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EventMalawi voters take part in the first multiparty election in three decades
… Present day Malawi became the British colony of Nyasaland in 1890, after aggressive diplomatic conflict … is as the country's first president. From the…
PlaceTwo Oceans Aquarium, Cape Town Waterfront
… Two Oceans Aquarium celebrates the unique collection of Marine Life that lives off South Africa's Coasts , where … and Indian Oceans meet. Travelers can get…
Voters may act if ANC fails to uproot patronage by Steven Friedman (BDlive), 10 August 2016
… news, views and analysis The ANC still won double the vote of the next biggest party, the DA, and it is sure to remain … the largest party after the next…
PlaceCape Agulhas, Western Cape
… Cape Agulhas is some 32 km South of Bredarsdorp. The name is Portuguese for 'needle' and is … with no magnetic deviation. Therefore the Portuguese name of …
PlaceBoys High School, Pretoria
… schools in rankings nationally, as well as in all of Africa. Notable alumni includes two Nobel Prize laureates, … Rhodes scholars, several government…
EventProfessional soccer is introduced in SA when the National Football League is founded
… Association (FIFA) officially recognised the White body of the Football Association of South Africa (FASA) as the sole governing body of soccer in South…
EventRobert McBride is arrested in Mozambique
… a high-ranking official in the South African Department of Foreign Affairs, was arrested by the Mozambican police in … was on a fact-finding mission…
PlaceBoksburg, the Witwatersrand
… The Town of Boksburg was founded in 1887 as the Administrative Centre of the East Rand. It is the second oldest Town on the … mining operation. Towards the…
PlaceAliwal South, Alternative Name for Mossel Bay
… to search for a trading route to India, by King John II of Portugal. Without realizing it he had actually rounded the Cape of Good Hope. Dias' excursion…
PlaceKalk Bay, Southern Suburbs- Cape Town
… The Village of Kalk Bay was probably established in the 17th Century as a small community of lime burner's who mined the nearby deposits of limestone. Its…
1. The whole Coolies petition the Durban Corporation for better wages
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … whole Coolies in this Barrack' wrote to the town clerk of…
EventTwo prisoners sentenced to death for sodomy
… were two prisoners on Robben Island who had been accused of ‘mutually perpetrated sodomy’ according to trial records from the Cape Council of Justice in…
Address at 90th brthday celebration, by Nelson Mandela, 25 June 2008, London United Kingdom
… to travel here in our 90th year and be in the presence of so many good friends. Thank you for the continuing support in the fight against the terrible…
PlaceRichtersveld Cultural and Botanical Landscape, Northern Cape
… This is a dramatic Mountainous Desert in the Northern Cape of South Africa. Constitutes a Cultural Landscape Communally … property sustains the semi-nomadic…
PlaceGordonia Division
… Named after Sir Gordon Sprigg, who was Prime Minister of the Cape Colony four times between 1878 and 1902. It was … largest magisterial district in South…
PlaceNZASM Goods Office, Railway Street, Pretoria
… in 1896, and is the largest and best remaining example of the Company's architecture in Pretoria. It was declared a … a result became vandalized. Situated on…
PlaceDolobran, Parktown, Johannesburg
… was built in 1906 for Sir Charles Llewellyn Andersson, son of the famous explorer Carl Andersson. Andersson had amassed … The mansion was towered and…
Khoisan leader given state funeral despite last wishes by SAPA, 1 July 2012
… Cape government officials, traditional leaders and friends of the Khomani San. Traditional leaders at the funeral were … by governments' intervention. Paul…
EventAfrican Mineworkers’ strike starts
… African mineworkers, led by John Beaver (JB) Marks, leader of the African Mineworkers' Union, started on this day. The strike was initiated by the Communist…
EventEvelyn Dalberg, SA opera singer, is born in Germany
… was born on 23 May 1939, in Leipzig, Germany. The daughter of Frederick Dalberg and German Soprano Ellen Winter, Dalberg was trained at the Guildhall School…
EventThe “Ossewabrandwag” is founded
… nationalist organisation in Bloemfontein, under leadership of Colonel J.C.C. Laas. The OB was evidence of the surging Afrikaner Nationalism in the centenary…
EventStompie Seipei’s murderer goes to jail
… Seipei. Stompie Seipei was a child activist and member of the infamous Mandela Football Club established by Winnie Mandela as a front for the political…
EventPope John Paul II appoints 31 cardinals, three from Africa
… Pope John Paul II appointed 31 new cardinals; three of them were from Africa. These were the Nigerian Cardinal … the Sudanese Gabriel Zubeir Wako. However,…
EventThe second Anglo-Boer war, also known as the South African war, breaks out
… A number of interrelated factors led to the Second Anglo-Boer War. These include the conflicting political ideologies of imperialism and republicanism, the…
EventA Pilot Cellular phone project is launched
… The basic concept of cellular phones began in 1947, when researchers began to … researchers realized that by using small cells (range of service area) with…
EventAmina Lawal’s sentence upheld
… 19 August 2002, an Islamic high court in the Katsina state of Nigeria, upheld a sentence of death by stoning for Amina Lawal. The 31 year old woman had been…
Labour Struggles in South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - 1921 by Evangelos A. Mantzaris
… This is a book about forgotten pages of South Africa's rich worker history from 1903 to 1921. It includes socio-historical analysis of the Cape Town 'answer"…
PlaceWupperthal Mission Station, Clanwilliam
… oasis in a very rugged wilderness, 72 km southeast of Clanwilliam and about 250 km from Cape Town . This … von Wurmb and Johan Gottlieb Leipoldt (grandfather…
EventPolice constable is buried alive at Ackerville cemetery near Witbank
… On 31 May, Constable S.H. Mandlazi was attacked by a crowd of people armed with spades at the Ackerville cemetery while he was attending the funeral of a…
ArchivePenal reform and race relations
… delivered by Winifred Hoernle is the fourth in the series of the Hoernle Memorial Lectures. This is the first public statement on the report of the Penal…