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Matthews being used to turn SABC into a laughing stock: ANC (TMG Digital), 28 June 2016
… and described as “opportunistic” the public announcement of his resignation as acting group CEO on Monday. Editors … SABC Matthews had declared his decision…
ArchiveFrom conscience politics to the battlefield
… and took its active opposition beyond the boundaries of parliamentary politics . Members of the Natal Division played a leading role in this shift. The party…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.10 No.3 1992
… Laat Losbars, Stephen Samuels. Essays: The Politics of Feminism in South Africa, Desiree Lewis; Robben Island … Now': Filling the Void, Danny Schechter; The…
PlaceKoeberg Nuclear Power Station, Cape Town
… Construction of Koeberg began in 1976 and Unit 1 was synchronized to the … 25 July 1985. It is situated at Duynefontein, 27km North of Cape Town on the…
PlaceTown Hall, 25 Market Street, Uitenhage
… the 1820’s there was a strong move locally for the Capital of the Colony to be situated in Uitenhage. When the Town Hall … rose again. The huge Wild Fig Tree…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Zoutpansberg
… The Nederduits Gereformeerde congregation of Zoutpansberg was established at Renosterpoort, by S … lived to be 91 years old. The photos portray what the area…
PlaceIrish House, Polokwane Museum
… Right in the centre of the city of Polokwane is Irish House, a Victorian building that was … and upon his release he found the building in a state of…
PlaceThe Wilds Park, Houghton Estate, Johannesburg
… In 1925 the Township owners of Houghton Estate, the Johannesburg Consolidated Investment Company Ltd. Donated the original portion of The Wilds to the…
EventThe SA author and journalist, Herman Charles Bosman, shoots and kills his stepbrother David Russell during a quarrel
… He was educated at Jeppe High School and the University of the Witwatersrand (WITS), and later appointed to a teaching post in the Marico district of the…
EventNomsa Mapongwana is assassinated
… Thirty-four year old Nomsa Mapongwana, wife of chairperson Michael Mapongwana of the United Democratic Front (UDF) affiliated Western Cape … West. Mapongwana…
EventButhelezi snubs ANC and homeland leaders
… (ANC) and other five homeland leaders to discuss ways of ending the violence. It was essential for Buthelezi to attend such a meeting since members of both…
EventMigrant workers ransack Phola Park
… In the middle of the night, a group of migrant workers aligned with the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) ransacked the Phola Park squatter camp of East Rand…
EventNamibia gains Independence
… under the South African administration by the League of Nations after the First World War. When the United Nations … Prime Minister, General Smuts argued for…
EventBlast opposite the Athlone Magistrate’s Court and police complex kills two people
… Court and police complex, which took the lives of two African National Congress (ANC) activists. Two … the underground cell Williams and Waterwitch were…
EventAlleged Mk members are killed
… received about a planned infiltration, via Botswana, of a group of six heavily armed MK guerrillas. When the minibus carrying … to meet the group at the…
EventThe first rugby match that is played in SA
… On 23 August 1862, the first rugby match heralded the start of what would become a hugely popular sport among White … place in Green Point, Cape Town between…
EventMore than 400 miners killed in what was the worst mining disaster in South Africa
… In the worst mine disaster in South Africa, a large section of the Clydesdale Colliery, at the Coalbrook mine near … gas and crushed to death by rockfall. No…
EventBophuthatswana is granted independence by the South African government
… with other homelands, was incorporated to form part of South Africa’s nine provinces. It is now part of the North West Province. Other parts of the homeland…
PlaceDurban Natural Science Museum
… on Biodiversity Conservation, and Ecology. The mission of the Durban Natural Science Museum is to acquire and … its history, and life on Earth, both past and…
EventJohn Langalibalele Dube is born
… 11.02.1946) was born at the Inanda Mission station of the American Zulu Mission (AZM) in Natal to James and Elizabeth Dube. His father, James Dube was one of…
PlaceAdelaide, Eastern Cape
… A rural Town some 91 km North of Grahamstown , Eastern Cape . The Area of Adelaide, was first inhabited by Bushmen , estimated about … there and named it…
PlaceAddo Heights, Uitenhage
… than it's vertical profile. Despite its very long length of 18,7 km and a respectable altitude variance of 286 m, it only has 10 bends, corners and curves…
PlaceMaclear/Nqanqarhu
… India.) The route they followed passed a few miles South of Maclear. According to all Historical records they were the first Europeans ever to enter the Area…
EventFormer African Springbok captain, Welile Nkohla dies
… James Nkohla, also known as ‘Bomza’, died at the age of 71 years of age in Livingstone Hospital in Port Elizabeth, after a … 1946. He started playing…
EventFirst Indian workers arrive in South Africa
… grew rapidly in the late 1800s in Natal as a result of very cheap “indentured labour” sourced from India. The first group of Indian workers arrived in Durban…
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.2 No.3 Apr-Jun 1958
… Marais. The Fight is on, Rev. Joost de Blank, Archbishop of Cape Town. The Widow of the Reserves, Phyllis Ntanala. Bethal Case-Book, Ruth … Multi-Racial…
PlaceSt Saviours Church Anglican Church and Cemetery, Bowwood Road, Claremont
… St. Saviours Church is at the Corner of Bowwood and Main Roads in Claremont, Cape Town, South … since 1854 and has immense Historical value. The nucleus of…
EventIndependent African States resolve to impose sanctions against South Africa
… During the Second Conference of Independent African States held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia a … to the Government and companies registered under the laws of the…
EventNelson Mandela is sentenced to five years for “incitement and leaving South Africa illegally”
… behind a call for a national strike and the formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear of the Nation). Mandela founded Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) with … the apartheid…
PlaceBourke's Luck Potholes
… This natural water feature marks the beginning of the Blyde River Canyon . The potholes were named after Tom … to create these formations are the Treur River…