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PlaceKenilworth
… Kenilworth lies flanked by the Constantia Winelands and popular Kirstenbosch Botanical … suburb, upper Kenilworth is a well established part of Cape Town and…
EventSA painter Frederick Timpson I’Ons (85) dies
… Frederick Timpson l'Ons (85), SA painter of the early life in the Eastern Cape, died in Grahamstown. He was born in Islington, … November 1802 and,…
PlacePort Alfred
… One of the many difficulties faced by the 1820 Settlers , was accessibility to the outside World. … of the line was part of the massive expansion of the Cape…
PlaceDiep River
… Rathfelder was born in Stuttgart in 1811 and emigrated to the Cape in 1835. Following his marriage in the colony, he inherited a halfway-house near Wynberg,…
Grassroots
… Grassroots was started in 1980 as the first of a series of community newspapers designed to … over 60 democratic organisations: the civics under Western Cape…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Bibliography
… From the book: Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and … the Past: New Perspectives on South African History . Cape Town, UCT Press, 1986. Callinicos,…
PlaceYellowwood Park, Durban
… The first thing that strikes you about the leafy garden suburb of Yellowwood Park, just 14 … life. The Community Hall or civic centre is a beautiful Cape…
EventOldest example of written Afrikaans appears in a poem
… positions at Muizenberg during their campaign to capture the Cape Colony. The engagement saw Dutch East India Company … The poem represents an early instance…
PlaceMuizenberg and Marina da Gama
… The Village of Muizenberg was established by the Dutch in … Post and is located in False Bay, on the road between Cape Town and Simon's Town . It was named…
EventAnna Neethling Pohl, South African actress and author, is born
… Anna Neethling Pohl the South African actress and author was born in Graaf Reinet in the Eastern Cape on 24 December 1906. At the age of five she joined ……
EventCPSA is founded
… The founding conference of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) took place in Cape Town from 30 July to 1 August 1921, however, the party was founded…
Township Uprising, 1984-1985
… On 3 September the Tricameral Parliament opened in Cape Town while protest … March saw the explosion of resistance in the Eastern Cape after the organisation…
PlaceRustenburg House, together with its Summer House, Main Road, Rondebosch.
… When the VoC granted land in Rondebosch to the first free … as Rustenburg, was used by successive Commanders of the Cape as a country Residence, where they…
Everard Read Art Gallery
… South Africa’s most famous art galleries was established. The Everard Read Gallery has grown in sophistication and … Read Gallery extended itself to the V&A…
PlaceWoolsack House, Rondebosch
… Drive is next to Rosebank and is located in City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. Woolsack Drive has a length of 0.02 … features, was Rebuilt by Sir…
PlaceJosephine Mill, Boundary Road, Newlands
… under old NMC legislation on 15 December 1978. Newlands in Cape Town is home to the Josephine Mill which was built in 1840. Its machinery … water mill that…
PlaceWindermere
… beside Kensington, Windermere was a settlement situated on the N1 highway in Cape Town near the Ysterplaat airbase. The Group Areas Act of … and renters, as…
PlaceMilnerton
… The Cape Town suburb of Milnerton was established in 1902 on the site of the old farm: 'Janbiesjeskraal', and was named in honour of Sir Alfred Milner , Cape…
PlaceMaitland Road
… Milestones where used to measure distance, by the early settlers, in Cape Town. A Post Office known as Eleventh Mile Stone, … an independant Municipality in…
PlaceRuth Prowse School of Art
… With the death of Ruth Prowse in 1967, her Mansion Property “the … located on Birkdale Avenue, 5 Elson Rd, Woodstock , Cape Town, was bequeathed as an Arts…
ArchiveSishaywa Zimvula Nje, Simanikiniki Nje, Umhlol’Usekhaya – Reading Mafika Gwala in Times of Thunder and the Terror of the Elements by Sanibonani Molweni
… Hola! It is an honour to be with you this afternoon. The task at hand certainly daunts me. Yet, it is also … one could be swept up in the spirit of defiance…
EventAnna 'Sister Nannie' Tempo died
… slave mother and father who were kidnapped as children off the coast of Mozambique. She was born in the late 1870s and … her life to helping the downtrodden…
EventGreat Trek Centenary Celebrations commence
… The Great Trek was a migration that took place between 1838 and the 1840s, and involved the Boers leaving the Cape Colony and settling in the interior of…
EventFeminist writer and activist, Diana E. H. Russell is born
… Diana E.H. Russell was born in Cape Town on 6 November 1938. Her mother was British and her … South African. After completing her bachelors degree at the…
PlaceRosemount
… Woodbrook Farm was established at about the same time as East London, and was located immediately … Nature Reserves and the East London Airport: 1) Eastern…
Event’Purple rain’ used on women protesters
… The police in Adderley street, Cape Town used their new water cannons to suppress a Cape riot that had, for the third time, spread to White … Weekly Mail. …
PlaceBeau Soleil Music Centre, Salisbury Road, Kenilworth
… The original portion of this double-storey manor house was … was officially opened on 15th April 1983 by the Western Cape Education Department to meet the…
ANC to convene Provincial Memorial Services in honour of Madiba, 8 December 2013
… The African National Congress, South Africans and the world … Msukaligwa (Ermelo) 10h00 13 December 2013 ANC Western Cape Provincial Memorial Service Delft…
PlaceTable Mountain Water Supply
… Table Mountain is probably one of the most famous iconic landmarks of the world and dominates much of the picturesque, Cape Peninsula. Extending for 2km from…
Simon van der Stel is succeeded by his eldest son
… Simon van der Stel , who became commander of the Cape on 12 October 1679 and was promoted to governor in … retirement, Simon was one of the largest…