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EventLand beyond the Great Berg River is annexed
… The district of Clanwilliam celebrates its second centenary on 1 February 2008. On 1 February 1808 the territory north of the Great Berg River, at the foot…
EventDigging for gold is officially authorised and fortune hunters flock to the Witwatersrand
… Digging for gold in the Witwatersrand (now city of Johannesburg and surroundings) was authorised in September 1886 and further accelerated the influx of…
Emissaries from Russia
… 1. I have received the response of Mr F. W de Klerk to a memorandum which I addressed to him on the 26th June 1992. I enclosed the statement of the Emergency…
PlaceGanesha Temple, Mt Edgecombe
… be the oldest surviving ‘solid’ temple in Africa and one of the finest examples of temple architecture in South Africa , the ' Ganesha Temple … vault, the…
EventMilitary service becomes compulsory for White South African men.
… young men, was passed on 9 June 1967 - with the support of the opposition. Conscription was instituted in South Africa in the form of 9 months of service for…
EventDr Robert Broom is born
… Broom was educated as a doctor, specializing in the field of midwifery, he was fascinated by the origin of mammals and used his medical profession to support…
EventCol. Muammar Gaddafi seizes power in Libya
… power in Libya after a coup d'etat. Gaddafi, the leader of the Free Unionist Officers movement, overthrew the monarchical rule of King Idris, who had ruled…
David Goldblatt: oblique apartheid look by Kenneth Baker, 5 December 2012
… Billy Monk," which opened at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art last weekend, will induce simmering discomfort in its viewers as its record of South…
Keeping a cool head amid flying bullets: A tribute to Juda Ngwenya by Joseph Oesi (City Press), 26 October 2016
… Your death has come way too soon; none of us could say, with a straight face, that we were prepared … we are ill prepared. Juda, I am sad and shocked to hear…
PlaceMarket Theatre
… by Mannie Manim and Barney Simon. Now based in the center of the Newtwon Cultural Precinct, The Market Theatre was … The Market Theatre won the bid for the…
PlaceMatjiesfontein
… fortification during The Anglo-Boer War, as headquarters of the Cape Command, refuge for Jamieson Raid reformers, and the venue of controversial war crimes…
EventA fishing trawler off the South African Coast catches a coelacanth
… two-year-old Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer was the curator of a small museum in the port town of East London, northeast of Cape Town, South Africa. She had an…
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ArchiveRobert Shell: A tribute By Martin Plaut, 05 February 2015
… Martin Plaut writes on the passing of the foremost scholar of slavery in the Cape Robert Shell: my friend Today I learnt … the news in an email. All day I…
PlaceAdderley Street, Cape Town
… 's main street, running from the foreshore to the foot of Government Avenue . In 1850, its name was changed to Adderley Street in honour of Charles B…
ArchiveHow a slave from Mauritius led a rebellion in Cape Town by Nigel Worden (Ground Up), 30 March 2016
… In this drawing of Greenmarket Square in Cape Town in 1764, a slave in chains appears to be driven by a master on the left side of the image. Some four…
How I have cooperated with the Hawks by Pravin Gordhan (Times Live), 01 September 2016
… that he was not obliged to do so. He said in paragraph 3 of his answer that‚ “I wish to co-operate fully with any investigation of the Hawks into the…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the struggle continues and grows more intense, 23 August 1984
… confrontation with the Botha constitution. Thousands of millions of people around the world, including the Security Council of the United Nations, are…
PlaceMpumalanga
… Mpumalanga means ‘Place of the Rising Sun’ and is the name given to the new Province in Eastern Transvaal in 1993. It includes part of the old Transvaal and…
PlaceBertrams, Johannesburg
… Bertrams characterises the down-to-earth, friendly appeal of this Country. There is an undeniably calm, inviting ambience, despite the high rate of…
PlaceSt Cyprian’s School, Gorge Road, Oranjezicht
… The Gateway and Walls of this property date from the end of the 18th Century and are situated on a portion of the Historic Nooitgedacht Estate, in…
PlaceDe Waal Park, Camp Street, Oranjezicht
… The land was originally part of the van 'Breda Estate'' in Oranjezicht, and was purchased by the Town Council of Cape Town in 1877 for the building of the…
PlaceBo-Kaap Museum
… Situated at the foot of Signal Hill, on the fringe of the city centre, and formerly known as the Malay Quarter , … and were brought from Malaysia, Indonesia…
PlaceLiberia
… means ‘freedom’ formerly known as the Grain Coast, is one of the few African countries including Ethiopia that were not … born in America became the first…
EventThami Mazwai, former journalist and anti-apartheid activist, is jailed for two years
… Party government was determined to curtail any sign of dissent that might lead to unrest. And the period, 1980 to 1984, was marked by a series of political…
EventMandela signs SA Constitution into law
… after the first democratic election (1994) the President of the Republic of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, signed the final draft of the constitution into law…
PlaceGoshen
… with a green vertical stripe at the hoist also the colours of Imperial Germany - which I am sure worried the British … were sent in and declared Goshen (and…
EventJoe Slovo dies
… the communist intellectual widely credited with being one of the masterminds of South Africa's national reconciliation, died after a long battle with cancer…
ArchiveStudent international
… Paper presented at the 46th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, 16 July 1970. Paper discusses the history of student…
PlaceRobben Island Museum
… to the 20th centuries, Robben Island served as a place of banishment, isolation and imprisonment. Today it is a … a poignant reminder to the newly democratic…