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PlaceRosmead
… Railway Systems, the village played an important role in the Military and Economic affairs of the Region. In 1898 it was renamed Rosmead in honour of Sir…
EventFormer MK members are dismissed from SANDF
… 2,221 trainees who had gone absent without leave in October from the newly instituted South African National … the slow pace of integration into the SANDF…
Freedom Part to Host Ken Oosterbroek Legacy Exhibition
… and João Silva documented the bloody chaos that took place in South African townships in the early 1990s. In memory of Oosterbroek, who was killed during a…
EventJohnny Clegg, South African musician is born
… Johnny Clegg was born in England in 1953 to an English father and a Zimbabwean mother. He left … music and mixed race public performances. Juluka split in…
EventOlaudah Equiano, enslaved person and writer dies
… Olaudah Equino was born in the region that is now known as Nigeria in 1945. At the age of 15, he was kidnapped and sold into … Indies. He later managed to…
PlaceQueens Fort Military Museum, Bloemfontein
… The Queens Fort Museum fort erected in 1848, originally housed the Artillery Unit of the Free … the apartheid struggle. The Queen’s Fort Military Museum, in…
EventAnna Tempo is born
… as children off the coast of Mozambique. She was born in the late 1870s and grew up in Worcester. One day in 1884, a Christian lady by the name of Miss…
EventANC leader Wilton Mkwayi born
… and acting leader of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) was born in Middledrift in the Transkei . He was the eldest child in a family of thirteen. He was arrested and…
Document 42 - “Boycott the Dummy Elections: 2 000 Demonstrate AT Mass Rally”, The Torch , National Edition, 1 April 1958
… pavements at the greatest political rally on the franchise in the history of the Coloured people. It is conservatively … other of solidarity from 43…
ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA TO THE RALLY AT KWA - MTHETHWA KwaMbonambi, 21 May 1995
… your heroic ancestor, King Dingiswayo, must be smiling in his grave because this is exactly what he would have done … Let me assure you that your efforts…
EventClive Derby-Lewis dies
… cancer. He died at the age of 80 at Eugene Marais Hospital in Pretoria after he was released on medical parole from Kgosi Mampuru II Correctional Centre in…
PlaceAbees, Bela-Bela
… A Town 100 km away from Pretoria North. It was laid out in 1882 on the Farms: 'Het bad; Noodshulp; Roodepoort and Tufbult'. This Area attained Municipal…
Decolonising African Museums - What does it mean?
… The Centre for Indian Studies in Africa (CISA) presents a talk by Emery Patrick Effiboley, … the concept of decolonisation has become a clarion call in the…
PlaceNational Women’s Monument
… The monument created by Anton van Wouw , was put up in 1913 in remembrance of the 26 370 Boer women and children who died in prison camps during the South…
EventThe first Afrikaans Hymn book is published
… Language Association and other societies like Our Language in Bloemfontein, the language was finally recognised in 1925. The South African Academy for…
EventTrader and philanthropist Mohamed Joosub dies
… and devout Muslim, Mohamed Hajee Joosub, died in Pretoria. Joosub left his birth place Ranavav, India where he was born in 1862, at the age of 14. He…
EventCelebrated South African photographer, David Goldblatt, receives Hasselblad honours
… honoured for his portrayal of social and political life in the country of his birth. David Goldblatt received the 2006 Hasselblad Foundation Award in…
EventErnie Els wins the Nedbank Golf Tournament
… Nedbank Million Dollar Golf Tournament for the first time in his career on home soil since he turned pro in 1989. The Million Dollar Tournament was played at…
EventEllen Khuzwayo is born
… into six European languages) and other books, was born in Thaba-Nchu in the Orange Free State. She was principal actor in a documentary, Tshiamelo - Place of…
EventAlgerian terrorist, Abdelhamid Abou Zeid dies
… Abdelhamid Abou Zeid was born Mohammed Ghadir in Algeria. He was an Islamist militant who became one of the top three military commanders of al-Qaeda in the…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the occasion of Heritage Day, Cape Town
… Provost of the City of Edinburgh, Leslie Hinds, who is in South Africa for the Homeless World Cup. We are very happy … which, I am certain, will further…
PlaceOld Fort and Cemetery, Durban
… The Old Fort and Durban's first cemetery are situated in Umgeni Road, and are now an integral part of the city … European settlement of the Bay of Port Natal…
PlaceRondebosch Fountain, Main Road, Rondebosch.
… The fountain was, in reality, only an ornamental trough used for the watering … of a round cast-iron drinking bowl supported on legs in the form of horses'…
PlaceChurch Square, Pretoria
… Church square is in the historic centre of Pretoria! The founder of Pretoria, … Square were consequences of Lord de Villiers' verdict in 1917. Lines for…
PlaceSenegal
… Netherlands before ultimately coming under French control in the late 19th Century. It remained a colony of France … Sédar Senghor, was elected Senegal's…
Address by President Jacob Zuma on the departure of former president Nelson Mandela, 6 December 2013
… democratic nation has departed. He passed on peacefully in the company of his family around 8.50pm on December 5 … Mandela great was precisely what made him…
Document 40 - Anti-CAD, Why You Should Not Vote [1958]
… Should Not Vote [1958] The Anti-C.A.D. Movement was formed in 1943 to fight the Coloured Advisory Council and the … Department to act as policeman over the…
Nelson Mandela Correspondence around birthdays and anniversaries
… and wedding anniversaries almost without exception, in prison during official visits. The occasions were, in addition, observed with cards and letters…
Document 24 - De Klerk’s reply to Nelson Mandela
… CONSTITUTIONAL PROCESS. The COSATU Executive Committee met in a special session today. (04.05.96) The Executive … as follows: 1. The lock-out should not be…
Timol Inquest: He was murdered but culprits are dead, court rules
… courtroom clapped after Judge Billy Mothle ruled that in 1971 the SACP’s Timol was pushed by members of the Security Branch out of a window in John Vorster’s…