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EventThe Sebokeng Massacre of mourners leaves more than 30 dead and 40 more injured
… people were killed while attending an all-night vigil held in a tent in Sebokeng, in the Vaal region, where weeping mourners paid final …
PlaceWave Crest, 181 Main Road, Kalk Bay
… Built on a Site upon which two of the earliest Cottages in Kalk Bay already stood, the first having been erected in 1846. Instead of Demolishing these…
EventSwazi King Sobhuza II dies
… In 1982, the small kingdom of Swaziland was shocked when His … reign of sixty years and was the longest reigning monarch in the world at the time. King…
EventAmnesty application of Gideon Nieuwoudt fails
… former police officer Gideon Nieuwoudt, for his role in the death of Steve Biko in 1977. In a seven page decision of the Amnesty Committee chairman …
EventPFP Leader Colin Wells Eglin born
… Federal Party (PFP), Colin Wells Eglin was born in Sea Point, Cape Town. During his political career, Eglin was instrumental in the merging of the…
PlaceRiebeek East
… a Kerkplaats. The village of Riebeek was established in 1842, and was named in honour of the first Dutch Governor of the Cape, Jan van Riebeeck . Its name…
EventChoirmaster, educator and singer Mary Eveline Fincken is born
… choirmaster, teacher of singing and educationist was born in Hoyland, Yorkshire, England. She came to South Africa in 1908 for health reasons. Fincken was…
ArchiveTowards racial justice: will there be a change of heart?
… South African Institute of Race Relations on July 3, 1979 in which the author portrays the social and political injustices in South Africa. Further…
African Statistics Day
… year on the 18th of November. This event was initiated in 1990 by the Subsidiary Body of the United Nations Economic … and Demographers. The day is…
ArchiveTrafalgar High School, Cape Town, marks 100 years
… Nadeem Hendricks, the celebrations will be drawing in ex-Trafalgarians from across the globe who have made their mark in every sphere of their societies. The…
PlaceBo-Kaap, Cape Town
… The stone shown in PHOTO is off the Well, uncovered at the Bo-Kaap Market site upgrade. (LINK PROVIDED IN FURTHER READING) Cape Town is a city built on…
Appeal For United Front, July 1948
… [A joint appeal to all "suppressed" people in South Africa, whether European or Non-European, to form a … Congress and the Natal Indian Congress, at a…
Address to the nation by ANC President, Nelson R. Mandela, on the assassination of Martin Thembisile (Chris) Hani 10 April 1993
… A man of passion, of unsurpassed courage has been cut down in the prime of his life. Chris Hani is known to all of us, … with distinction, earning the…
Will the real PAC please stand up? by Phumza Sokana
… Africanist Congress (PAC) is far from over as two factions in the party battle with each other over the legitimacy of … Mphahlele – is taking place at Fort…
PlaceUNISA’s Department of Art History, Visual Arts and Musicology
… of South Africa, better known as UNISA, was founded in 1873 as the University of the Cape of Good Hope . It is … at the corners of Justice Mahomed and Steve…
Message by Oliver Tambo on the 40th anniversary of the three doctors` pact, 09 March 1987
… anniversary of the signing of the Xuma-Naicker-Dadoo Pact in March 1947. This significant revolutionary pact, signed on … Democratic Front (UDF), the broad…
Planned DA march to Luthuli House, 23 January 2014
… march to its headquarters is unnecessary and an exercise in adventurism. We further we view it as a provocative and … Our democratic order has also created a…
PlaceAalwynkop Peak, Mpumalanga
… 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 means 'aloe hillock'…
PlaceSeychelles
… of Whites, Indians and Africans. The Islands remained in French hands until the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo. … was ceded to Britain under ' The Treaty of…
PlaceKenilworth
… . The spectacular Kenilworth Racecourse is found in the midst of the suburb of the same name, which is … Racecourse Conservation Area (KRCA), established in…
PlaceCasa Labia,198 Main Road, Muizenberg
… Clifford Hume Knight purchased the land in 1901, and subsequently built his residence upon it, a large dwelling designed in a neo-Renaissance style with…
PlaceMalay Quarter, Cape Town
… began to expand along an east-west axis. The first houses in this neighborhood were probably built in 1790 but between 1795 and 1820 an increasing number of …
PlaceKirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens, Cape Town
… lives up to its reputation as the most beautiful garden in Africa and one of the great botanic gardens of the world. … Cape Town’s, Table Mountain …
EventSandra Reynolds, a South African tennis champion is born
… Sandra Reynolds was born on 4 March 1934 in Bloemfontein, Free State.[i] Reynolds was nicknamed the … She claimed the South African women’s singles titles in…
EventGeneral H. Van Den Bergh blames the SACP for anti
… to the South African Communist Party (SACP) and leftists in exile. BOSS was at the cutting edge of Apartheid South … to infer that the ANC was also a tool of…
EventThe Boipotong massacre takes place
… During the period of transition and negotiation in South Africa, the core area of the conflict in the late 1980s was in the KwaZulu-Natal area where battles…
EventPaedophile Gert van Rooyen and mistress commit suicide
… van Rooyen and his mistress, Joey Haarhoff, commit suicide in Pretoria while being pursued by the police. Paedophile … three former National Party (NP)…
EventChief Mhlonthlo revolts against the British
… Hamilton Hope, the third resident magistrate at Tsolo in the Eastern Cape, and his staff to Sulenkama where they … defeat the Basotho during the Gun War of…
PlaceBantu Dramatic Society, Johannesburg
… The Bantu Dramatic Society was founded in Johannesburg by Herbet Dhlomo in 1933 and was devoted to promoting black theatrical … playwrights to develop…
PlaceConstitutional Court of South Africa, Johannesburg
… and is one of the most important tourist attractions in South Africa. Although Africa includes both low- and … poverty rates are still high. The majority…