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The Clanwilliam Arts Project / Lantern Festival 2017
… patnership with The UCT Drama Department, The UCT College of Music and The Michaelis School of Fine Arts and Jazzart Dance Theatre, will be working with…
PlaceRehoboth
… elevated plateau with several hot springs. Khoikhoi name, of Anis, means 'smoke' from the steam seen, at the hot … mornings. In 1870, the Basters, who had…
PlacePhiladelphia
… Not the Philadelphia one attributes to the Eastern parts of North America, this Philadelphia lies but 20 minutes outside of Cape Town, past Durbanville. …
PlaceQuaqua
… Free State (OFS) that had been granted to the followers of a relative of Moshoeshoe . It was only 655 square kilometres big and … in 1980 and more than a…
PlaceMarket Square, Port Elizabeth
… The Market Square in the heart of the Port Elizabeth town centre is a historical icon that … this Christian king and patriarch. There is also a replica of…
EventAlbertina Sisulu addresses a major anti-apartheid rally in London.
… abroad, Albertina Sisulu was accompanied by her Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) comrades, Sister Bernard … apartheid government. The apartheid…
EventCastro decides to send troops to Angola to fight South Africa
… The president of Cuba Fidel Castro decides to send Cuban troops to Angola in response to South Africa's invasion of the country. After attaining its…
EventThe Bisho Massacre occurs
… As many as 80,000 protesters gathered outside of Bisho, the capital city of Ciskei, and demanded an end to the military government of Brigadier Joshua Gqozo…
PlacePioneer Museum, Silverton Pretoria
… three hectare area to the Museum gives one a real sense of early farming Culture in South Africa, as one takes a … Wheat Grinding; Muzzle Loading and even…
PlaceKwaDukuza
… In July 1825, King Shaka , son of Senzangakhona and Nandi, who was the king of the Zulus from 1816, established a royal settlement as a halfway station…
EventJan Christoffel Greyling Kemp, general during South African War, is born
… the South African War (the Second Anglo-Boer War), Member of Parliament and SA minister of agriculture, was born in the district of Amersfoort, Eastern…
Event13 year-old South African Native mineworker is published in a newspaper
… On 7 March 1960, a photograph of a 13 year-old Native boy in a torn vest was published in the front page of the London Labour paper, the Daily Herald, with…
EventSouth African anti-apartheid activist Ronnie Kasrils is born in the Johannesburg
… Ronnie Kasrils was born in the Johannesburg suburb of Yeoville. The Sharpeville massacre and its aftermath drew … executing tasks entrusted to him by the…
EventPrime Minister P.W. Botha announces Ciskei will become independent on 4 December 1981
… then Nationalist Party Government.. This was done as part of the Government's plan to further its programme of Apartheid by excluding the majority of Black…
EventInkatha Freedom Party is formed
… to fill the vacuum in Black politics caused by the banning of the African National Congress (ANC) and Pan Africanist … the precursor to the Inkatha Freedom…
EventThe Democratic Party, now the Democratic Alliance, is formed
… the National Democratic Movement and the Fourth Force of 'Ontevrede Afrikaners' (Dissatisfied Afrikaners) resulted in the formation of the Democratic Party…
EventAdam Tas is arrested
… Magistrate Starrenburg arrested Adam Tas because of the role he played in drawing up a petition for the Cape … was submitted to the Lords Seventeen, the…
EventEthnic violence in Rwandan capital Kigali is spreads throughout the country
… the majority, set out to kill, rape and loot properties of the Tutsis. The genocide followed the day after the death of the Rwandan president, Juvénal…
EventEducationist George Molefe is born
… was born in Mbulwana, Ladysmith, Natal. Molefe was one of the first black Presbyterian ministers to graduate at Fort … in New York, Molefe accepted an…
Phakamani
… inside South Africa and abroad to oppose the legality of the South African Government, was published by the ANC Department of Religious Affairs in Zambia…
EventSASO adopts the Alice Declaration
… students nationwide should close down Black institutions of higher education through lecture boycotts in support of the expelled Onkgopotse Abram Tiro from…
EventMillions Regain SA citizenship
… Restoration of South African citizenship, announced on 15 December 1993 … four months before the first South Africa non-racial polls of 27 April, 1994. More…
EventThe first Chadian oil pipeline opens
… Deby on 10 October. Thus the small West African republic of Chad joined the group of oil-producing African nations. The opening of this pipeline raised hopes…
Archive'Winnie hired me to kill Dr Asvat' (Mail & Guardian), 05 September 1997
… new evidence linking Madikizela-Mandela to the murder of Dr Abu Baker Asvat. One of the two men convicted of the killing of Dr Abu Baker Asvat at his Soweto…
How Zweli ‘misled’ Khwezi, 17 September 2017
… to enter the police’s witness protection programme instead of the one run by the National Prosecuting Authority, after … testified in court, she was startled…
PlaceTokai Manor House, Tokai Road, Tokai.
… by Thibault. The gable is generally considered to be one of the earliest usages in the Cape of a rectangular pediment. The cost of building this house must…
ArchiveLetter from John Daniel, President, to SRC Presidents and others
… General circular letter from John Daniel, President of NUSAS, suggesting ways of commemorating the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Universal…
PlaceSteadville, Ladysmith
… the Native Commissioner. He retired in 1931 after 32 years of service. Although it is not clear exactly when the … get flushing toilets and showers in their…
EventP.W. Botha offers to resign
… regarding his involvement in the Information Scandal of 1978, if his accusers could prove that either he, or a member of his Cabinet, was aware of activities…