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PlaceDitsong Museum of Natural History
… used to be the Transvaal Museum of Natural History, which in turn developed from the 1892 Zuid Afrikaanse Republiek’s … history museum, it is one of the…
EventIconic musician, John Lennon, was shot dead outside his New York apartment
… At approximately 11:00 PM, John Lennon was shot 4 times in the back as he entered his luxury apartment building on … up the driveway when the gunman opened…
PlaceValkenburg Hospital, Observatory
… The Building, originally designed in a Cape Dutch style and is one of the oldest Farmhouses … was built by Cornelis de Waal, who purchases the Property in…
EventMartin Luther King, Junior, is born
… through non-violent methods was born on 15 January 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. Martin Luther shaped and articulated the … rights movement of the 1950s and…
EventJoe Slovo is born
… Congress (ANC) leader and Minister of Housing was born in Lithuania. From 1950s Slovo became a victim of the government repressive legislations. In 1954 he…
Maqubela and Dyandyi are sentenced for necklacing
… Maqubela and Neliswa Nohnuhna Dyantyi Busika, accused in a necklace trial in Stutterheim, Eastern Cape, and found guilty of public violence in July, were…
EventLeendert Janszen, junior merchant of the VOC, recommends settlement at the Cape
… India Company (VOC) was established as a trading company in 1602, with the aim of monopolising trade in East Asia, in particular the spice trade. Company…
EventPrime Minister Verwoerd’s assassin transferred from prison to a mental asylum
… On 30 June 1994, the Minister of Correctional Services in South Africa, Dr Sipho Mzimela, announced that Dimitri … to assassinating Verwoerd, Tsafendas was…
EventThe South African government is to grant self-government to KaNgwane
… Swaziland were not new to conflicting claims about land. In September 1982, the Appeal Court in Bloemfontein ruled that the Presidential Proclamation issued…
PlaceFreshford House Museum, 31 Kellner Street
… middle class of the Edwardian Period that still exists in Bloemfontein. The house was designed and built by the … for himself and his wife, Kate Caroline…
Constitution of the South African Native National Congress, September, 1919 [Extracts]
… 1. WHEREAS there existed in the Provinces of the Union of South Africa several small … of general interest to and affected the whole Bantu people in South…
ArchiveAppendix 8 Sam will never see his favoured son free of the traitor’s brand by Denis Goldberg
… Goldberg is dead. But he lives on. One of the characters in the sell-out play, “Cincinatti”, was based on Sam, who died in Johannesburg this week. Sam was…
Statement by Oliver Tambo accepting the Simon Bolivar award on behalf of Nelson Mandela, 24 July 1983, Caracas, Venezuela
… The time comes in the life of all oppressed peoples that some among them … able to speak to us today, observing the world we live in, he would ask to live…
ArchiveDirector’s Report on the Activities of the Chris Hani Institute for the period October 2012 to September 2015
… The Chris Hani Institute (CHI) was launched in 2003 to promote the values and principles practised by Chris Hani and others in their struggle to serve the…
PlaceAlbertinia, Mossel Bay- The Garden Route
… Village some 50 km West of Mossel Bay. It was laid out in 1900 on the farm Grootfontein and became a Municipality in 1920. The name is derived from the…
ArchiveSome aspects of the South African industrial revolution
… This is the seventh address in the Hoernle Memorial Lecture series deliverd by Dr. H.J. … Van Eck. He describes very clearly the economic conditions in South…
EventThe Queen Mother of Lesotho, Mamohato Bereng Seeiso dies.
… The Queen Mother Mamohato Bereng Seeiso was born in 1941. She was the youngest child of Chief Lerotholi … sent to study at Bath Training College of Home…
EventPik Botha is born
… Roelof Frederik "Pik" Botha , Minister of Foreign Affairs in the government of President F.W. de Klerk was born in Rustenburg, Transvaal (now North West…
EventPaul Kibii Tergat Kenyan professional long distance runner is born
… Paul Kibii Tergat was born in the Rif valley Province in Kenya. Unlike many athletes, Tergat only began running after he completed high school. Early in his…
EventThe South African War field doctor, Arthur Conan Doyle is born
… The author of Sherlock Holmes and field doctor in the South African War of 1899-1902, Arthur Conan Doyle, was born at Picardy Place, Edinburgh in 1859. The…
PlaceLinden, Johannesburg
… Nestled in the foothills of Northcliff Hill, Linden is one of the … Linden is named after the Linden farm, which stood in this part of Johannesburg over a…
PlaceSteenberg Farmstead, Tokai Road, Constantia
… known as the Zwaanswyk, was granted to Catherina Ustings in 1688 and was one of the first farms in the Western Cape. Its Cape Dutch homestead was erected in…
PlaceGqeberha was Port Elizabeth, Nelson Mandela Bay
… name change was approved by the South African government in 2021 and is an Xhosa name, the language of the local … original name for the Baakens River and…
PlaceBritish Kaffraria, now the Border Region
… of captured cattle with them. The British soon followed in pursuit and on 31 March they crossed over the Keiskamma … signed on 17 September 1835 allowed the…
PlaceDurbanville
… Kraal' . On 2 September 1836 it was renamed; "D'Urban" in honour of Sir Benjamin D'Urban, Governor of the Cape. … facilities for kids and parents alike…
Twentieth Anniversary of the United Nations Sanctions Resolution: Statement by Oliver Tambo at the plenary meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, 05 November 1982, New York
… its domination, an aggressor bent on military conquest in southern Africa. In South Africa, as the regime continues its fight for the … of its repressive…
Pravin Gordhan on a leash by Daniel Silke (Politics Web), 16 May 2016
… Gordhan on a leash In political science, students studying the theory are often … party) linkages into business and crony capitalism combine in a toxic mix…
PlaceRooigrond
… 16km of Mafikeng and 25km South-West of Ottoshoop, in the former fomeland of Bophuthatswana, (now the North West … was primarily occupied by smallholders…
34. Further immigration restrictions, 1903
… which are now sought to be imposed by the Bill in question are, in your petitioners' humble opinion, unnecessary. They are: … Officer, or other officers…
Place'Agoada de Saldanha', Saldanha
… Early Portuguese name in 1503, of Table Bay . Meaning 'watering place of Saldanha', it was given in honour of Admiral Antonio da Saldanha who was wounded…