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PlaceDiamond Hill Battle, Garden of Remembrance
… Hill, which took place on the 11th and 12th June 1900, in which 14000 British soldiers and 4000 Boers engaged in battle. Nineteen British soldiers and three…
PlaceTown Hall, 25 Market Street, Uitenhage
… move locally for the Capital of the Colony to be situated in Uitenhage. When the Town Hall was built in 1882 in Market Street and the Public Building between…
Khoisan leader given state funeral despite last wishes by SAPA, 1 July 2012
… Oom Dawid Kruiper, was buried during a state funeral in Andriesvale in the Kalahari despite concerns from traditional Koisan … he was supposed to receive. …
EventPresident F.W. de Klerk announces Whites-only referendum results
… White people’s support for the reform process he started in February 1990. Surprisingly, the majority of … to the reform process. With the result of 68.6 per…
EventThe Federation of South African trade unions
… of Free African Trade Unions (FFATU) disintegrated in the 1960s. The organisation had twelve partners, and … of a properly organised, democratic trade union…
EventWriter J.M. Coetzee is awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize for Literature
… Born in South Africa in 1940, JM Coetzee has had a successful literary career. He … intellectual honesty and for capturing man's divine spark in moments of…
EventVoortrekkers are defeated during the Battle of Boomplaats
… Pretorius to assist them to regain their independence. In June 1848, Pretorius marched with a thousand men to the … British Resident, Major Warden, from his…
Conference: African Indigenous Knowledge Systems
… Leadership Framework For Sustainable Organizations In Africa: An Indigenous Knowledge Systems Perspective v … v Indigenous Weather Knowledge, Beliefs and…
EventB.J. Vorster, Minister of Justice, announces extensive security measures following the Sharpeville Massacre
… "ensure the safety of the state to the absolute maximum" in view of hottest developments concerning South Africa. … relate to the unrest following the…
ADDRESS AT THE UNVEILING OF THE COAT OF ARMS, Kwaggafontein, 27 April 2000
… sustenance to our people for millennia as it will do in perpetuity. The tusks of the African elephant, reproduced in pairs to represent men and women,…
EventA 19 year old Mzwandile Kekana is testifying at the trial of 14 Cookhouse people charged with murdering a teacher.
… Mziwandile Kekana, a 19 year old boy, testified in the Port Elizabeth Supreme Court that the people who … forced their way into the house and found Mr…
EventArmed Policemen appeared at Langa funeral service
… who died of natural causes inside the Methodist Church in Langa. The disruption occurred when two armed policemen … started panicking, pushing and jostling…
Seedtimes Retrospective Omar Badsha
… seeing that challenged the established apartheid tropes. In the words of Professor Ari Sitas, “Badsha could do in one picture what a dozen history workshop…
ArchiveTrade unions, politics and the working class struggle: the Food and Canning Workers Union, 1975 to 1986
… Thesis submitted in partial fulfilment for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts Honours (BA Hons) in African Studies at the University of Cape Town by Riyaad ……
ArchiveSPRO-CAS Occasional Publication Number 10: So
… Political Commission of the Study Project on Christianity in Apartheid Society. Content include: The ethical framework; … present political position; The…
ArchiveAddress at 46664 Concert, by Nelson Mandela, 27 June 2008, London United Kingdom
… Your voices carried across the water to inspire us in our prison cells far away. Tonight, we are free. We are honoured to be back in London. As we celebrate,…
PlaceRailway Station, Main Road, Wynberg
… October 1981. The Wynberg Railway Company was established in 1861 to build a railway line from Salt River Junction to Wynberg, which opened on 19 December…
PlaceBergvliet Farmstead, Bergvliet
… This farm complex consists of a Cape Dutch house built in 1769, and a ring wall and outbuildings which were erected … at all visible from a public road. If…
PlaceKlapperkop Fort, Pretoria
… Klapperkop offers visitors panoramic views of Pretoria in all directions. Not only is it fast becoming a popular … you’re able to do a quick game drive for…
PlaceLanherne Building, Humewood Road, Port Elizabeth
… This dwelling was erected in 1894 for RH Hammersley-Heenen, resident engineer and … was converted to a convalescent home for servicemen, and in 1960 it was…
Document 9 - Letter from W. H. Andrews to Tom Mann,” 26 December 1922
… forces of our people who have conducted armed struggle, in view of the situation in which all peaceful avenues have been closed. Noting that: … our people…
EventGambia gains independence
… On this day in history Gambia became the 36th African nation to gain … of The Gambia) commonly known as Gambia, is a country in Western Africa. It is a…
Zindzi Mandela is born
… and his second wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela was born in a year of turmoil, during which the ANC was banned and … Her parents were always on the run from…
EventPolitical activist Mohammed Shaik is born
… Special Operations Unit, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), was born in Vrededorp, Johannesburg. Shaik was recruited and trained by Aboobaker and was involved in…
EventSouth African refugees leave Lesotho
… to various liberation movements banned from operating in South Africa by the Apartheid government. Others were in Lesotho after constant harassment and fear…
EventJohannesburg municipal workers strike
… biggest strike by the migrant municipal workers took place in Johannesburg, the largest and most industrialised city in South Africa. The strike involved…
EventPope John Paul II visits Africa
… Burkina Faso ) and the Ivory Coast. He started his tour in Zaire, where Roman Catholicism had recently been … order and a guarantee of workers rights. The…
EventCOSATU leads an anti-VAT strike
… (ANC) issued a concerted statement: A referendum was held in the streets of our country today. The result was a devastating vote of no confidence in this…
EventFirst formal school opens at the Cape
… Jan van Riebeeck, commander at the Cape, wrote in his diary that a school for slaves has been started. … van Riebeeck for the slave children brought to the…
EventThe NNP joins the ANC
… members of the NNP would be encouraged to join the ANC in their respective localities. The NNP would in future contest elections under the banner of the ANC…