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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…
PlaceCape Agulhas, Western Cape
… Cape Agulhas is some 32 km South of Bredarsdorp. The name is Portuguese for 'needle' and is … with no magnetic deviation. Therefore the Portuguese name of …
PlaceBoys High School, Pretoria
… schools in rankings nationally, as well as in all of Africa. Notable alumni includes two Nobel Prize laureates, … Rhodes scholars, several government…
EventProfessional soccer is introduced in SA when the National Football League is founded
… Association (FIFA) officially recognised the White body of the Football Association of South Africa (FASA) as the sole governing body of soccer in South…
EventRobert McBride is arrested in Mozambique
… a high-ranking official in the South African Department of Foreign Affairs, was arrested by the Mozambican police in … was on a fact-finding mission…
PlaceBoksburg, the Witwatersrand
… The Town of Boksburg was founded in 1887 as the Administrative Centre of the East Rand. It is the second oldest Town on the … mining operation. Towards the…
ArchiveNUSAS resumé 1981
… Record of some of the main events that the National Union of South African Students initiated or was involved in during …
EventDr. J. S. Moroka dies
… Moroka , medical doctor, politician, and great-grandson of Chief Moroka I of the Barolong Boo Moroka in Thaba Nchu the then district of Bophuthatswana, now…
History lesson: When Vorster stuck the knife in Ian Smith's back by Jamie Miller (Rand Daily Mail), 17 September 2016
… new Cold War conflict fought along racial lines. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger soon committed to defusing the … and South-West Africa-Namibia. But he…
A Message from Albert Luthuli to every Voter from the African National Congress, 1 April 1958
… and the biggest and most representative organization of Africans. For many years we have addressed protest, … Frankly, we are by no means satisfied with this…
Cosatu march: For Who, for What? by Simelane and Nicolson (Daily Maverick), 8 October 2015
… streets and can pull a crowd without the National Union of Metalworkers SA (Numsa) or its expelled general secretary … stops at the premier's office,…
PlaceTokai Arboretum, Tokai Forest
… was laid out in 1885 by Joseph Storr Lister, Conservator of Forests of the Western Conservancy of the Cape Colony, thus marking the beginnings of a Forestry …
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…