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ArticleThe Founding of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF)
… According to the EFF’s publication ‘The Coming Revolution’, Julius Malema … a boost at Marikana. The Mine workers called on Malema to join their struggle and…
PlaceGood Hope Centre, Cape Town
… "The aim of this lecture is to shed light on the Good Hope Centre in, Cape Town . An exceptional building designed by the famous … The first contacts between…
EventRev. Robert Selby Taylor, Bishop of Grahamstown, is elected Archbishop of Cape Town and Metropolitan of the Province of South Africa.
… Rev. Robert Selby Taylor was born in the United Kingdom in 1909. His parents later sent him to New Zealand in the hope of broadening his experience. Taylor…
CAPS Grade 6: The Transatlantic Slave Trade - term 2
… Focus : The nature and impact of the slave trade between West Africa and the American South … owners o Rebellion against slavery o Nat Turner’s revolt…
Chief Albert Luthuli Centenary Lecture by President Jacob Zuma, 7 September 2012, Kimberley, Northern Cape
… and provincial leadership, ANC NEC Members, Leaders of the Tripartite Alliance, The Luthuli Family, I am greatly … deprived the few African voters of their…
EventTodd Tozama Matshikiza, musician, composer and writer, is born in Queenstown, Eastern Cape
… Matshikiza was born to a musical family in Queenstown in the Eastern Cape on 7 March 1921. He obtained music and teaching diplomas … moved to Johannesburg…
BiographyHerbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo
… was born in Edendale, Natal on February 26th, 1903. He was the second son to Ezra and Sardinia Dhlomo. Ezra came from a … into South Africa, which in his…
Minutes of the National Union of South African Students 56th Annual Congress, held at the University of Cape Town, 24th - 30th November 1978
… Minutes of the National Union of South African Students 56th Annual Congress, held at the University of Cape Town, 24th - 30th November 1978. … Minutes of…
PlaceLangeberg Mountain Range, Western Cape
… The Langeberg Mountain Range is in the Western Cape Province … Mountain Ranges that run from East–West in the Western Cape. It stretches 170 km from the…
BiographyRobert Anthony Basil Waterwitch
… born on 15 July 1969 and grew up in Athlone, a suburb of Cape Town located on the Cape Flats. Remembered as a sensitive and quiet, yet … Simpson, T. Umkhonto…
Mary Margaret Ngalo
… Margaret Ngalo was born in Cradock , Transkei (now Eastern Cape Province ) to Tom and Leah Plaatjie. As the niece of Reverend Canon James A. Calata , who was…
BiographyBoas Moiloa
… George Bizos’ as ‘a dignified, elderly man who, during the troubles after Abram's expulsion, had come through … Native Reserve’ in the Victoria East…
ArticleYouth Politics in South Africa in the 1970s
… The 1970s period was a watershed for youth politics in South … rule in general. SASO took its political message to High Schools. However, it was still a…
BiographyCurtis Nkondo
… Northern Transvaal (now Makhado, Limpopo). Towards the end of the 1800s, his grandmother, Ma Nkondo left Lorenco … Afrikaans, as the medium of instruction in…
BiographyBongani Mnguni
… and photojournalist who dedicated his life to exposing the brutality of the apartheid system. Mnguni was born in Soweto on the 18th … the use of Afrikaans…
EventPolice found burnt body near KTC squatter camp, Cape Town
… On 2 June 1986, the South African police services found the burnt body of a man near the KTC squatter camp in Nyanga East. A Police spokesman … Police found…
Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union of Africa, Annual Conference Agenda, St Phillips School, Chapel Street. District 6, Cape Town, 18 January 1923
… Agenda, St Phillips School, Chapel Street. District 6, Cape Town, 18 January 1923 …
EventExplorer and navigator Vasco da Gama completes his voyage round the Cape of Good Hope to India
… Vasco Da Gama was of noble birth and was the son of an explorer, however little else is known about … his early life. Da Gama was said to have been educated…
PlaceHorse Memorial, junction of Cape and Russell Roads, Port Elizabeth
… The memorial, designed by Joseph Whitehead and cast in bronze by the Thames Dillon Works, in Surrey, was unveiled on 11 February 1905 by the mayor of Port…
EventOlive Schreiner, noted SA author, dies in Wynberg, Cape Town
… though written over a century ago, seem to have predicted the modern day South Africa. Her first book about the story of an African farm became a sensation…
BiographyJohn Langalibalele Dube
… Langalibalele Dube was born at Inanda Mission station of the American Zulu Mission (AZM) in Natal on 22 February 1871 … and 1896. Dube’s school differed from…
A Royal Air Force Valiant under Wing Commander M.J. Beetham sets a new record for the London-Cape Town flight, completing the j
… under Wing Commander M.J. Beetham sets a new record for the London-Cape Town flight, completing the j …
Lord Charles Somerset, governor of the Cape, publishes a proclamation proclaiming English as the only language to be used in co
… Lord Charles Somerset, governor of the Cape, publishes a proclamation proclaiming English as the only language to be used in co …
Governor Du Pré Alexander, Earl of Caledon leaves the Cape. He was popular with the colonists and improved conditions of
… (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 2, p. 656 … Governor Du Pré Alexander, Earl of Caledon leaves the Cape. He was…
Opening address by President Nelson Mandela in the president’s budget debate in the National Assembly Cape Town, 15 April 1997
… Opening address by President Nelson Mandela in the president’s budget debate in the National Assembly Cape Town, 15 April 1997 …
Toast by President Nelson Mandela at the banquet in honour of the President of Ireland Cape Town, 26 March 1996
… Toast by President Nelson Mandela at the banquet in honour of the President of Ireland Cape Town, 26 March 1996 …
Naval Headquarters at Simonstown announce that the second series of joint British South African exercises off the Cape Coast wi
… Naval Headquarters at Simonstown announce that the second series of joint British South African exercises off the Cape Coast wi …
Dr Izak David du Plessis, author, poet and chancellor of the University of the Western Cape, is born in Philipstown.
… Dr Izak David du Plessis, author, poet and chancellor of the University of the Western Cape, is born in Philipstown. …
Simon Hendrik Freykenius and Sebastiaan Cornelis Nederburgh arrive at the Cape to advise the dissatisfied burghers on how to be
… Freykenius and Sebastiaan Cornelis Nederburgh arrive at the Cape to advise the dissatisfied burghers on how to be …
Barend Bartholomeus Keet, one of the first five translators of the Bible in Afrikaans, is born in Alice, Eastern Cape.
… Barend Bartholomeus Keet, one of the first five translators of the Bible in Afrikaans, is born in Alice, Eastern Cape. …