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PlaceRhodes Cottage, Main Road, Muizenberg
… from the deceased estate of JR Reid. Historical events in the rest of South Africa kept Rhodes away from his home, and it was only in 1902 that he finally…
PlaceJonkershoek
… Berg, Lourens and Riviersonderend Rivers all start high in these mountains, although only the Eerste River actually … through the Jonkershoek Valley. The…
PlaceRoodepoort Town School, Rex Street
… The Roodepoort Town School was established in the 1890s and its premises, including a School Building and a Hall, were opened on 8 October 1913. In 1914 the…
PlaceHector Pieterson Memorial and Museum, Soweto
… 1976! Which has now become Youth Day, a public holiday in South Africa. The museum is next to the Hector Pietersen … reasons for the protests while…
Document 66 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa, Johannesburg, to the Cape Town branch, 21 February 1937
… the letter they have sent you, battles lie ahead of us. In leading the first strike of 1937 the "counter revolutionary" Troskyites are flinging the lie in…
EventEdgar Whitehead succeeds Garfield Todd as premier of South Rhodesia.
… him from power, as he proposed legislation, which would in terms of the period; greatly extend the number of black … person trying to serve the citizenry of…
EventThe last sitting of an all-white Parliament
… recognised as a republic and pursued a political course in which Blacks, Coloureds and Indians were denied the right … territories, and had no political…
EventJournalists’ first visit to Robben Island
… 300 years, the new maximum-security prison was established in the early 1960s. The living conditions were, particularly in the early years, extremely bad…
EventSoweto agrees to pay rent
… In a meeting between the Soweto People's Delegation (SPD) … boycott by the residents of Soweto. The SPD was engaged in the negotiations to create a just…
EventCOSATU headquarters Johannesburg is sabotaged
… Since its formation in 1985, Congress of South African Trade Union (COSATU) was … to physical attacks and arrests by the government agents. In the early…
EventIFP proposes truce with ANC
… Oscar Dhlomo , communicated the peace offer to the ANC in exile. Despite this effort, the IFP still maintained … responsible for the violence between the ANC…
EventSheik Yusuf arrives at the Cape of Good Hope
… with his family and retinue; they were forty-nine people in total. In order to minimise his influence on enslaved people at the … Zandvliet, located outside…
EventCharles Swart, a student ranger from Mangosuthu Technical College, is killed by a leopard
… tour guide and student from Mangosuthu Technical College in Durban, Charles Swart,was attacked bya hungry leopardon … who try to cross the park to find a…
PlaceFort Cunynghame
… together with Komgha and a number of other establishments in the Transkeian Territories, was manned by the Frontier and … Police. It was named after…
EventChristoffel Coetzee de Villiers (37), compiler of South African genealogical registers, dies
… Location: back to this day in history search archive Christoffel Coetzee de Villiers was born on 10 March 1850 in Swellendam, in the Cape Colony (now Western…
The child who was shot dead by soldiers at Nyanga by Ingrid Jonker
… screams Africa screams the smell of freedom and heather in the locations of the heart under siege The child raises his fists against his father in the…
EventChris Hani, the SACP secretary-general, is assassinated
… to many as Tshonyane (his clan name), was shot and killed in the driveway of his Boksburg home. Soon after, Janus Walus, a Polish immigrant who came to South…
EventFormer Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat is born
… al-Sadat was a graduate of the Royal Military Academy in Cairo . During the 1952 revolution which saw the end of British rule in Egypt, Sadat, who would…
SAHO Commemorates 40 Years Since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue by Olehile Bada Pharasi
… did not make sense at all. What saddened me most was that, in the midst of all this, 40 years after the June 16 1976 … not been resolved. 21 years on,…
ArchiveOpening Address of Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory and Commemoration Project, by Nelson Mandela, 21 September 2004, Johannesburg
… enemies. Sometimes they used these documents as evidence in court cases. Sometimes they used them in various forms of intimidation. Sometimes they simply ……
PlaceKronendal, Main Road, Hout Bay.
… of Kronendal was part of land granted to Willem Basson in 1713, although it was only developed as a farm towards the … converted into Kitima Restaurant –…
Quotes by Steve Biko
… is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land of our birth. These are concepts which the Black … realise that they are also human, not…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the International Conference on African Development (TICAD) Summit, Yokoyaha, Japan, 28th May, 2008.
… Theme: Boosting Economic Growth in Africa. We thank the Prime Minister, the government and … whose outcome will assist us to boost economic growth in Africa…
PlaceNew Brighton Location
… of this disease. The plague reached Port Elizabeth in 1901, and although its spread affected all sectors of the … Brighton Township grew around the railway…
8. Pillay and others petition the Viceroy of India
… it lay Doorasamy Pillay’s desire 'to procure employment in some official capacity'. Be that as it may, the document … and Indian jurors. The desire for…
PlaceMofolo Arts Centre
… Located on Mzilikazi Street in Mofolo, the Mofolo Arts Centre is a hub of cultural and artistic exploration in Soweto. The centre is one of the few…
PlaceDan Pienaar, suburb of Bloemfontein
… Dan Pienaar is a tranquil, upmarket suburb in Bloemfontein - regarded as one of the safest suburbs in the country! It is an excellent place to raise one’s ……
PlaceSomerset Road, Green Point
… Green Point was established sometime before June 1846, and in 1870 its name was changed to Somerset Road, presumably to … it from another Settlement also…
PlaceGreat Brak Rivier
… with his wife and four children, emigrated to the Cape in 1859. They landed at Mossel Bay following a sea voyage of … could handle and employed his first…
Statement by the National Executive Committee of the ANC - 20 September 2008
… on the 12th of September by Judge Chris Nicholson. In particular, we have focused on the implications of the … and we are determined to heal the rifts that…