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PlaceGreen Point Common
… Common was vested land, which was granted to the City of Cape Town in 1923 for public recreation and sport fields. … Your stadium is home to Green Point…
EventGideon Nieuwoudt dies
… security police colonel, who was involved in the murder of several political activists in the Eastern Cape, died in … 1982, two student activists who…
PlaceMaynardville Open Air Theatre
… Open Air Theatre is a popular and central part of Cape Town’s art scene – chiefly known for its Shakespeare … for children. The park is also home to a…
Obituary: Dr Hastings Banda by Richard Dowden (Independent), 27 November 1997
… practitioner and politician: born 14 May 1898; Minister of Natural Resources and Local Government, Nyasaland 1961-63; Prime Minister of Malawi 1963-66,…
PlaceWild Coast
… also as the Transkei , is a 250 Kilometre long stretch of rugged and unspoiled Coastline that stretches North of East London along sweeping Bays, footprint…
Document 16 - Letter from Clements Kadalie to E. R. Roux, 10 October 1928
… 10 October 1928 INDUSTRIAL and COMMERCIAL Workers Union of Africa (I.C.U.) NATIONAL COUNCIL … 53, Lensfield Road, Cambridge. Dear Roux Dr. Norman Leys,…
Document 11 - Second letter from Nelson Mandela to Hendrik Verwoerd
… I REFER YOU TO MY LETTER of 20 April 1961, to which you do not have the courtesy to … receipt. In the letter referred to above I informed you of the…
EventWinkie Direko is born
… Isabella Winkie Direko, former teacher, winner of the Bloemfonteiner of the Year Award in 1993 and Premier of the Free State since 17 June 1999, was born in…
EventParliament addresses Soweto Protests
… Following the onset of the Soweto Uprising the previous day, Parliament met in an Extraordinary Session at the request of the leader of opposition, Colin…
EventArmistice negotiations are concluded during the First Anglo-Boer War
… Paving the way for the end of Anglo-Boer War 1 (Transvaal War of Independence or First Transvaal War), a provisional … armistice was agreed upon by General…
PlaceSouth African State Theatre
… State Theatre was built by Performing Arts department of the Provincial Council of the Transvaal. [i] Botha, Lötter and Partners as well as … to design and…
PlaceRooipoort Nature Reserve, Kimberley
… Situated roughly 70 kilometers West of the town of Kimberley in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa prime plains for game hunting. Rooipoort is a ……
EventThe burghers were victorious in their struggle against Cape Governor Willem Adriaan van der Stel and his officials
… 1707 a young man on horseback raced through the streets of Stellenbosch shouting "Victorie! Victorie!" - a sign that … men were released from their contracts…
EventSharpeville Deputy Mayor killed
… The Deputy Mayor of Sharpeville, Sam Dlamini was hacked to death by a group of youths, and doused in petrol and burned. The riots were in … poor education…
EventNP Natal Congress agrees to multiracial membership
… With the wind of change powerfully blowing in South Africa, the National Party under the leadership of young but politically experienced F.W de Klerk, called…
EventPretoria disputes compensation for Gaborone raid
… The government of South Africa disputed compensation claims from the government of Botswana for damages caused by the July 1985 South African Defence Force…
EventCongo Free State becomes the Belgian Congo
… King Leopold II of Belgium handed over the Congo to the Belgian state on this … undertaken to extract rubber and ivory in the Congo region of central Africa…
Pravin Gordhan vs the Law, as defined by clichés by Mervyn E. Bennun (Politics Web), 08 September 2016
… Myths and Clichés of Prosecution South African political life has become … while simultaneously promoting the desired image of the person using them…
PlaceEastern Fort/Battery and Blockhouse, Chapman’s Peak, overlooking Hout Bay, Cape Town
… an invading military force. Consequently, towards the end of the 18th century, the area saw the construction of a number of fortifications, first at the foot…
EventChief Kausobson Kausob is killed
… The chief of a group of San that inhabited the area between the Modder, Riet and … beyond the Koedoesberg along the Riet River, southwest of Kimberley,…
PlaceAhrens, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… Railway Siding 16 km west of Greytown, on the route to Kranskop. It was named in honour of Wilhelm Ahrens, Principal from 1880 to 1906 of the School at…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Johannesburg
… as the subsequent owner) regarding the use, or purchase of the church near Friedebrug. The congregation found … to the congregation's dire financial…
PlaceMontagu Pass
… Pass in South Africa , and links George with the Village of Herold . Until the building of the Outeniqua Pass it was the main route between Cape Town … Pass…
PlaceGeneral Smuts House Museum, Doornkloof
… Smuts for over 40 years, Doornkloof in Irene, Southeast of Pretoria, is a unique museum that reveals much about the life and the spirit of this great…
EventThe New Zealand Mounted Rifles leave Wellington for the South African War
… The first contingent of New Zealand Mounted Rifles (NZMR) departed from Wellington … offered British forces in South Africa a contingent of its mounted…
PlaceOudtshoorn, Western Cape
… The division of Oudtshoorn was originally part of the District of George, and was proclaimed a separate division in about … The division of Oudtshoorn was…
1. The Way to Fox Street
… reserve squeezed into a valley on the south-eastern border of the Orange Free State with Lesotho. 7 His mother, Linkhapa, was a daughter of Molapo, a son of…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Randall Robinson, Executive Director, Transafrica Forum, 2 March 1983, Washington, DC
… How would you assess the current state of affairs in South Africa? TAMBO: The South African regime has become very desperate. They have lost a lot of ground…
ArchiveThe world's only privately owned Catholic Church
… KwaZulu-Natal and the Free State border, perched on top of the plateau, is the smallest, most charming-world renowned … church in the world. This tiny church…
PlaceWooden Bridge over Lagoon, Milnerton, Cape Town
… Brett Herron said; a tender for the Restoration of the Historic Bridge was expected to be Completed by the Middle of next Year, if there were no unforeseen…