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PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Wynberg
… by free burghers in 1657, and for more than a century most of them travelled into Cape Town to attended religious services. However because of the distances…
EventFatima Meer, South African anti-Apartheid activist is born
… Durban on the 12th August 1928. She was the daughter of Moosa Meer who was the editor and publisher of Indian Views a weekly publication aimed at the…
EventSouth African poet, writer and political activist, Mafika Pascal Gwala is born in Durban.
… Pascal Gwala was born on 5 October 1946 in Verulam, north of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal. He is the second child of five children of his parents. He matriculated…
EventThe Berlin Airlift comes to an end
… The Berlin Airlift provided tons of supplies to war ravaged Berlin. Under the aid program … western Germany. The Soviets hoped to force the Allies out of…
EventGreat Trek Centenary Celebrations commence
… Boers leaving the Cape Colony and settling in the interior of South Africa. White settlement led to the establishment of the republics of Natalia, the Orange…
EventP.W. Botha becomes Prime Minister
… Party caucus elected Pieter Willem Botha, the Minister of Defence and leader of the National Party in the Cape Province as new Prime … was boosted by the…
EventTrojan Horse Massacre Memorial unveiled
… Horse Memorial was unveiled in Athlone as a remembrance of the three victims who were killed by the security police … to quell social unrest and protests in…
Entering Namibia without visas
… the territory comes under the direct responsibility of the United Nations. Until then, there was no question of anyone entering the territory without a…
PlaceRailway Station and Post Office, Point Road, Durban
… This building was erected in 1900 as part of a general upgrade by the Natal Railways. It replaced an … on 7 March 1986. The Point Railway Station, one of…
PlaceSastri College, 1 Winterton Walk, Durban
… V.S. Srinivasa Sastri , who was appointed as Agent of the Indian Government , to South Africa in 1927. Designed … by the Architect Hermann Kallenbach , a…
PlaceBaxter Theatre, Rondebosch- Cape Town
… to the late Dr. W Duncan Baxter’s bequest for the purpose of building and establishing a theatre. Dr. Baxter made a generous donation to the University of…
PlaceThe Owl House
… Martins , an outsider or self-taught Artist and Owner of Owl House, turned her parents’ House and the yard into a … passed. Martins created the Owl House…
PlaceIziko Museum's, Cape Town
… word meaning “hearth.” A hearth is the traditional centre of the home where families would get together to share their stories, just as Iziko is sharing the…
PlaceAmalienstein, a Mission Station in the Western Cape
… Former Mission Station of the Berlin Missionary Society , 22 km East of Ladysmith . Named after Amalie von Stein, who was a benefactress of German Missions …
Nelson Mandela Correspondence with family
… Island prisoners settled down to the mindless timetable of imprisonment, filling hours with manual labour which … routine repeated itself in the endless…
My Spirit Is Not Banned - PART 3 by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner The start of a bad time The treason trial was the start of a very bad time. At that time they were after all…
PlaceAnton van Wouw House, Museum- Pretoria
… for the famous sculptor Anton van Wouw and is an example of Norman Eaton’s romantic, organic designs. The thatch roof … shade for the windows, the face brick…
PlaceSophiatown
… people moved to Cities in search for jobs. As the number of Black people increased in the Cities, the Johannesburg … (JCC) passed Slum Clearance programmes…
PlaceGrey Street now Yusuf Dadoo Street, Durban-City Centre
… people are aware that Durban has the largest concentration of Indian people outside of India! Originally brought in during the 1860’s by the … started their…
ArchiveAfrican Communist, 1959 - 1994
… did not publicly announce its existence until the state of emergency was declared by the government after the police massacres of Sharpeville and Langa in…
Pro Veritate
… a Christian monthly journal, reflects a theological point of view towards the ideologies of the ruling National Party. Christian viewpoints on such issues as…
The Mission: A Life for Freedom in South Africa by Denis Goldberg
… Emotional desert: Prison, 1963 to 1985 Chapter 10 Problems of imprisonment Chapter 11 The escape Chapter 12 Hangings Chapter 13 A negotiated release Chapter…
PlaceGeorge Division
… The district of George was originally part of the district of Swellendam, and was proclaimed a separate district on 23 …
PlaceOld Railway Station Museum, Uitenhage
… fretted timber details. Built on Market Street in the year of the opening of the railway from Port Elizabeth, it is reputed to be one of the oldest Railway…
EventAfrikaner nationalists rebel against a Union Jack in new South African flag
… to have a Union Jack (the British flag) in the centre of the national flag. The controversy followed the introduction of a bill to provide a national flag…
EventWW2: British 8th army marches into Tripoli
… Libyan capital in this World War Two battle. This was part of a series of battles that initially started with the Italian occupation of Ethiopia. This thrust…
EventCOSATU headquarters Johannesburg is sabotaged
… Since its formation in 1985, Congress of South African Trade Union (COSATU) was viewed as a threat … and arrests by the government agents. In the early hours…
PlaceCape Maclear, Malawi
… Cape Maclear or Chembe is a town in the Mangochi District of Malawi's Southern Region. The town, situated on the Nankumba Peninsula, is on the southern shore…
Dawn
… The official policy of the African National Congress was one of non-violence. However, after fifty years of non-violent struggle, Umkhonto we Sizwe (meaning…
PlaceRavenswood House, Hatfield Street, Gardens
… Ravenswood House is the only known example in Cape Town of the late classical Georgian Architectural Style of the beginning of the 19th Century. This Double…