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PlaceRiversdale Division, Western Cape
… figures are available for the division: 1865 census: 10,665 residents, of whom 3,517 were literate 1875 census: …
EventFirst sextuplets in the world to survive their infancy are born in Cape Town
… South Africa. Their total birth weight was 24 lb 1 oz (10.9 kg), with individual birth weights ranging from 2 lb 6 …
EventBafana Bafana play 2-2 draw with Cameroon
… Bafana Bafana record. Kick Off. Special ed. 1994-2004, p. 10. …
EventThe SA Cricket team is re-admitted to international cricket
… On 10 November 1991, the South African cricket team, now better …
EventFormer Tennis player, Kevin Curren, is born in Durban
… In 1976, a year after passing matric (now Grade 10), Kevin Curren accepted a scholarship from the University …
PlaceCottam Grove Hotel, 303-309 Florida Road, Durban.
… declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 10 February 1989. Cottam Grove is next to Essenwood and is …
EventAfrikaner women march to the union buildings in protest of SA’s involvement in WW2
… About 10 000 Afrikaner women, led by Mrs H.C. Steyn, wife of former …
ArticleTimeline of the German and Herero, Nama War and Genocide
… the Herero have violent intentions towards the Germans. 10 January, Late at night the trader Alex Niet arrives in … to 'collect' Herero from the desert is…
ArticleHistory of Women in Prisons during Apartheid
… a quarter of the mat is full of blood ’ (Mandela 2013; 10). The prisoners of solitary confinement kept calendars … women inflicting so much punishment’ …
ArticleLearning about history through people: oral history
… was right opposite the Star bioscope. There were about 10 stalls in a row and the fish market was open every day and … from Great Leaders Below is a list of…
ArticleThe Politics Behind Water
… of 1915 to 1925 and the Vaalharts scheme of 1933 to 1938. [10] The Water Act, No. 54 of 1956 was implemented eight years … Africa”, Water History, 2017 (Vol…
Message to the People of South Africa by O. R. Tambo, August 1976
… 1 From: Press release of the ANC Office in London, August 26, 1976. The press release indicated that this message had …
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Introduction
… Africa experienced an economic boom during World War 2 (1939- 1945). The war was a significant driving force for the …
Chapter 19. The Dutch Reformed Churches - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… Trade Unions, The report was published in booklet form in 1939. Goebbels himself could not have improved on the style …
Further information on services for the late Adelaide Tambo, 07 February 2007
… Community Hall, Benoni 18h00 FUNERAL SERVICE Saturday, 10 February 2007 Wattville Stadium, Benoni 09h00 The burial …
EventProposal made to stop sending Black troops to assist in WW1
… the SA government agreed to recruit more men, after the 10 000 troops that had already been sent overseas. …
EventZola Skweyiya is born
… for the poor and children. Under his leadership nearly 10 million South Africans are receiving state grants. …
EventElizabeth Taylor remarries Richard Burton in Botswana
… months after the break-up of their first marriage of 10 years, and lasted only nine months. Burton died at 58 in …
EventThe Battle of Blood River
… under the leadership of Dingane the Zulu King. About 10 000-20 000 Zulu warriors led by Dingane's generals Dambuza …
EventSoccer coach Pitso Mosimane is fined R50 000
SuperSport United coach Pitso Mosimane was fined R50 000 at a Premier Soccer League (PSL) disciplinary hearing. This followed after his heated altercation with…
EventCrime statistics released
… in the world excluding war zones. The figures reveal that 10 161 people were murdered in the first seven months of …
Coal Miners Strike on the Rand
… a strike because of a wage cut of 5 percent per shift. On 10 January 1922 White mine workers on the Rand gold mines …
EventThe Anglo-Boer War 1 (Transvaal War of Independence) begins
… did not work. So on 8 December 1880 between 8 000 and 10 000 Boers gathered at Paardekraal, near Krugersdorp. A …
EventSouth African author and feminist Olive Schreiner is born
… in the Eastern Cape. She died in Wynberg, Cape Town, on 10 December 1920. The Department of Tourism in the Eastern …
The National Arts Festival
In 1974, an inaugural festival titled the 1820 Settlers National Monument was opened as a memorial to the British immigrants in South Africa. They established…
ArticleThe Bambatha Rebellion begins
… was captured and killed during the battle at Mome Gorge on 10 June, while Sigananda and his men surrendered. Bambatha …
ArticleSS Mendi
… that the South African Native Labour Contingent provide 10 000 men to work behind the front lines in France. The …
ArticleWay of life in ancient Egypt
… a system of numbers, using symbols for the number 1 and 10. Medicine and physician The ancient Egyptians had a great …
SAHO Milestones
… curated for the Department of Basic Education to celebrate 10 years of Democracy. Publication - Sita - Memoirs of Sita … from the Southern Methodist…
EventMilton Obote (81), Uganda's former dictator, dies in a South African hospital
… was granted political asylum in Zambia following the coup. 10 years later Obote was rushed from Zambia to a hospital in … South Africa, where he died of…