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EventBritain proclaims Natal a British colonial territory
… Natal and proclaimed it a British Colony. A year later the colony was put under the Cape Colony administration. However, it was not until the end …
PlaceThe Haven Night Shelter(s)
… tea break in their offices in Harrington Street. One of the Social Workers was married to a doctor. This doctor the … were destroying the prettiest and most…
PlaceFramesby, Port Elizabeth
… well-known residential suburbs. It is flanked by Cape Road (which is part of the N2 motorway, extending from Durban in KwaZulu-Natal, … fast-food outlets and…
EventBartolomeu Dias enters Luderitz Bay
… Portuguese seafarer Bartolomeu Dias enters the wide bay now known as Luderitz Bay after sailing for three weeks along the arid Namibia coast of south west…
PlaceCottages 60 and 62 Simonstown Road, Fish Hoek
… Both 60 and 62 originally formed part of the farm owned by K.S. de Villiers, known as the land baron of the area. He died in 1916 and the property … were…
PlaceRavenswood House, Hatfield Street, Gardens
… Ravenswood House is the only known example in Cape Town of the late classical Georgian Architectural Style of the …
EventFrancis William Reitz, South African lawyer and politician, is born
… was born on 5 October 1844 in Swelllendam in what is now the Western Cape. Reitz was a lawyerand politician. He became the first president of the Senate of…
PlaceAkasiapark, Residential Area for Civil Servants
… from 1947 to 1 December 1959, then Acacia Park after the Port Jackson Willows growing there. The SA Navy is to relocate its sprawling technical training ……
Archive2023 - President Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 9 February 2023
… State of the Nation Address by President Cyril Ramaphosa, Cape Town City Hall, 9 February 2023 Speaker of the National … to forge a comprehensive social…
PlaceCiskei
… The Ciskei Bantustan in the Eastern Cape was created as an … and the area known as Ciskei , restored to the Eastern Cape province. Read more the 'bantustan…
PlaceAlabama, Klerksdorp
… Township 6 km West of Klerksdorp in the North West . It is said to take its name indirectly from … Table Bay , on 5 August. The Alabama returned to the Cape…
PlaceDeelpan
… A Village in the Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality, North West, of South Africa. It has two schools, namely: Badibana High School and Ramadiane…
PlaceNelspruit
… A quaint little town, near the Kruger National Park. Known now as Mbombela, which has a … roam amongst life-size replicas of dinosaurs, the extinct Cape Lion…
PlaceNxuba (formerly known as Cradock)
… Karoo-style buildings, combined with its rich History of the Anglo-Boer War and early settlers, make it a fascinating … Culture, Nathi Mthethwa gazetted the…
PlacePrince Edward Islands
… The sub-Antarctic Prince Edward Island Group consists of; … These islands are approximately 1920 km south-east of Cape Town and are politically part of South…
PlaceKoedoespoort Aerodrome, Pretoria
… This site is now part of the experimental farm of the University of Pretoria. On 17 March 1920 it was the first … aircraft Voortrekker , whose epic flight…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.2 No.1 March 1979
… Thamsanqa Zondo (Sharpeville),Poems : Richard Rive (Cape Town),Riva, A story 13 F.H. Adkins/Roy Joseph … Mike Dues/Allan Kolski Horwitz/Keidi Adams/ Avril…
Place'Boekenhout' Farm in Rustenberg
… Paul Kruger's farm was declared a National Monument by the Monument's Commission. The complex features three buildings: a house built in 1841 before Kruger…
EventMarc Lottering was born on this day
… On this day Marc Eugene Lottering, one of the most prominent comedians and entertainers in South African history, was born in Cape Town. [i] Endnotes [i]…
EventOmar Badsha, South African photographer, is born
… in Durban on 27 June 1945. Badsha played an active role in the South African liberation struggle. He was at the forefront of all the major anti-apartheid…
EventANC attacks Koeberg nuclear power station
… In a well-planned attack on the Koeberg Nuclear Power Station in Cape Town, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) causes heavy damage with no injuries, reported.MK…
EventArchbishop William Barnett issues a statement condemning Apartheid
… The Anglican Church joined the growing confrontation between church and state, when the Archbishop of Cape Town, Rev. William Barnett issued a statement…
Margaret Thatcher's role in SA's transformation by FW de Klerk, 5 December 2016
… Speech by Former President FW de Klerk to the Margaret Thatcher Centre It is a great pleasure for me to … that impelled a generation of young people in the…
ArchiveTime to act
… A perfomance on struggle in South Africa and the need for action A2 silkscreened poster produced by Action Workshop at CAP, Cape Town, black, red and yellow;…
EventAfrikaans linguist H J Terblanche is born
… dictionaries and grammar books, is born in Aberdeen in the Eastern Cape. Dr Terblanche was a pioneer of Afrikaans technical …
EventFrance supplies two new combat submarines to South Africa
… France confirmed the sale of two new combat submarines to South Africa to protect the oil route round the Cape in the face of escalating Soviet naval…
ArchiveSeparate Representation of Voters Act, Act No 46 of 1951
… The Act was to make provision for the separate representation in Parliament and in the provincial council of the province of the Cape of Good Hope of…
EventSouth African Press Association is established
… The South African Press Association (SAPA) was established as … in 1938 by South Africa's major newspapers to facilitate the sharing of news, both national…
EventJustice Sfiso Ka-Mkame, SA artist, is born in Durban
… was born in Clermont, Durban in 1963. He studied art in the 80’s and gained fame in 1988 when he sold his ‘Letters to God’ series of drawings to the South…
EventFrederick Courteney Selous, traveller, hunter, writer and naturalist dies in Beho-Beho, Tanganyika. He came to Southern Africa
… Frederick Courtney Selous came to South Africa at the age of nineteen in 1871. Inspired by the writings of explorers such as Dr. David Livingstone and … to…