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PlaceAgterwitsenbergkom a Mountain Region in the Route 62, Cape Winelands
… in the Cape Winelands District on Route 62, consisting of : Ceres; Tulbagh; Wolseley; Op-die-Berg and Prince Alfreds Hamlet. The name means 'basin of water…
Storming: The Insurrections Ensemble by Marcus Grossman, September 2015
… ensemble, Prosperus is not about magic but about a sense of the demonic power of the current world system. He is a white man who hates the feel of money but…
EventDr Ernst Gideon Malherbe, SA educationist, is born in Luckhoff, OFS.
… studied at the Stellenbosch University and the University of Columbia and was a founding member of the National Commission of Education and the Bureau of…
PlacePhilippi
… The settlement of Springfield was established sometime before December 1896, … 1898 its name was changed to Philippi. Philippi is one of Cape Town’s…
PlaceBophuthatswana, was Previously a Homeland
… Bophuthatswana's capital city was Mmabatho and 99% of its population was Tswana speaking. This new country's … to be declared an independent state outside…
The Trust Feed Massacre
… which shocked the nation and forever changed the lives of the close-knit community of Trust Feeds, a rural village near New Hanover in the Natal Midlands. On…
ArchiveReflections on life in a rearview mirror by Jo Ractliffe, 27 Jun 2011
… with your 80th birthday—that Sunday morning when a group of us were summoned to your house at the crack of dawn in an atmosphere of great mystery and…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Stanley Uys, 01 August 1983, Londo
… the regime had not been violent, we would not have thought of violence. It was our policy to be consciously, … nonviolence, on discipline, that we must get…
PlaceGreen Point
… horse races on its common, and the area developed as one of Cape Town's most popular social centres. William Burchell commented in 1811 that: "Vehicles of…
Hastings Banda, the early years by Angela Thompsell updated 01 March 2016
… Hastings Banda was one of the more enigmatic “Big Men” of the post-independence era in Africa. He was Malawi’s first … and ruled the country for 30 years…
Statement by Nelson R. Mandela on his relationship with his wife 13 April 1992
… Comrade Nomzamo Winnie Mandela, has become the subject of much media speculation. I am issuing this statement to … for liberation in our country. Owing to…
EventSA’s Fifa membership reinstated
… after being expelled, South Africa had its membership of the Football International Federation Association (Fifa) … not a 'real national association'. A 1956…
ArchiveConcentration camps in the South African War? Here are the real facts by Fransjohan Pretorius, (The Conversation), February 18, 2019
… One of the Boer concentration camps. Photographical Collection … between 1899 and 1902 – or the Anglo-Boer War – the events of that period are back in the…
Who Shot My Dad? by Jann Turner
… Africa's Death Squad HQ. Horror unfolded in the forms of Almond Nofomela and Dirk Coetzee and for the first time I … Marks Place, later we walked the chaotic…
EventNUSAS disbands
… The National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) elected to disband on this day. Founded in 1924, the aim of the organisation was to represent and…
EventNP Secretary-General Stoffel Van der Merwe resigns
… Former Minister of Education and professor of political science at the Rand Afrikaans University, … van der Merwe (52), who left the cabinet at the request…
EventThe Santo Alberto is wrecked
… cargo ship Santo Alberto was wrecked on the coast of Pondoland, south-west of the mouth of the Umtata River. Through admirable leadership of the … Potgieter,…
EventSouth Africa’s new constitution is approved
… The adoption of the South African Constitution on 8 May 1996 was one of the turning points in the history of the struggle for democracy in South Africa. The …
ArchiveStatement announcing retirement, Nelson Mandela, 1 June 2004
… my good friends from the media. Thank you very much to all of you for taking time out of your very busy schedules to come and listen to me this … come to…
EventChumani Maxwele ignites the #RhodesMustFall Movement at UCT
… 2015, Chumani Maxwele threw human excrements at a statue of Cecil John Rhodes that was situated on the campus of the University of Cape Town, on Rugby Road…
EventSouth African historian Charles van Onselen is born.
… was born on 14 August 1944, in the South African town of Boksburg, Gauteng (then Transvaal).[i] van Onselen has become one of the most widely respected South…
EventPolitical activist Molly Blackburn is born
… political career by winning the Provincial Council seat of Walmer, Port Elizabeth, for the Progressive Federal Party … A year later she became involved in…
EventPresident Vorster challenges Dr Rhoodie
… money had been misused. He denied that he was informed of the secret funding of The Citizen and rejected as contemptible Dr. Eschel … statement from his…
EventA Whites-only referendum in SWA gives a support on Black majority.
… for plans for Black majority rule in the country. Out of the total White population of 99,000, fifty-two thousand of them voted yes on the Turnhalle draft…
EventFourteen are killed in Phola Park violence
… her husbands death, following a night attack by residents of nearby Zulu hostel. She grieved for 10 minuites then fled … Freedom Party support bases. In…
EventANC Constitutional proposals are disclosed
… After a three day meeting of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the African National Congress (ANC), the meeting adopted a new strategic policy, which…
EventHarms releases his report
… its report on its investigations in the activities of South African Defence Force Army and South African Police … headed the commission. Ironically enough,…
EventThe Pope arrives in Lesotho
… The Pope arrives in Lesotho Pope John Paul , leader of the Catholic Church arrives in Lesotho amidst a hijacking … revealed Lesotho's dependence on South…
EventWorld Aids Day
… Following the January 1988 meeting of Health Ministers in London, a decision was taken that 1 … that, unlike other pandemics like malaria, the spread of…
EventHome Affairs Minister Mapisa
… The meetings, expected to continue until the end of the week, also concerned improving cooperation between the … reports that people with al-Qaeda links were…