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EventSouth African author and feminist Olive Schreiner is born
… Schreiner. During her youth she lived in Cradock in the Eastern Cape. She died in Wynberg, Cape Town, on 10 December 1920. The Department of Tourism in … SA…
EventAllan Boesak guilty on charges of fraud
… Allan Boesak, liberation theologian, chairman of the Western Cape region of the African National Congress (ANC) and … was found guilty of fraud by Judge…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Bibliography
… From the book: Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom … (eds) State of the Nation: South Africa 2003 – 2004 . Cape Town: HSRC Press, 2003 Davenport, R…
PlaceKing Williams Town, Amatola
… officially becoming a Town in 1861. It was named for the British King William IV . The Town has a large textile … and tannery and is Nationally known for its…
EventWillie Smith, South Africa’s bantamweight champion boxer is born
… was South Africa’s second Olympic champion when he won the bantamweight title at the 1924 Olympic Games held in … David van Lill, Van Lill’s South African…
PlaceSeal Island
… Hout Bay has now become well known as the port of departure for scenic day trips to Seal island or Duiker Island, home to a colony of thousands of Cape Fur…
ArticleSouth African Film
… Feature Films are the long format, fictional (non-factual) films you see in … on the screen then they are to seeing Soweto, Jozi or Cape Town. It’s why we…
PlaceGriqualand West
… The Khoikhoi was a nation of widely scattered migrant … groups. Originally the Khoikhoi inhabited most of the Cape South of the Molopo and West of the Kei…
PlacePollsmoor Prison
… Pollsmoor Prison is situated in Tokai, Cape Town, and is the largest Prison in the Western Cape Province. It is an overcrowded facility located in …
EventBenjamin Magson Kies, political activist & lawyer, is born
… South African political activist and theorist from about the middle of the 1930s until his death in 1979. His major … modest means in the working-class…
ArchiveInventaries van stukke gevind en op beslag gele deur Luitenant J. I. De Waal op 1977-10-19 in the Kantoor van die South African Students movement te Lekton Huis Nr 505, Wandererstraat 5, Johannesburg
… An inventory of items found in the offices of the "South African Students Movement" and submitted as … beslag gele deur Luitenant J. I. De Waal op 1977-10-19…
EventMichael “Muis” Roberts, South Africa’s best jockey is born
… Michael Leonard Roberts was born on 17 May 1954 in Cape Town.[i] Roberts was one of South Africa’s most renowned … to his petite physique when he registered…
ArchiveIndian South Africans in Struggle for National Liberation Evidence of Molvi Ismail Ahmad Cachalia in the South African Treason Trial, June 21-28, 1960, Edited by E. S. Reddy
… Liberation Evidence of Molvi Ismail Ahmad Cachalia in the South African Treason Trial, June 21-28, 1960 … In South Africa, the people have been engaged in a…
Military training and camps of the Pan Africanist Congress of South Africa, 1961–1981 by Gregory Houston, Thami ka Plaatjie and Thozama April, (Historia ,60,2), November 2015
… Military training and camps of the Pan Africanist Congress of South Africa, 1961–1981 by …
Speech by Oliver Tambo at dinner hosted in his honour by the Minister of External Affairs of India, Mr. P.V. Narasimha, Rao, New Delhi, 21 January 1983
… Speech by Oliver Tambo at dinner hosted in his honour by the Minister of External Affairs of India, Mr. P.V. …
’Impose Comprehensive and Mandatory Sanctions Against South Africa’, Speech by Oliver Tambo at the International Conference on Sanctions Against South Africa, Unesco House Paris, 21 May 1981
… Sanctions Against South Africa’, Speech by Oliver Tambo at the International Conference on Sanctions Against South …
Statement by Oliver Tambo at meeting to commemorate South Africa Freedom Day and to condemn the 600-year alliance between Britain and Portugal, London, 20 June 1973
… to commemorate South Africa Freedom Day and to condemn the 600-year alliance between Britain and Portugal, London, …
UDF Poster ‘RELEASE OUR PEOPLE : The struggle for freedom & justice in our country is not an act of treason’ by United Democratic Front (UDF), 1985, South Africa
… UDF Poster ‘RELEASE OUR PEOPLE : The struggle for freedom & justice in our country is not an …
Document 114 - (National Liberation League?), How To Work Among Urban Africans
… Drew In this statement an attempt is made to indicate the lines on which our work among Africans in urban areas … 28,000; East London 24,000;…
EventEdgar D. Ngoyi, South African ANC leader who spent seventeen years on Robben Island, is born.
… Edgar Dumile Ngoyi was born on 26 December 1926 in the Eastern Cape. Ngoyi became politically active in the African National … Ngoyi was later elected as…
EventWell-known political activist and academic, Dr. Neville Alexander is born
… Alexander was born on 22 October, 1936 in Cradock, Eastern Cape. He went on to complete three university degrees in History and German at the University of…
EventCheryl Carolus is born
… South Africa, Cheryl Carolus, was born in Silvertown on the Cape Flats. At school, Carolus was an active member of the … F. (2000). Nuusdagboek: feite en…
Democrats Film Screening
… to invite members within your organization/ department to the screening on the 28th,29th and 30th November in Cape Town and Johannesburg. Douglas Mwonzora…
ArticleSouth Africa needs a national holiday on 16 November to acknowledge its indentured
… ABOUT A MONUMENT AND SOME KIND OF OFFICIAL RECOGNITION OF THE ARRIVAL DAY OF INDENTURED LABOURERS SINCE THE 1990S. BUT … and progressive political…
EventRabbi Israel Abrahams is born
… Chief Rabbi of Cape Town and Hebrew scholar Israel Abrahams was born in … Vilna, Lithuania. He came to South Africa in 1937 and held the position of chief…
PlaceGreen Point
… The area about Green Point was initially used by the Dutch as a cattle grazing station. After the British annexed the Cape in 1806, they began to hold horse…
PlaceLions Head, Mt.
… is between Table Mountain and Signal Hill , adjacent too the Twelve Apostles Mountain Range , in Cape town. The best thing about the Lion’s Head hike is…
EventSA cartoonist, Daniel Cornelis Boonzaaier is born
… Daniël Cornelis Boonzaaier was born at Patatsrivier in the Cape Province in 1865. Boonzaaier became famous for his caricatures and political cartoons. He…
PlaceNewlands
… Willem van der Stel was granted land some 9km outside Cape Town , which he named 'De Nieuwe Land' or 'Nieuwland' … lodge, a formal garden and an oak…
EventWendy Botha, South Africa’s world champion surfer is born
… in East London on 28 August 1965.[i] She began surfing at the age of 13, and won four consecutive South African … David van Lill, Van Lill’s South African…