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… 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 'Cabo das Agulhas' was given. The Agulhas Bank extends for 250km at a depth of only 60m, and then plunges to 1800 m, a depth it maintains …

… Johannesburg. Bill helped start FUBA (Federated Union of Black Artists), FUNDA (means ‘Learn’ in Xhosa), and the … people in Alex! Vivienne Abrahams-Aliveriotis, the founder of 'Art with Africa", plans to start working with the … talents. She will be helped by Gwen Rabothata, the manager of the Alexsan Kopano Resource Centre. Art with the Art …

… The group’s acting CEO is gone and one of its most popular DJs has just said bye Felicia. But what … would be the SABC. The group’s acting CEO is gone, and one of its most popular DJs has just said bye Felicia. But what … at the SABC is wrong, and I can no longer be a part of it,” Matthews said, in a resignation letter addressed to …

… 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 August 1735. Jacobsz was a sailor from … for the Dutch East India Company. He had been accused of sodomy in Batavia in 1713 at the age of eighteen. Due to …

… was built in 1906 for Sir Charles Llewellyn Andersson, son of the famous explorer Carl Andersson. Andersson had amassed … The mansion was towered and turreted in a romantic mixture of medievalism and Queen Anne Style. The Llewellyn Andersons … the windows too small for the heat and bright light of Africa.   Dolobran is a two-storey building with many …

… 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 the Western side of Railway Street, opposite the Belgrave Hotel. Once the … passenger traffic increased considerably. In the course of 1896 more space for the necessary administrative work in …

… 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 scourge of HIV and AIDS. You understand that it is in your hands to … poverty and deprivation. It is in your hands to make of our world a better one for all, especially the poor, …

… 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 mobilisation of township youths to stand against apartheid. Jerry … alleged that Winnie Mandela initiated the torture of Seipei, who was sjamboked and bounced on the floor by …

… 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 of renowned writer C. Louis Leipoldt ) arrived in the Cape in … arrived from nearby farms. The Village today consists of an old thatched Church, a store, and terraces of neat …

… 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 Africa,with an area of 53 546 sq km, which includes the Gemsbok National Park, … inhabitants. Gordonia is arid, with a scanty rainfall of 102 to 152 mm, and a hot Summer climate. Population …

… 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, the appointment of Wako had serious political implications for him, and his … had openly criticised the Sudanese government's policies of Islamacisation and Arabisation, which sought to transform …

… Cape government officials, traditional leaders and friends of the Khomani San. Traditional leaders at the funeral were … by governments' intervention. Paul Swartbooi, a member of the Bondelswarts tribe and cultural activist, said government intervened by taking over the arrangements of the funeral. Nevertheless, Swartbooi said the funeral was …

… 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 frequency reuse they could increase the traffic capacity of mobile phones substantially. However, at that time, the …

… 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 convicted of adultery by a village court for having a child more than …   Alfadi (2011) Women under Sharia Law – The Dilemma of “Wife Beating Protocol” from The Quran dilemma 5 July 2011 …

… 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" to the Bolshevik Party (the … Jewish Trade unionism in the Mother City at the turn of the 20 th century and Uncovers the struggles and …

… A number of interrelated factors led to the Second Anglo-Boer War. These include the conflicting political ideologies of imperialism and republicanism, the discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand, tension between political …

… 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 Party of South Africa (CPSA), which was active in distributing … J.N. Singh and M.J. Vania. Police also arrested members of the District Committee of the Communist Party in …

… 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 of Music in London, where she obtained a Performer's Diploma. … went on to sing in TannhÁƒÂƒÂ¤user (Wagner), The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart), and other works at the Coblenz Opera, in …

… nationalist organisation in Bloemfontein, under leadership of Colonel J.C.C. Laas. The OB was evidence of the surging Afrikaner Nationalism in the centenary year of the Great trek (1938) and the reaction against the … Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds) (1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 8, p. 395-6.|Wallis, …

… This is a dramatic Mountainous Desert in the Northern Cape of South Africa. Constitutes a Cultural Landscape Communally … property sustains the semi-nomadic pastoral livelihood of the Nama people , reflecting seasonal patterns that may … (bases used by the herders as they move with their herds of sheep and cattle on a seasonal basis) and Nama, rush mat …

… act together. The lesson was taught by the Durban strikes of 1973; they began a process which shifted power to working … apartheid. First, the strikes triggered the formation of unions which fought long battles with a few employers to … win the right to negotiate. These unions became the core of the Federation of SA Trade Unions (Fosatu) which combined …

… its pioneering approach to human rights - is the symbol of a remarkable negotiated transition, one that turned a … democracy. The Constitution is based on the principle of separation of powers and articulates the values on which the new South …

… was available to those who suffered damage as a result of oil spills, and to standardize international legislation regarding questions of liability. Oil spills have been a serious environmental … in South Africa in the past, most notably along the Cape of Good Hope, as it is situated on one of the world's major …

… Dorkay House, a building at the south end of Eloff Street in downtown Johannesburg, functioned as the headquarters for the Union of South African Artists, which was formed in 1952 by a group of Black artists with the help of Ian Bernhardt. The Union …

… The office of a member of Prime Minister P.W. Botha's team, responsible for drawing up plans for a Southern African Constellation of States, Professor Jan Lombard, was destroyed at the … 'The opening of the national party natal Congress Durban' ,[online],Available at www.nelsonmandela.org …

… George Harrison and the history of Johannesburg are closely bound together: it was he who … On view are two original shafts and sweeping views of the city.  The park was created and named to commemorate the official discovery of the gold-rich Main Reef pebble conglomerate by itinerant …

… Sir Herbert Baker church is near the South West corner of Boksburg lake. Replacing an earlier wood and iron … Street is still in use today by the Anglican church of Boksburg. The Building is widely refered to as one of Sir Herbert Bakers' finest Parish Churches. The stone …

… stones were laid during the South African War by members of the Wiltshire Regiment who were then Stationed at Naval Hill. An Area of 28 x 30 metres of land with the White Horse Stone thereon. It was declared a …

… A stay-away by Black workers in the industrial areas of the Witwatersrand and the Vaal Triangle is called by Black … in rent and utility charges and over the unlawful arrests of Black leaders. The Association of Chambers of Commerce estimates that 75 to 100 percent …

… A Defence Amendment Bill provides for an alternative form of national service for conscientious objectors who oppose … to objectors motivated by political values. The number of conscientious objectors to conscription rose steadily … South African invasions into Angola that cost the lives of many South African soldiers and as internal political …