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PlaceHoly Cross Mission & Hospital, Eastern Cape
Holy Cross Hospital is a 224 bed Public Hospital situated in Taweni, Eastern Cape. The Hospital provides services to the Flagstaff area, part of Lusikisiki and…
EventAnna 'Sister Nannie' Tempo died
Anna 'Sister Nannie' Tempo, was born of a slave mother and father who were kidnapped as children off the coast of Mozambique. She was born in the late 1870s…
EventThe Kenya-Uganda railway is completed
The Uganda railway line in Kenya was seen as a very ambitious infrastructure at its inception with the cost of the project causing most of the controversy. The…
Address at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 11 December 2001
… with an important gift of a giraffe. By the 1700 and 1800s, onwards, Western expeditions of plunder, slavery, wars …
PlaceBoshof House, Boshof Avenue, Newlands
The building was erected on a portion of the historic Boshof Farm, owned by Alexander van Breda. Its construction dates from the early 19th century, and it was…
PlaceRiversdale Division, Western Cape
The Division of Riversdale was originally located on the Eastern boundary of the District of Swellendam, which had been proclaimed in 1745. It was proclaimed a…
ArticleThe missionaries
Missionaries arrived in Pondoland in 1830 when Faku, the ruler of the Mpondo Kingdom from 1818 to 1867, allowed Wesleyan missionaries to establish a mission…
EventBritain and Egypt agree on independence for Sudan.
Britain and Egypt agree on independence for Sudan following years of colonial rule. The tale of these two countries’ rule over Sudan dates back the 19th…
EventYusuf Dadoo, political activist, is born
On 5 September 1909, a tireless fighter for national and social liberation, Dr. Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo was born in Krugersdorp, Johannesburg. According to Essop…
PlaceRiebeeck Square, Cape Town.
Riebeeck Square developed during the 18th century, when the town began to expand laterally into the Table Valley, and marks the point where incoming farmers…
EventThe Second Basotho War, known as Siqiti war, breaks out
Between 1858 and 1868 no less than three battles were fought between the Basotho and the Boers. All three wars were the result of conflict between the Basotho…
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid by Dr Peter Alegi
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid: A Preliminary Study of Albert Luthuli, 1920s-1952s Dr Peter Alegi, Department of History, Michigan State…
PlaceGroot Drakenstein Prison
The village of Groot Drakenstein was probably established in the late 1850s. Following the acquisition of a number of fruit farms in the valley by Cecil John…
EventCongo Free State becomes the Belgian Congo
King Leopold II of Belgium handed over the Congo to the Belgian state on this date. Previously he held it as a private project undertaken to extract rubber and…
PlaceLeinster Hall, 7 Weltevreden Street, Gardens
Leinster Hall was built in the 1850s by Sebastian Hofmeyr on a plot of land that previously formed part of the farm Weltevreden. The outbuildings date from the…
EventButhelezi says Zulus would continue carrying cultural weapons
At a meeting held in Ulundi, Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) leader Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi warns that the deals struck between the African National Congress …
EventM.K. Gandhi is forcibly removed from a whites-only train carriage
On 7 June 1893, M.K Gandhi, later known as "The Mahatma" or "Great Soul" was forcibly removed from a whites-only carriage on a train in Pietermaritzburg, for…
PlaceFort Beaufort
Initially the division of Fort Beaufort fell under the district of Albany, and was proclaimed a separate division on 8 March 1848. At that stage its area also…
EventAnna Tempo is born
Anna 'Sister Nannie' Tempo, was born of a slave mother and father who were kidnapped as children off the coast of Mozambique. She was born in the late 1870s…
ArticleTransport in the air
Ancient stories tell of people's desire to fly like a bird. The Greek myth about Icarus and Daedalus is one of the most famous stories. According to the story,…
PlaceGeorge Division
The district of George was originally part of the district of Swellendam, and was proclaimed a separate district on 23 April 1811. Over the next 66 years…
PlaceFraserburg
The division of Fraserburg was originally part of the district of Worcester and was proclaimed a separate division on 12 December 1853. In about January 1890…
PlaceRoodepoort Town School, Rex Street
The Roodepoort Town School was established in the 1890s and its premises, including a School Building and a Hall, were opened on 8 October 1913. In 1914 the…
EventThe Table Mountain cableway, one of the biggest tourist attractions in Cape Town, is inaugurated
On 4 October 1929 the Table Mountain cableway, one of the world’s biggest tourist attractions in Cape Town, was inaugurated. The official ceremony was opened…
PlaceGreen Lodge, 81 St George Street, Bloemfontein
The Orange River Convention (sometimes also called the Bloemfontein Convention) was a convention whereby the United Kingdom formally recognised the…
PlaceState President Swart Park, Bloemfontein
The largest of Bloemfontein's many Recreational spots, the Park has many sculptured flowerbeds, rolling lawns and shady spots. The facilities at this Park…
PlaceJutten Island, Saldanha Bay
This Dutch East 'Indiaman', was outbound when she tried to put; 'Merenstein' into Saldanha Bay to alleviate rampant scurvy on board the ship. On April 3, 1702…
PlaceGrey Institute/School, Port Elizabeth
During the 1850s Sir George Grey, Governor of the Cape from 1854-61, played a leading role in the establishment of educational institutes throughout the colony…
EventThe first edition of the Graham’s Town Journal, mouthpiece of the Eastern Frontier settlers, is published
The Gramstown Journal, one of South Africa's important and influential early newspapers, ran from 1831- 1920. From its early days its editorial slant voiced…
EventCape of Good Hope Royal Observatory is founded
On 20 October, 1820, South Africa’s first permanent modern observatory was erected at the Cape of Good Hope (now known as Cape Town) byFearon Fallows, a…