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Open Call to Artists
… Come for an informal evening and dinner with the community of the farm and the organising team. All questions and … Applications due Thursday January 12th at…
ArticleAbout South African History Online (SAHO)
… SAHO's founder, Omar Badsha , received the National Order of Ikhamanga (Silver) for preserving our country’s heritage … silence on our past and challenge…
PlaceInanda, Phoenix
… is situated 24 km inland from Durban; it now forms part of eThekwini, the Greater Durban Metropolitan Municipality. … Zulu-speaking Black Africans, Inanda is…
PlaceSt George’s Grammar School, 1 Queen Victoria Street, Cape Town
… designed in an Edwardian style, was erected by the Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church to commemorate the arrival of French Huguenot settlers in 1688. Its…
PlaceKroondal, Rustenburg
… Kroondal, situated on a farm, was one of 22 German Lutheran mission congregations established in … existence since 1843, was registered in 1858 in the name…
PlaceBalule Private Game Reserve, Kruger National Park
… In the language of the Shangaan people , the name 'Balule' is the Tsonga word … Reserve covers 40 000 Hectares on the Western Boundary of the Kruger National…
Document 31 - Letter from E.R. Roux to Victor Danchin, 6 March 1929
… single package. I hope you will not create the impression of being"ultra left" as a result. Perhaps you could make some … left here safely. I hope you have…
EventHarry Frederick Oppenheimer is born in Kimberley
… then returned to South Africa and became Managing Director of the Corporation in 1945. During the 1950s he was involved in the expansion of Anglo American's…
ArchiveAPDUSA Bulletin 3: Dont help sellouts to get R40 000 a year
… This pamphlet analysis and illustrates the results of the elections held in 1981, in which the government … movement introduced the Dont Vote Campaign and…
Race attitudes and education
… which was delivered by E G Malherbe, who held the position of Principal of Natal University College at the time. In this lecture, he tries to analyse the…
ArchiveRace attitudes and education
… which was delivered by E G Malherbe, who held the position of Principal of Natal University College at the time. In this lecture, he tries to analyse the…
PlaceGazankulu
… Gazankulu was the homeland of the Shangaan and Tsonga people in South Africa. It was divided over two territories, west of the Kruger National Park, and its…
EventSomaliland is granted independence by British government
… 25 June 1960 marked the end of 73 years of British regime in Somaliland. Fireworks and singing crowds marked the Independence of Somaliland and celebrations…
EventDr. Andries P. Treurnicht is re-elected NP leader in the Transvaal
… Dr. Andries P. Treurnicht, Minister of Public Works, Statistics and Tourism, was unanimously … As the chief spokesman for the conservative wing of the NP, he…
Culture in the New South Africa by Robert Kriger and Abebe Zegeye
… One of the many issues confronting post – apartheid South Africa is that the cultural expression of its citizens was severely limited by the policies of the…
EventUganda gains independence
… Bunyoro and Toro receiving federal status and a degree of autonomy. Buganda, under the leadership of Sir Edward Mutesa, was the most powerful kingdom. Milton…
EventSA beaches are opened to all racial groups
… The decision to open the beaches was made after a number of protest multiracial swim-ins by anti-apartheid activists. He further promised the scrapping of…
EventRuth First is born
… , journalist, academic, political activist and the wife of former South African Communist Party (SACP) leader Joe … started while she was still a student at…
ArchiveCircular from Oliver Schreiner, Deputy Vice-President, NUSAS, to University Principals and others
… General circular from the Deputy Vice-President of the National Union of South African Students. The circular discusses the structure of the National Union…
PlaceConstitution Hill Museum, Johannesburg
… Constitution Hill is a Living Museum that tells the story of South Africa’s journey to democracy. The site is a former … Country’s Constitutional Court,…
PlaceWalter Sisulu National Botanical Garden, Krugersdorp/Roodepoort
… The Walter Sisulu Botanical Garden in Ruimsig , is one of eight botanical gardens in South Africa. It covers almost 300 Hectares of ground with both…
PlaceMilnerton
… The Cape Town suburb of Milnerton was established in 1902 on the site of the old farm: 'Janbiesjeskraal', and was named in honour of Sir Alfred Milner , Cape…
PlaceDistrict Six Museum
… the Museum has also become a space for telling the story of District Six to visitors from near and far. It has been … also offers guided site walks led by…
EventThe second Carnegie Report on poverty in South Africa is released
… the appalling conditions in the rural areas and townships of South Africa. The first Carnegie inquiry into poverty in … years later, most Black South…
PlacePrince Alfred's Guard Museum, Port Elizabeth
… Prospect Road, was formed through the amalgamation of a Military Museum formerly housed in the Donkin Reserve Complex, and the Regimental Museum of the…
PlaceAll Saints Anglican Church, Durbanville
… the old parsonage, as well as a church hall and a garden of remembrance, dates from 1860 and is closely associated with the history and development of…
PlaceLanglaagte Deep Residential Village, Johannesburg
… behalf, was guided from Ferreira’s Camp to the main group of gold reefs by a son of the widow Petronella Oosthuizen, the owner of a farm at Langlaagte, on…
EventANC President Albert Luthuli banned
… In 1954 the Minister of Justice C.R. Swart issued African National Congress (ANC) … and another confined him to the magisterial district of Lower Tugela,…
EventMoses Kotane, the South African Communist Party and African National Congress stalwart dies in Moscow
… suffered since 1968. In 1931 Kotane became active member of the South African Communist Party before it was banned in … membership and became National…
EventBram Fischer is sentenced to life imprisonment
… political activist was arrested in 1964 for being a member of the illegal organisation Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA). He was later released on bail…