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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…
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 …
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, …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
PlacePaarl
… (prior to 1910) The division of Paarl was originally part of the district of Stellenbosch, and was proclaimed a separate division in …
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…
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…
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,…
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…
Extracts from the book ‘A long walk to Freedom’. Nelson Mandela’s autobiography
… As adopted by the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress - 25 November 1992. The strategic perspective of the ANC is the transfer of…
EventWhite women achieve suffrage in South Africa
… The roots of White women's suffrage in South Africa began with the founding of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in 1899. The goal of this…
Document 114 - (National Liberation League?), How To Work Among Urban Africans
… is confined to work among Africans in urban areas because of the following:- a) Being in touch with modem forms of organisation and having imbibed new ideas…
Statement at Press Conference in Dar es Salaam Concerning Sentences in the Rivinia Trial by O. R. Tambo, 12 June 1964
… trial which since last year, has been the focal point of world attention. The judge in the trial has done his … been put away by the evildoers. The…
PlaceFraserburg
… The division of Fraserburg was originally part of the district of Worcester and was proclaimed a separate division on 12 …