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PlaceWoutersen Vault, Wessels Road, Green Point.
… nobody can cross! It was erected in 1827 by the widow of Peter Woutersen. His granddaughter married, Jacobus … Wessels, whose son, Sir John Wessels, became…
EventHaile Selassie, deposed Ethiopian emperor, dies
… Haile Selassie was born Lij Tafari Makonnen, in the village of Ejersa Gor, in the Harar Province of Ethiopia. Heir to a 13th century dynasty, he ascended to…
PlaceKwaMuhle Museum, 130 Ordnance Road, Durban
… experiences that had never been accessible to the people of Durban. KwaMuhle is in no sense an apartheid museum. Nor … and confrontations that made up the…
ArchiveUrban crisis and the apartheid state response: South African housing policy in the 1980s
… A dissertation presented in partial fulfilment of the MSc in Urban Planning (Housing in Development), … the University College, London (Development Unit)…
Imijondolo
… a shack or informal housing), is Omar Badsha's second book of photographs. Badsha's groundbreaking book documents how … despite being located just thirty…
Fatima Meer: Portfolio
… Multi-party Planning Conference: BEING FULLY CONSCIOUS of the responsibility we individually and collectively bear for the well-being of our country; BEING…
EventThe AA is formed to coordinate motoring clubs
… The Automobile Association of South Africa (AA) was formed at a meeting in Port … motoring organisation to protect and promote the interests of motorists in…
EventGerman South West Africa is put under South African administration
… After the completion of World War One's Treaty of Versailles, German South West Africa was declared a mandate of the new international peace-keeping body,…
PlaceEbenezer, Limpopo
… Ebenezer was established in 1831 as a station of the Rhenish Missionary Society . The 1875 census indicated that the Village had a population of 291. It was…
ArchiveThe Mandela I knew by Saths Cooper, 6 December 2013
… to 1982 I got to know him intimately and had the advantage of interacting with him on a daily basis. These were less … best and worst in ourselves to emerge…
PlaceConstantia
… The other picture of a Mansion, 'owned by Deputy Minister- Paul Mashatile , in … Reading .) The Former estate in the magisterial district of Wynberg , 24 km,…
EventFinal legal note on the SS Mendi
… A brief report appeared on the 13th of November in the Times, which was the last of the legal conclusions around the sinking of the SS Mendi troopship, from…
PlaceWindermere
… Cape Town near the Ysterplaat airbase. The Group Areas Act of 1950 declared that the space be occupied by Coloured residents and all other residents, the…
PlaceBenin
… after colonialism was characterized by an early period of multiparty competition that proved unstable, and multiple … the traditional north/south…
EventMbeki unveils Women’s Monument at Union Buildings
… Monument at the Union Buildings in Pretoria. The aim of the monument was to commemorate the role of women in the struggle and marked the 44th anniversary of…
Document 27 - Letter from E. R. Roux to Douglas Wolton, 5 September 1928
… 5 September 1928 British Association/or the Advancement of Science … UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW … from the continent. When I left Moscow the question of the new…
ArchiveAppendix 3 The Freedom Charter
… We, the People of South Africa, declare for all our country and the world to … can justly claim authority unless it is based on the will of all the people;…
PlacePhilip Irrigation Tunnel and Missionary Station, Hankey
… Three years after his arrival at the Cape, Superintendent of the London Missionary Society, Dr John Philip, paid a … For this purpose he purchased 1 427…
PlaceMali
… Mali, landlocked country of western Africa, mostly in the Saharan and Sahelian … and on the west by Senegal and Mauritania. The countryside of Mali is…
PlaceGansbaai, Overberg
… for diving with Great White Sharks and “game-viewing” of the Marine Big 5 from land, sea and air, the greater Gansbaai area offers a smorgasbord of adrenalin…
Chapter 3 - Historical Lesotho
… From the book: Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, 1992 By December 1982, the government of Lesotho…
ArchiveChimamanda Ngozi Adichie: A Reformist-Feminist by Charles Nwosu
… Her life experiences, the context and inspiration of her writing, her works, and her resistance as a … as having come “almost fully made.” [1] The embodiment…
PlaceNaval Hill
… An extremely popular spot providing excellent views of the Town and the Franklin Game Reserve forms part of the Hill. Several types of big and small game can…
Interview: The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navanethem (Navi) Pillay
… and welcome to Podrights, or this week Vodrights, a series of podcasts from the Australian Human Rights Commission. I'm … first woman to start a law practice…
VI - The Inquest
… The inquest was postponed until 14 November. At the end of October, two weeks before it was due to start, … Synagogue, Pretoria. The Old Synagogue has been…
2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup is a tribute to Africa - ANC, 21 May 2010
… ANC headquarters, Chief Albert Luthuli House, with flags of all African countries participating in the event. We are … tournament. This Fifa Soccer World Cup…
PlaceStutterheim, Amatola- Eastern Cape
… The small town of Stutterheim lies at the foot of the Amatola Mountain range in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. This picturesque town is situated…
PlaceNorth West
… The North West Province was part of the old Transvaal , and includes most of the parts of the old homeland, Bophuthatswana . There is a lot of … Taung is the…
The Democratic Party (DP)
… Democratic Movement merged. Under the combined leadership of Zach de Beer, Denis Worrall and Wynand Malan, the DP won 36 seats in Parliament in the general…
Call for papers - “Ukutshona kukaMendi”/ "Ukuzika kukaMendi": The Mendi Centenary Conference
… hosted by the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape Town, commemorates the sinking of the SS Mendi that occurred during the First World War,…