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EventFormer South African Prime Minister JG Strijdom dies
… Johannes Gerhardus (JG) Strijdom was born in 1893 in the Cape Colony. He trained as a lawyer at the Victoria … Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom died on 24 August…
ArticleSophiatown Timeline
… period marks a turning point in South African history when the discovery of diamonds at Kimberly and of gold on the Witwatersrand spurred the…
PlaceCross erected by Bartholomew Dias
… The original cross is currently housed in the Library of the … Heritage Site at Kwaaihoek, Alexandria in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. A minor…
PlaceWelgelegen Homestead, next to Mosterts Mill
… In 1657 the VoC granted land on the slopes of Table Mountain to a … altered by Herbert Baker who rebuilt it in a pseudo-Cape Dutch style. Subsequently it…
EventDick King returns home after securing help for Port Natal
… Dick King (Richard Philip) returned to Port Natal on board the Conch after his heroic rescue operation. King, … (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of…
ArticleQuotations by Oliver Tambo
… as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity. Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you … After we…
ArticleState of Emergency - 1985
… The year of 1985 signaled the beginning of the end of … applied to 36 magisterial districts in the Eastern Cape and the Pretoria-Witwatersrand-Vereeniging…
PlaceRosmead
… Middelburg Road was a Cape Government Railway station and was formally established on about 2 April 1883, when the Railway Line from Cradock was inaugurated…
EventChris Hani is born
… Hani, Chief of Staff of Umkhonto we Sizwe, military arm of the African National Congress (ANC) and General-Secretary of … to study in Matanzima Secondary…
Bibliographical note and further reading
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans … Aspects of the South African Indian Question, 1860-1971 (Cape Town, 1971), and Pachai (ed.),…
EventMilner proposes conditional voting rights for ‘non-Whites’ in SA
… A year after the Treaty of Vereeniging, which signalled the end of the … (Transvaal, the former ZAR, the Free State, Natal and the Cape) the latter was the…
EventMaggie Laubser, SA painter and winner of several awards, dies
… April 1886 in a wheat farm called bloublommetjieskloof in the district of Malmesbury in the Cape Colony, Maria Magdalena Laubster was a painter and … has…
EventFormer African Springbok captain, Welile Nkohla dies
… 2017, Welile James Nkohla, also known as ‘Bomza’, died at the age of 71 years of age in Livingstone Hospital in Port … Union, Nkohla was a legend of black…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on 16 June 1984
… The month of June, like no other month, carries a galaxy of … to stand firm with the oppressed majority; to refuse to join the doomed apartheid system on the…
Statement on June 16 by O. R. Tambo, 1984
… The month of June, like no other month, carries a galaxy of … to stand firm with the oppressed majority; to refuse to join the doomed apartheid system on the…
PlaceNiger
… Niger (was a former French colony to the north of Nigeria) and Nigeria (was a former British colony) were both named after the Niger River that flows through…
ANC Gauteng Centenary Month to celebrate Oliver Tambo, 18 October 2012
… The ANC Gauteng will host the centenary flame for eleven days from the 21st October … Alberto Bollo and others. The event will be preceded by schools soccer…
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.2 No.3 Apr-Jun 1958
… Even We. Cartoon, David Marais. The Fight is on, Rev. Joost de Blank, Archbishop of Cape Town. The Widow of the Reserves, Phyllis Ntanala. Bethal … Ruth…
PlaceLeinster Hall, 7 Weltevreden Street, Gardens
… Leinster Hall was built in the 1850s by Sebastian Hofmeyr on a plot of land that … four remaining historical manor houses in this part of Cape Town. It has…
PlaceAddo Heights, Uitenhage
… and is located in Cacadu District Municipality, Eastern Cape, South Africa. The estimate terrain elevation Above Sea Level is 263 Metres. … by the more…
PlaceTokai Arboretum, Tokai Forest
… The Arboretum was laid out in 1885 by Joseph Storr Lister, … Conservator of Forests of the Western Conservancy of the Cape Colony, thus marking the…
EventJody Scheckter
… 1950 Jody David Scheckter was born in East London, Eastern Cape .[i] Scheckter became South Africa’s first and thus far … Jody Scheckter is also infamously…
PlaceNqamakwe
… In 1865 a number of Mfengu clans were resettled in the area around Nqamakwe. As refugees from the Mfacane wars … called Fingo . This is where the people…
Place'Aguada de Sao Bras', Mossel Bay
… 1488, but Mossel Bay's History can be traced back, with the help of Archaeological deposits, to more than 164 000 … Without realizing that he had actually…
EventBill Flynn, popular SA actor dies in Johannesburg
… 1948, and was educated at Plumstead High School in Cape Town, and the University of Cape Town (UCT) Drama School. Flynn was a well respected … C.D, (2007), ‘…
PlaceVredenhof Organic Farm, Somerset West
… year seafarers sought a trade route to link Europe and the East in order to cut out the Arab middlemen who … was the first to reached India in 1498 sailing…
EventLanga, Uitenhage Massacre: 20 killed by police on Sharpeville Commemoration Day
… 25 years to the day after the infamous Sharpeville Massacre, in which 69 … on a crowd of people in Langa, Uitenhage, in the Eastern Cape. At least 20 people…
EventState of Emergency follows Sharpeville massacre
… The government proceeded with the introduction of apartheid … for 21 March 1960, took place in Langa and Nyanga, Cape Town and Sharpeville, in the Transvaal…
PlaceWrensch House, 77 Lower Wrench Road, Observatory
… The main building, as well as some of its outbuildings, date … subsequent additions have given it an overlay of unique Cape Dutch, Georgian and Victorian…
PlaceBerg River
… The Great Berg river used to be navigable for a distance of … Berg River. It has however been listed as endangered. The Cape Galaxias is a fish endemic to…