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PlaceRailway Station, Muizenberg
… impressive building surmounted by a Clock Tower was built in 1912-13 and was officially opened on 7 June 1913 by the … was declared a National Monument under…
Beyond the Apartheid University?
… made towards Africaness? 4. Universities and their roles in the promotion of citizenship and the public good: What … stomach? 5. Governance and the failing…
PlacePinetown and its Museum
… yet interesting museum. A range of topics is featured in the museum, which focuses on local history. Displays … of early settler history. Anthropology is…
Event90-Days Act comences
… The General Laws Amendment Act of 1964 (passed in 1963) or the 90-Day Act, commences on this day. It is … allows people convicted of political offences to be…
EventMapungubwe is ‘discovered’
… 'hill of the jackal') is an Iron Age archaeological site in the Limpopo Province. It is on the border between South … to have been the centre of the largest…
EventEditors oppose legislation on media control
… and administer a strict code of conduct, functioning in much the same way as a court of law. For the press, this … the major newspaper proprietors jointly…
EventFighting breaks out on the Johannesburg market square
… assaulted after strikers attacked them with stones. In the period of 1910 to 1914 organised labour began to find its feet in the Union. The first trade…
PlaceFort Wiltshire
… military during the frontier war of 1818-19, and was named in honour of Lt-Col Thomas Wiltshire of the 38th Regiment, … confluence of the Keiskamma and…
PlaceCamdeboo was called Aberdeen, Eastern Cape
… the new church, and it was named Aberdeen, after the town in Scotland where a minister of the Church, Andrew Murray, had been born. In 1858 the first Village…
PlaceCR Swart Building
… restaurant. The name change of the old CR Swart building in Bloemfontein to honour former Cuban president Fidel Castro … ago. The Democratic Alliance, as the…
Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism - Bibliography
… Cape Town, Shuter & Shooter, 1994. Davidson, Basil. Africa in History . London, Phoenix, 1996. Delius, Peter. The Land … Ravan, 1983. Etherington, Norman…
PlaceHazyview
… outdoor crowd. A shimmering heat haze, hanging over town in summer gave it its name, still the beautiful surroundings … 3 000 plant species. Hazyview was…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Annual Gold Award ceremony of the President’t award Pretoria, 25 November 1994
… of the future, is a rare and invigorating one! As Patron-in-Chief of the President's Award programme, I would like to … receiving the Gold Award. Your…
ArchiveThe end conscription campaign 1983-1988: a study of white extra-parliamentary opposition to apartheid
… Thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Arts in the subject history at the University of South Africa. … chapters on…
PlaceOfficers’ Club, Military Base, Wynberg
… exception of the Castle, the oldest military establishment in South Africa. Its history has long been neglected. … 1797 and 1807 have been demolished; a few…
EventCape Coloured Board agrees with the Department of Education on the establishment of an Art Centre for Coloured children
… The Cape Coloured Board agreed, in principle, to the establishment of an Art Centre for Coloured children in Cape Town. The resolution was taken during a…
PlaceCuyler Manor, Uitenhage
… outskirts of Uitenhage is Cuyler Manor; a Historical giant in Nelson Mandela Bay gently tucked away between the … Dutch house reflects a bygone era. The…
PlaceConstitution Street House 14, Port Elizabeth
… 1983. Donkin Street is a famous tourist street located in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape. The street is lined with the … a completely unique charm. It…
EventFifteen African states tabled a draft resolution at the UN denouncing racial discrimination
… (UN) Economic Commission for Africa at Leopoldville in Congo, fifteen African states tabled a draft resolution … is commemorated annually on 21 March. On…
EventSouth West African People’s Organisation (SWAPO) is founded to oppose South African rule
… West African People's Organisation (SWAPO) was founded in Windhoek, South West Africa (presently Namibia) on 19 … became the country's leading party…
EventNovelist and poet Kgadime Matsepe is born
… Matsepe, Northern Sotho novelist and poet, is born in Magagamatala (Brakfontein or Mmitse), Groblersdal … for his work Kgorong ya Mosate (At the king's court…
EventANC leader, James Arthur Calata, dies
… leader and Anglican clergyman, James Arthur Calata, dies in Cradock, Eastern Cape. He joined the ANC in 1930 and rose to become its secretary-general. In…
EventCelebration of Nigeria’s Day of Independence cancelled due to air disaster
… involving a Nigerian Air Force transport aircraft, in which over 160 military officers were killed. The Hercules C-130 crashed in Ejigbo, Lagos. The plane…
EventRamaphosa and Motlatsi are arrested
… and its president, James Motlatsi, were arrested in Newcastle, Natal. The two men and fifty-nine other union … which turned out to be the longest and…
EventPatricia de Lille testifies at Schabir Shaik’s trial
… finally took the stand at the Durban High Court to testify in the fraud and corruption charges against Durban … after she sounded alarm on the possible…
EventDurban mass meeting endorses Smuts and Gandhi agreement
… An Indian mass meeting in Durban unanimously endorsed the agreement between General … agreement between Smuts and Gandhi had been reached in Pretoria …
EventReport released on the Waratah steamship's disappearance
… A report was released in London about the disappearance of the Waratah between … found that it was likely that the ship had overturned in a gale of…
EventWilliam J. Burchell (71), botanist and explorer of the South African interior, dies
… naturalist, traveller, artist, and author was born in 1792. The son of a wealthy nurseryman. Burchell travelled … specimens of animals and plants. He…
EventWorld Cancer Day is instituted as an annual world-wide cancer awareness campaign
… detection and treatment. The day was inaugurated in 2002 by a consortium of governmental and non-governmental … year. According to the International Agency…
EventTalks between the government and ANC on negotiations proceed
… at the most delicate stage of negotiations. Violence in the townships was still widespread, and growing more brutal. In what became known as the Groote…