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PlaceAngra das Voltas, Luderitz Bay- Namibia
… Bay. Portuguese for 'bay of tacks', this name was given in 1488 by the Portuguese mariner Bartholomeu Dias because contrary winds caused many tracks in the…
Open Textbooks for Africa Summit
… the price of textbooks for already overburdened students in South Africa. In April 2014 StatsSA put textbooks inflation at 13.6%. … States have saved their…
Africa South
… journal edited by Ronald M. Segal (1932-2008) was launched in Cape Town in 1956. The journal was published quarterly while funds were available. The last and…
EventFormer ANC President, Oliver ‘OR’ Tambo, is born
… at the University of Fort Hare where he became active in politics. Tambo was among those who led the student … for liberation. It was Tambo who played a…
PlaceGreenhill Road 14, Emmarentia, Johannesburg
… wife! This became a neighbourhood of Johannesburg. Later in 1836, the Primary school, in Liden was named after him- Primary Louw Geldenhys! In 1895 he became…
EventPatrice Lumumba, former Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo, is shot
… Belgian Congo, now the Democratic Republic of Congo ). In 1958 he formed and led the Movement National Congolais … while its main opponents opted for a form…
EventSolomon Kalushi Mahlangu is born
… National Congress (ANC), who was executed by hanging in Pretoria Central Prison, was born on 10 July 1956 in Mamelodi, east of Pretoria. Mahlangu left the…
EventWW2 veteran Job Masego dies
… War 2 (WW2) veteran, who sunk a German supply boat, died in Springs, Transvaal (now in Ekurhuleni Municipality), after being struck by a train. … which later…
EventThe ANC threatens to suspend constitutional talks
… The African National Congress (ANC) threatened in an open letter to President F. W. de Klerk to suspend … Malan, punishing members of the security forces…
EventSouth Africa deports Donald “Dolan” Acheson
… the 31 March 1991, having being fingered as the triggerman in the assassination of Namibian lawyer Anton Lubowski. … Acheson allegedly gunned Lubowski down…
EventThe first edition of the Graham’s Town Journal, mouthpiece of the Eastern Frontier settlers, is published
… editorial slant voiced the interests of English settlers in the Eastern Cape. The paper was also obliged to print … Bible" from at least the 1860s, a title…
EventThe Nigerian state of Kano resumes polio vaccination after an eleven
… This disease often affects young children, most recently in Sub-Saharan Africa. Although the disease is considered rare, cases of polio increased in Nigeria…
EventElectrically powered units replaced Johannesburg's horse-drawn trams
… extraction of gold, which after the end of hostilities was in full production. The first electric tram line commenced … had been proven to be an efficient…
EventThe Neptune, with 288* convicts on board, enters Simon’s Bay, with strong resistance from Cape inhabitants
… On 19 September 1849, The Neptune entered and anchored in Simon's Bay (now Simonstown) in the Cape, after being met with a furious city population in Table…
EventSouth African Communist Party leader, Dr. Yusuf Mahomed Dadoo dies
… the grave of Karl Marx. Dadoo was born on 5 September 1909 in Krugersdorp on, Gauteng . He and others, like P.S. Joshi, were inspired by the growing…
EventArtist William Cornwallis Harris starts his expedition from Cape Town to the Western Transvaal and the Magaliesburg Mountain
… Born in Kent on 2 April 1807, William Cornwallis Harris was a … embarked on an expedition to southern Africa. He arrived in Cape Town in June 1836, suffering…
The Wankie Campaign
… trained. I`m saying this because I personally participated in the preparations. A lot of time was allocated for the detachment to be together in the bush to…
Behind the Narrative of the Abuse of State Power was a Larger Goal by Thabo Mbeki, 8 February 2016
… been made that I intervened with the relevant state organs in one instance to prohibit the prosecution of the late … former National Commissioner of Police,…
Chapter 8. Capitalists without Money
… In 1928 the clothing industry presented a picture of … were about fifty factories on the Rand, roughly forty in Johannesburg and the rest in Germiston; of…
PlaceWits School of Arts (WSOA)
… ranked as one of the top interdisciplinary school of arts in South Africa according to World Universities Ranking. … Campus and is at the heart of the…
PlaceNqweba was called Kirkwood, Eastern Cape
… The farming community of Kirkwood, in the heart of the Sundays River Valley, close to the town … regions of the Addo Elephant Park, would arguably remain in…
PlaceQuaqua
… created for the Southern Sotho people from a reserve in the Orange Free State (OFS) that had been granted to the … there were 20 000 residents, which…
EventFearon Fallows, the first Astronomer Royal at the Cape, is born
… Cape, was born to John and Rebecca Fallows on 4 July 1789 in Cockermouth, Cumberland, in England. He spent his spare time studying, especially … He went on…
PlaceOnderstepoort Veterinary Research Institute
… by the Department of Public Works and was completed in 1908 as the centre for the then bacteriological laboratory … site, at 'De Onderstepoort', 11km North…
Class Struggle
… of class struggle. All societies are divided into classes. In a capitalist society, the two main classes are the middle … A struggle continues at all levels…
EventPope Paul VI proclaims 22 new African saints. The saints, known as the Blessed Martyrs of Uganda, were a group of converts who were persecuted and martyred from 1885
… for their faith. Most of the 22 martyrs were killed in a single incident, on 3 June1886. In the last week of May the new King of pre-colonial Buganda, … of…
EventCastro decides to send troops to Angola to fight South Africa
… Cuba Fidel Castro decides to send Cuban troops to Angola in response to South Africa's invasion of the country. After … Angola provided support to liberation…
PlaceCoornhoop Dovecot, Dixton Road, Mowbray
… In 1657-58 land in this area was granted to 14 free burghers, who were … year, sold it to Thielman Hendricx, who was murdered in 1673. After that the farm…
PlaceLeeuwenhof, Official Residence of the Premier of Cape Town
… Proclaimed as a National Monument in 1966. Leeuwenhof, the official residence of the Premier of … one of the finest old flat-roofed, double-storied Houses in…
“No Room for Racialism at Natal University”: Statement, June 1956
… Dr G. M. Naicker, President of the Natal Indian Congress, in a statement to New Age .] While in the herrenvolk climate of South Africa Dr Malherebe’s ……