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The Clanwilliam Arts Project / Lantern Festival 2017
… Back for the 17th year in a row! Magnet Theatre in patnership with The UCT Drama Department, The UCT College … Dance Theatre, will be working with some 700…
EventWillie Smith, South Africa’s bantamweight champion boxer is born
… William “Willie” Alexander Smith was born in Johannesburg on 4 July 1904.[i] Smith’s boxing debut took … won the bantamweight title at the 1924 Olympic Games…
PlaceMadikwa Game Reserve, North West
… Many of the Farms described by writer Herman Charles Bosman in his short stories no longer exist, quite a number having … into Madikwe Game Reserve. Wildlife…
PlaceGuinea-Bissau
… fragility, dating back to its independence from Portugal in 1974. The country is one of the most coup-prone and politically unstable countries in the World…
EventTumi Molekane, the South African hip hop artist and poet is born
… Boitumelo “Tumi” Molekane was born in Tanzania on 16 August 1981. [1] At the time of his birth his parents were living in exile due to the Apartheid regime…
EventBevil Rudd, the Olympic gold, silver and bronze medalist
… Bevil Gordon d’Urban Rudd was born on 5 October 1894 in Kimberley, Northern Cape.[i] He is the grandson of Charles … company.[ii] Bevil was educated at Saint…
EventTumi Molekane, the South African hip hop artist and poet is born
… Boitumelo “Tumi” Molekane was born in Tanzania on 16 August 1981.[1] At the time of his birth his parents were living in exile due to the Apartheid regime…
PlaceMonterey House, Klaasens Road, Wynberg
… it served as a private preparatory school for boys and in 1982 the building was restored by the Seardel Investment … 27 December 1985. Monterey Nursery…
PlaceWierda Bridge, Six Mile Spruit, Pretoria
… girder Bridge is one the first of its kind to be Built in South Africa. It was Built in 1891 and is based on the hinge system, with heavy … being lower than…
PlaceDjibouti
… beaches. It's home to one of the saltiest bodies of water in the world, the low-lying Lake Assal, in the Danakil Desert. The nomadic Afar people have ……
EventMass Democratic Movement (MDM) begins their Defiance Campaign
… was a non-racial coalition group that was initially formed in protest to the Tricameral Parliament. It was one of the … Albertina Sisulu and Helen Joseph…
EventExplorer and navigator Vasco da Gama completes his voyage round the Cape of Good Hope to India
… his early life. Da Gama was said to have been educated in the town of Evora, where he studied navigation and mathematics. In 1497, he set out with a crew of…
EventBantu Women’s League protests against pass laws
… developments, the Bantu Women's League (BWL) was formed in 1918 as a branch of the ANC. Charlotte Maxeke was elected … system. As early as 1913 protests…
Entering Namibia without visas
… Committee on South West Africa visited South West Africa in 1961 with the approval of the South African Government.] … to take over the administration. …
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Bloemfontein
… on 13 November 1848, and its services were initially held in the Raadsaal, a humble thatched building in St George's Street. On 6 January 1849 Major Henry…
PlaceWarden, Thabo Mofutsanyana Municipality
… is a Hundred Years old (the Town celebrated its Centenary in September 2013). There is a larger than most Dutch … (seating as many as 1750 people at a time),…
ArchiveResponses by black women to race and gender dynamics under South Africa apartheid with special reference to the Black Consciousness Movement
… Thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of … and nationality. Although this rendered their status in both feminist and anti…
EventThe town of Bethlehem, Free State, is founded
… The town of Bethlehem was founded in 1864 (other sources claim 1869). It is nestled in the Maluti Mountains in the Free State Province and is one of the…
EventMinister introduces free and compulsory education
… the introduction of Afrikaans as medium of instruction in schools; suspended the 'homeland citizenship' requirement for Blacks leasing houses in townships;…
EventA.W.G. Champion, outspoken opponent of apartheid dies
… Allison Wessels George (A.W.G.) Champion died at his home in Chesterville, Durban. He was known as a campaigner for … devoted his life to the betterment of…
EventMozambique gains independence
… The campaign for the liberation, which was launched in 1962, was spearheaded by the Liberation Front of … of Eduardo Mondlane. After the death of Mondlane in…
EventAfrican-American tennis player, Arthur Ashe. is denied a visa by the South African Government
… player, Arthur Ashe, to visit South Africa to take part in the national championships to be held at Ellis Park in April. Arthur Ashe campaigned against…
EventChoirmaster and composer Kumalo dies
… member and first secretary of the Bantu Social Centre in Beatrice Street, Durban (YMCA), died in Edendale, Pietermaritzburg. He showed a talent for music ……
EventPastor Sekano Ntoane is born
… Church moderator and pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church in Africa (DRCA), S.G. Sekano Ntoane, was born in Hebron, Pretoria. Ntoane served on what was then…
EventKen Oosterbroek is killed
… the Chief Photographer of The Star, was killed in bloody pre-election fighting in Thokoza township on the East Rand, just two weeks before South Africans…
EventGolfer,Nick Price beats Tiger Woods at Nedbank Million Dollar Golf Tournament at Sun City
… golfer, Nick Price beat American golf icon, Tiger Woods in the 1998 Nedbank Million Dollar Golf Tournament. It was … Price’s third win of the tournament,…
Closing speech by Oliver Tambo at the ANC conference "Peoples of the world united against apartheid, for a democratic South Africa", 04 December 1987, Arusha
… here during this week which will go down as a watershed in the history of our struggle. Apartheid is Death As we … destruction directed against a people who…
John Vorster Square revisited as Timol inquest reopened by Ernest Mabuza (Timeslive.co.za), 27 June 2017
… Timol on Tuesday afternoon visited the scene of his death in October 1971 - John Vorster Square police station. The … the 10th floor of the building. An…
ANC Statement on the 40th anniversary of Chief Albert Luthuli`s death, 20 July 2007
… the legacy of an outstanding South African leader. Writing in the foreword, President Thabo Mbeki recalls the day the … tells of the occasions that Chief…
EventHaile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, warns the League of Nations that he is going to mobilise his forces after threats of invasion by Italy
… "the scramble for Africa" by the major European powers in the late 19th century. Both Italy and Ethiopia were members of the League of Nations, founded in…