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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…
A Future Free of Exploitation - Address to the First Congress of MPLA by O. R. Tambo, Luanda, December 1977
… We feel genuinely proud that we are active participants in the making of African history here in Angola at this time. The heroic anti-colonial struggles of ……
Address of the President of the South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the 38th Commonwealth Parliamentary Association - Africa Region Conference (CPA), Cape Town 27 July 2007
… If a question was put to all of us gathered here in Cape Town under the umbrella of the Commonwealth … Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) has…
Statement at the 2053rd meeting of the Security Council by Mfanafuthi Johnstone (Johnny) Makatini, 9 December 1977
… Mr. President, it gives me great pleasure to extend to you, in the name of the African National Congress, the warmest … singularly happy that you, a tested…
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…
PlaceOppenheimer Gardens, Kimberley
… that constitute part of this heritage, contributing to it in an important way. It depicts five life-sized miners … weight of the sieve. This is a working…
PlaceKoeberg Nuclear Power Station, Cape Town
… Construction of Koeberg began in 1976 and Unit 1 was synchronized to the grid on 4 April … to the Western Cape, one of the fastest growing regions in South…
PlaceNZASM Goods Office, Railway Street, Pretoria
… by the Netherlands-South Africa Railway Co, probably in 1896, and is the largest and best remaining example of the Company's architecture in Pretoria. It was…
PlaceEmoyeni, Parktown, Johannesburg
… Emoyeni, the ‘Place in the Air’ in Nguni, is located on the highest point, of the highest ridge in Parktown, keeping its original name through the decades. …
EventNuclear Test Ban Treaty signed
… Treaty, which prohibited the testing of nuclear weapons in outer space, underwater, or in the atmosphere. The treaty was hailed as an important … the Soviet…
Event”Ghetto Act” or The Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act No 28 of 1946 is passed
… Act" was designed to curtail Indian property ownership in White areas in Natal. Natal was divided into controlled and uncontrolled … areas. The controlled…
EventThe “Ossewabrandwag” is founded
… was founded as an Afrikaans nationalist organisation in Bloemfontein, under leadership of Colonel J.C.C. Laas. The OB was evidence of the surging Afrikaner…
EventDr. Connie Mulder is acquitted and discharged on charges of contempt
… Mulder was an Afrikaans professor who became a politician. In 1958, he became a member of the National Party (NP) and … of South Africa following B.J…
EventAn ANC car bomb directed at the headquarters of the Wits Command, Johannesburg, kills one person and injures 68
… the headquarters of Witwatersrand Command army base in Quartz Street, Johannesburg. The attack was executed by … National Congress (ANC). Grosskopf had…
PlaceWupperthal Mission Station, Clanwilliam
… Wuppertal is a most attractive oasis in a very rugged wilderness, 72 km southeast of Clanwilliam … . The name ``Wuppertal" derives from the Wupper River in…
PlaceFairview Wine and Cheese Estate, near Paarl
… the young Charles Back I, landed on these shores in 1902. With a strong work ethic and passion for wine, he … a booming wine export business. After starting…
Speech by Oliver Tambo on behalf of the Liberation Movements, at the twenty-third session of the assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organisation of African Unity, 27 July 1987, Addis Ababa
… Mariam for his warm words of welcome. We are happy to be in Addis Ababa once again, attending this premier event in the African political calendar, the OAU…
ArchiveMemories of Trafalgar High, District Six by Warren Ludski
… my life and shaped my future – Trafalgar High School in cobbled Burchington Street near de Waal Drive, and the … I attended Trafalgar High from 1962 until I…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on receiving the freedom of the city of Bloemfontein 16 May 1997
… been very different without events that have taken place in Bloemfontein. Bloemfontein is an important part of the … you are honouring this achievement of…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the official opening of the Bram Fischer library at the legal resources centre Johannesburg, 27 September 1996
… up with the law, and yet who died a convicted prisoner. In a letter to the magistrate Bram Fischer explained why he … any punishment I may incur. I can no…
ANC National Conference, 13 July 1991
… 1991, 2,244 delegates representing 760,000 members met in the 48th National Conference of the African National … by the presence of 450 foreign guests from…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on South African Raid on Matola, 05 February 1981
… troops attacked and killed a number of ANC refugees in Matola, Mozambique. The following is from an address by … Tambo to thousands of members and supporters…
EventWayne Ferreira was born on this day
… Wayne Richard Ferreira was born on 15 September 1971 in Johannesburg.[i] Wayne Ferreira and his tennis partner, Pietie Norval won a silver medal in the men’s…
PlaceAgtersrivier and Kou Bokkeveld Pass , Western Cape
… River rising in the Koue Bokkeveld Mountains, (meaning Cold Buck Shrub … 15 km South of Citrusdal. The name of the river in Afrikaans and means ' the…
PlaceDitsong National Museum of Military History, Johannesburg
… the many conflicts that South Africa has been involved in through the centuries including the Anglo-Boer Wars, the Anglo-Zulu War, World War I and II, the…