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PlaceKalk Bay, Southern Suburbs- Cape Town
… The Village of Kalk Bay was probably established in the 17th Century as a small community of lime burner's who mined the nearby deposits of limestone. Its…
1. The whole Coolies petition the Durban Corporation for better wages
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … whole Coolies in this Barrack' wrote to the town clerk of…
EventTwo prisoners sentenced to death for sodomy
… were two prisoners on Robben Island who had been accused of ‘mutually perpetrated sodomy’ according to trial records from the Cape Council of Justice in…
Introduction
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai The new and competitive presence of Indians in…
Address at 90th brthday celebration, by Nelson Mandela, 25 June 2008, London United Kingdom
… to travel here in our 90th year and be in the presence of so many good friends. Thank you for the continuing support in the fight against the terrible…
PlaceGordonia Division
… Named after Sir Gordon Sprigg, who was Prime Minister of the Cape Colony four times between 1878 and 1902. It was … largest magisterial district in South…
PlaceNZASM Goods Office, Railway Street, Pretoria
… in 1896, and is the largest and best remaining example of the Company's architecture in Pretoria. It was declared a … a result became vandalized. Situated on…
PlaceDolobran, Parktown, Johannesburg
… was built in 1906 for Sir Charles Llewellyn Andersson, son of the famous explorer Carl Andersson. Andersson had amassed … The mansion was towered and…
Khoisan leader given state funeral despite last wishes by SAPA, 1 July 2012
… Cape government officials, traditional leaders and friends of the Khomani San. Traditional leaders at the funeral were … by governments' intervention. Paul…
EventAfrican Mineworkers’ strike starts
… African mineworkers, led by John Beaver (JB) Marks, leader of the African Mineworkers' Union, started on this day. The strike was initiated by the Communist…
EventEvelyn Dalberg, SA opera singer, is born in Germany
… was born on 23 May 1939, in Leipzig, Germany. The daughter of Frederick Dalberg and German Soprano Ellen Winter, Dalberg was trained at the Guildhall School…
EventThe “Ossewabrandwag” is founded
… nationalist organisation in Bloemfontein, under leadership of Colonel J.C.C. Laas. The OB was evidence of the surging Afrikaner Nationalism in the centenary…
EventStompie Seipei’s murderer goes to jail
… Seipei. Stompie Seipei was a child activist and member of the infamous Mandela Football Club established by Winnie Mandela as a front for the political…
EventDisinvestment moves by two major companies
… South African associate, Barclays National Bank Limited of South Africa (also known as Barnat). Sir Timothy Bevan, chairman of Barclays, admitted that while…
EventPope John Paul II appoints 31 cardinals, three from Africa
… Pope John Paul II appointed 31 new cardinals; three of them were from Africa. These were the Nigerian Cardinal … the Sudanese Gabriel Zubeir Wako. However,…
EventThe second Anglo-Boer war, also known as the South African war, breaks out
… A number of interrelated factors led to the Second Anglo-Boer War. These include the conflicting political ideologies of imperialism and republicanism, the…
EventMlungisi Sisulu dies.
… On 3 January 2008 Mlungisi Sisulu, the grandson of Walter Sisulu died in London from Cerebral Malaria. … African exiles studying in the Soviet Union. At the…
EventA Pilot Cellular phone project is launched
… The basic concept of cellular phones began in 1947, when researchers began to … researchers realized that by using small cells (range of service area) with…
EventAmina Lawal’s sentence upheld
… 19 August 2002, an Islamic high court in the Katsina state of Nigeria, upheld a sentence of death by stoning for Amina Lawal. The 31 year old woman had been…
Labour Struggles in South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - 1921 by Evangelos A. Mantzaris
… This is a book about forgotten pages of South Africa's rich worker history from 1903 to 1921. It includes socio-historical analysis of the Cape Town 'answer"…
PlaceWupperthal Mission Station, Clanwilliam
… oasis in a very rugged wilderness, 72 km southeast of Clanwilliam and about 250 km from Cape Town . This … von Wurmb and Johan Gottlieb Leipoldt (grandfather…
EventMultiparty negotiating forum meets for the first time since December 1993
… Congress (ANC)'s proposals. The ANC had proposed inclusion of a constitutional principle on self-determination, to include provisions for a notion of a…
Statement congratulating Amanda Coetzer and Wayne Ferreira on winning the Hopman Cup, 8 January 2000
… stars Amanda Coetzer and Wayne Ferreira on their winning of the Hopman Cup. The two are thoroughly deserving of this prestigious accolade. Their win is…
EventPolice constable is buried alive at Ackerville cemetery near Witbank
… On 31 May, Constable S.H. Mandlazi was attacked by a crowd of people armed with spades at the Ackerville cemetery while he was attending the funeral of a…
ArchivePenal reform and race relations
… delivered by Winifred Hoernle is the fourth in the series of the Hoernle Memorial Lectures. This is the first public statement on the report of the Penal…
EventThe Riotous Assemblies Act Commences
… The Riotous Assemblies Act no 17 of 1956, prohibiting any outside gathering that the minister of justice saw as a threat to public peace, commenced. It…
EventEx Defence Minister P.W. Botha denies arms purchase
… The denial of South Africa's involvement in arms dealing with the former … Nations. South Africa's involvement in the murky world of arms dealing began long…
EventThe first Dutch Reformed Church in the Orange Free State is founded
… Reverend Daniel Lindley instituted the first congregation of the Dutch Reformed Church in the Orange Free State, which makes this day the founding day of the…
EventNotorious ‘SOWETO’ policeman dies
… Brigadier Theuns Swanepoel ("Rooi Rus"), one of the most feared interrogators of the South African Security Police, dies in Roodepoort. … him as a policeman …
EventSA artist Helen Martins is born
… her queer sculptures at the Owl House in the Karoo village of Nieu Bethesda, was born in Nieu Bethesda in the Eastern … suicide, the house she named "The Owl…