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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…
EventRebel commando leader Fourie is executed
… Force of the Defence Force before joining General Beyers in protest against the government's attack on German South … we enter the valley of death). His…
EventThe Great Comet of 1901
… eye over most of South Africa. The comet was yellowish in colour and remained visible for the next month (until 25 … was first spotted by astronomers at the…
EventTraditional Bushman artist Vetkat Regopstaan Kruiper, aged 38, dies suddenly from natural causes
… a prolific artist. He was born at the camp Twee Rivieren in the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park (now Kgalagadi … The Kruipers are from the #Khomani Bushmen…
EventSixty ANC refugees are airlifted out of Lesotho
… later, forces led by Maj-Gen Metsing Lekhanya who had been in talks with the apartheid government in South Africa seized power. The National Assembly was ……
EventGwen Lister is born
… publisher and anti apartheid activist. She was born in East London on 5 December 1953. After graduating at the … the Windhoek Advertiser as a political…
EventDr. E. Rhoodie is arrested at the French Riviera resort Juan les Pins
… the French Riviera resort Juan les Pins. He would appear in Aix-en-Provence for extradition proceedings on 31 July … African government. Rhoodie was one of…
EventUN and OAU take a stand against Apartheid policy
… the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) at UNESCO House in Paris, France. The UN had been vocal about the apartheid … the early 1950s. On 1 April 1960, the…
EventA memorandum containing a proposed constitutional dispensation is delivered to the CPRC
… community welfare and pensions. It was first elected in 1969, re-elected in 1975, and permanently dissolved in 1980. …
EventMusician, Gito Baloi of Tananas fame, is killed
… on his way home from a concert. Gito Baloi was born in Mozambique on 30 September 1964. He gained fame as a bass … guitarist and vocalist of the South…
National Arts Festival 2017
… at the end of June/beginning of July, it runs for 11 days in the small university city of Grahamstown, which is situated in the Eastern Cape, 130km from Port…
Message by Oliver Tambo to Frelimo Central Committee on the death of Samora Machel, 22 October 1986
… has befallen the people of Mozambique is without parallel in the history of the independent Africa. It is a tragedy … a tragedy they can never forget. Our…
Message to Frelimo Central Committee on the Death of Samora Machel by O. R. Tambo, 22 October 1986
… has befallen the people of Mozambique is without parallel in the history of the independent Africa. It is a tragedy … a tragedy they can never forget. Our…
EventPhakisa Freeway opens
… The Phakisa Freeway located in Welkom, Free State, opened on 10 October 1999.[i] The … 1999 Federation of International Motorcycling Grand Prix in 1999.[iii]…
Statement on naming of OR Tambo International Airport, 31 October 2006
… Company of South Africa (ACSA) for their respective roles in the successful renaming of Johannesburg Airport to OR … among South Africans of the critical…
PlaceAi-Ais, Namibia
… and sulphur-rich hot Spring, and means 'burning water' in the Local Dialect. One of the eyes of the hot Spring is in the Ai-Ais Resort Area. This Resort is…
EventKhoikhoi warriors defeat Portuguese thieves
… a fleet of three ships – Garcia, Belèm and Santa Cruz. In late February he dropped anchor near the Cape of Good Hope … De Almeida and his men then traded…