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EventBotha announces third naval base
… P.W. Botha, the then Minister of Defence, announced the establishment of a third South African Naval Base to be located at Saldana Bay, about 128 kilometres…
PlaceThe Space
… Photographer, was hired to take rehearsal photos of Athol Fugard , Yvonne Bryceland , Val Donal and Wilson … Commercial Arts venue to operate during the…
David Goldblatt, TJ, 1948-2010 - review by Claire Guillot, 25 January 2011
… One morning, in the middle-class suburb of Johannesburg where he lives, David Goldblatt found his … guard at the entrance make no difference. Since the end…
David Goldblatt: Intersections; Asbestos; Particulars by Sue Williamson, 1 - 25 October 2003
… to impose a working structure on a proposed new series of images which would take the photographer right across the … Goldblatt bought a Global Positioning…
5th Jozi Book Fair
… children, youth, activists and the public! The theme of the Fair is ‘Reading the word and the world: the role of libraries’ and we will have a Conference on…
PlaceMadikwa Game Reserve, North West
… Many of the Farms described by writer Herman Charles Bosman in his … to imagine a leopard joining your siesta in the shade of a Withaak on the slopes of…
EventFatima Meer, South African anti-Apartheid activist is born
… Durban on the 12th August 1928. She was the daughter of Moosa Meer who was the editor and publisher of Indian Views a weekly publication aimed at the…
EventSouth African poet, writer and political activist, Mafika Pascal Gwala is born in Durban.
… Pascal Gwala was born on 5 October 1946 in Verulam, north of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal. He is the second child of five children of his parents. He matriculated…
EventThe Berlin Airlift comes to an end
… The Berlin Airlift provided tons of supplies to war ravaged Berlin. Under the aid program … western Germany. The Soviets hoped to force the Allies out of…
EventTrojan Horse Massacre Memorial unveiled
… Horse Memorial was unveiled in Athlone as a remembrance of the three victims who were killed by the security police … to quell social unrest and protests in…
Entering Namibia without visas
… the territory comes under the direct responsibility of the United Nations. Until then, there was no question of anyone entering the territory without a…
PlaceRailway Station and Post Office, Point Road, Durban
… This building was erected in 1900 as part of a general upgrade by the Natal Railways. It replaced an … on 7 March 1986. The Point Railway Station, one of…
PlaceSastri College, 1 Winterton Walk, Durban
… V.S. Srinivasa Sastri , who was appointed as Agent of the Indian Government , to South Africa in 1927. Designed … by the Architect Hermann Kallenbach , a…
PlaceBaxter Theatre, Rondebosch- Cape Town
… to the late Dr. W Duncan Baxter’s bequest for the purpose of building and establishing a theatre. Dr. Baxter made a generous donation to the University of…
PlaceThe Owl House
… Martins , an outsider or self-taught Artist and Owner of Owl House, turned her parents’ House and the yard into a … passed. Martins created the Owl House…
PlaceLowveld National Botanical Gardens
… The character of the Garden is shaped by the two main rivers that cut … Province. The Garden plays a critical role in conservation of rare and endangered…
PlaceIziko Museum's, Cape Town
… word meaning “hearth.” A hearth is the traditional centre of the home where families would get together to share their stories, just as Iziko is sharing the…
Nelson Mandela Correspondence with family
… Island prisoners settled down to the mindless timetable of imprisonment, filling hours with manual labour which … routine repeated itself in the endless…
PlaceAnton van Wouw House, Museum- Pretoria
… for the famous sculptor Anton van Wouw and is an example of Norman Eaton’s romantic, organic designs. The thatch roof … shade for the windows, the face brick…
PlaceGrey Street now Yusuf Dadoo Street, Durban-City Centre
… people are aware that Durban has the largest concentration of Indian people outside of India! Originally brought in during the 1860’s by the … started their…
Document 13 - Sarah Mokone [Victor Wessels] “The T.A.R.C.”, Majority Rule : Some Notes. Chapter XIX
… an ad hoc Committee. The Anti-CAD and the Local Committee of the NEUM, opposed in principle to ad hoc committees and ad hoc campaigns which highlighted one…
Pro Veritate
… a Christian monthly journal, reflects a theological point of view towards the ideologies of the ruling National Party. Christian viewpoints on such issues as…
PlaceGeorge Division
… The district of George was originally part of the district of Swellendam, and was proclaimed a separate district on 23 …
PlaceOld Railway Station Museum, Uitenhage
… fretted timber details. Built on Market Street in the year of the opening of the railway from Port Elizabeth, it is reputed to be one of the oldest Railway…
EventWW2: British 8th army marches into Tripoli
… Libyan capital in this World War Two battle. This was part of a series of battles that initially started with the Italian occupation of Ethiopia. This thrust…
EventResolute Treurnicht rejects waiving language policy
… Despite the indications of African unrest at Soweto schools being noticed by … authorities on 4 June, who reported it to the Minister of Bantu Administration…
EventCOSATU headquarters Johannesburg is sabotaged
… Since its formation in 1985, Congress of South African Trade Union (COSATU) was viewed as a threat … and arrests by the government agents. In the early hours…
PlaceCape Maclear, Malawi
… Cape Maclear or Chembe is a town in the Mangochi District of Malawi's Southern Region. The town, situated on the Nankumba Peninsula, is on the southern shore…
Dawn
… The official policy of the African National Congress was one of non-violence. However, after fifty years of non-violent struggle, Umkhonto we Sizwe (meaning…
PlaceRavenswood House, Hatfield Street, Gardens
… Ravenswood House is the only known example in Cape Town of the late classical Georgian Architectural Style of the beginning of the 19th Century. This Double…