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PlaceAluin Krantz West, a Farm Near Alexandria
… Located in the Sundays River Valley, in the District of Cacadu District Municipality, Eastern Cape. Aluin Krantz West is a Farm and the estimated terrain …
Sue Williamson Book Launch
… Join us for the launch of the catalogue accompanying Sue Williamson’s retrospective … exhibition, ‘There’s something I must tell you’. The exhibition is on…
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt brings ex-offender portrait series to British jails by Helen Stoilas, 30 May 2017
… The South African photographer David Goldblatt has installed … the Rhodes Must Fall Movement. Main Library, University of Cape Town, 14 May 2016 Both shows…
PlaceRobben Island Museum
… From the 17th to the 20th centuries, Robben Island served as a … of war were sent to Robben Island , situated opposite to Cape Town and Table Mountain , to…
Article#Am I Next? A Global Question
… (GBV) peaked after Uyinene Mrwetyana, a student at the University of Cape Town (UCT), was brutally raped and murdered on 24 … afterwards in Lingelethu West,…
EventHansi Pauline Pollak, welfare worker and social activist, is born
… in 1905. She served as an officer in command of the Women Army Auxiliary Services during the World War II. In 1944 she was seconded to undertake ……
Open Call to Artists
… Groenewald In Collaboration with Erf 81, Tamboerskloof, Cape Town A site-specific 7-day workshop with 6 - 8 local and international artists to live on site…
PlaceCacadu District Municipality
… ) is a small town in Chris Hani District Municipality in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. The town was renamed to Cacadu … economy. The area also…
EventMacassar Gas Disaster (AECI stockpile catches fire)
… The Coloured residential area of Macassar, Western Cape, was … after a 15 000 ton sulphur dioxide stockpile belonging to the local African Explosives and…
Mandela and Fidel A film by Estela Bravo
… have spotlighted events throghout Latin America, Africa, the Caribbean and the U.S Retrospectives of her films have been mounted in … Museum Homecoming…
ArchiveAnton Fransch and the Battle of Athlone
… a hardened guerrilla soldier who sacrificed his life at the age of 20, by single-handedly taking on a small army of apartheid soldiers. Anton’s story begins…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.9 No.1 1990
… and Contributors Comment: A.W. Oliphant, STORIES: From the Roof, the Sky, Peter Esterhuysen; The Coon, M. Cassiem D'Arcy; He … Many Ways, Dikobe wa Mogale…
EventPeter Scott, South African alpine skier is born
… Peter Scott was born on 27 November 1990 in Cape Town . [i] Peter is a South African alpine skier. [ii] … years old, where he began skiing. [iii] He formed…
EventSix Treason Trialists miss resumption of trial
… On 6 September 1960, six of the Treason Trial accused were missing when the trial resumed in Pretoria. The defence team lawyer, Bram … Available at the…
Khoisan leader given state funeral despite last wishes by SAPA, 1 July 2012
… was buried during a state funeral in Andriesvale in the Kalahari despite concerns from traditional Koisan members. The funeral was attended by some 3 000…
EventNomsa Mapongwana is assassinated
… Mapongwana, wife of chairperson Michael Mapongwana of the United Democratic Front (UDF) affiliated Western Cape Civic Organisation, was shot dead at night in…
EventSpanish Flu strikes South Africa
… The first cases of an unusually severe and deadly strain of … Flu', were diagnosed on this date in Durban. This started the worst pandemic ever in South…
PlaceCalitzdorp, Route 62
… Calitzdorp is a Town on the Western side of the Little or Klein Karoo in the Western Cape Province of South Africa and lies on South Africa's, … Western side…
EventKader Asmal, political activist and future Member of Parliament, is born
… a school boycott in his area. This was in support of the Defiance Campaign of 1952 after seeing those that were protesting against the government walking in…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1990-1999
… 1990 2 February, President F. W. de Klerk makes a speech at the opening of Parliament, announcing the lifting of a … crowd of approximately 50 000 people…
*Free Entrance: Emancipation Day and World Aids Day
… Join Iziko Museums of South Africa in commemorating … entry to selected museums. *Free Entrance includes only the South African Museum and South African…
PlaceKhomani Cultural Landscape
… The area in the Southern Kalahari , bordered in the East by Botswana and the West by Namibia , is where you … , Robben Island Museum , iSimangaliso Wetland…
PlaceDiamond Hill Battle, Garden of Remembrance
… The site of the Battle of Diamond Hill, which took place on the 11th and 12th June 1900, in which 14000 British soldiers … British line of communication…
EventAfrikaans is declared an official language of South Africa
… According to Act 8 of 1925, Afrikaans became one of the official languages of South Africa. The development of Afrikaans can be traced to arrival of settlers…
EventSir John Frederick William Herschel dies
… in astronomy from about 1816. Herschel's father was the famous astronomer Frederick William Herschel, the discoverer of the planet Uranus.From 1816 Herschel…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.8 No.1 1989
… and Contributors CONTENTS: Comment, A.W. Oliphant STORIES: The Prophets, Bheki Maseko; Happiness is a Punch in the Eye, Lawrence Maimane; A Day in the Life,…
Citation for Saleem Badat by Professor Paul Maylam, 10 April 2015, Rhodes University
… his fine record as a social science student at what was the University of Natal in Durban in the late 1970s, and then … following its founding in 1983, then…
Document 45 - Ray Alexander, “Trade Unionism in South Africa”, Discussion, 1, 6, 1952
… Unionism in South Africa", Discussion, 1 6,1952 [....] The first Trade Unions were organised by British immigrants … non European Trade Union organised, and…
PlaceNamaqualand
… With a Magisterial District of 47 962 sq km, in the North-Western Cape . This region is sometimes referred to as Little … is important! When the Settlement…
ArchiveCriminological statistics 1985
… Statistics relating to crime and criminal justice system in Cape Peninsula …