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PlaceAdderley Street, Cape Town
… 's main street, running from the foreshore to the foot of Government Avenue . In 1850, its name was changed to Adderley Street in honour of Charles B…
Keeping a cool head amid flying bullets: A tribute to Juda Ngwenya by Joseph Oesi (City Press), 26 October 2016
… Your death has come way too soon; none of us could say, with a straight face, that we were prepared … we are ill prepared. Juda, I am sad and shocked to hear…
Address by President Mandela at a Masakhane rally in Vosloorus Katorus, 21 September
… Renewal of Katorus In 1993 when I toured the Katorus area with Adrian … were going about their daily lives. The "No Go" districts of the past appear to have…
ArchiveHow a slave from Mauritius led a rebellion in Cape Town by Nigel Worden (Ground Up), 30 March 2016
… In this drawing of Greenmarket Square in Cape Town in 1764, a slave in chains appears to be driven by a master on the left side of the image. Some four…
How I have cooperated with the Hawks by Pravin Gordhan (Times Live), 01 September 2016
… that he was not obliged to do so. He said in paragraph 3 of his answer that‚ “I wish to co-operate fully with any investigation of the Hawks into the…
South Africa: Basic Education Hosts 2016 Inkosi Albert Luthuli Oral History Programme, 4 to 7 October
… Oral History Programme celebrates heroes and heroine of the liberation struggle The 2016 edition of the iNkosi Albert Luthuli Oral History programme is on…
PlaceBertrams, Johannesburg
… Bertrams characterises the down-to-earth, friendly appeal of this Country. There is an undeniably calm, inviting ambience, despite the high rate of…
PlaceSt Cyprian’s School, Gorge Road, Oranjezicht
… The Gateway and Walls of this property date from the end of the 18th Century and are situated on a portion of the Historic Nooitgedacht Estate, in…
PlaceDe Waal Park, Camp Street, Oranjezicht
… The land was originally part of the van 'Breda Estate'' in Oranjezicht, and was purchased by the Town Council of Cape Town in 1877 for the building of the…
PlaceBo-Kaap Museum
… Situated at the foot of Signal Hill, on the fringe of the city centre, and formerly known as the Malay Quarter , … and were brought from Malaysia, Indonesia…
PlaceLiberia
… means ‘freedom’ formerly known as the Grain Coast, is one of the few African countries including Ethiopia that were not … born in America became the first…
EventThami Mazwai, former journalist and anti-apartheid activist, is jailed for two years
… Party government was determined to curtail any sign of dissent that might lead to unrest. And the period, 1980 to 1984, was marked by a series of political…
EventMandela signs SA Constitution into law
… after the first democratic election (1994) the President of the Republic of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, signed the final draft of the constitution into law…
PlaceGoshen
… with a green vertical stripe at the hoist also the colours of Imperial Germany - which I am sure worried the British … were sent in and declared Goshen (and…
EventJoe Slovo dies
… the communist intellectual widely credited with being one of the masterminds of South Africa's national reconciliation, died after a long battle with cancer…
PlaceMpumalanga
… Mpumalanga means ‘Place of the Rising Sun’ and is the name given to the new Province in Eastern Transvaal in 1993. It includes part of the old Transvaal and…
Excerpts from Priscilla Jana’s book 'Fighting for Mandela' that relate to Solomon Mahlangu
… the right thing to do, just as using every possible angle of the law to fight cases and win acquittals was the right … in the work I took on. So when the…
ArchiveNUSAS - its background and history
… and history. Informal talk delivered at National Seminar of the National Union of South African Students, April 1973. Pages7 to 10 of Appendix to the Report…
PlaceAmathola/Amatole District Municipality
… The Amathola Mountain Range which is a subsidiary of the Winterberg Range, 15 km North-East of Alice, extending Westwards to the Great Fish River. The ……
PlaceAllemansfontein, a Farm in the Eastern Cape
… Baartman District Municipality, Eastern Cape. Former name of the Farm- Almondsfontein, given by Colonel Robert Jacon Gordon, who was the Commander of the…
ArchiveSPRO-CAS Occasional Publication Number 9: Law, justice and society
… Report of the Legal Commission of the Study Project on Christianity in Apartheid Society. Content includes: Statement by the Members of the Commission; The…
King Kong a venture in the theatre
… This is the story of an inter-racial venture in South Africa. Many hundreds of white people and Africans in the Union’s four largest cities worked selflessly…
EventFrederick Courteney Selous, traveller, hunter, writer and naturalist dies in Beho-Beho, Tanganyika. He came to Southern Africa
… Frederick Courtney Selous came to South Africa at the age of nineteen in 1871. Inspired by the writings of explorers such as Dr. David Livingstone and…
PlaceRobben Island Museum
… to the 20th centuries, Robben Island served as a place of banishment, isolation and imprisonment. Today it is a … a poignant reminder to the newly democratic…
PlaceRhodes Memorial, Vredehoek- Table Mountain
… Situated on the Northern slope of Table Mountain is a must see Memorial too Cecil John … This vantage point not only allows a panoramic view of the Cape…
EventConnie Mulder announces banning off WCC officials from SA
… The Minister of the Interior, Connie Mulder, announces that senior officials of the World Council of Churches (WCC) have been banned from South Africa. Entry…
EventAngola, Cuba and South Africa allegedly signed a cease fire treaty
… South Africa agreed to a formal ceasefire. Under the terms of the ceasefire and later treaty, Cuba was to withdraw its … The treaty was signed on 22 December…
EventRashaad Staggie shot dead
… Gangsterism and Drugs (PAGAD), resulted in the killing of a highly suspected drug dealer, Rashaad Staggie, leader of the Hard Livings gang. Staggie was set…
PlaceLegogote Mountain Region, Mpumalanga
… Mountain 1 194m high, situated just South-East of eLundi and 12m North-East of White River. The name is said to be Swazi for "the large … National Botanical…
PlacePaul Kruger’s House, 60 Church Street West, Pretoria
… single-storey structure with few architectural features of note. However it was spacious and well built, and remains … living on the farm Boekenhoutfontein ,…