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PlaceKoopmans de Wet House, 35 Strand Street, Cape Town
The land was granted at the turn of the 18th century by Governor Willem Adriaan van de Stel to a rich merchant, Reynier Smedinga. Tradition has it that…
EventJohn “Shoes” Moshoeu was born on this day
On this day the South African and International soccer player was born in Diepkloof, Soweto. One of the most successful players to have ever played the game…
EventSouth Africa begins occupation of South-West Africa
Few years after the Second Anglo-Boer War (11 Oct 1899 – 31 May 1902), the European continent got embroiled in hostilities, which culminated in the break out…
PlaceAnglo Alpha, a Railway Siding near Colligney, North West
Railway Siding, 20 km North-West of Colligney and 5 km South-East of Lichtenburg. Takes its name from Anglo Alpha Cement Limited, a subsidiary company of Anglo…
EventFrederick Lugard, British colonial administrator, occupies Kano, West Africa
Frederick Lugard was the British colonial administrator of West Africa from 1895. He was one of the foremost practitioners of the colonial system of indirect…
EventSharlene Surtie-Richards was born on this day
The South African actress was born on this day in Upington, in the Northern Cape. She is known for her roles on television soap operas such as Egoli and the…
EventZelda la Grange was born on this day
On this day, Zelda Grange was born in Pretoria, South Africa. She completed a 3-year National Diploma and started her career at the Department of State…
EventThe UN ends SA mandate over South West Africa
The United Nations (UN) debated the South West Africa issue (now Namibia) year after year with increasing acrimony. On 18 July 1966 the International Court of…
Pule Herbert Isak Makgoe, ANC politician and member of Umkhonto we Sizwe, is born. He was arrested in 1986 and sentenced to fiv
Joseph Mogotsi, a teacher, dies in Pretoria after his car was forced off the road and he was assaulted.
PlaceWest Coast National Park, Saldanha Bay
The West Coast National Park is situated just inland of Saldanha Bay and its secluded Harbour. The exquisite Langebaan Lagoon is, undoubtedly, the jewel of…
ArchiveWe know who, but we don`t know how
Archive'As we are women we must go forward'
Damned if we do! Damned if we don’t!
A key suspect in the bomb attack on the American embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, who was tracked down in Cape Town by t
An interview with Dorothy Molefi: Hector was ‘always smiling’
Dorothy Molefi is a mother who lost her child to violence. But what makes her story unique is that her child became an international icon of South Africa's…
ArchiveThe South West Commentator, Vol 2 No 3, February 1962
ArchiveChapter 10 East - West Relations by Elisabeth Quart
From: Freedom Fighter and Humanist by Denis Goldberg
ArchiveMorris Isaacson is still what she was before
A short poem in remembrance of an exile
ArchiveSince Pageview was proclaimed a White area in 1963 ....
Pamphlet relating to the impact of the Group Areas Act on Indian families, including a photograph
ArchiveLiberez Nelson Mandela et tous les prisonnieres politiques
White, black and red poster. Photograph of Nelson Mandela on Robben Island, and photograph of children protesting. ANC in France campaign to free Nelson…
ArchiveFrench West Africa (II): the view to-day
ArchiveThe Art of Africa (III): West African Bronzes
ArchiveForeign aid and self-help in West Africa
Allan Boesak at UDF West Coast Launch (Video)
”’Terrorists’ aim was sabotage’”, Pretoria News. 3 September, 1980
Early Cape lawyer Johannes de Wet is born
SOUTH WEST AFRICA: Annexation or United Nations Trusteeship?
ArchiveAway with this terrible system: yes to democr
Red and white, with artwork of a skeleton of a face, with the words: prefect system on the face; with image of people on on either side.