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EventSouth African Parliament votes to restore citizenship to residents of so-called independent states
… There were lengthy deliberations around the restoration of citizenship to the residents of Transkei, Bophutatswana, Venda and Ciskei. A … (TEC) was set up…
EventTurkish newspapers criticise of ANC leader Nelson Mandela for refusing to accept Turkey’s peace award
… On 14 May 1992, Nelson Mandela, leader of the African National Congress, was subjected to harsh criticism and utterances verging on libel, due to the…
PlaceCity Hall, Cape Town
… This is a large Edwardian building in the centre of Cape Town city. It was built in 1905, on the Grand parade, West of the Castle of Good Hope. Messrs Henry…
ArchiveReflections on life in a rearview mirror by Jo Ractliffe, 27 Jun 2011
… morning when a group of us were summoned to your house at the crack of dawn in an atmosphere of great mystery and … suspense. We were piled into a Kombi and…
61. Segregation reduces our people to helotry
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai The Asiatic Land Tenure (Amendment) Bill of 1930…
PlaceTenterden, 60 Durban Road, Wynberg
… The property was originally part of the Vredenhof Estate which had been allocated to William … an electric fence on a sprawling Site on Wellington Road, the…
PlaceZambia
… gained independence from Britain with Kenneth Kaunda as the country’s first president, and proclaimed one-party rule. Their independence came four years…
19. Lawrence asks for exemption from discriminatory laws
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans … Bhana and Bridglal Pachai Vendenayagum Lawrence petitioned the Natal Governor on 3 August…
EventDulcie September's 's life commemorated at Athlone High School
… 20 August 1935. From her early years of activism she chose the path of resistance against the apartheid regime. She was a member of the Cape Peninsula…
PlaceHaarlem
… kilometers from Uniondale , a village was established by the Berlin Mission Society and was named Anhalt-Schmidt , in … Haarlem and bears that name today. …
PlaceJansenville, Eastern Cape
… Laid out on the Farm, Vergenoegd in 1854, it was proclaimed in 1855 and became a Municipality; the Sarah Baartman District Municipality, in 1881. Said to ……
PlaceLittle Lions Head, Mt. Above Llandudno
… look almost identical. " We went for our third hike to the top on Sunday and it was such a gorgeous day so I decided it would be wrong not to share some of…
PlaceHugh Eksteen Photographic Museum, Polokwane-Limpopo
… Housed in an 1890 Dutch Reformed Church in Polokwane, is the Hugh Eksteen Photographic Museum. Browse through over … lived to be 91 years old. This talented…
PlaceLodge de Goede Hoop, Stal Square, Cape Town
… In 1772 the Masonic Order established its first lodge in the Cape under a warrant obtained from the Grand Lodge National of the Netherlands. Initially …
PlaceGoodwood
… One of the Northern Municipalities adjoining the metropolitan of Cape Town , 11 km from the centre of the City and in the Bellville district. It was … One of…
Document 21 - Letter from S. P. Bunting to E. R. Roux, 27 October 1930
… CAPETOWN. Dear Roux, I posted you yesterday copies of the resolutions passed at the Anti-Pass Conference with three paragraphs of general report at the foot…
EventPenny Heyns, South African swimming star, is born.
… Penelope Heyns, was born on the 8th of November 1974 in Springs, Transvaal. Her parents later moved to the Natal South Coast. She attended Doon Heights…
EventSouth African Communist Party leader Abram Fischer is sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of communism
… During the 1940s, Bram Fischer served on the Johannesburg District Committee and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of South Africa …
EventTelkom to roll
… The telephone company, Telkom, announces that it will buy and … in an effort to fight AIDS, which has infected some 13% of the adult population. According to…
EventPower Struggle in Zulu hierarchy
… Zulu celebrations, raising fears of renewed violence in the region between the supporters of the two leaders. President Nelson Mandela was drawn into the …
EventC. Lindenberg Letty, botanical artist, is born
… Cynthia Lindenberg Letty was born in Standerton, in the old Transvaal Province in 1895. She was the eldest of five children. At the outbreak of the South…
PlaceBoschendal Wine Estate, Cape Town
… producing real food and a simple farm lifestyle, is at the heart of Boschendal. One of the oldest Farms in South Africa , founded in 1685. "The farm has…
PlaceUnion Tavern and Stables, Simonstown
… Monument under old NMC legislation on 23 March 1979. The Union, was a Tavern occupying a plot 80 by 60 feet on Smith Street, bought from the widow, Ms…
EventSeretse Khama is asked to renounce chieftaincy
… Seretse Khama was the chief of the Bama-Ngwato tribe, Bechuanaland (now Botswana). Khama's problems with the British started when he married an English woman…
15. My son Gyapershad was decoyed
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans … Bhana and Bridglal Pachai Gopinath Pandey, a headmaster of the village school the District…
PlaceDiepkloof, Soweto
… 104 098 persons (2001 Census). It is located on the Eastern Border of Soweto and is close to main Transport routes into Johannesburg. The three main Areas in…
Constitution, Rules and Bye-Laws, I.C.U. Yase Natal, 1929 [Extracts]
… 1. Name And Jurisdiction The Organization shall be known as the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union Yase Natal (hereinafter referred to as the I.C.U. or…
PlaceKhayelitsha Township
… east of Wynberg and 25 km of south-east of Cape Town in the Western Cape . The name is of Xhosa origin and means ‘new home’. Origin of … with Crossroads…
EventTony Leon is born
… The national leader of the Democratic Alliance - Tony Leon was born in Durban. In … leader of Democratic Party. He succeeded Zech De Beer as the leader of…
EventFidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba
… Before Fidel Castro took over the island state's government; Cuba was under the military rule of President Fulgeneio Batista. Castro was the leader of the 26…