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PlaceOld Post Office, Fleming Street, Port Elizabeth
… as erf 5645, which includes the parking lot at the bottom of Military Road (formerly the Parade ground). It lies … Plans drawn up in 1897 show the original…
EventBarend Strydom kills 8 People in Pretoria
… in the legislative capital. Strydom claimed to be the head of a white supremacist group called the ‘Wit Wolwe’ (White … that the organisation did not exist…
EventThe First Gay Pride March is Held in South Africa
… march was organised by the Gay and Lesbian Organisation of the Witwatersrand (GLOW) and attracted a crowd of about 800 people. Speakers at the event included…
Photography David Goldblatt by Sean Jacobs, 1 September 2009
… Fred Ritchin (associate professor of photography and communications at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and a new media consultant to news and…
EventUmkhonto we Sizwe bombs Church Street, Pretoria
… One of South Africa’s deadliest terror attacks took place in … in 1983, when Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of the African National Congress,…
PlaceSeal Island
… Hout Bay has now become well known as the port of departure for scenic day trips to Seal island or Duiker Island, home to a colony of thousands of Cape Fur…
PlacePlumstead
… Plumstead was developed on the site of an old VOC Military Camp some 13km South of Cape Town and, by 1823, was already a growing Village. The … a Railway…
Document 44 - Letter from Leon Trotsky to T. W. Thibedi, 4 September 1932
… that the material hindrances would be great in this time of deep crisis, Are many negro comrades unemployed in … not correct. It is true that we are only at…
EventZambian president Kenneth Kaunda refuses to take part in UK
… People Union (ZAPU). However, following the assassination of Hebert Chitepo in Lusaka in 1975, ZANU and its military … National Liberation Army (ZANLA) under…
EventMK’s Luthuli Detachment and ZAPU in a joint operation
… in Wankie (now Hwange) Game Reserve, near the border of Zambia and Botswana. The operation became know as the … For the ANC this would achieve the immediate…
EventSouth Africa closes its borders with Lesotho
… off fundamental food and fuel supplies. The relationship of the South African and Lesotho in the 1970s and early 1980s … friction. This was the case…
EventThe South African Air Force is established
… Force was established. This made it the first air force of the Commonwealth, with Lt-Col. Pierre van Ryneveld appointed Director of Air Services. The origin…
ArchiveTransformer les epees en charrues
… White background. Artwork of yellow wheat growing out of a haystack of rifles. Artwork of half the world in blue with Africa and …
PlaceClifton and Camps Bay Beaches, Cape Town
… Hidden from the visibility of the Coastal Road and vicinity of the wind, Clifton is a secluded collection of four Beaches naturally divided by Boulders and…
PlaceOld Post Office, Rissik Street, Johannesburg
… landmarks and the Rissik Street Post Office is one of them. Built in 1897, it’s among the city’s oldest … building oozing character and charm, it boasted a…
ArchiveWe rule you: we condemn you: we exploit you: we judge you: we jail you: we control you: but we carry you
… White and black poster. Artwork of a pyramid of men in command, each layer of men has an opinion. The bottom of the pyramid is a layer …
ArchiveRastafarian womens organisation presents fund raising dance
… Multicoloured poster. Artwork of a map of Africa, with women and children wearing red scarves. Notice of a fund rasing program at The Factory, Chippenham…
Madiba The African Opera
… the African Opera is the biographical opera in the life of Nelson Mandela whose libretto was written by the late … with Orchestration by KutlwanoMasote. The…
EventNigeria gained independence from the United Kingdom
… 1 October 1960. And an Executive Council, made up entirely of Nigerians, was led by a Prime Minister, Alhaji Sir … Tafawa Balewa. Its first government was a…
EventNational Heritage Day celebrates South African cultural diversity
… National Heritage Day is one of the newly created South African public holidays. The day … celebrate their cultural traditions in the wider context of the…
EventWell-known political activist and academic, Dr. Neville Alexander is born
… university degrees in History and German at the University of Cape Town. In 1962 he founded the Yu Chi Chan Club (YCCC) … Dulcie September. The organization…
EventThe Balfour Declaration is accepted
… Lord Arthur Balfour who chaired the drafting Committee of the Declaration. It granted autonomous status to the … status, in no way subordinate one to another…
EventDemocratic Party (DP) indicates its policies and outlines its proposed reforms
… (NP) merged, indicates that it represents a coalition of the policies of the National, United and Progressive parties, and outlines … 8 April 1989 its…
EventDr. Silas Modiri Molema dies in Mafikeng
… politician and historian, died in Mafeking at the age of 74. He was the eldest son of Silas Thelesho Molema, maternal uncle of Chief Montshioa of the…
EventPercy Qoboza, influential anti-Apartheid journalist, dies
… South African anti-apartheid journalist and former editor of The World newspaper, Percy Qoboza, died on his fiftieth … and falling into a coma. Qoboza was…
EventAt an international summit in SA leaders pledge to push for a new global trade deal that will help poor countries
… On 12 of February 2006, the Progressive Governance Network held a summit in Hammanskraal South Africa. The aim of this gathering was to strategize ways in…
EventSA eldest person celebrates her birthday
… and allegedly eldest in the world, Granny Moloko Temo, of Mogodi Village between Dendron and Bochum in Limpopo … from the Limpopo government department and…
EventIan Woodall and Cathy O’Dowd becomethe first official South African team to conquer the Mount Everest
… - Ian Woodall and Cathy O'Dowd, reached the summit of Mount Everest. This was the first official South African … in the world. Their jubilation was dampened…
EventThe Hewat Teacher Training College in Athlone is set alight in solidarity with the UWC students on a boycott
… Athlone was set alight in solidarity with the University of the Western Cape (UWC) students who convened a meeting on 2 August to express solidarity with the…
EventNaledi High School is founded
… at Naledi High School and attempted to arrest the leader of the local branch of the South Africa Students Movement (SASM), Enos Ngutshane. … stoned the…