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PlaceThe Mead and Meadway, Pinelands-Cape Town
… Trust in 1919 and was capitalised in part by a member of the trust, namely Richard Stuttaford of Stuttaford’s fame. The first Pinelands Homes were thatched…
PlaceSharpeville, Gauteng
… unarmed group headed to the Police Station with the intent of protesting against having to carry around pass books . The police did not know what to do with…
42nd African National Congress Conference: Resolutions, 20 December, 1953
… to make plans for and embark upon an immediate campaign of economic boycott directed against selected individual … undertakings and government enterprises…
ArchiveCommittee report: Education charter campaign
… Report of the Education Charter Campaign, a joint campaign of the Azanian Students Organisation, the Congress of South African Students and the National…
PlaceRandjieslaagte Beacon, Parktown, Johannesburg
… in 1886 on the triangular site Randjeslaagte, the area of the town was nine square km. Randjeslaagte was a piece of ‘uitvalgrond’ – land left over from the…
IFP 2019 Election Manifesto
… A GROWING ECONOMY The development of an inclusive economy is an absolute priority. This is … empower families, and fulfil the rightful aspirations of all our…
EventPresident F.W. de Klerk announces Whites-only referendum results
… March, 1992, President F.W. de Klerk announced the results of the Whites-only referendum held to determine White … he started in February 1990. Surprisingly,…
PlaceHole in the Wall, Coffee Bay- Wild Coast
… Hole in the Wall is one of the most impressive landmarks along the entire South … Table Mountain , most likely, though only a small fraction of the size. It…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at the football banquet Pretoria, 1 March 1996
… Master of Ceremonies; Guests of Honour; Ladies and gentlemen. South Africa had dared to expect much of the African Cup of Nations. We felt we would acquit …
PlaceChris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, Johannesburg
… are housed in 429 Buildings with a total surface Area of 233 795 m2. Approximately 70% of all admissions are emergencies , including approximately 160…
PlaceNqweba was called Kirkwood, Eastern Cape
… The farming community of Kirkwood, in the heart of the Sundays River Valley, close to the town of Addo and the Northern regions of the Addo Elephant Park, …
PlaceSt Stephen’s Church, Dutch Reformed Church, Riebeeck Square, Cape Town
… In 1799, during the first British occupation of the Cape, the Governor, Sir George Yonge, appropriated a portion of Riebeeck Square to build a theatre upon…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Glossary
… Change and Nationalism commissioned by The Department of Education augur well - to be a sign that something good is … land owner in return for the right to…
PlaceSun City, Rustenburg
… as Hotels and self-catering Chalets. Home to the Valley of Waves and sprawled along the border of the Pilanesberg National Park. Sun City Resort enjoys the…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - The Early Years at the Rand
… Callinicos THE CHANGE TO WAGE LABOUR has described some of the different ways in which people lost the use of the land and entered wage labour. This happened…
The Great Trek Was Not Over Abolition by Ron (Republican Trekker Volk), 30 October 2008
… asserted the the Great Trek was motivated over the issue of the abolition of slavery but the fact of the matter is that historians have noted that most of…
PlaceRailway Station, Muizenberg
… and was officially opened on 7 June 1913 by the Minister of Railways & Harbours, Mr Henry Burton. It was declared a … entrances and beautiful teak clock…
PlacePinetown and its Museum
… commercial town named after Sir Benjamin Pine , Governor of Natal (1873-75). At the heart of the town and just off the main road lies the Pinetown … the…
Introduction
… The energies of South African Indians, mobilised in the 1890s against growing anti-Indianism in various parts of South Africa, were channelled into a…
Slavery in South Africa
… known in India that there was a considerable importation of slaves from Asia to South Africa by the Dutch East India Company and its employees. Some of the…
PlacePaarl
… (prior to 1910) The division of Paarl was originally part of the district of Stellenbosch, and was proclaimed a separate division in …
PlaceSeychelles
… can trace its first Settlement back to 1770. It is made up of 115 small Islands. They were first settled on by the French, leading a small party of Whites,…
EventDonald James Wood journalist and Anti apartheid activists is born
… completing his matric, Woods enrolled at the University of Cape Town in 1952 to study law but switched to journalism. Woods initially supported the idea of…
ArchiveFrom Lithuania to a false start in Johannesburg and settling in Cape Town, Carmel Schrire and Gwynne Schrire (The Heritage Portal), 21 September 2016
… Review of The Reb and the Rebel Jewish Narratives in South Africa … Schrire. Published by UCT Press and the Kaplan Centre of Jewish Studies and Research,…
ArchiveSouth Africa wants to make history compulsory at school. But can it? by Linda Chisholm (the Conversation.com), 1 June 2018
… South Africa’s minister of Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has released a … a ministerial task team that recommends a major overhaul of the history…
PlaceBurundi
… approximate territory has a continuity with the Kingdom of Burundi which was founded at the end of the 17th Century [i] . Between the 1890's and 1962 Burundi…
PlaceSimon's Town, Cape Peninsula
… One of South Africa’s oldest Towns and Naval base is Simon's Town … was placed in her final resting place in an Annexure of the Naval Museum in Simon’s Town…
74. The Freedom Charter, 1955
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … There were some 2 844 delegates present at the Congress of the…
EventW. E. B. Du Bois (95), writer, scholar, intellectual, Pan
… among African American activists. He was a key founder of the NAACP, the largest and oldest civil rights … United States, and from 1910 to 1934 served it as…
PlaceParow
… Parow was a Residential Suburb of Cape Town located some 16km from the City Centre . It was … Ferdinand Parow was born on 1 March 1833 in a Province of…