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PlaceCamdeboo was called Aberdeen, Eastern Cape
… hours drive from Port Elizabeth. Aberdeen was founded when the Nederduits-Gerefomeerde Kerk (Dutch Reformed Church) of Graaff-Reinet gave permission for the…
Document 9 - First letter from Nelson Mandela to Hendrik Verwoerd
… exists which, if there is a demonstrable readiness on the part of the Pretoria regime to engage in negotiations genuinely and seriously, could create the…
Salim Essop takes centre stage during first day of Ahmed Timol inquest by Amanda Khoza (News24.com), 27 June 2017
… The man who was arrested alongside late anti-apartheid … activist Ahmed Timol in 1971, took centre stage at the High Court in Johannesburg on Monday during…
David Goldblatt: Intersections by Matt Damsker
… Michael Stevenson, and an interview with the photographer by Mark Haworth-Booth. 124 pages; … Goldblatt has spent more than three decades chronicling the…
Le Rona Re Batho by Phyllis Naidoo - Introduction
… From the book: Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, 1992 After the raid into Lesotho on Thursday, 9…
Oldest stone tools pre-date earliest humans by Rebecca Morelle (Science Correspondent, BBC News), 20 May 2015
… The world's oldest stone tools have been discovered, scientists report. The tools includes sharp-edged flakes, hammers and anvils Image source They were…
On trial for treason
… From the book: My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner 'Before dawn on 5 December, 1956, the security branch of the police entered the…
ArchiveZuma's rape accuser questioned (BBC News), 07 March 2006
… The woman accusing South African ex-Deputy President Jacob Zuma of rape is being cross-examined in court. The judge has agreed to the defence's request to…
PlaceDiep River
… Rathfelder was born in Stuttgart in 1811 and emigrated to the Cape in 1835. Following his marriage in the colony, he inherited a halfway-house near Wynberg,…
PlaceSt. Francis Church, Simonstown
… In the Year 2014, St Francis of Assisi Parish Church Celebrated its Bicentenary. The History of the first Anglican Church in Southern Africa, is beautifully …
Treasurer General`s PBF Breakfast and Networking, 24 March 2009
… Durban- the Treasurer General of the ANC, Dr Mathews Phosa was the keynote speaker at a PBF Breakfast and Networking event …
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…
EventSir Christoffel Joseph Brand succeeds his brother, P.A. Brand, as editor of De Zuid
… De Zuid-Afrikaan (The South African) was the first proper Dutch newspaper in South Africa, and was first published on 9 April 1830. The publication was…
EventButhelezi snubs ANC and homeland leaders
… Buthelezi refused to attend a meeting organised by the African National Congress (ANC) and other five homeland leaders to discuss ways of ending the violence…
EventOldest example of written Afrikaans appears in a poem
… positions at Muizenberg during their campaign to capture the Cape Colony. The engagement saw Dutch East India Company troops, burgher … from districts…
PlaceBeaufort West, Cape Town
… A Town 573 km from Cape Town , established in 1818 on the Farm: ''Hooyvlakte'' . It is currently the name of one of the Suburbs in which a section of…
ArchiveNUSAS Congress 1984: Head Office report
… Report of the Head Office of the National Union of South African Students to the Annual Congress of the National Union, University of …
ArchiveBlack consciousness: a reactionary tendency
… article is a reprint, and first appeared in June 1976 in The Educational Journal of March-May issue. The author provides the reader with a very detailed…
De Klerk pays tribute to Mandela’s ‘unique contribution’
… constitutional democracy and nation-building. "It was with the greatest sadness that I have learned of the death of Nelson Mandela. My wife, Elita, and I…
PlaceSada
… or resettlement camp for Farm Workers who were driven off the farms. The Land was bought by the South African Bantu Trust (which was later renamed as the ……
PlaceGreytown, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… district records, named in honour of: Earl Grey , who was the renowned British politician. However it would seem that the Town was actually named after: Sir…
PlaceOlivedale , Randburg
… The Property was purchased in 1940 by a Dutch diamond trader … prisoners of war were used to build Improvements on the estate. One of which, a windmill, was…
EventMiriam Makeba, South African singer, dies
… South African singer Miriam Makeba dies at the age of 76 after a 30 minute performance for Roberto Saviano in the Italian town of Caserta. Nicknamed 'Mama…
EventFirst Women Anti-Pass Campaign starts
… The June 1913 anti-pass campaign was probably the first recorded incidence of protest by women against the Union government. About 700 women marched to the …
EventFive power stations are blown up as tensions rise during WWII
… by pro-Axis power saboteurs in an attempt to destabilise the Rand gold mines. During the Second World War supporters of the Axis powers (Germany, Japan) came…
ArchiveTribute to Ottilie Schimming Abrahams (2 Sept 1937-1 July 2018) – some notes and memories by Heike Becker
… In the late 1950s Ottilie Schimming Abrahams was among the first generation of Namibian students who pursued … in Cape Town. Ottilie Schimming Abrahams was…
PlacePlumstead
… Plumstead was developed on the site of an old VOC Military Camp some 13km South of Cape Town and, by 1823, was already a growing Village. The Cape Town…
PlaceCity Hall, Pretoria
… Pretoria is commonly known as Jaccaranda City, because of the purple flowered bush that flurishes there! It has recently changed its name to Tshwane! The…
EventSouth Africa closes its borders with Lesotho
… On 1 January 1986 the South African Government closed its borders with Lesotho, cutting off fundamental food and fuel supplies. The relationship of the South…
EventA cargo plane crashes into a market in Kinshasa, Zaire, killing at least 350 people
… killing between 250 and 350 people in Kinshasa, Zaire (now The Democratic Republic of Congo). The plane, allegedly on its way to deliver supplies to Jonas ……