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ArchiveCrisis News
… Crisis News, published by the Western Province Council of Churches, Cape Town, "attempts to tell the truth of what is happening in our country", particularly…
EventMandela is moved to Victor Verster prison
… The government moved African National Congress (ANC) leader … Nelson Mandela from the Constantiaberg private clinic in Cape Town, where he had been…
PlaceBelvidere, Knysna
… Captain Thomas Henry Duthie emigrated to the Cape in 1826. In 1830 he visited Knysna, where he was the … Rex, whose daughter Caroline he subsequently married…
PlaceChad
… Chad is the fifth largest country in Africa [i] . Chad is estimated … of houses and crops, to coerce people who refused to join the forced labour [lxxi] …
PlaceGroote Schuur Estate
… lions and a leopard, for which he built an extension onto the menagerie to house the creatures. On the slopes just … above the land presently occupied by the…
Elections Programmes for Deputy President, Secretary General & Treasurer General, 16 May 2011
… General and Treasurer General will on Tuesday lead the movement`s election campaign in the Western Cape, Gauteng and the Free State provinces. Their…
ArticleThe South African Communist Party and May Day – Some Key Moments
… history , being a day of commemoration and celebration of the international working classes. Historically, the South … very successful. The SACP held a rally…
PlaceMolenvliet House, Molenvliet Street, Mowbray
… The land on which this house is situated originally formed … in 1785. De Necker was presumably the builder of the Cape Dutch house, Westoe. Molenvliet dates…
Document 37 - Letter from S. P. Bunting to E. R. Roux, 29 November 1930
… November 29th 1930. E. R,Roux, P.O. Box 1176, CAPE TOWN. Dear Roux, Wolton is leaving tonight for Cape Town to introduce the "new line" to the Cape Town…
PlaceMichaelis School of Fine Art
… The Michaelis School of Fine Art, the namesake of the Fine Art Department of the University of Cape Town , is located on Hiddingh Campus, which is a cluster …
EventChoirmaster, educator and singer Mary Eveline Fincken is born
… Africa in 1908 for health reasons. Fincken was one of the first staff members at the South African College of Music in Cape Town. On her death in 1955 she…
EventReginald (Reg) September, prominent trade unionist and anti-apartheid activist, is born
… Reginald 'Reg' September was a prominent trade unionist, the leader of the South African Coloured People's … the African National Congress. He was born in…
Uncovering Josina Machel from obscurity: African women hidden in his-story by Ama Biney, 3 April 2014
… fought for independence for her country until she died at the tender age of 25. 7 April marks the day she died – a day … Josina fled the country with other…
Harry Hart, a South African athletics champion is born
… Free State on 2 September 1905. [i] He attended the University of the Free State. [ii] Hart won six medals at … van Lill, Van Lill’s South African Sports…
PlaceNelson Mandela University, in Gqeberha
… Metropolitan University (NMMU) opened on 1 January 2005, the result of the merging of the PE Technikon the University of Port … The Port Elizabeth Technikon…
National spokesperson to address a lecture on OR Tambo
… This month, October 2014, the African National Congress pays homage to our late former … OR Tambo memorial lecture at the University of Western Cape. Members…
Event33 American airmen arrive in Durban on a mission to launch a long-range missile
… prepare for a mission to launch a long-range rocket which the United States hoped would be accomplished within a week. … based in Durban. America hoped to…
ArchiveChapter 14 Out of prison: 28 February 1985 as a free person by Denis Goldberg
… officer monitoring the conversation about children and schools and normal human things. How nice to talk to a woman. … you want to. Two, I have a circle of…
ArchiveMedical aid for Russia presents ... Shostakov
… Cream, black, red and yellow poster. Notice of a concert at Cape Town City Hall on September 11th, by the Cape Town Municipal Orchestra. …
Chris Hani Memorial Lecture delivered by President Jacob Zuma, 26 April 2013, Queenstown
… Members of the Hani family, Premier Noxolo Kiviet and members of the … laws and decided to ban any political activity at African schools. What the regime…
PlacePlumstead
… Plumstead was developed on the site of an old VOC Military Camp some 13km South of Cape Town and, by 1823, was already a growing Village. The Cape Town…
PlaceWoodstock
… The Village of Papendorp lay some 2 km East of Cape Town , on … Alliance' , in deference to the French presence at the Cape in 1781-84 , was registered in…
PlaceGaries
… To describe Garies as in the middle of nowhere does not do any damage to the … or 'not-quite-halfway' mark for those on the road between Cape Town and…
Document 26 - Nelson Mandela’s reply to F. W. De Klerk
… Central Executive Committee held a strategy workshop on the 23 - 24 Oct. 1995 to deal with critical issues relating to the political, social and economic…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Introduction
… From the book: Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular … Culture 1886 - 1940 by Luli Callinicos I talk about the past mainly because actually I am…
EventAcclaimed South African poet Sheila Cussons dies
… Acclaimed South African poet Sheila Cussons died in Cape Town. Cussons was known for her poetry works in … was born on 9 August 1922 in Moravia, near…
EventPolitical activist and lawyer A. P. Mda is born
… Political activist, teacher and lawyer, co-founder of the African National Youth League (ANCYL) and its president … Peter (A.P.) Solomzi Mda, was born in…
EventArchibald Campbell Mzoliza Jordan is born
… The Xhosa writer and linguist, Archibald Campbell Mzoliza … years as teacher and having obtained an M.A. Degree at the University of South Africa in 1944, he…
PlaceYokohama, Muizenburg
… in 1906 out of paper maché, imported from Japan. The house is a historical heritage property of Muizenberg and the Western Cape Province and is currently…
EventLouis Washkansky dies
… Fifty four year old dentist Louis Washkansky, recipient of the first successful human heart transplant in the world, died in Cape Town, eighteen days after…