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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…
EventAfrikaner nationalists rebel against a Union Jack in new South African flag
… to have a Union Jack (the British flag) in the centre of the national flag. The controversy followed the introduction of a bill to provide a national flag…
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…
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…
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…
PlaceCarnarvon District, Karoo
… The district of Carnarvon was proclaimed on 1 January 1880, incorporating within its boundaries portions of the divisions of Fraserburg and Victoria West. It…
EventThe new RSA Constitution Bill is read in parliament
… The Republic of South Africa Constitution Bill received its third reading. Among its provisions were the abolition of the Senate and the creation of a sixty…
ArchiveSATUCCs Social Charter
… Social Charter of Fundamental Rights of Workers in Southern Africa 1992. Outline of origin of Charter. Green, red, black and white poster. …
The Struggle Continues and Grows More Intense - Statement by O. R. Tambo, 23 August 1984
… confrontation with the Botha constitution. Thousands of millions of people around the world, including the Security Council of the United Nations, are…
PlaceAlbasini Dam, Limpopo
… Dam at the foot of the Soutpansberg Mountain Range. Named after Joao Albasini … Settler in the Lowveld and he subsequently became head of the Magwamba Tribe,…
EventDesmond Tutu is appointed TRC chairperson
… Archbishop Mpilo Desmond Tutu, the first Black archbishop of Cape Town rose to fame in the 1980’s. After the1976 Soweto Uprising, Tutu supported an economic…
EventDaisy de Melker is hung for poisoning her two husbands and her son.
… for financial gain. She married three times and killed two of her husbands and her son. All the men she married were … two that she allegedly poisoned, left…
EventCaptured Gen. Cronje and his wife are shipped to St Helena
… General Pieter Arnoldus (Piet) Cronje, commandant-general of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR, also known as … and his wife Hester, with about 1 000…
ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA AT THE SA FREEDOM DAY CELEBRATIONS Upington, 27 April 1997
… Version . See below for English Translation ) Master of Ceremonies; Premier of the Northern Cape; Minister of Arts &Culture, Science &Technology; Mayor of…
ArchiveVerbatim Minutes: Meeting, Cape Town, 7th April 1977
… Minutes of an international meeting with the South African Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Ambassadors of Canada, France, Federal…
ArchiveBlack consciousness and white liberals in South Africa: paradoxical anti-apartheid politics
… in accordance with the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Literature and Philosophy in the subject of History at the University of South Africa. This…
August 9: National Womens Day: 25th Annivers
… from newspaper. Black lettering and illustrations. Notice of August 9th workshop in Durban. Description of origin of Women's Day with two photographs of…
EventFirst World Haemophilia Day
… Day was first celebrated in 1989 to increase awareness of haemophilia and to bring the needs of those affected by the disorder to the attention of the wider…
EventLand beyond the Great Berg River is annexed
… The district of Clanwilliam celebrates its second centenary on 1 February 2008. On 1 February 1808 the territory north of the Great Berg River, at the foot…
EventDigging for gold is officially authorised and fortune hunters flock to the Witwatersrand
… Digging for gold in the Witwatersrand (now city of Johannesburg and surroundings) was authorised in September 1886 and further accelerated the influx of…
Emissaries from Russia
… 1. I have received the response of Mr F. W de Klerk to a memorandum which I addressed to him on the 26th June 1992. I enclosed the statement of the Emergency…
Treasurer General`s PBF Breakfast and Networking, 24 March 2009
… Durban- the Treasurer General of the ANC, Dr Mathews Phosa was the keynote speaker at a PBF … Treasurer General spoke about the Road Ahead and the plans of…
EventGideon Scheepers executed
… and found guilty by a British military court on charges of murder, arson and demolishing of trains. Scheepers admitted during his trial that he had committed…
EventSir John Frederick William Herschel dies
… astronomer Frederick William Herschel, the discoverer of the planet Uranus.From 1816 Herschel began a collaboration … many double stars discovered during his…
Conference: African Indigenous Knowledge Systems
… the following topics: v Towards the Commercialization of Traditional Knowledge and Bio-Diversity based products and … Knowledge Systems Perspective v …
EventLord Charles Somerset arrives in the Cape as Governor
… Lord Charles Somerset was the Governor of the Cape Colony from 1814 to 1826. He arrived in the Cape … and to improve conditions for the inhabitants. He was…
PlaceImizamo Yethu, Hout Bay
… The Township of Imizamo Yethu is situated in the picturesque seaside Suburb of Hout Bay in Cape Town . Hout Bay is like a microcosm of South Africa , with a…
PlacePreller-Rondawels, Pelindaba
… Welgegund was awarded to Swart Martiens Pretorius a nephew of President M.W Pretorius, founder of Pretoria, at the end of the 19th century by the Zuid…