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EventThe Kenya-Uganda railway is completed
… The Uganda railway line in Kenya was seen as a very ambitious infrastructure at its … from Mombasa to Kisimu. Construction of the railway began in the 1890s…
ArchiveRestoration of the Old Cape Archives by Michael Scurr (The Heritage Portal), 03 October 2016
… In 1996 Michael Scurr penned the following article on the … Archives (today the Centre for the Book). It was published in Restorica, the journal of the Simon…
PlaceThe Owl House
… The Owl House is a Museum in Nieu-Bethesda, Eastern Cape , South Africa. Helen Martins … retiree who kept to herself. She developed a keen interest in…
PlaceOttery
… Ottery was probably established in 1904 as a residential suburb of Cape Town. The railway … Ottery and Retreat. The Ottery station was built in 1904 …
PlaceThe Randjeslaagte Beacon, Parktown Johannesburg
… Farm “Randjeslaagte" on which Johannesburg was laid out in 1886. The Randjeslaagte Beacon stands in Boundary Road, Parktown, just off Louis Botha Avenue,…
A City within a city: Vestiges of the socio-spatial imprint of colonial and apartheid Durban, from the 1870s to 1980s by Leonard Glenn Rosenberg
… and thus part of the city’s heritage, is largely absent in publications on Durban’s history. This dissertation … level of the spatial development of a…
Statement Issued by Joint Meeting of African and Indian Leaders for Closer Co-operation, February 6, 1949
… the South African Indian Congress, and other leaders held in Durban on this 6th day of February, 1949, expresses its … regret shock and horror at the recent…
Document 12 - Letter from T. W. Thibedi19 to E. R. Roux 20, 27 January 1927
… night unexpectently. Although when you left South Africa in promised to write us soon when you get we were all … So allow me to tell you about our Natives…
Document 46. “Statement Issued by Joint Meeting of African and Indian Leaders” [For Closer Co-operation], February 6, 1949
… the South African Indian Congress, and other leaders held in Durban on this 6th day of February, 1949, expresses its … regret shock and horror at the recent…
PlaceIziko Museum's, Cape Town
… with the Iziko Michaelis Collection at the Old Town House in Greenmarket Square . The wide range of social history museums in the collection include,…
Address by President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the 62nd session of the United Nations’ General Assembly, New York
… world would have good reason to increase their confidence in this organisation of the nations of the world. Again, I … mark the half-way point towards the…
ANC-KZN flabbergasted by DA’s denigration of Oliver Tambo, 11 July 2006
… The ANC in KwaZulu-Natal is flabbergasted by the announcement made by … The outstanding and sterling role played by OR Tambo in the founding of the non…
PlaceMauritania
… populations of North Africa and the African peoples in the region to the south of the Tropic of Cancer known as … conditions that affected most of that zone…
EventThe National Library of South Africa is founded
… The Governor of the Cape Colony in 1818 was Lord Charles Somerset. It was he who first issued … who bequeathed his books to the Dutch Reformed Church in 1761…
EventNatal votes for the formation of the Union of South Africa
… On 12 June 1909, Natal voted in favour of the formation of the Union of South Africa. … following year (1910), the South Africa Act was approved in Britain…
EventInaugural Women’s Legacy Dialogue
… Legacy Dialogue took place on 13 August 2010 in the Sandton Sun Hotel, Johannesburg. The event was in context with Women’s month. The event consisted of…
EventThe Rivonia Trialists are charged with sabotage and attempting to violently overthrow the state
… On this day in 1963, the Rivonia trialists were charged with sabotage and … information about the whereabouts of the MK headquarters. In gathering evidence…
EventThe first Non-White South African Table Tennis team participates at the World Championship
… participated at the World Table Tennis Board Championship in Stockholm, Sweden. They were Cassim Bassa (team manager), … Maistry, D. Groenewald and Cassim…
EventWW2: A German bomb fired off Algeria’s coast sinks British transport ship (HMT Rohna) carrying US soldiers.
… Built in 1926, the aging steam ship was pressed into service as a … guided Germany's infamous V-1 rockets to their targets in London. Of the 1138 men killed…
EventDate set for start of Passive Resistance Campaign
… In July 1939 at a meeting of 6,000 Indians, held at the Indian Sports Ground in Johannesburg under the chairmanship of E. I. Asvat, a … meeting of 7 May) on…
EventA South African spy is released from jail
… Location: back to this day in history search archive Odile Harrington, a South African convicted and imprisoned for espionage in Zimbabwe in 1987, was…
EventNelson Mandela is free
… gratitude to the "millions of my compatriots and those in every corner of the globe who have campaigned tirelessly … by then South African President FW de…
EventSipho Gumede, South African jazz legend, dies
… Born in the predominantly Indian community of Cato Manor near … 16 and soon became a known and sought after bass player. In the course of his career he…
EventThe Azanian People’s Liberation Army (APLA) disbands
… wing of the Pan African Congress (PAC). APLA was formed in the 1960s, after the banning of the PAC and other … Most of these murders and attacks reportedly…
EventZuid-Afrikaansche Republiek decides that December 16 will be a public holiday called Dingaan’s Day
… to make December 16 a holiday named Dingaan’s Day was in celebration for what Voortrekkers viewed as a 'victory' over Zulu warriors near the Ncome River in…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.9 No.4 1991
… Enoch A. Monkwe; Till We Meet, Mavis Smallberg; In the Shacks of Inanda, Gladman Mvukuzane Ngubo. Essays: The … Loubser; Movies and Monopolies: The…
PlaceRust en Vreugd, Buitenkant Street, Cape Town
… established but it is assumed that it was built, in its present form, by Willem Cornelis Boers, the notorious … bedrooms. The upper floor was reached by…
PlaceKalk Bay, Southern Suburbs- Cape Town
… The Village of Kalk Bay was probably established in the 17th Century as a small community of lime burner's who … Its name was derived from the Dutch term for…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Luncheon hosted by Prime Minister Narasimha Rao of India New Delhi, 25 January 1995
… us towards a Nuclear Weapons-free and Non-Violent World. In so doing they commit the resources and the political … peace and international security…
Document 69 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa, Johannesburg, to the Cape Town branch, 22 March 1937
… has been defeated with considerable loss to the Union in so far as we receive an initial setback. The strike was … upon my urgent persuasion to try and…