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PlacePeter Mokaba Stadium
… In preparation of the FIFA World Cup of 2010 , South Africa had to upgrade and build a variety of Stadiums, and as a result, some of the most impressive…
EventHertzog and Smuts to form a coalition
… Nationalists were stunned by the announcement of seven points according to which Gen. … Malan strongly opposed moves to form a coalition between the National…
EventOrlando Pirates captain and goalkeeper, Senzo Meyiwa dies
… and captain was shot dead by two armed men who entered the house in Vosloorus township, near Johannesburg,where he was at the time of the tragedy. Meyiwa was…
EventMark Thatcher arrested
… Mark Thatcher, the son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was arrested at his Cape Town home on 25 August 2004. Thatcher was charged under ……
Document 92 “Communist Party of South Africa Plenum Held from 5th to 8th April 1936”, Umsebenzi, and 16 May 1936
… that immediate steps be taken to give every assistance in the formation of an Anti-Imperialist and national Liberation … of the Programme of the National…
PlaceTokai Manor House, Tokai Road, Tokai.
… The farm was originally granted to Johan Rauch in 1792, … considered to be one of the earliest usages in the Cape of a rectangular pediment. The cost of…
PlacePeddie
… Peddie is a small town in the Amathole district of the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. Peddie is a historic little … Keiskamma rivers, which had…
EventAt a summit SA Trade Unions resolve to defy apartheid and labour laws
… Location: back to this day in history search archive During the summit conference organised by non-racial labour unions at Langa, Cape Town, Trade Union…
EventStruggle icon Nxele Makana drowns while escaping from Robben Island
… Post the Fourth Frontier War 1811-1812, the Cape Governor, Sir Charles Somerset, made a verbal treaty …
PlaceGroot Drakenstein Prison
… The village of Groot Drakenstein was probably established in the late 1850s. Following the acquisition of a number of … The Groot Drakenstein Prison is…
EventHelen Nontando Jabavu, author and periodical editor in London, is born in Middeldrift, SA
… Helen Nontando (Noni) Jabavu was born in 1919 in the Eastern Cape into a literary family. From the age of thirteen, she was schooled in England, and …
ArchiveInterview with Amabutho members
… "young lions." Mainly active in urban areas, especially in the eastern Cape, most were unemployed school-leavers who supported the United Democratic Front…
EventSouth African Police (SAP) is founded
… In 1913 the Police Bill and Defence Bill were both enacted and the authorisation for the establishment of a national police … Police (SAP) was the successor…
EventPretoria receives city status
… On 14 October 1931, Pretoria achieved official city status. The city was established in 1855 by Marthinus Pretorius, a leader of the Voortrekkers who named…
Event46664 concert is held in Fancourt
… The South African 46664 concert, 46664 being the prison number of South African president Nelson Mandela … golf resort of Fancourt, just outside George,…
EventRhodes asks Charter for British South Africa Company
… applies for a Charter from United Kingdom to establish the British South Africa Company. The Royal Charter was granted in October 1889, with the … (eds)(1970…
Interview with Archibald Gumede 6 April 1996
… me start. AG I wonder whether we shouldn't get over the part we have already dealt with just to see what was said … are such as they are. POM Do you…
PlaceJubilee Art Centre
… The Jubilee Art Centre in central Johannesburg joined these alternative art education centres in the 1970s but was forced to relocate to the Mofolo Art…
EventWalter Sisulu celebrates 90th birthday
… Walter Sisulu celebrates his 90th birthday. One of the godfathers of the fight for equality in South Africa, he … - the ANC's progenitor - had been founded…
PlaceRhodes
… The village of Rhodes lies on the banks of the Bell River at the foot of the Witteberge. It … named after Cecil John Rhodes, then Prime Minister of the Cape…
EventBritish presents final Peace proposal
… Lord Alfred Milner and Lord Horatio Kitchner, presented the British final peace proposals to the Boer negotiators after the South African War. Milner ……
Event”Unknown” White man is hanged in Pretoria
… For the first time in the South African criminal history a man was hanged with his name known only by authorities. The 37-year-old White male was accused of…
PlaceAll Saints Anglican Church, Durbanville
… The All Saints complex, which includes the original church and the old parsonage, as well as a … in 1870 when its first Provincial Synod was held in Cape…
EventEmily Hobhouse travels to South Africa
… in concentration camps for Boer women and children during the Second South African War/ Anglo Boer War 2, set sail for South Africa. During the first five…
EventPortuguese explorer Bartholomew Dias anchors at Walvis Bay
… Bay. Dias was on an expedition to discover a sea route to the East round Africa. He gave the area the name Golfo de Santa Maria da Conceiçao. Dias … that he…
EventPeter van der Merwe, South African cricketer, dies
… Laurence van der Merwe was born on 14 March 1937 in Paarl, Cape Town. He began playing first-class cricket for South … He captained South Africa in eight…
EventHarold Macmillan begins his “winds of change” tour of Africa
… "winds of change" tour of Africa in Ghana. Ghana became the first country in Sub-Sahara to gain independence in 1957, … Macmillan, British Prime Minister on…
PlaceValkenburg Hospital, Observatory
… The Building, originally designed in a Cape Dutch style and is one of the oldest Farmhouses surviving along the Liesbeek River . …
EventBuilding of Delagoa Bay railway line is completed
… The building of the Delagoa Bay railway line to Pretoria was completed on … to be opened for traffic on 2 November 1894, however, the official opening of the…
EventAllan Boesak is born
… Boesak occupied influential positions. In 1982 he became the President of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, which claimed to … chairperson of African…