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PlaceJutten Island, Saldanha Bay
… On April 3, 1702, she hit reefs on the Southwest point of Jutten Island and within hours was smashed to pieces. Only 99 of the 200 people aboard the…
EventFormer ANC President, Oliver ‘OR’ Tambo, is born
… Cape). During the 1940s, he enrolled at the University of Fort Hare where he became active in politics. Tambo was … student boycott at Fort Hare, calling for…
EventSolomon Kalushi Mahlangu is born
… Solomon Kalushi Mahlangu, a soldier of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC), who was executed by … Central Prison,…
EventMartin Luther King is arrested for his role in a bus boycott
… and spends six months in prison. King is recognised as one of the greatest human rights leaders of all time. His moving speech, "I have a dream", spoke to…
Artist Bill Ainslie is born
… Stewart (Bill) Ainslie, South African artist and founder of several art training projects, was born in Bedford, Eastern Cape as a descendent of an early…
EventLuthuli Combat Detachment crosses the Zambezi
… The 'Luthuli Detachment', made up of units of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) operatives, and the Zimbabwean … crossed the Zambezi River from the Zambian banks of the…
EventThe UN ends SA mandate over South West Africa
… acrimony. On 18 July 1966 the International Court of Justice ruled in a split vote that they had no power to … (Britain, France and Malawi) to terminate the…
EventTrevor Manuel unveils GEAR
… In a long-anticipated move the recently appointed Minister of Finance, Trevor Manuel announced the government's … to tighter fiscal policy and the steady…
EventKenyan mediates in SA election deadlock
… on his subjects to take part in the election. The details of the meeting were not made public. Independent Electoral … broken the election deadlock, side…
EventAnglo-Boer War 2. The British Colonial Office appoints a Ladies Commission to investigate the concentration camps in South Africa.
… and overcrowded. These factors contributed to the spread of disease. There was a shortage of both medical supplies and medical staff. At least 25 000…
David Goldblatt by Jean Dykstra, 11 September 2011
… has documented the everyday, insidious manifestations of apartheid and its aftermath, rather than violent clashes … publications as Life and Look, and he…
PlaceOpera House, Port Elizabeth
… the Doric order, was erected in 1891 under the direction of GW Smith, a prominent Port Elizabeth architect, and was built by the firm of Small & Morgan. It…
PlaceThe Struben Mine Shafts, Kloofendal, Roodepoort
… brothers on 18 September 1884. This sparked off a flood of prospectors to the Witwatersrand, and eventually resulted in the discovery of the Main gold reef…
EventFormer Kenyan President, Jomo Kenyatta, dies
… on 20 October 1891 and grew up in Ichaweri, southwest of Mount Kenya. Kenyatta ran away from home to become a pupil at the Church of Scotland Mission, where…
ArchiveInvestigating womens participation in protes
… A dissertation presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts (Political Management) at the University of …
EventDadoo and Naicker are charged
… Naicker were charged with contravening Section 20 (r) of Act No. 22 of 1913, the Immigrants Regulations Act. They were accused of wrongfully and unlawfully…
EventZwelakhe Sisulu is arrested
… Zwelakhe Sisulu is arrested Zwelakhe Sisulu, President of the Black Media Workers Association of South Africa (MWASA), and youngest son of Albertina and…
EventThe Bloemfontein Convention is signed
… The Republic of the Orange Free State was established by the signing of the Bloemfontein Convention (also called the Orange River … Clerk (for Britain) and…
Nomzamo Winnie Madikizela-Mandela on Fatima Meer
… time I land at Durban Airport, I am haunted by the memory of Fatima Meer – my dearest friend, sister and adviser whom I … eloquent enough to describe her or…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the ANC’s manifesto launch 24 August 1995
… that I stand before you today. Last year, we, the people of South Africa voted for freedom. We laid a strong … citizens. We turned our backs on the division…
ArchiveThoughts on Winnie Mandela by Enuga Reddy
… wrote an introduction to the book "Fatima Meer: Memories of Struggle," edited by Fatima's daughter Shamim, published … time I land at Durban Airport, I am…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Le Monde, Addis Ababa, 08 June 1983
… [Addis Ababa - "Each time one of us dies, thousands of others say they will have to ensure that the death was not in vain". A few hours after the hanging of…
PlaceOnze Molen, Durbanville
… and continued to function as such until after the turn of the 20th century when its mechanism and top portion were … structure was converted to a horse mill…
The Clanwilliam Arts Project / Lantern Festival 2017
… patnership with The UCT Drama Department, The UCT College of Music and The Michaelis School of Fine Arts and Jazzart Dance Theatre, will be working with…
PlaceRehoboth
… elevated plateau with several hot springs. Khoikhoi name, of Anis, means 'smoke' from the steam seen, at the hot … mornings. In 1870, the Basters, who had…
PlacePhiladelphia
… Not the Philadelphia one attributes to the Eastern parts of North America, this Philadelphia lies but 20 minutes outside of Cape Town, past Durbanville. …
PlaceQuaqua
… Free State (OFS) that had been granted to the followers of a relative of Moshoeshoe . It was only 655 square kilometres big and … in 1980 and more than a…
EventAlbertina Sisulu addresses a major anti-apartheid rally in London.
… abroad, Albertina Sisulu was accompanied by her Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) comrades, Sister Bernard … apartheid government. The apartheid…
EventCastro decides to send troops to Angola to fight South Africa
… The president of Cuba Fidel Castro decides to send Cuban troops to Angola in response to South Africa's invasion of the country. After attaining its…
EventThe Bisho Massacre occurs
… As many as 80,000 protesters gathered outside of Bisho, the capital city of Ciskei, and demanded an end to the military government of Brigadier Joshua Gqozo…