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EventANC leader, James Arthur Calata, dies
… leader and Anglican clergyman, James Arthur Calata, dies in Cradock, Eastern Cape. He joined the ANC in 1930 and rose to become its secretary-general. In…
EventCelebration of Nigeria’s Day of Independence cancelled due to air disaster
… involving a Nigerian Air Force transport aircraft, in which over 160 military officers were killed. The Hercules C-130 crashed in Ejigbo, Lagos. The plane…
EventRamaphosa and Motlatsi are arrested
… and its president, James Motlatsi, were arrested in Newcastle, Natal. The two men and fifty-nine other union … which turned out to be the longest and…
EventPatricia de Lille testifies at Schabir Shaik’s trial
… finally took the stand at the Durban High Court to testify in the fraud and corruption charges against Durban … after she sounded alarm on the possible…
EventDurban mass meeting endorses Smuts and Gandhi agreement
… An Indian mass meeting in Durban unanimously endorsed the agreement between General … agreement between Smuts and Gandhi had been reached in Pretoria …
EventReport released on the Waratah steamship's disappearance
… A report was released in London about the disappearance of the Waratah between … found that it was likely that the ship had overturned in a gale of…
EventWilliam J. Burchell (71), botanist and explorer of the South African interior, dies
… naturalist, traveller, artist, and author was born in 1792. The son of a wealthy nurseryman. Burchell travelled … specimens of animals and plants. He…
EventWorld Cancer Day is instituted as an annual world-wide cancer awareness campaign
… detection and treatment. The day was inaugurated in 2002 by a consortium of governmental and non-governmental … year. According to the International Agency…
EventTalks between the government and ANC on negotiations proceed
… at the most delicate stage of negotiations. Violence in the townships was still widespread, and growing more brutal. In what became known as the Groote…
EventThe Kenya-Uganda railway is completed
… The Uganda railway line in Kenya was seen as a very ambitious infrastructure at its … from Mombasa to Kisimu. Construction of the railway began in the 1890s…
ArchiveThe Tay Bridge Disaster by Peter Ball (The Heritage Portal), 24 September 2016
… on deaf ears. Hubris, which means arrogant pride, as in pride before a fall, has been the ruin of many a man, no … of the “High Girders” of the first Tay…
ArchiveRestoration of the Old Cape Archives by Michael Scurr (The Heritage Portal), 03 October 2016
… In 1996 Michael Scurr penned the following article on the … Archives (today the Centre for the Book). It was published in Restorica, the journal of the Simon…
PlaceThe Owl House
… The Owl House is a Museum in Nieu-Bethesda, Eastern Cape , South Africa. Helen Martins … retiree who kept to herself. She developed a keen interest in…
PlaceOttery
… Ottery was probably established in 1904 as a residential suburb of Cape Town. The railway … Ottery and Retreat. The Ottery station was built in 1904 …
PlaceThe Randjeslaagte Beacon, Parktown Johannesburg
… Farm “Randjeslaagte" on which Johannesburg was laid out in 1886. The Randjeslaagte Beacon stands in Boundary Road, Parktown, just off Louis Botha Avenue,…
A City within a city: Vestiges of the socio-spatial imprint of colonial and apartheid Durban, from the 1870s to 1980s by Leonard Glenn Rosenberg
… and thus part of the city’s heritage, is largely absent in publications on Durban’s history. This dissertation … level of the spatial development of a…
Statement Issued by Joint Meeting of African and Indian Leaders for Closer Co-operation, February 6, 1949
… the South African Indian Congress, and other leaders held in Durban on this 6th day of February, 1949, expresses its … regret shock and horror at the recent…
Document 46. “Statement Issued by Joint Meeting of African and Indian Leaders” [For Closer Co-operation], February 6, 1949
… the South African Indian Congress, and other leaders held in Durban on this 6th day of February, 1949, expresses its … regret shock and horror at the recent…
EventTricameral Parliament inaugurated
… On 3 September 1984, Members of Parliament convened in Cape Town to promulgate a new South African Constitution … population. The Constitution provided for…
PlaceIziko Museum's, Cape Town
… with the Iziko Michaelis Collection at the Old Town House in Greenmarket Square . The wide range of social history museums in the collection include,…
Address by President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the 62nd session of the United Nations’ General Assembly, New York
… world would have good reason to increase their confidence in this organisation of the nations of the world. Again, I … mark the half-way point towards the…
ANC-KZN flabbergasted by DA’s denigration of Oliver Tambo, 11 July 2006
… The ANC in KwaZulu-Natal is flabbergasted by the announcement made by … The outstanding and sterling role played by OR Tambo in the founding of the non…
PlaceMauritania
… populations of North Africa and the African peoples in the region to the south of the Tropic of Cancer known as … conditions that affected most of that zone…
EventThe National Library of South Africa is founded
… The Governor of the Cape Colony in 1818 was Lord Charles Somerset. It was he who first issued … who bequeathed his books to the Dutch Reformed Church in 1761…
PlaceBreakwater Prison, near Alfred Docks, Cape Town
… 18 December 1970. The Breakwater Prison was constructed in 1860 to house British convicts working on the breakwater, … the University of Cape Town Graduate…
EventNatal votes for the formation of the Union of South Africa
… On 12 June 1909, Natal voted in favour of the formation of the Union of South Africa. … following year (1910), the South Africa Act was approved in Britain…
EventInaugural Women’s Legacy Dialogue
… Legacy Dialogue took place on 13 August 2010 in the Sandton Sun Hotel, Johannesburg. The event was in context with Women’s month. The event consisted of…
EventThe Rivonia Trialists are charged with sabotage and attempting to violently overthrow the state
… On this day in 1963, the Rivonia trialists were charged with sabotage and … information about the whereabouts of the MK headquarters. In gathering evidence…
EventThe first Non-White South African Table Tennis team participates at the World Championship
… participated at the World Table Tennis Board Championship in Stockholm, Sweden. They were Cassim Bassa (team manager), … Maistry, D. Groenewald and Cassim…
EventANC adopts the Programme of Action
… conference marked one of the most important turning points in the history of the Organisation's existence up to that … by the desire to achieve national…