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EventAt least 100 people drown in a flood at Laingsburg
… On 25 January 1981, Laingsburg in the Western Cape was devastated by a severe flood. The hard … investigated by the Provincial government of the Western Cape…
EventSir Christoffel Joseph Brand succeeds his brother, P.A. Brand, as editor of De Zuid
… De Zuid-Afrikaan (The South African) was the first proper Dutch newspaper in … Afrikaners for who opposed Anglicisation in the British Cape Colony at the…
ArchiveTribute to Ottilie Schimming Abrahams (2 Sept 1937-1 July 2018) – some notes and memories by Heike Becker
… In the late 1950s Ottilie Schimming Abrahams was among the first … Namibian students who pursued post-secondary education in Cape Town. Ottilie Schimming…
PlaceWupperthal Mission Station, Clanwilliam
… 72 km southeast of Clanwilliam and about 250 km from Cape Town . This picturesque place has been a Moravian … since 1865, although its origins are actually…
PlaceGordonia Division
… Magisterial district and division in the North-West in the Cape Province. Named after Sir Gordon Sprigg, who was Prime Minister of the Cape Colony four times…
PlaceShree Ambalavaanar Alayam Temple Complex, Cato Manor, Durban
… The original building is the first recorded public Hindu temple to have been erected on the African continent. Built in 1875, . It was declared a … The…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 2 Source-based Questions
… The picture above shows how dire the situation was in America … young and single workers Provision for opening of all schools, payment of salaries to…
EventTwo prisoners sentenced to death for sodomy
… perpetrated sodomy’ according to trial records from the Cape Council of Justice in August 1735. Jacobsz was a … years. In 1715, Blanc, a Khoi-Khoi, from the…
Archive”Native Union”. Article by Pixley ka Isaka Seme, in October 24, 1911
… and Chiefs, to write a full and concise statement on the subject of the South African Native Congress, so called. I feel, … (3) Native beer, is it a national…
PlaceCentral African Republic
… Diamond prospectors in the Central African Republic have found polished flint and … set up megaliths weighing several tons each near, Bouar. The cooperation…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 1 - People, Politics and Ideology by Malegapuru William Makgoba
… From the book: Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid commissioned … Show: The Inside Story of the 1976 Soweto Uprising . Cape Town, Zebra, 2001 (Introduction…
May Day
… (effectively a May Day holiday). Worker's Day celebrates the role played by Trade Unions, the Communist Party and other labour movements in the … version of…
EventFirst celebration of May Day in South Africa
… (effectively a May Day holiday). Worker's Day celebrates the role played by Trade Unions, the Communist Party and other labour movements in the … version of…
EventInternational celebration of ‘May Day’
… (effectively a May Day holiday). Worker's Day celebrates the role played by Trade Unions, the Communist Party and other labour movements in the … version of…
EventWilhelmina Johanna (Wilma) Stockenström is born
… of poetry, Vir die bysiende leser, (aptly named because of the use of large font) was published in 1970 that she was … in Afrikaans literature. Originally…
PlaceBritish Bechuanaland
… Territory of British Bechuanaland The territory known as British Bechuanaland covered an area … greater part of Bechuanaland in 1868. The British in the Cape…
PlaceSouth African National Art Gallery
… Source: www.sa-venues.com This Gallery is located in Cape Town. It was started in 1872 with the donation of Sir Thomas Butterworth's personal Gallery. ……
From Protest to Challenge: Documents of African Politics in South Africa 1882-1964 Volume 2
… Introduction Most of the world is living under the system of Society called … the racial domination of the whites as against the old Cape nominal equality,…
Chronology
… 1935 May , Joint Select Committee of Parliament tables the Representation of Natives Bill and the Native Trust and … Territories General Council supports…
’Under Investigation’ video material going live on facebook
… development project being run in Steytlerville in the Eastern Cape. The project has several elements but centres on the … for Justice and Reconciliation, 105…
EventMass funeral for those killed at Sharpeville commemoration
… Blacks attended a mass funeral in KwaNobuhle township for the twenty-eight people killed by police during a … a township on the outskirts of Uitenhage in the…
National Arts Festival 2017
… The National Arts Festival is an important event on the South … city of Grahamstown, which is situated in the Eastern Cape, 130km from Port Elizabeth. The…
PlaceAG Bain Monument, Grahamstown
… This is a bronze plaque on a cairn at the top of the Ecca Pass, 12 km South of Grahamstown. It was … offers insights into a fascinating life in the Eastern…
EventFirst air flight from London to South Africa
… By the 1920s, the development of heavier than air flight had … attempt launched on 4 February 1920 to open the London to Cape Town route was met with great…
PlaceBurgersdorp, E.C.
… The Merino sheep-farming Town of Burgersdorp, in the North Eastern Cape has been a pivotal point in Afrikaner: History; Culture … 'Christian National…
EventPolitical activist, Professor ZK Matthews is born
… Keodirelang Matthews , was born in Kimberley in 1901, the son of Peter Motsielwa and Martha Mooketsi Matthews, a … exposed to politics at a young age - his…
EventJudge Essa Moosa passes away
… Essa Moosa was born in District Six, Cape Town on 8 February 1936.[i] He was a judge in the Supreme Court of South Africa. Moosa was a former human … late…
Enuga S Reddy: Notes on meeting with Dr. Cassim Jadwat -1997
… student at Sastri College in Durban. [A.I. Kazi, leader of the Natal Indian Congress for twenty years (from 1920s to … and its secretaryfor one or two years…
Kirstenbosch Summer Sunset Concerts 2017
… The Kirstenbosch Summer Sunset Concerts run annually from … 2018 Beatenberg / Alice Phoebe Lou 4 February 2018 The Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra 11…
PlaceSuurbraak, a Settlement in the Overberg Municipality
… largely alone." This Village was established in 1812, when the London Missionary Society established a mission station … the foot of the Tradouw Pass , about…