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… There is a pass in the Magaliesberg known as Silkaatsnek It was here that the … Horse Artillery (RHA), were placed and ultimately captured in the first battle of Silkaatsnek on 11 July 1900. After the … on 5 June 1900, the British forces found themselves in command of most strategic points, but with enormously …

… This place is situated in Ditsobotla, North West. The name is Dutch for 'narrow pass' or 'narrow gap'. In 2011 it had a population of 7848. In the vicinity is Naauwpoort Secondary School, which is a …

… Andries Pretorius after whom Pretoria was named, died in 1853 at his Magaliesburg home. His body was later exhumed and reburied at Heroes' Acre in Pretoria after General P.J. Joubert's requested the burial of famous Afrikaner leaders in the same cemetery. …

… Anthropologist, Professor Raymond Arthur Dart, is born in Brisbane, Australia. Raymond Dart discovered the Taung Child skull fossil near Taung in North West, South Africa.In 1922, Dart became the head of the newly established …

… NUMSA Shop Steward Elections 1989 letters in red on white at bottom of poster. Title in white letters on red block across top of poster. Image of people marching in middle with one hand held high holding paper with a cross …

… a long struggle against ill health. He was instrumental in the formation of the Pact Government in 1924 and in South Africa's withdrawal from the gold standard. …

… of original Food and Canning Workers Union formed in 1941 in Cape Town. Photographs and history of artisans in South Africa. Artwork of the new South African flag. …

… The first national minister of education in South Africa's Government of National Unity (GNU), Prof. Sibusiso Mandlenkosi Emmanuel Bengu was born in Kranskop, Natal. Bengu was released from his ministerial position in 1999 and sent to the Federal Republic of Germany as …

… Background in shades of pink, text in yellow; with artwork of the solar syatem and fireworks … open day taking place on Sat, 3rd Nov. at Chapel Street in Woodstock. …

… Second Symposium on the theme,  “African Music Scholarship in the Twenty-first Century: Challenges and Directions.” The … to build on the successes of the first, which was held in 2015 at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South … and exchanges Representations and the Francophone presence in African music scholarship Music education: Philosophies, …

… In the 1940s, as a result of the Second World War , the economy was in a dire state with the working and lower classes being the … grew as people mobilised for the provision of basic needs. In 1946, a non-racial Women’s Food Committee was formed. The … Yvonne Muthien “Chapter 6: Forms of Protest and Resistance in Cape Town, 1939-1965,” State and Resistance in South …

… In the 1940s, as a result of the Second World War, the economy was in a dire state with the working and lower classes being the … grew as people mobilised for the provision of basic needs. In 1946, a non-racial Women’s Food Committee was formed. The … Yvonne Muthien “Chapter 6: Forms of Protest and Resistance in Cape Town, 1939-1965,” State and Resistance in South …

… residential area for Johannesburg. The plan was laid out in October 1886. Among the street names were Commissioner, … on the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.  The discovery of Gold in the town saw a vast number of fortune-seekers from all … (ZAR), Johannes Meyer and Johannes Rissik, who worked in land surveying and mappingdid not believe that the gold …

… was a self taught painter who specialised and excelled in the landscape genre. He found inspiration from his local … occasions that he did exhibit, these took place mostly in Cape Town and a few were held internationally as well. … lot of heraldry work around his home town. Volschenk died in 1936 after he suffered a stroke, leaving behind his wife …

… Location: back to this day in history search archive Voters went to the polls (7-11 November) to vote for a Constituent Assembly in the first all-race and fully democratic elections in South-West Africa/Namibia. The Constituent Assembly was to …

… Gunmen killed 11 people including a women and a baby in an overnight attack in Donnybrook.   Hours before the massacre, former President … opened the ANC's campaign for local government elections in KwaZulu-Natal.  Later that afternoon, the Government …

… sufficient evidence provided to prove that the party was in fact a meeting. Sisulu was later arrested at Liliesleaf … with Nelson Mandela and 8 others were charged for treason in October 1963 and convicted. In June 1964 he was among 8 of the accused sentenced to life …

… The document is an important one in the history of South Africa for it tells a story that … sources. It is a scholarly work, yet it prides itself in lucidity and avoids unnecessary jargon … In its multi-disciplinary approach it will be an …

… often known as "comrades" or "young lions." Mainly active in urban areas, especially in the eastern Cape, most were unemployed school-leavers who … the UDF. Amabutho played a central, often unpopular, role in policing stayaways and consumer boycotts. The toyi-toyi, a …

… arrested Adam Tas because of the role he played in drawing up a petition for the Cape burghers against the … the governing body of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), in Amsterdam. Tas and his fellow free burghers were … led to unfair competition with burghers. From documents in the desk of Tas, Van der Stel established the nature of …

… at the extreme South Western tip of the African Continent in the Republic of South Africa . Table Mountain and the City … a range of 63 miles and an intensity of 10 megacandelas in each flash.   Cape Point is situated within the Table … of the southern tip of the Cape Peninsula and which takes in perhaps 20% of its total area. The Cape of Good Hope …

… [This extract from the appeal was published by Gandhi in Indian Opinion with the following editorial note: “The … – E.S. Reddy] While you are sitting happy and comfortable in your bright and wealthy homes, just give one thought to … helpless, and hopeless, on to the roads – wandering in misery about the land of their forefathers in search of …

… Extract of evidence from Govan Mbeki, in the Supreme Court of South Africa, before the Honourable Judge President Mr Justice De Wet, in the matter of the State vs Mandela and others, held in Pretoria, South Africa. The trial became known as the …

… Extract of evidence from Lionel Bernstein, in the Supreme Court of South Africa, before the Honourable Judge President Mr Justice De Wet, in the matter of the State vs Mandela and others, held in Pretoria, South Africa. The trial became known as the …

… Extract of evidence from Raymond Mhlabo, in the Supreme Court of South Africa, before the Honourable Judge President Mr Justice De Wet, in the matter of the State vs Mandela and others, held in Pretoria, South Africa. The trial became known as the …

… Executive Committee of the African National Congress (ANC) in the 1940s, died in the Western Native Township, Johannesburg. He died a … a short illness and was buried at the Croesus Cemetery in Newclare, Johannesburg.   …

… Civic Association collectively rejected the planned move in the Cape Province to remove non-White voters from the … other ratepayers' organisations jointly decide to take in relation with the matter. The Coloured and Indian people in the Cape Province were only permitted to a limited vote on …

… account of the development of civic democracy in nineteenth century Latin America and a Latin American reading of Tocquevillian democracy in the modern west; 2)  to make sense of everyday forms of nationhood and selfhood in nineteenth century Latin America; and 3) to understand the …

… of secret meetings at Camp Devid, the Presidential Retreat in the Catoctin Mountains of Maryland, about 100 kilometers … The official agreement was signed on Mar. 26, 1979, in Washington, D.C. by Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin … return the Sinai to Egypt, a transfer that was completed in 1982. The two nations also agreed to negotiate Palestinian …

… and the only such structure remaining from the ZAR era in the centre of Pretoria. It The ‘Leeubrug’ was built larger … it possibly came from the amount of lions that were hunted in that area at the time or from the lions on the ZAR coat of arms. The bronze lions were made in Scotland and originally there were also two gas lamps on …