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PlaceSao Bento Shipwreck, Coffee Bay
… carrack, Sao Bento. A carrack is a sailing sailing ship of the 14th–17th centuries that was usually built with three masts, the mainmast and foremast being…
PlaceGreat Brak Rivier
… The village of Great Brak Rivier was founded by Charles Searle, an … in 1859. They landed at Mossel Bay following a sea voyage of 68 days. After a few months…
PlaceFort Schanskop
… After the Jameson Raid in 1896, Pres Paul Kruger of the “Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek” decided to protect … forts were to be built initially, but due to a…
EventGeneral H. Van Den Bergh blames the SACP for anti
… On 19 November 1970 the head of the Bureau of State Security (BOSS) General H. Van Den Bergh,, briefly … relationship with the Soviet Union, suggesting that…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1970-1979
… By the 1970s a number of leading figures in the ANC were in prison while others … the political mobilisation – for instance, the detention of Winnie Mandela…
PlaceIrma Stern Museum
… Irma Stern is considered one of South Africa’s most prolific and powerful artists who … during her lifetime with critics dubbing her art "The Cult of…
ArticleAfrapix Chronology 1981-1991
… its homeland policy and the introduction of the Tricameral Parliament gave Coloured and Indian … visited Omar Badsha in Durban. He wanted to compile a body…
ArticleMohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) - Timeline: 1890-1899
… Vegetarian Congress at Ventor. February 19, Result of Matriculation examination is published. He failed Latin. … and it impressed him immensely. Later, it…
ArticleGhallywood: An Evolution of Ghana’s Film Industry
… Early Beginnings of the African Film Industry: During the British colonial … 20th century, the British aspired to find various methods of “educating” the…
Pedi
… the Nguni and Sotho account for the largest percentage of the total Black population. The major Sotho groups are the … and Sepedi Northern Sotho, or Sesotho…
EventMzwakhe Mbuli is sentenced to 13 years in jail
… Mbuli became known as the "people's poet" as a result of the style and content of his poetry. He covered issues like drugs and Apartheid and … him to retreat…
Say It out Loud - The 1935 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 2nd January, 1935
… 1935 1 Another year has just closed, but the lapse of time really never ends, it is but the year that ends. The … take the Coloureds only for the year 1932,…
Nelson Mandela Correspondence around Mandela’s health
… I know you love me and that I enjoy the good wishes of countless family members. I wish neither to be sick nor … 1937 due to minor stomach complaint, and for…
EventPaedophile Gert van Rooyen and mistress commit suicide
… mistress, Joey Haarhoff, commit suicide in Pretoria while being pursued by the police. Paedophile Gert van Rooyen and … and lover, Joey Haarhoff, were linked…
EventFreak storms create havoc in the Eastern Cape and President Mandela narrowly escaped injury
… hailstorms, rainsqualls and lightning, claiming the lives of at least 14 people and leaving hundreds injured or … tornado struck without warning in the…
ArticleDefiance Campaign 1952
… (ANC) abandoning its traditional reliance on tactics of moderation such as petitions and deputations. In December 1949, with the support of the ANC Youth…
ArticleDutch settlement, the Indian Ocean slave trade and slavery at the Cape - seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
… reports about what they had seen at the Cape – plenty of water, fertile land and lots of wild animals. The VOC was the wealthiest and most powerful … tied to…
Domestic work
… Mr Speaker, Members of Parliament. THE GENERAL ELECTIONS on September the 6th, 1989, placed our country irrevocably on the road of drastic change. Underlying…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Diverse Culture Artistic and Linguistic Heritage
… heritage month, when the histories and cultural practices of all its peoples are celebrated and due recognition given … and women who have contributed to the…
ArticleEuropean trading systems in the Middle Ages - fourteenth to sixteenth centuries
… for their cattle. The Trek Boers preferred the freedom of their ox wagons and tents to living under the rule of the DElC. Their trek brought them into…
France in 1789
… or society. A political revolution happens when a group of people rebel against the existing government and attempt … An economic revolution takes place when…
Township Uprising, 1984-1985
… demonstrations began in the Transvaal, marking the start of the longest and most widespread period of black resistance to white rule. The Lekoa and Evaton…
ArticleSharpeville Timeline
… Albert Luthuli declared that 1960 would be the "Year of the Pass", with a nation-wide anti-pass campaign to start on 31 March - the anniversary of the 1919…
ArticleEnd Conscription Campaign (ECC)
… been increased from one to two years, followed by a series of annual "citizen force" camps that could be as lengthy as three months. Legislation had also…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Introduction
… wa Thiong Today, just over a century after the discovery of gold on the Rand, the nature of South Africa’s future is in the balance. But the future does not…
ArchiveHugh Lewin, 1939–2019, RIP by Jennifer Malec, 17 January 2019
… and Golden City Post in Johannesburg. Lewin at the launch of Stones Against the Mirror in 2011. Image source In July … in the African Resistance Movement, a…
64. Congress addresses the Union Parliament, 1946
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai M. D. Barmania, one of the secretaries of the…
ArticleThe South African War 1899-1902
… the Transvaal and the Orange Free State. The first phase of the war was one of the set-piece battles, but from July 1900 onwards the … decided cut off the…
37. Deputation to Lord Selborne, 1905
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai A deputation of Indians went to see Lord Selborne…
ArticleForced Removals in South Africa
… Forced removals refer to the moving of people from their homes against their will. This may not … not in a position to challenge are employed [i] . Examples…