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PlacePort St. Johns
… The wildness of the Coast of the Eastern Cape, with its deep Gorges and impenetrable … Forests, mangrove Swamps and the primitive force of freak waves that…
PlaceState Theatre, Pretoria
… the theatre was completed in 1981. Situated on the Corner of Sisulu Street and Pretorius Streets, the Theatre covers the Eastern portion of the block…
15. My son Gyapershad was decoyed
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai Gopinath Pandey, a headmaster of the village…
Address by I. B. Tabata, AAC Conference, December 16,1941
… people, who looked spell-bound at Convention, were full of great hopes for the future of this Assembly. In the midst of the onslaught then being made upon…
Upcoming events at the Book Lounge
… and fun to be around. Today we’ll read about all kinds of friends, and talk about what being a friend means to you. … More here . Monday 14 th March, 6 for…
PlaceRustenburg House, together with its Summer House, Main Road, Rondebosch.
… free Burghers, Governor Jan van Riebeeck reserved a piece of this Land to be used as an Orchard by the Company. In February of that year the first bricks…
PlaceKimberley, Northern Cape
… impressive tourists attractions! It is the Capital City of the Northern Cape and surrounded by five of South Africa's big rivers, two of them being the…
PlaceDie Nederlandse Reherformrde Kerk (Paul Kruger Church) Pretoria
… The year 1859 marks the founding of the Reformed Church, in Pretoria and its first church was … tender by Daanen & Dorlas was accepted. The corner stone of…
Appeal For Funds For New Age, January 1956
… prepares to assemble for its new session, the people of South Africa face the grim prospect of more fascist attacks from the Strijdom police state on ……
Passive Resistance, 1946 by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Special Focus: Wrangling between political groups - 1948
… From the book: Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer 1948 SAIC in Court The refusal of the President and…
PlaceConcordia
… The village of Concordia was established in 1863 as a station of the Rhenish Missionary Society. It seems probable that its founding coincided with the…
XII - Unanswered Questions
… by Hilda Bernstein, 1978, South Africa Despite limitations of method and purpose, the inquest had in some respects assumed the nature of a trial. The…
PlaceAalwynkop Peak, Mpumalanga
… Aalwynkop is a Hill 5 km West of Balfour and 20 km South-East of Heidelberg, in the Gauteng Province of South Africa . The name is of Afrikaans origin and…
PlaceThaba Tshwane or Voortrekkerhoogte
… ("Voortrekker Heights") in 1939 by the government of the Union of South Africa , following the beginning of the building of the nearby Voortrekker Monument ,…
EventAZAPO is re-launched in Roodepoort
… in Roodepoort for the second time. After the outbreak of the Student Uprising in 1976, the government responded by detaining several members of the South…
EventAnti apartheid activist Dr. Richard Turner is assassinated
… A passionate lecturer pioneering the teaching of radical political philosophy, Dr. Richard Turner was … assassinated. Turner met his untimely death on the…
EventWorld War I begins
… 19th century Europe had a complex system of political and military alliances in place. The assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Serbian…
PlaceRobert Sobukwe Town, was called Graaf-Reinet
… Cape, the fourth oldest in South Africa and certainly one of the most atmospheric, Graaff-Reinet lies enclosed by a … its slave cottages, Graaff-Reinet has…
EventSouth Africa signs agreement with Switzerland to support the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP)
… The legacy of apartheid is characterized by great political and … African National Congress (ANC) along with the Congress of South African Trade Unions …
PlaceKwaZulu-Natal Literary Trails (under Heritage Routes)
… Natal has a diverse literary heritage, from the legacy of prominent Indian writers and political figures in Grey Street in Durban, to the writers of the once…
EventBram Fischer born today
… man, from staunch Afrikaans descent (he was the eldest son of Percy Ulrich Fischer, Judge President of the Orange Free State, and a grandson of Abraham…
EventBeverly Palesa Ditsie is the first out lesbian woman to address the United Nations about LGBT rights
… at the Beijing Women’s Conference about the importance of including lesbian rights in discussions about the empowerment and upliftment of women. She was the…
PlaceVan Riebeeck’s Hedge, Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, Cape Town.
… These trees are a remnant of the hedge planted in 1660 by Jan van Riebeeck as a … Settlement at the Cape. Jan van Riebeeck, an employee of the Dutch East…
EventAnglo-Boer War 2: The British evacuate Rustenburg to occupy Commando Nek and Silkaatsnek
… After the fall of Pretoria on 5 June 1900, the British maintained a favourable command of several strategic points in the Transvaal area. Western ……
PlaceCamdeboo was called Aberdeen, Eastern Cape
… Aberdeen is about 50 km South-West of Graaff-Reinet and only 3 hours drive from Port Elizabeth. … the Nederduits-Gerefomeerde Kerk (Dutch Reformed Church)…
PlaceGroote Kerk, Adderley Street, Cape Town.
… brought the Reformed religion to the Cape and the practice of this religion played an important part in the lives of the pioneer community. From the…
Chapter VIII - The Mandela’s – family extraordinary
… 360 miles from Johannesburg; a few shops, a bank, a couple of filling stations and a hotel line the street. There are … small town anywhere in South Africa…
PlacePiquetberg
… It is now known as Piketberg. (prior to 1910) The division of Piquetberg originally fell under the district of Tulbagh, whose drostdy was transferred to…
EventNelson Mandela celebrates 88 th birthday
… birthday celebrations have kicked off with a new round of honours for this anti-apartheid icon, including a photo exhibit and the release of a book on the…
PlacePretoria, now known as Tshwane
… The Administrative capital of South Africa , Pretoria, or the ' Jacaranda City' is best known for its annual display of purple flowers in October. Located in…