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ArchiveSPRO-CAS Occasional Publication Number 9: Law, justice and society
… Report of the Legal Commission of the Study Project on Christianity in Apartheid Society. Content includes: Statement by the Members of the Commission; The…
King Kong a venture in the theatre
… This is the story of an inter-racial venture in South Africa. Many hundreds of white people and Africans in the Union’s four largest cities worked selflessly…
EventFrederick Courteney Selous, traveller, hunter, writer and naturalist dies in Beho-Beho, Tanganyika. He came to Southern Africa
… Frederick Courtney Selous came to South Africa at the age of nineteen in 1871. Inspired by the writings of explorers such as Dr. David Livingstone and…
ArchiveNUSAS - its background and history
… and history. Informal talk delivered at National Seminar of the National Union of South African Students, April 1973. Pages7 to 10 of Appendix to the Report…
PlaceVredefort Dome, Free State Province
… Site in South Africa’s Northern Free State. The Town of Vredefort, lies more or less in the Centre of the Vredefort Dome – the remains of the largest impact…
PlaceBathurst, Eastern Cape
… Bathurst in the Eastern Cape, is one of the smallest but most interesting Municipalities in South … in 1820, this peaceful little Village on the left bank of…
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Introduction
… and Global Trade commissioned by The Department of Education This first volume in the series, Turning Points … two important events that occurred prior to…
PlaceVryburg, Bophirima Region
… Vryburg lies on the N14, due West of the Towns of Klerksdorp and Orkney - as in 'Orkney Snork Nie' (Orkney … the popular Afrikaans toilet humour television…
ArchiveWomen and the Satyagraha Campaign
… passive resistance campaign Before union, at the turn of the century, conditions for Indian families were very … but soon daughters and wives, who had to…
EventKhoikhoi warriors defeat Portuguese thieves
… de Almeida served as the viceroy to the Portuguese State of India from 1505 to 1509. Upon his successor taking over he sailed back to his homeland with a…
PlaceOns Huisie, Bloubergstrand, Cape Town
… The cottage was, for many years, the property of the Stadler family, and is a typical example of the type of vernacular building found on the coastal areas…
EventHendrik Verwoerd becomes Prime Minister
… Frensch Verwoerd assumed office as the Prime Minister of South Africa after the death of J.G. Strijdom. An ardent advocate of Apartheid, Verwoerd firmly…
EventSimon Petros Matseke, prominent in African social and political life, dies in Pretoria
… experience, he learnt to speak Dutch as well as a number of African dialects, which assisted him in his work as a … Matseke became prominent in the social…
EventVan Riebeeck lands at the Cape
… set off from Texel in The Netherlands for the Cape of Good Hope. Van Riebeeck had signed a contract with the … Dutch East India Company (VOC) to oversee the…
EventAn international measure is adopted in Antwerp to block rebel groups from trading conflict diamonds
… The sale of diamonds in some African countries has been linked to the funding of African rebel groups, which have in turn funded some of Africa's most…
EventGeneral Louis Botha wins elections
… South African Party (SAP) won the majority number of seats in the House Assembly forming the first government of the Union of South Africa. The Union was…
PlaceCurry's Post
… Curry’s Post is a beautifully scenic area in the heart of the Midlands Meander that lies between Mooi River and … hole’ during the gold and diamond rushes as…
PlaceCity Hall, Cape Town
… This is a large Edwardian building in the centre of Cape Town city. It was built in 1905, on the Grand parade, West of the Castle of Good Hope. Messrs Henry…
EventLuc Montagnier, virologist who discovered the human immunodeficiency virus, is born
… France. He studied natural sciences at the University of Poitiers and received his license of sciences from the University of Paris in 1955. In 1960 he…
EventRiots erupt in Soweto
… On 27 August 1986 a crowd of more than 500 marched to council offices in Soweto, … and that they had also been setting fire to several homes of local Black…
EventNkosi Sikelel’iAfrica composer, Enoch Sontonga dies
… Enoch Mankayi Sontonga, writer and composer of the National Anthem Nkosi Sikelel' IAfrica (God Bless Africa) died at the age of thirty-two. He wrote Nkosi…
EventFormer Colonial Prime Minister John Merriman dies
… South African statesman and the last prime minister of the Cape Colony before the formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910, John Xavier Merriman, died…
ArchiveANC womens section : South African women march to freedom
… List of womens demands reprinted by the Federation of South African Women as set out in the 1955 Congress of the People. Green, yellow, black and white…
PlaceAlberton, Germiston
… Town 6 km West of Germiston and 11 km South of Johannesburg. It was laid out on the Farm, Elandsfontein … Named after General Hendrick Abraham Alberts,…
PlaceHaarlem
… Sixteen kilometers East of 'Avontuur' and 29 kilometers from Uniondale , a village … City, near Amsterdam in Holland!) The tiny settlements of Haarlem and …
PlaceJansenville, Eastern Cape
… Willem Janssens (1762-1838), the last Batavian Governor of the Cape. Lying North West of the Upper reaches of the Addo Elephant National Park, Jansenville…
PlaceOld Town House, Greenmarket Square, Cape Town.
… As the town of Cape Town grew in size and sophistication, so then its … began to require a meeting place to discuss the affairs of the Burgher Council. Early…
EventDelagoa Bay railway line is officially opened
… railway line was completed a few years after the end of the first South African War (Anglo-Boer War) and the restoration of the Transvaal Republic after it…
Document 5 - “Trade Union Notes”, The Bolshevik, March 1920 (Extract)
… Notes", The Bolshevik, March 1920 (Extract) The action of the Executive of the Mine Workers' Union in calling upon the miners to scab upon the striking…
EventMandela smuggled out the country and appears in Addis Ababa
… in 1962, Nelson Mandela was smuggled across the borders of South Africa. He was granted an Ethiopian passport by … attacks were committed by uMkhonto we…