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De Klerk pays tribute to Mandela’s ‘unique contribution’
… Former president FW de Klerk says South Africa has lost one of its founding fathers and "greatest sons". Former president FW De Klerk said South Africa lost…
PlaceCompany Gardens in Cape Town
… a large Public Park and Botanical Garden, set in the heart of Cape Town . This Garden features: a Rose Garden; Japanese … The Company's Garden is situated,…
Nelson Mandela Sending Photographs
… and comments on them, and he marvels at the growth of grandchildren. They come with their mothers as infants in … you look well and it pleases me very much…
PlaceAchab se Berg, Northern Cape
… Hill 23 km East of Aggeneys and 34 km from Pofadder, in the Northern Cape of South Africa. The name is taken from the Farm Achab. … the Town was founded to…
ArchiveInternational Bulletin, No 25, December 1989
… Issue covers an SACP delegation to the 14th Congress of the Romanian Communist Party, SACP delegation to the Congresses of the Communist Party of Britain and…
EventBishop Zulu is born
… Alphaeus Hamilton Zulu, Anglican bishop of Zululand and Swaziland was born in Nquthu, Natal. He was the only son of Johannes and Miriam Kolo Zulu and was a…
PlaceRiebeek East
… 1840 the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) acquired a portion of the Farm; Mooi Meisiejie Fontein for the purpose of establishing a Kerkplaats. The village of…
Press Conference by O. R. Tambo, Introducing Alexandre Moumbaris, Stephen Lee and Timothy Jenkin who Escaped from Prison in South Africa, Lusaka, 2 January 1980
… by their own ingenuity, defeating the sophistication of the enemy's structures, not only of repression but of detention. If I may begin with Alex Moumbaris,…
PlaceParsonage House Museum, Port Elizabeth
… in Port Elizabeth and was built by Rev Francis McClelland of the Church of England, who arrived in 1820 with the Irish party under … in Port Elizabeth where,…
PlaceNewington Road Victorian Houses, Port Elizabeth
… This row of late Victorian double-storey, semi-detached dwellings … on 15 July 1983. Newington Road is found in one of the most historic suburbs in central…
EventEgyptian President Anwar Sadat, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and President Carter begin a Middle East peace conference at Camp David, Maryland
… The three heads of state met for 13 days of secret meetings at Camp Devid, the Presidential Retreat in the Catoctin Mountains of Maryland, about 100…
EventFree, compulsory education for Black children
… to White education. Moreover, there was growing shortage of schools in rural and township areas for Black education. The government had a policy of separate…
EventThe Dutch Reformed Church decides that Afrikaans may be used alongside Dutch during services
… many influences, including French and Malay. At the time of the Great Trek in the 1830's, various dialects of Afrikaans were believed to have existed,…
EventWilliam Brown becomes the first South African officer killed during World War I
… and September 1915 for service overseas. It was comprised of four battalions (or regiments) of infantry. The Brigade, numbering 160 officers and 5 648 … on 1…
EventBritish establish first ‘refugee’ camps during the South African War
… Anglo-Boer War) by a military notice. The initial aim of the establishment of these camps was to provide protection to the families of boers who had…
EventThe Trojan Horse Massacre
… particularly by students. On 15 October 1985, members of the security forces shot and killed three young people who were part of anti-government…
PlaceFirst Raadsaal
… building in Bloemfontein, the First Raadsaal is part of the National Museum. The modest building of dung floors and a thatched roof was erected by Major ……
On trial for treason
… 'Before dawn on 5 December, 1956, the security branch of the police entered the homes of 140 people and arrested 156 individuals, White, Black and Coloured,…
Document 17 - The Groote Schuur Minute
… so much youth, so much enthusiasm, and so much love of our country. To impose your world on us, you killed, … in March 1960 was wrong. It was a mistake. Your…
June 12 Movement
… June 12th marked a historic moment in the history of Black students. The University of the Western Cape acting together with the Department of Coloured…
June 12 Movement
… June 12th marked a historic moment in the history of Black students. The University of the Western Cape acting together with the Department of Coloured…
ArchiveJune 12 Movement
… June 12th marked a historic moment in the history of Black students. The University of the Western Cape acting together with the Department of Coloured…
EventBusiness leader Matome Maponya is born
… Matome Maponya, chair/owner of several food companies in his name and deputy chair of the Agricultural and Rural Development Corporation Ltd … the Eastern…
Burundi: A year later, still in crisis by Simon Allison (Daily Maverick), 05 May 2016, South Africa
… today is not safe tomorrow. Civilian life today is a life of fear, a life of uncertainty, and not knowing exactly what is happening … it, but what is…
For Richard Turner by Peter Sacks
… You wrote on the back page of my last essay ("Political Education in The Republic") "Good ideas, but style too literary. Use of images evades the final point…
PlaceJosephine Mill, Boundary Road, Newlands
… was achieved by 1988. Josephine Mill's is a little slice of history in the heart of the green, leafy suburb of Newlands. It is situated on the banks of the…
PlaceFourteen Streams
… been commissioned by the Cape Government, powers of construction were transferred to the British South Africa … Salisbury in Rhodesia. On 16 October 1899 a…
PlacePretoria Correctional Service Museum
… in Tshwane, built by Alexander Anderson at the corner of Pretorius and Paul Kruger streets, has an appealing … for all intents and purposes, and was…
EventIt is announced that a child prostitution and trafficking task team rescues 14 underage prostitutes in downtown Johannesburg
… and prostitution has become rife in the syndicates of Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban. Children who are … The most vulnerable children are girls between…
EventUnesco lists Robben Island as a World Heritage Site
… on Robben Island as they protested to Dutch rule of their countries. When the British took control of South Africa, a leper colony was started on the island…