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ArchiveWomens Directive report
… Report by the NUSAS Women's Directive, presented at the 59th Annual … National Union of South African Students, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, 28…
ArticleBasotho Wars 1858 - 1868
… The three Basotho Wars (1858-68) and the formation of Lesotho … (known as Boers) crossed the Orange River from the Cape Colony in the mid-1820s. Although…
ArticleSouth African Police Services (SAPS)
… The South African Police Service (SAPS) that we are familiar … were called to active service in the Boer army, while the Cape Mounted Riflemen and Mounted…
ArchiveColoured Persons Communal Reserves Act, Act No 3 of 1961
… The Act was to apply the Mission Stations and Communal Reserves Act 1909, of the Cape of Good Hope, to coloured persons settlement areas … the meaning of the…
Americans for South African Resistance, 25 June 1982
… I was very pleased to receive the invitation to make statement to the Special Committee … with Professor Z.K. Matthews, the President of the Cape Province…
EventPiet Retief’s Great Trek manifesto is completed
… Piet Retief completes the manifesto that sets out the reasons why the Voortrekkers are leaving the Cape Colony. It is published in English in the Graham's…
ArchiveHead Office report to NUSAS Congress 1981
… Report from the head office of the National Union of South African … presented at its 59th Annual Congress, University of Cape Town, Cape Town from 28…
Event1 575 people are detained under a state of emergency
… The events which led to mass detentions in April 1960 were … Transvaal to a large extent, it gained new force in the Cape Peninsula. On 25 March Phillip…
Place'Amstel River', Now Known as Liesbeek River
… Name applied from 1657 to the Liesbeek River, in Cape Town. Named after a small River … shortly after the first Dutch Settlers arrived in the Cape. This was…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Weyers Street, Durbanville-Bergsig
… In the year 1824 a number of farm owners, living on the outskirts of Cape Town. Petitioned Lord Somerset, the Governor of Cape, for a church to be built for…
Archive'Colonialism had never really ended': my life in the shadow of Cecil Rhodes by Simukai Chigudu
… There was no single moment when I began to sense the long shadow that Cecil John Rhodes has cast over my life, … learn to call it, is among the oldest and…
EventEvelyn Dalberg, SA opera singer, is born in Germany
… Africa, was born on 23 May 1939, in Leipzig, Germany. The daughter of Frederick Dalberg and German Soprano Ellen … married German bassoonist Werner Eichler,…
ArchiveFifty seven years of NUSAS - Have we learned our lessons?
… Critical overview of history of the National Union of South African Students in which the … National Union of South African Students, University of Cape Town…
EventPolitical activist Mziwonke ‘Pro’ Jack is assassinated.
… The African National Congress (ANC) activist, Mziwonke 'Pro' Jack was gunned down next to his home in Cape Town. Jack was a taxi conflict mediator in Cape…
ArticleBlack Sash
… The Women's Defence of the Constitution League In 1955 a small group of white … English-speaking formed an organization called The Women's Defence of the…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at a Luncheon in his Honour Hosted by his Excellency President Fernando Henrique Cardoso of the Federative Republic of Brazil Brasilia, 22 July 1998
… by his Excellency President Fernando Henrique Cardoso of the Federative Republic of Brazil Brasilia, 22 July 1998 …
PlaceMoletzie Bird Sanctuary
… of safety' and is quite appropriate as it protects the Cape Vulture! Endemic to Southern Africa, but a few … Provinces and Lesotho/Western KwaZulu-Natal…
ArticleZion Christian Church (ZCC)
… The largest and fastest-growing of the African independent churches in the 1990s is the Zion … and it had spread to Zimbabwe, Botswana and the Northern Cape…
ArticleApartheid Legislation 1850's-1970's
… certificates. Families of condonees are not allowed to join them. The Act also establishes a scheme of voluntary … of Blacks Act No 12 of 1936 Removed Black…
ArticlePolokwane/Pietersburg Timeline 1835-1995
… 1835 Migration of disaffected Dutch farmers from the Cape Colony 1836 Louis Trichardt and Hans van Rensburg … reaches Delagoa Bay 1849 Treaty of Derdepoort…
ArchiveRoseinnes Daniel Phahle by Allison Drew
… Martin’s) in Rosettenville, Johannesburg, which was run by the Community of the Resurrection, a monastic order then … Phahle resigned from the NEUM in 1957,…
PlacePotchefstroom
… The name comes from the word: 'Potscherf'- (meaning broken … It is also home to five Tertiary Institutions and some 30 Schools. There is a very strong…
EventBritish troopship wrecked – 372 drown
… The British troopship Arniston was wrecked on the rocks at … Arniston in Marcus Bay, about twenty-five kilometres from Cape Agulhas. Of the 378 people on…
ArchiveNUSAS resumé 1981
… Record of some of the main events that the National Union of South African … National Union of South African Students, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, 28…
First Conference Centre of Documentary Photography 8-10 July 1988.
… Photograph of participants of the first conference hosted by the University of Cape Town's Centre for Documentary Photography, July 8th … of the first…
PlaceTradouw Pass
… "The Tradouw Pass, which means; "Women's Path", (in the old Khoi language). Is a 16 kilometer drive through an … (This Pass is in the Top 20 Tarred Passes in…
June 12 Movement
… June 12th marked a historic moment in the history of Black students. The University of the Western Cape acting together with the Department of Coloured…
June 12 Movement
… June 12th marked a historic moment in the history of Black students. The University of the Western Cape acting together with the Department of Coloured…
ArchiveJune 12 Movement
… June 12th marked a historic moment in the history of Black students. The University of the Western Cape acting together with the Department of Coloured…
EventRudolph Lewis, South African road racing cyclist is born
… Laurens S Meintjes.[ii] He represented South Africa at the 1912 Olympics, held in Stockholm, Sweden.[iii] Despite … David van Lill, Van Lill’s South African…