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Address at The Official Opening of The Cape Town International Convention Centre, Cape Town, 28 June 2003
… Ladies and gentlemen: It is a proud day indeed for Cape Town to join the global community with a world-class … social contract for a better tomorrow. In 1822…
ArticleDavid Goldblatt Timeline
… were markers of time, as is the noonday cannon in Cape Town. My father played bridge with the mine doctor and the … avant garde magazines in England at that…
What the lives of two South African music giants tell us about culture under apartheid by Gwen Ansell (The Conversation), 13 July 2017
… see the music the world calls jazz. Bustling mining town Mekoa was born on the East Rand, where gold had been … of Benoni was a bustling, relatively…
PlaceRustenburg House, together with its Summer House, Main Road, Rondebosch.
… preferred place of Residence, and used to ride into Cape Town on Horseback whenever he was needed to attend to …
ArticleConstructing heritage and heritage resources
… such as the Voortrekker Monument and the Castle in Cape Town were established to uphold and glorify the history of … such sites took place in Dukuza in…
ArticleThembisile Chris Hani Timeline 1942 - 2003
… and English, leaves his home village of Sabalele for Cape Town to do his articles at the law firm Schaeffer and Schaeffer. In Cape Town Hani meets his father…
A short history of the oldest graves in Plettenberg Bay by Patricia Storrar (The Heritage Portal), 12 September 2016
… the east of Beacon Way, the main road running out of the town towards Port Elizabeth. The effort to restore these … predeceased him in the ground of the…
PlaceNamaqualand
… of the equally small Bitterfontein a little, country Town. This is found within an area known as: 'the Hardeveld'. … was initially by mules. In 1925 the…
ArticleMessage of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, delivered by Mr. Tambo, at the funeral of Dr. Yusuf M. Dadoo
1 September 1983, London We are gathered here to pay homage to an outstanding leader of the African liberatory struggle, a comrade and friend who devoted…
ArticleNatal Workers’ Theatre in the 1980s
… in the 1880s stimulated the industry of Natal’s port town, Durban, the main trading post for the gold fields. …
PlaceKwaDukuza timeline
… Shaka chose KwaDukuza as his new capital, where Stanger Town now stands, because he knew that the area was well … Government in Durban, asking for permission…
The First Slaves at the Cape
… an ex-slave herself, became the mistress of one of Cape Town's greatest residences. Bergh and Anna had 12 children. …
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 1 Glossary
Extra note: In order to standardise the “Terms you need to Know” articles in the Classroom Section, all definitions are accessed from https://www.dictionary…
Doing Oral History
… and Umthlangana (Mhlangane), on September 24 , 1828 , the town was burnt to the ground. In 1873 , European settlers built a town on the site, and named it…
Upcoming events at the Book Lounge
Next Week's Events Saturday 12th March, 11am – Storytime: Friends Friends are helpful, kind and fun to be around. Today we’ll read about all kinds…
Legislation, Dissent, and Violence in Sophiatown under Apartheid
… rise of gangs. The sense that Sophiatown was an African town in a white state was reflected in the modest chances for … alone, who accommodated those…
ArchiveReflections on life in a rearview mirror by Jo Ractliffe, 27 Jun 2011
… portraits. Do you know him? He was from a small town in America and he did remarkable portraits of the local …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1980-1989
… and former student leader from the University of Cape Town (UCT), is sentenced to ten years imprisonment, with four … five years and continues to be…
65th Anniversary of the South Africa Communist Party - Joe Slovo
… Communist Party When South African communists met in Cape Town 65 years ago they planted the first seed in our … in our growth and development (discussed in…
Albie Sachs: SA Constitutional Court Judge interviewed by Rupert Taylor and Aubrey Lekwane, 24 March 1998, Johannesburg Constitutional Court
… number of people from the Pan-Africanist Congress in Cape Town who’d marched on Parliament, and they were charged with … set up the constitutional committee…
ArticleAlbertina Sisulu and the organisations she was connected to
… April 1954 in Johannesburg. It was the brainchild of Ray Simons who drew in others such as Helen Joseph , Lillian …
Dumile Feni biography by Sophia Reuss
… Mslaba “Dumile” Feni was born on 21 May 1942 in the small town of Withuis in Worcester, Cape Province. While his date … birth, the family moved from Withuis…
To Change the World ! Is Reason Enough ?, London, August, 1995
… night walking in the rain up Louis Botha Avenue towards town feeling very sorry for myself and enjoying it. Joining … window shop for tools. On a Saturday…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 1 Contextual Overview
At this stage, it was not at all clear that Europe would come to dominate the world. The intention is to provide a comparative overview of some of the major…
EventThe burghers were victorious in their struggle against Cape Governor Willem Adriaan van der Stel and his officials
… New History of South Africa . Tafelberg Publishers, Cape Town, pg 146.| Muller, C.F.J. (ed) (1981). Five Hundred …
EventAllan Boesak’s plea for the acquittal on fraud charges is rejected and the case is postponed to the following year
Allan Boesak graduated from the Belville Theological Seminary and worked as a pastor in Paarl between 1967 and 1970. After received his PhD from a university…
Extract from a speech made in the House of Assembly on January 1976 in reply to a motion of no confidence in the Government by the Leader of the Opposition
… was conceived and born in communist sin here in Cape Town in 1957 when it was established by two Whites, Messrs. Simons and Turok. 7 Mr. H. H. Schwarz: Mr…
ArticleA History of the South African Film Industry timeline 1895-2003
… and President Streets in Johannesburg - then a small town only nine years old. South Africa was certainly one of … on sport was screened at the Tivoli Music…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Johannesburg opening of the Anne Frank Exhibition at the Museum Africa Johannesburg, 15 August 1994
(And the Address by Dr Martin Simon, Executive Board Member of the Anne Frank House on presentation of Anne Frank Award to President Nelson Mandela)…
ArticleSefako Mapogo Makgatho Timeline 1861-1961
1861 Sefako Mapogo Makgatho is born at Ga Mphahlele, Pietersburg district in Transvaal (now Limpopo province). 1870 The death of the King of the Baostho…