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EventWinkie Direko is born
… Isabella Winkie Direko, former teacher, winner of the Bloemfonteiner of the Year Award in 1993 and Premier of the Free State since 17 June 1999, was born in…
EventParliament addresses Soweto Protests
… Following the onset of the Soweto Uprising the previous day, Parliament met in an Extraordinary Session at the request of the leader of opposition, Colin…
EventArmistice negotiations are concluded during the First Anglo-Boer War
… Paving the way for the end of Anglo-Boer War 1 (Transvaal War of Independence or First Transvaal War), a provisional … armistice was agreed upon by General…
ArchiveUnomsa for African Renaissance by Thobeka Sinxo
… INTRODUCTION. Unomsa, by Guybon Sinxo, is a coming of age story about a gothic heroine, Nomsa Ntobeko, who … Cape to work as a teacher in the Karoo. BODY The…
Esau Mokhethi reburial speech by AZAPO President Cde. Koti Dikobo
… Prof. Masango, Rev. Raboroko and Rev. Vilakazi The family of Comrade Esau Tshehlo Mokhethi, Bataung, the Moeketsi family and all relatives. The Leadership of…
PlaceSouth African State Theatre
… State Theatre was built by Performing Arts department of the Provincial Council of the Transvaal. [i] Botha, Lötter and Partners as well as … to design and…
PlaceRooipoort Nature Reserve, Kimberley
… Situated roughly 70 kilometers West of the town of Kimberley in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa prime plains for game hunting. Rooipoort is a ……
EventThe burghers were victorious in their struggle against Cape Governor Willem Adriaan van der Stel and his officials
… 1707 a young man on horseback raced through the streets of Stellenbosch shouting "Victorie! Victorie!" - a sign that … men were released from their contracts…
EventSharpeville Deputy Mayor killed
… The Deputy Mayor of Sharpeville, Sam Dlamini was hacked to death by a group of youths, and doused in petrol and burned. The riots were in … poor education…
EventPretoria disputes compensation for Gaborone raid
… The government of South Africa disputed compensation claims from the government of Botswana for damages caused by the July 1985 South African Defence Force…
EventCongo Free State becomes the Belgian Congo
… King Leopold II of Belgium handed over the Congo to the Belgian state on this … undertaken to extract rubber and ivory in the Congo region of central Africa…
PlaceEastern Fort/Battery and Blockhouse, Chapman’s Peak, overlooking Hout Bay, Cape Town
… an invading military force. Consequently, towards the end of the 18th century, the area saw the construction of a number of fortifications, first at the foot…
EventChief Kausobson Kausob is killed
… The chief of a group of San that inhabited the area between the Modder, Riet and … beyond the Koedoesberg along the Riet River, southwest of Kimberley,…
PlaceAhrens, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… Railway Siding 16 km west of Greytown, on the route to Kranskop. It was named in honour of Wilhelm Ahrens, Principal from 1880 to 1906 of the School at…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - New Workers, New Unions
… As a result, craft workers were deskilled and many of their jobs fell away. New workers, black and white, took over more and more of the productive work…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Johannesburg
… as the subsequent owner) regarding the use, or purchase of the church near Friedebrug. The congregation found … to the congregation's dire financial…
PlaceMontagu Pass
… Pass in South Africa , and links George with the Village of Herold . Until the building of the Outeniqua Pass it was the main route between Cape Town … Pass…
PlaceSouth African National Archive in Cape Town
… The South African Archive is made up of records pertaining mostly to Governance and Laws Enacted, … now been fully refurbished and restored as the…
PlaceGeneral Smuts House Museum, Doornkloof
… Smuts for over 40 years, Doornkloof in Irene, Southeast of Pretoria, is a unique museum that reveals much about the life and the spirit of this great…
PlacePaardekraal Monument, Market Street, Krugersdorp
… by President Paul Kruger on 16 December 1891. On the 12th of April 1877, Sir Shepstone annexed the ZAR (The South … country in Southern Africa during the…
EventThe New Zealand Mounted Rifles leave Wellington for the South African War
… The first contingent of New Zealand Mounted Rifles (NZMR) departed from Wellington … offered British forces in South Africa a contingent of its mounted…
PlaceOudtshoorn, Western Cape
… The division of Oudtshoorn was originally part of the District of George, and was proclaimed a separate division in about … The division of Oudtshoorn was…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Early Writings
… Anton Muziwakhe Lembede 1. A. M. LEMBEDE, "The Importance of Agriculture," Iso Lomuzi,Vol. IV, no. 1 (October 1934), … is prevalent among my fellow-students…
ArchiveThe world's only privately owned Catholic Church
… KwaZulu-Natal and the Free State border, perched on top of the plateau, is the smallest, most charming-world renowned … church in the world. This tiny church…
PlaceWooden Bridge over Lagoon, Milnerton, Cape Town
… Brett Herron said; a tender for the Restoration of the Historic Bridge was expected to be Completed by the Middle of next Year, if there were no unforeseen…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Buitenkant Street, Cape Town
… rightly remarked that Miss Hertzog was the "mother" of this Church. This lady, after the death of her parents, decided to honor their memory in an … that was…
PlaceZambia
… came four years after the famous speech “The winds of change” by British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. The Country’s taste of independence emerged ten…
PlaceBezuidenhout Valley, Johannesburg
… A Suburb of Johannesburg about 5 km East of City Hall, South of Observatory Ridge and North of Kensington Ridge. Takes its … New Dictionary of South African…
EventThe Harms Commission officially restricts investigations into South African security force
… The terms of reference of the Harms Commission, which was to inquire into alleged murders and unlawful acts of the security forces, were laid out in a…
Event46664 concert is held in Fancourt
… South African 46664 concert, 46664 being the prison number of South African president Nelson Mandela during the apartheid era, was staged at the exclusive…