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EventThe Esso Oil Company closes its business in South Africa
… Africa on 31 December 1986. The country was at the height of political conflict and violence that made it hard for most … to remain operational. Esso South…
PlaceGroote Schuur Estate
… just above the land presently occupied by the University of Cape Town, a cage like structure was built in 1897 to … surrounded by colonnades for his lions,…
EventFIFA World Cup is staged in Africa for the first time
… For the first time in the history of the Federation of International Football Association (FIFA), the World Cup … Cup began on 11 June 2010 in South Africa…
PlaceOld Lutheran Church, Kroondal
… The Kroondal congregation was founded by a group of German speaking farmers, artisans and entrepreneurs living in and around the village of Kroondal, on 2…
The Nkosi Albert Luthuli Oral History Competition 2014
… at Misty Hills Country Hotel, Muldersdrift and handing in of all written portfolios and research papers by learners and … oral history project and attendant…
EventNearly 200 People are killed in the Bulhoek massacre in the Eastern Cape
… than 30 minutes between police and Israelites, followers of prophet Enoch Mgijima , more than 180 people were killed. … and their homes demolished. Soon…
PlaceWarden, Thabo Mofutsanyana Municipality
… on the route between: Johannesburg and Durban , just North of Harrismith . It falls under the jurisdiction of the Thabo Mofutsanyana Municipality. However…
PlaceTenterden, 60 Durban Road, Wynberg
… The property was originally part of the Vredenhof Estate which had been allocated to William … a Cape Dutch idiom but it subsequently acquired a number of…
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…
Steve Biko: Gone but not forgotten by Robin Comley and Claire Keeton (Times Live), 12 September 2017
… “ROGERS” RAGAVEN was an arts student at the University of Natal “Non-European” Section and became a close friend of Steve Biko. He was elected president of…
Zweli Mkhize denies Redi Tlhabi’s book allegations, says he hasn’t read it, 18 - September - 2017
… in trying to make the woman who had accused Jacob Zuma of raping her drop the case. In a lengthy statement he offered his version of events, saying he had in…
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…
PlaceCape St Francis, Eastern Cape Peninsula
… is a village on a headland on the Eastern Cape coast of South Africa, in the Kouga Local Municipality. The quiet fishing settlement of Oyster Bay lies some…
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…
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 …
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…
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…