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… Democratic Party election poster for the Eastern Cape. DP Logo. Blue, white, black and yellow …
EventAndries Hendrik Potgieter is born
… Andries Hendrik Potgieter, the leader of a Voortrekker group which he led during the battle of Vegkop when attacked by the Matabele (Ndebele), was born in…
ArchivePresidential Address
… Presidential Address delivered by I B Tabata at Cape Town, for the African People's Democratic Union of South Africa. …
PlaceMontagu Pass
… Declared a National Monument in 1972, it is the oldest unaltered Pass in South Africa , and links George … of the Outeniqua Pass it was the main route…
Social Housing on Tafelberg: Sea Point Residents Meeting
… The Western Cape government published a model indicating that 270 social housing units could be built on the old Tafelberg School site. This is a public…
ArchiveNon-European Unity Movement 3rd Unity Conference
… Movement (Unite for Freedom), 3rd Unity Conference held in the Banqueting Hall, Cape Town on 4th and 5th January 1945. Including in this document are two…
PlaceFranschhoek Motor Museum
… The Franschhoek Motor Museum offers visitors a special … on more than 100 Years of motoring History. The Museum's Cape Dutch Architecture reflects the…
EventDipuo Peters is born
… Premier of Northern Cape Province and member of the National Executive Committee of the ANC Women's League, Elizabeth Dipuo Peters, was born in …
PlaceHatfield Street 139, Gardens
… Declared a Provinsial Heritage Site, like so many of the lovely old houses on Hatfield Street, in Cape Town! …
ArchiveWorkers drive bosses into a corner
… The Eastern Cape has recently been shaken by a work stoppage …
EventZwelethu Mthethwa found guilty of murder
… South African artist, was found guilty on 16 March 2017 at the Western Cape High Court of murdering Nokuphila Kumalo, a young sex … worker, aged 23, on the…
EventFormer Colonial Prime Minister John Merriman dies
… South African statesman and the last prime minister of the Cape Colony before the formation of the Union of South … (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of…
EventAlexander Kerr dies
… Alexander Kerr, educationist, church leader and the first principal of the South African Native College (now the University of Fort Hare), died in Alice,…
ArchiveBanned
… Statement calling on the public to support a petition of the Students Representative Council of the University of Cape Town, asking the United Party to…
Banned
… Statement calling on the public to support a petition of the Students Representative Council of the University of Cape Town, asking the United Party to…
PlaceQueenstown, now known as Komani.
… was intended to be a Military Outpost designed to protect the British subjects from attack during the time of the Frontier Wars . The Town was laid out…
ArchiveProceedings of 4th Anti-CAD Conference
… Proceedings of the 4th Anti-CAD Conference held on Friday, 5th January 1951, in Banqueting Hall, Cape Town. …
ArchiveDon`t Vote: as elections creep nearer FOSATU goes door to door urging people not to vote
… Thousands of homes in the Eastern Cape have been visited by FOSATU organisers and shop stewards as the federation steps up its campaign to urge so-called …
EventJan Smuts is born
… South Africa's second Prime Minister in 1919, was born on the farm Bovenplaats near Riebeeck West in the Cape. Smuts had a distinguished political career as…
EventANC leader, Oliver Tambo, dies after a long illness
… On 24 April 1993, former President of the African National Congress (ANC),Oliver “OR” Tambo died in … after a long battle with illness. Tambo was born in the…
PlaceRiebeek West
… The village of Riebeek West, in the Riebeek Valley together with its sister town Riebeek … It was named in honour of the first Dutch Governor of the Cape,…
EventCecil John Rhodes (48) dies in Muizenberg
… political manipulator, diamond magnate and Premier of the Cape Colony dies aged 48. He arrived in South Africa in … 1870 and invested his inheritance from…
ArchiveWe will not be silenced
… Circular publicising a conference to be held in Cape Town on 2 May 1988, regarding the resistance of church organisations to state repression. …
ArchiveNews in brief
… The National Automobile and Allied Workers Union has won a new R2 an hour minimum wage rate at Leyland's Cape Town plant. …
EventDesmond Tutu is appointed first Black Anglican Bishop of Johannesburg
… Desmond Mpilo Tutu was appointed and ordained as the first Black Anglican Bishop of Johannesburg a month after winning the Nobel Peace Prize. The following…
PlaceUWC - Robben Island Mayibuye Archives
… The Robben Island World Heritage Site has rich archival resources mostly based at the Mayibuye Archive, situated in the Main Library at the University of the…
PlaceResidence, 21 Cuyler Street, Uitenhage
… The construction of the original structure with its Cape Dutch and Georgian … features, dates from approximately 1840. It is thus one of the oldest dwellings…
PlaceRabula
… The Village of Rabula was named after the Xhosa " ukurabula "-'a term given to a child when it … and is located in Amathola District Municipality , Eastern…
EventMaritime headquarters at Silvermine is opened
… Prime Minister B.J. Vorster officially opened the South African Navy's R15m Maritime Operational and … Headquarters at Silvermine, West Lake, near Simonstown…
EventMakhaya Ntini represents South Africa at Newlands
… Makhaya Ntini becomes the first Black SA cricket player to play in a five-day test in Cape Town, in which he takes 2 wickets. …