signed
Representatives of the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain sign a Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which prohibited the testing of nuclear weapons in…
EventKader Asmal, political activist and future Member of Parliament, is born
Kader Asmal political activist, human rights lawyer, former Minister of Education (1999-2004) and of Water Affairs and Forestry (1994-1999); is born in Stanger…
EventThe SA author and journalist, Herman Charles Bosman, shoots and kills his stepbrother David Russell during a quarrel
… editor of South African Opinion and Trek (1944-9). In 1950, Bosman began to write humourous short stories for the …
EventThe 4 x 100m men's relay team win the gold medal for SA at the Olympic Games in Athens
… Darian Townsend and Ryk Neethling clocked 3 minutes and 13.17 seconds to triumph over the Netherlands (2nd) and the US …
ArchiveRemembering Hugh Masekela: the horn player with a shrewd ear for music of the day by Gwen Ansell (The Conversation), 23 January 2018
… Kirk Douglas’s acting and Harry James’s trumpet, in the 1950 movie “Young Man With A Horn”. Masekela saw the film as …
2007 ANC National Policy Conference: Report of the Commission on Strategy and Tactics, 30 June 2007, Gallagher Estate
… will be used to improve the Chapter as a whole. 17. Further, it was felt that the draft did not adequately address global challenges that include: 17.1 the…
PlaceOude Molen, Alexandra Care and Rehabilitation Centre, Maitland
… 1802. The extent of the Nieuwe Molen property was 17 morgen 36 sq. roods 108 sq. ft. Van Niekerk was the owner … granted 36 morgen of quitrent farmland…
EventLouis Raymond, an Olympic tennis singles gold medalist is born
… (17 August 2015). ↵ [iii]David van Lill, Van Lill’s South … (17 August 2015).|Louis Raymond, …
EventMichael “Muis” Roberts, South Africa’s best jockey is born
… Michael Leonard Roberts was born on 17 May 1954 in Cape Town.[i] Roberts was one of South …
EventUmkhonto we Sizwe bombs Church Street, Pretoria
… one hundred injuries. [ii] The bombing took the lives of 17 men and 2 women, of which 9 were White and 7 were Black. …
EventCôte d’Ivoire gains independence from France
The more recent pre-colonial history of CÁ´te d’Ivoire can be traced to the 17th century, with the establishment of the kingdom of Gyaaman. The capital,…
EventThe Rembrandt Tobacco Corporation was founded in South Africa
In 1948 the Rembrandt Tobacco Corporation was established by Anton Rupert. The first cigarettes were manufactured in an old flour mill in Paarl on 12 June 1948…
EventMilitary service becomes compulsory for White South African men.
… months of service for all white males between the ages of 17 and 65 years old. Conscripts became members of the South …
ArchiveThe Final Prize by Norman Levy
… - Chapter 16 The Final Prize: Inside and Out - Chapter 17 The Final Prize: Exile - Chapter 18 The Final Prize: Exile …
PlaceBoksburg, the Witwatersrand
The Town of Boksburg was founded in 1887 as the Administrative Centre of the East Rand. It is the second oldest Town on the Witwatersrand. Boksburg was an…
ArchiveThe exilic geographies of the South by Benjamin N. Lawrance and Vusumuzi R. Kumalo
In August 1960, Dugmore Boetie fled South Africa and entered Bechuanaland (present day Botswana) on foot. He was part of a flow of “discontented young men”…
ArticleDurban Timeline 1497-1990
… an ivory trading mission, but did not enter the bay. 1685 17 May, The English ketch Good Hope was caught in a squall … of Mgungundlovu, on the orders of…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 2 Glossary
Terms You Need to Know: Christopher Columbus arriving in the America. Image Source Abolition: The ending of a law, a system or an institution. During…