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PlaceAi-Ais, Namibia
… Ai-Ais Hot Springs Resort is at the source of a mineral and sulphur-rich hot Spring, and means 'burning water' in the Local Dialect. One of the eyes of the…
PlaceAG Bain Monument, Grahamstown
… This is a bronze plaque on a cairn at the top of the Ecca Pass, 12 km South of Grahamstown. It was erected in 1964 by the Historical Monuments Commission in…
EventUN report accuses Katangan President and Congo President of conspiracy to murder Patrice Lumumba
… discourse that Patrice Lumumba was assassinated with the help of the CIA. Many argue that it was in the interests of the CIA and the American Government that…
Event18 mineworkers die in Carletonville
… On 29 July 1999, a team of AngloGold mineworkers at the Mponeng mine in Carletonville accidentally drilled into a pocket of flammable methane gas in the…
EventFirst air flight from London to South Africa
… By the 1920s, the development of heavier than air flight had progressed considerably, partly due to the outbreak of World War One. Britain, having emerged ……
EventANC sacks its chief whip Mbulelo Goniwe, after finding him guilty of sexual harassment
… Mbulelo Goniwe had been active in the liberation struggle and with the inception of new democracy, held several positions, the most recent of which was the…
PlaceFairview Wine and Cheese Estate, near Paarl
… An immigrant from Lithuania, the young Charles Back I, landed on these shores in 1902. … his life in South Africa as a butcher boy in what is now the Cape…
PlaceMamelodi
… "Mamelodi" was the name given to President Paul Kruger by the Africans because of his ability to whistle and imitate … Mamelodi has a Population of 334 577,…
Art Matters by Suzanne P. Blier, 05 December 2014
… Last month, the Harvard Art Museums reopened, and with them another addition to Harvard’s museum landscape: the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African and…
Pravin Gordhan on a leash by Daniel Silke (Politics Web), 16 May 2016
… Gordhan on a leash In political science, students studying the theory are often told that the most dangerous time for political leaders is when they begin to…
PlaceBezuidenhout Valley, Johannesburg
… Ridge and North of Kensington Ridge. Takes its name from the Farm purchased in September 1861 from the Widow of BP Viljoen, by Frederick Jacobus Bezuidenhout…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Glossary
… From the book: Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism commissioned by The Department of Education augur well - to be a sign that … about to…
DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES
… one another. In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful,…
PlaceStevenson Gallery, Woodstock-Cape Town
… The gallery, Stevenson, was founded in 2003 after two of its … that had yet to find a home in South Africa, which at the time had only one serious…
Address by President T Mbeki at Press Conference following Meeting with President Kikwete of Tanzania, held on 7 April 2006, at Presidential Guesthouse
… Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen of the press. First of all let me say I'm very happy indeed to … Kikwete with us here. When we went to Dar-es-Salaam for…
PlaceGuinea
… Guinea is the traditional name of coastal Western Africa . The historical colonies of French Guinea, Spanish Guinea and … in that order and subsequently…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Le Monde, Addis Ababa, 08 June 1983
… thousands of others say they will have to ensure that the death was not in vain". A few hours after the hanging of the three ANC militants, the movement`s…
EventRay Alexander Simons, founder of Food and Canning Workers Union, arrives in South Africa
… she was born on 12 January 1913. After her arrival in the country she realized that many workers in the Cape Town area and in the rest of the country were…
4. Complaint of ill-treatment on an estate
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans … Indians were good; on others conditions were bad. Among the latter was the estate of J…
PlaceJosephine Mill, Boundary Road, Newlands
… on 15 December 1978. Newlands in Cape Town is home to the Josephine Mill which was built in 1840. Its machinery … in 1963 and it was decided to renovate and…
PlaceSouth African Library, Cape Town
… The National Library of South Africa, as we know it today, was formed on 1 November 1999 as a result of the amalgamation of the two former National libraries…
PlaceMelrose House, Jacob Mare Street, Pretoria
… George Heys, a young man from Durban, made his fortune in the diamond rush in Kimberley by establishing a successful … British architect WT Vale to design…
EventW. E. B. Du Bois (95), writer, scholar, intellectual, Pan
… among African American activists. He was a key founder of the NAACP, the largest and oldest civil rights organization in the United States, and from 1910 to…
EventBrig. Ramushwana in NPKF admission
… In a telephonic interview Brigadier Gabriel Ramushwana of the National Peacekeeping Force (NPKF), says that the way things were going, the NPKF would…
EventRaymond Dart completes work on Taung skull
… The skull, commonly called the Taung child , was found embedded in rock at a mine near … Johannesburg . When Raymond Dart , an anatomy professor at the…
ANC statement on Zimbabwe, 26 May 2000
… The African National Congress wishes to reiterate its position on Zimbabwe as per the discussions and decisions of its last National Executive Committee (NEC…
PlaceJoubertina
… Kareedouw, on Route 62 , Joubertina is a little town in the Eastern Cape that, until the establishment of the famous and very long wine route, suffered…
PlaceKamastone and Bulhoek
… The Cape government established the settlement of Kamastone in the Queenstown area, in 1854. In 1874 the government received … The Cape government…
PlaceElim
… The charming little village known as Elim, is dominated by … fishermen’s cottages and fig trees. This town is one of the few surviving South African mission…
PlaceGod’s Window
… A famous vantage point on the Drakensberg escarpment God's Window stands at an altitude of 1,829m/6,000ft extending northward over the Blyde River Canyon,…