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PlaceRheingold Building, Market Street, Polokwane
… was erected in about 1910 by H Moschke to house a number of commercial concerns. It is richly decorated with a number of Victorian architectural details and…
EventWilliam Duncan Baxter, SA businessman, politician and financier is born in Dundee, Scotland.
… Theatre, a performing arts complex was named in honour of him, because of the amount of money he had contributed to the University of Cape Town … D.J. et al…
EventItalian Troops raid Addis Ababa
… troops commence with raids into Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia. After the capture of Addis Ababa by the Italian troops, Benito Mussolini, the Fascist…
EventPiet Retief is baptized in Drakenstein, Western Cape
… Piet Retief was one of the leaders of the Great Trek that introduced Afrikaner settlement to the … Journal bitterly complaining about the abolishing of…
ArchiveCircular from Neville Curtis, President, NUSAS, to SRC Presidents and others
… General circular from the President of the National Union of South African Students containing the text of the Commission appointed by the South African…
ArchiveNotes on the migrant labour system in Lesotho
… Lesotho is a perfect example of a complete labour reserve economy. Five out of six citizens of Lesotho held jobs in South Africa, 45% of adults were …
EventDurban Declaration is published denouncing Thabo Mbeki’s AIDS denialism
… Mbeki asserted the view that HIV was not the sole cause of AIDS and this viewpoint affected the South African … Mbeki espoused the view that AIDS was linked…
EventCassper Nyovest, the South African Hip Hop artist is born
… Province on 16 December 1990.[1] Cassper Nyovest is one of the most prominent figures in SouthAfrican hip hop. … “Most Gifted Southern Artist”, and “Most…
PlaceGroote Schuur High School
… Frank Joubert Art and Design Centre in the leafy suburb of Newlands. The school started with 37 pupils. Over the … years, pupil numbers have increased and…
PlaceMagwa Waterfall, Lusikisiki-Port St. Johns
… The Magwa Waterfall lies in the middle of the 1 800 hectare Magwa tea plantation , South Africa's … "The Magwa Waterfall is pretty impressive!" It is one…
PlaceOnderstepoort Veterinary Research Institute
… The building was designed by the Department of Public Works and was completed in 1908 as the centre for … on the farm site, at 'De Onderstepoort', 11km North…
PlaceWorkers’ Museum, Johannesburg
… The excellent Portrayal of Life as a Migrant Worker, found at the Worker’s Museum in … balanced presentation without sensationalising any aspect of this…
EventPresident P. W. Botha offers Nelson Mandela conditional release from prison
… State President P. W. Botha offers Nelson Mandela , leader of the banned African National Congress (ANC), conditional … prison sentence he had been serving…
EventSomerset concludes a treaty with Ngqika (aka Gaika)
… defeated, had opposed Gaika's claim to the chieftainship of the Rarabe clans of the Xhosa. After Ndlambe and Nxele Makana slaughtered hundreds of Ngqika's…
EventThe Slagtersnek rebels are tried in the Uithenhage landdros court
… Frederik Bezuidenhout owned a farm east of the Cape Colony. After reports surfaced that he was allegedly mistreating one of his Khoikhoi laborers, he was…
EventFormer Vaal policeman Gerhardus Peens admits his role in the Boipatong Massacre
… that he was in the Vaal Triangle (now Gauteng) township of Boipatong on 17 June 1992 when several people were killed … the Boipatong massacre . An estimated…
EventWinston Churchill, is captured by Boer forces during the Anglo-Boer War
… and developed a keen interest in war correspondence. Some of his early literary works were reports on various military … The Morning Post, in which he was to…
EventYoussou N’Dour, Senegalese singer, is born.
… Youssou N'Dour was born in Dakar, West of Senegal. He was a member of Star Band, Senegal’s most famous band. He left the band to … Simon, Sting and Tracy…
PlaceWorld War Cenotaph
… The Cenotaph on Du Toitspan Road, is a Memorial to 400 of Kimberley’s Men who died in the Great War (World War I) … William Timlin, it was unveiled by four…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.10 No.1 1992
… Contents and Contributors comment-AW Oliphant, Fragments of a dream by Zachoriah Rapola, The House of Raydon by Patrick Sekhula, Independence by EM Macphail,…
PlaceSao Bento Shipwreck, Coffee Bay
… carrack, Sao Bento. A carrack is a sailing sailing ship of the 14th–17th centuries that was usually built with three … lateen sail. This vessel grounded in…
PlaceGreat Brak Rivier
… The village of Great Brak Rivier was founded by Charles Searle, an … in 1859. They landed at Mossel Bay following a sea voyage of 68 days. After a few months…
PlaceFort Schanskop
… After the Jameson Raid in 1896, Pres Paul Kruger of the “Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek” decided to protect … forts were to be built initially, but due to a…
The Lusaka Years: The ANC in Exile in Zambia, 1963 to 1994
… by participant observation, provides a vivid account of this crucial era in southern African history. It seeks to understand the sociology of the ANC in…
2. Moothen pleads for his wife to be returned
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … Moothen had the following letter written to the Protector of…
PlaceOttery
… was probably established in 1904 as a residential suburb of Cape Town. The railway line from Maitland reached Ottery … line, which connects central Cape Town…
EventSeretse Khama is asked to renounce chieftaincy
… Seretse Khama was the chief of the Bama-Ngwato tribe, Bechuanaland (now Botswana). … in September 1948, in England, without the permission of the tribal…
PlaceSun Valley Estates, Ladysmith
… farms owned by Whites. The land initially formed part of the Berlin Mission’s land holdings. In 1924 this fragment of land was sold. The people, who occupied…
PlaceGallery 101
… art. The original location was next to the Head Office of the Progressive Federal Party in the Rand Centre in the … In May 1964 the gallery curated a show…
ArchiveZuma's rape accuser questioned (BBC News), 07 March 2006
… accusing South African ex-Deputy President Jacob Zuma of rape is being cross-examined in court. The judge has … about the complainant's personal history…