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PlaceOfficers’ Club, Military Base, Wynberg
… exception of the Castle, the oldest military establishment in South Africa. Its history has long been neglected. … 1797 and 1807 have been demolished; a few…
Cape Coloured Board agrees with the Department of Education on the establishment of an Art Centre for Coloured children
… The Cape Coloured Board agreed, in principle, to the establishment of an Art Centre for Coloured children in Cape Town. The resolution was taken during a…
PlaceCuyler Manor, Uitenhage
… outskirts of Uitenhage is Cuyler Manor; a Historical giant in Nelson Mandela Bay gently tucked away between the … Dutch house reflects a bygone era. The…
PlaceConstitution Street House 14, Port Elizabeth
… 1983. Donkin Street is a famous tourist street located in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape. The street is lined with the … a completely unique charm. It…
EventGeneral Secretary of the ANC, journalist and writer, Solomon Plaatje dies
… Johannesburg. He was a prolific journalist and writer and in 1912 became first secretary-general of the South African Native National Congress (SANNC), which…
EventFifteen African states tabled a draft resolution at the UN denouncing racial discrimination
… (UN) Economic Commission for Africa at Leopoldville in Congo, fifteen African states tabled a draft resolution … is commemorated annually on 21 March. On…
EventInternational Labour Organisation (ILO) suspends South Africa
… body of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) voted in favour of suspending South Africa from participation in its Annual General Conferences in Geneva…
EventSouth West African People’s Organisation (SWAPO) is founded to oppose South African rule
… West African People's Organisation (SWAPO) was founded in Windhoek, South West Africa (presently Namibia) on 19 … became the country's leading party…
EventNovelist and poet Kgadime Matsepe is born
… Matsepe, Northern Sotho novelist and poet, is born in Magagamatala (Brakfontein or Mmitse), Groblersdal … for his work Kgorong ya Mosate (At the king's court…
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…
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…
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 …
The 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,…
Staffrider Vol.9 No.4 1991
… Enoch A. Monkwe; Till We Meet, Mavis Smallberg; In the Shacks of Inanda, Gladman Mvukuzane Ngubo. Essays: The … Loubser; Movies and Monopolies: The…
PlaceRust en Vreugd, Buitenkant Street, Cape Town
… established but it is assumed that it was built, in its present form, by Willem Cornelis Boers, the notorious … bedrooms. The upper floor was reached by…