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PlaceRailway Station, Main Road, Wynberg
… October 1981. The Wynberg Railway Company was established in 1861 to build a railway line from Salt River Junction to Wynberg, which opened on 19 December…
PlaceBergvliet Farmstead, Bergvliet
… This farm complex consists of a Cape Dutch house built in 1769, and a ring wall and outbuildings which were erected … at all visible from a public road. If…
PlaceKlapperkop Fort, Pretoria
… Klapperkop offers visitors panoramic views of Pretoria in all directions. Not only is it fast becoming a popular … you’re able to do a quick game drive for…
PlaceLanherne Building, Humewood Road, Port Elizabeth
… This dwelling was erected in 1894 for RH Hammersley-Heenen, resident engineer and … was converted to a convalescent home for servicemen, and in 1960 it was…
Document 9 - Letter from W. H. Andrews to Tom Mann,” 26 December 1922
… forces of our people who have conducted armed struggle, in view of the situation in which all peaceful avenues have been closed. Noting that: … our people…
EventGambia gains independence
… On this day in history Gambia became the 36th African nation to gain … of The Gambia) commonly known as Gambia, is a country in Western Africa. It is a…
Zindzi Mandela is born
… and his second wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela was born in a year of turmoil, during which the ANC was banned and … Her parents were always on the run from…
EventPolitical activist Mohammed Shaik is born
… Special Operations Unit, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), was born in Vrededorp, Johannesburg. Shaik was recruited and trained by Aboobaker and was involved in…
EventSouth African refugees leave Lesotho
… to various liberation movements banned from operating in South Africa by the Apartheid government. Others were in Lesotho after constant harassment and fear…
EventPope John Paul II visits Africa
… Burkina Faso ) and the Ivory Coast. He started his tour in Zaire, where Roman Catholicism had recently been … order and a guarantee of workers rights. The…
EventChief Buthelezi considers registering the IFP for April 1994 election
… registering parties, Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi announced in Durban that he was considering registering his Inkatha … (ANC) president Nelson Mandela and IFP…
EventANC and government to surge ahead with reforms
… In spite of Inkatha's rejection of the Convention for a … a way for a multiparty democratic election to be held in April 1994. Inkatha had initially…
EventCOSATU leads an anti-VAT strike
… (ANC) issued a concerted statement: A referendum was held in the streets of our country today. The result was a devastating vote of no confidence in this…
EventFirst formal school opens at the Cape
… Jan van Riebeeck, commander at the Cape, wrote in his diary that a school for slaves has been started. … van Riebeeck for the slave children brought to the…
EventThe NNP joins the ANC
… members of the NNP would be encouraged to join the ANC in their respective localities. The NNP would in future contest elections under the banner of the ANC…
EventRebel commando leader Fourie is executed
… Force of the Defence Force before joining General Beyers in protest against the government's attack on German South … we enter the valley of death). His…
EventThe Great Comet of 1901
… eye over most of South Africa. The comet was yellowish in colour and remained visible for the next month (until 25 … was first spotted by astronomers at the…
EventTraditional Bushman artist Vetkat Regopstaan Kruiper, aged 38, dies suddenly from natural causes
… a prolific artist. He was born at the camp Twee Rivieren in the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park (now Kgalagadi … The Kruipers are from the #Khomani Bushmen…
EventSixty ANC refugees are airlifted out of Lesotho
… later, forces led by Maj-Gen Metsing Lekhanya who had been in talks with the apartheid government in South Africa seized power. The National Assembly was ……
EventGwen Lister is born
… publisher and anti apartheid activist. She was born in East London on 5 December 1953. After graduating at the … the Windhoek Advertiser as a political…
EventDr. E. Rhoodie is arrested at the French Riviera resort Juan les Pins
… the French Riviera resort Juan les Pins. He would appear in Aix-en-Provence for extradition proceedings on 31 July … African government. Rhoodie was one of…
EventUN and OAU take a stand against Apartheid policy
… the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) at UNESCO House in Paris, France. The UN had been vocal about the apartheid … the early 1950s. On 1 April 1960, the…
EventA memorandum containing a proposed constitutional dispensation is delivered to the CPRC
… community welfare and pensions. It was first elected in 1969, re-elected in 1975, and permanently dissolved in 1980. …
EventMusician, Gito Baloi of Tananas fame, is killed
… on his way home from a concert. Gito Baloi was born in Mozambique on 30 September 1964. He gained fame as a bass … guitarist and vocalist of the South…
Ikwezi
… journal devoted to proletarian socialist revolution in Southern Africa, published in England by "a group of South African and Southern African … long…
Letter to Americans by Albert Luthuli, distributed by the American Committee on Africa with the "Appeal for Action", 4 November 1962, New York
… the majority to a position of permanent inferiority. In that letter, I said: "I regard the Prize as not for me … hunger, find their protest movements banned,…
Biennale Dak’Art 2018 : Open Call for Submissions - Deadline: 31 Jul 2017
… African Art Dak’art will be held May–June 2018 in Dakar, Senegal. Following the establishment of the … has been launched to select the artists for the IN…
Appeal For Funds For New Age, January 1956
… to place them under the corroding influence of racialism. In the face of this onslaught the people of our land must rally and stand firmly united in order to…
EventZimbabawean Independence Day
… Zimbabwe Independence Day On this day in 1980, Southern-Rhodesia gained independence from the … a protracted war of liberation that claimed many lives. In…
PlaceWelgelegen Homestead, next to Mosterts Mill
… In 1657 the VoC granted land on the slopes of Table Mountain … was subsequently altered by Herbert Baker who rebuilt it in a pseudo-Cape Dutch style…