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EventSlachter’s Nek rebels are hanged
… settlers strongly (and correctly) suspected the British of resenting their presence in the Cape Colony. Following the prosecution of an Afrikaner farmer by…
ANC pays tribute to the late Arthur Goldreich, 26 May 2011
… Arthur Goldreich will go down in history as one of the rare breeds of revolutionaries that changed the course of South African history. Not only did he…
EventNelson Mandela receives a hero’s welcome in New York
… greeted the way New York welcomes its heroes – with mounds of security and miles of tickertape. According to reports, the security for Mandela … police…
PlaceDonkin Heritage Trail, Port Elizabeth
… This group of double-storey semi-detached houses with prominent … and Georgian features was erected shortly after the turn of the 20th Century. It consists…
EventWinnie Mandela is found guilty
… Congress Women League president and Deputy Minister of Arts and Culture, was found guilty on four charges of kidnapping and four of being an accessory after…
EventThe TRC refuses amnesty to Hani’s killers
… The Amnesty Committee of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) refused … to Janusz Walus and Clive Derby-Lewis, the assassins of Chris Hani, leader…
EventScientists find the virus that may cause Aids.
… On 23 April 1984 the discovery of a virus that may cause Acquired Immune deficiency Syndrome … was announced in Washington by the United States of America…
EventThe Government Gazette publishes a Proclamation that dissolved KaNgwane Legislative Assembly
… district, KaNgwane was placed under the direct control of the Department of Cooperation and Development. This was despite the opposition of the great…
EventShaun Pollock makes history in a test match
… 3 000 runs. This milestone was reached on the fifth day of the second and final Test of South Africa’s match against their Indian counterparts in … for a…
EventMazisi Kunene, Zulu poet and ANC activist, is born
… Zulu father. He studied Zulu Literature at the University of Natal and later won a scholarship to further his studies at the School of Oriental and African…
EventChief Mangosuthu Buthelezi meets President Kaizer Matanzima in Tongaat
… Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi of Kwa Zulu met President Kaizer Matanzima of Transkei in Tongaat, north of Durban, where they declared they were opposed to the ……
EventEthiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, is captured by EPRDF rebels
… Democratic Front (EPRDF) captured the capital of Ethiopia,Addis Ababa. The EPRDF was led by the Meles … rebel leader and probably the only candidate capable…
ArchiveFrank Talk
… first published in March 1984, as the official publication of the Natal Region of AZAPO, the Azanian Peoples Organisation, was later … body corporate, but…
PlaceMolenvliet House, Molenvliet Street, Mowbray
… on which this house is situated originally formed part of the farm Coornhoop, which was granted to Thielman Hendricks in 1661. The subdivided piece of land…
Appeal to the British public by Dube
… with the following editorial note: “The Native Land Act of the Union Parliament has created consternation among the Natives”¦ This land is theirs by birth…
EventThe Defence Special Tribunal Act becomes effective
… The Defence Special Tribunal Act, No 81 of 1998, providing for the expeditious adjudication of disputes concerning military institutions and the…
ArchiveLetter from John Daniel, President, to University Principals and others
… Circular letter from John Daniels, President of NUSAS, reporting on the effect of the Commission of Enquiry into Improper Political Interference and the …
PlaceWoodstock
… The Village of Papendorp lay some 2 km East of Cape Town , on the Main Road to Stellenbosch , later to … in 1781-84 , was registered in 1788 as security for…
PlaceGouritsrivier, Near Mossel Bay
… It enters the Indian Ocean on the Southern Coast of Africa and 34 km south-west of Mossel Bay . The exact origin of the name cannot be stated with certainty…
PlaceWonderboom Nature Reserve, Pretoria
… states that the tree grew to its size because the chief of an Indeigneous tribe is buried underneath its roots. The … about 1000 people, or 22 ox wagons with…
EventNapoleon assembles his army near Aboukir, Egypt
… The First Battle of Aboukir was a decisive victory for the French and secured France's occupation of Eqypt. In June 1798 Napoleon's army departed France to…
PlaceThe Durban Centre for Photography
… , at the same time it was also the first public auction of photographic prints ever held in South Africa. This was to … , Rafs Mayet , Moses Khubisa, Jeeva…
Apartheid’s Twisted Dream: David Goldblatt’s South Africa by Joseph Lelyveld, 2 July 2010
… As a matter of crude shorthand, the South African photographer David … as his country’s Walker Evans. Though Evans was one of Goldblatt’s models when he was…
PlaceMowbray
… The village of Mowbray was established in about 1853 on the farm … an area more commonly known as Drie Koppen. This name was of Dutch origin, and was given…
PlaceThree Anchor Bay
… in Table Bay. Its name was first recorded in Dutch records of 1661, and probably refers to a defensive chain which … Three Anchor Bay, easily overlooked by…
PlaceNZASM Station, George Norton Street, Krugersdorp
… richly decorated gable, was completed in 1896 and is one of the last surviving structures of the old Transvaal railway system. It was declared a … began in…
EventAbdul Samad Minty, anti apartheid activist, is born
… Between 1962 and 1995 he was the Honorary Secretary of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement. Minty played an … International Olympic Committee in 1963 for the…
EventSlavery is abolished at the Cape
… in the Colony came a year after the Slavery Abolition Bill of 1833 was passed by the British House of Commons and by the House of Lords. Although the Bill…
EventThe first family at the Cape moves into the fort
… the semi-completed fortress, the Fort de Goede Hoop (Fort of Good Hope). Here their son, Bernert Willemz, was born on 6 … was appointed on a five-year…
EventC. Lindenberg Letty, botanical artist, is born
… in the old Transvaal Province in 1895. She was the eldest of five children. At the outbreak of the South African War in 1899, the family moved to … Estcourt…