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PlaceOprah Winfrey's Leadership Academy for Girls, Meyerton, Johannesburg
… Founded in 2007 by the American Media Executive, Oprah Winfrey . This is a … grades 8-12. Admission Criteria for her school is that the girl be -…
EventEric Mntonga is found dead
… The body of Eric Mntonga, co-director of the Institute for a Democratic Alternative for South Africa … on a dirt road near King William's Town in the Eastern…
PlaceTrovato, 44 Coach Road, Wynberg
… for Carl Jeppe who had been appointed Consul-General for the Transvaal in Cape Town. It was declared a National Monument under old NMC …
Michael Mosoue Moerane, pianist, choirmaster and composer, is born in Gumtree, Basutoland (now Lesotho). He died in Gumtree in
… and conductor, is born in Mangoanaleng, Matatiele, Eastern Cape. He died in Bloemfontein in January, 1980. His siblings … and he was uncle to Thabo Mbeki and…
EventEnoch Mgijima dies
… Enoch Mgijima (Mgizima), Fingo prophet of the Israelites sect in the Eastern Cape, died in Ntabelanga, Queenstown. His followers, … (eds)(1970). Standard…
EventAdam Kok III is killed in an accident
… was killed in an accident when he fell from his buggy. The Cape Colonial government unilaterally annexed Griqualand … of his duties as chief and granted him…
EventProf. Astley Hilary Goodwin, first professional archaeologist in SA, is born
… to study at St. John’s College in Johannesburg and became the first professionally trained archaeologist to be appointed in 1923. He went on to teach the…
EventAstley Hilary Goodwin, first professional archaeologist in SA, is born
… to study at St. John’s College in Johannesburg and became the first professionally trained archaeologist to be appointed in 1923. He went on to teach the…
EventRiaan Cruywagen was born on this day
… a journalist in 1965 when he started working part time at the SABC in Cape Town. He is best known for his role as a news Anchor for the SABC Afrikaans news…
EventGuinea-Bissau is granted independence
… Guine Portuguesa, was granted independence by Portugal. The country became independent eight months after the death of the leader of, Portuguese for African…
I have written it by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - International Support: UNO - 1946
… From the book: Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents … the question of segregation of Indians, agreement known as Cape Town Agreement was…
ArchiveOttilie Abrahams: An Honest and Upright Person by Harry Boesak (Pambazuka News), 14 July 2018
… Ottilie Abrahams was undoubtedly one of the most remarkable personalities of contemporary Namibia. … dignity. When Ottilie went to Trafalgar High School in…
Rhodes Must Fall Exhibition: "Echoing Voices from Within"
… “Echoing Voices from Within”, captures with precision the multi-layered and intersectional voice of black bodies – the students, workers and staff who have…
EventTwenty former SA political prisoners launched a campaign against apartheid laws
… former South African political prisoners, in defiance of the restriction orders the regime imposed on them after their release, launched a … delivering…
Contact
… Contact, the official publication of the Liberal Party, was published monthly, in … 1957. With effect from January 1958, publication began in Cape Town, on a…
PlaceWelcome Cottage, Glencairn- Simonstown
… farm granted to Johannes Henricus Brand in 1911 and, over the years, has been closely associated with the Brand family. Henricus Brand was a member of the…
EventPresident Yasser Arafat arrives in SA
… National Authority president, Yasser Arafat, arrived in Cape Town on his first state visit to South Africa at the invitation of President Nelson Mandela. The…
EventPutin visits South Africa
… Russian president Vladimir Putin arrived in Cape Town, leading a delegation of government officials and business people on a two day official visit. This was…
EventA Xhosa film wins Golden Bear award
… The South African Xhosa film uCarmen eKhayelitsha became the second South African movie to compete and first to win … Berlin Film Festival in Germany. The…
EventIan Roberts was born on this day
… The South African actor, playwright and singer was born on this day in Fort Beaufort in the Eastern Cape. It was his character of Boet in a series of…
EventA prison warder is killed in Groote Schuur Hospital
… shot dead and another injured in an attack by gunmen at Cape Town's Groote Schuur Hospital to free a prisoner, … robbers that was allegedly led by Given…
EventSouth African artist, Maggie Laubser, is born
… Maggie Laubser was born on Bloublommetjieskloof farm in the district of Malmesbury, Cape Colony. Laubser went on to become on of South Africa's … a…
ArticleThe Johanna
… The Johanna, or Joanna, was a British East Indiaman vessel … On 8 June 1682, she met her fate after eight days of the Cape’s torturous weather prevented…
PlaceBergvliet Farmstead, Bergvliet
… This farm complex consists of a Cape Dutch house built in 1769, and a ring wall and outbuildings which were erected towards the mid-19th Century. The land…
PlaceHawthornden-House, Herschell Walk, Wynberg
… The construction of the original structure probably dates to 1683, but it was … Sir JB Robinson in 1891 who, following his retirement from the Witwatersrand…
EventAnnesu de Vos, SA poet, is born.
… Annesu de Vos was born in Johannesburg on the 5 August 1964. She is well-known as the youngest published poet in South African literature … her first book…
Document 33 - League of Atrican Rights, Announcement of Meeting, 25 August 1929
… Hall 14 Market St. A MASS MEETING WILL BE HELD AT THE ABOVE HALL THIS Sunday, August 25th, 1929 At 3 p.m. TO CONSIDER THE FORMATION OF A " LEAGUE OF NATIVE…
PlaceHomestead on Totteridge Park Farm, District of Uitenhage
… The Historic Homestead of the Farm Totteridge Park, situate on Portion 55, a portion of Portion 10 of the Farm Zwartkops, River Wagensdrift 567, Municipality…
EventConstable Vlotman is given a R500 fine and a five year suspension sentence
… On 18 January 1987, Constable Vlotman a member of the South African Police Services (SAPS) who assaulted three journalists in Athlone, Cape Town, in…
EventA teachers training college in South Africa opened in Wellington
… South Africa opened on 26 January 1896, in Wellington, in the Western Cape, South Africa. It was a settlement of the 1688 French Huguenot refugees and this…