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Following the and the protest at Langa, roughly 1,500 Blacks are detained by the South African police in Cape Town.
BiographyRobert Carl-Heinz Shell
Robert Shell was born in Cape Town, South Africa on 13 February 1949, the only child of a German father, Heinrich (Heinz) Schelowsky (later changed to Shell)…
EventSuppression of Communism Act, No. 44 of 1950 approved in Parliament
The Suppression of Communism Act, No. 44 of 1950, according to which the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) was declared an illegal organisation, was…
BiographyKobera Manual
Aunty Kobera Manual of Ocean View died at the age of 98 on Wednesday 27 July 2016. In 2009 I interviewed her at her home in Ocean View, when she shared some…
PlaceBerg River
… River was one of many habitats of Hippos but in the late 1600’s hunters began killing Hippos for their meat and hide. …
About 100 White sympathisers join evicted Black squatters in a passive protest against the demolition of shanty dwellings outsi
Fighting between Nigeria’s Hausa and Yoruba tribes leaves 100 dead in Lagos. (2004). Yesterdays, Pretoria News, 18 October.
Delegates from more than 160 countries attend the weeklong third United Nations-sponsored World Conference Against Racism (31 A
The South African Government grants diplomatic immunity and privileges to about 100 UN, Commonwealth, European Community and OA
Martin West, lieutenant-governor of Natal, appoints a location commission to investigate into the problems caused by about 100
The possessions of Piet Retief and about 100 men who were murdered in February by Dingane, is auctioned.
BiographyAutshumao (Herry the Strandloper)
Autshumao also known as Herry the strandloper (beach walker), he was chief and interpreter of the Gorinhaikonas. In 1630 he was taken to Bantam by the English…
ArchiveSing Me a Song of History: South African Poets and Singers in Exile, 1900–1990 by Marian De Saxe, University of Sydney (2010)
Sybrandis Abbema (Sibrand), who visited the Cape in 1660 as V.O.C. commissioner and instructed Simon van der Stel to do all he
Sybrandis Abbema (Sibrand), who visited the Cape in 1660 as V.O.C. commissioner and instructed Simon van der Stel to do all he
Gas belching from the volcanic Lake Nyos in the remote mountains of Cameroon kills more than 1,200 people and injures 500.
Death of Sir Henry Morton Stanley. Famous for his 1,500-mile safari into Central Africa in 1871 to find Dr Livingstone.
Schalk Willem Burger, vice-president and acting president of the ZAR after President Kruger left for Europe in 1900, dies at Go
'Native life' 100 after Sol Plaatje published it by Janet Remmington, Brian Willan, Bhekizizwe Peterson (Mail and Guardian), 30 September 2016
Sol T Plaatje’s ground-breaking work Native Life in South Africa was published 100 years ago in 1916. Janet Remmington, Brian Willan and Bhekizizwe Peterson…
ArticleCuba and the struggle for democracy in South Africa
… mercenary, Bob Denard, FLEC lost the battle, as well as 1600 men. The Zulu Column Advances Meanwhile, the Zulu Column …
BiographyRoseberry Tandwefika Bokwe
Roseberry Tandwefika Bokwe was born in 1900 in the Tsomo district of the Transkei. He began his education at the mission of his father,John Knox Bokwe, in Ugie…
EventThe first large group of French Huguenots arrive at the Cape
The first Huguenots arrived as early as 1671, when the first Huguenot refugee, Francois Villion (later Viljoen), arrived at the Cape. By 1692, a total of 201…
Nicholaas Frederic de Waal
Born in Rotterdam in 1853, De Waal was the son of a banker who received a commercial education in Brussels and studied law. He travelled to Europe and America…