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… At approximately 11:00 PM, John Lennon was shot 4 times in the back as he entered his luxury apartment building on Manhattan's Upper West Side. The Lennon's left their limousine on the street and walked up the driveway when the gunman opened …

… A quaint little town, near the Kruger National Park. Known now as Mbombela, which has a … Cup Stadium. This stadium which was built for some of the 2010 world cup soccer matches and is currently used for soccer and rugby matches. The steel support structure has a striking and discernible …

… Igbo (Ibo) writer, famous for his novels describing the effects of Western customs and values on traditional … and his keen ear for spoken language have made him one of the most highly esteemed African writers in English. Chinua Achebe was born in Ogidi, Nigeria, the son of a teacher in a missionary school. His parents, …

… has both positive and negative elements. We believe that the positive elements could have been strengthened, and the negative aspects reduced, if it had not been for rigid … consequences. Those policies having a negative bearing on the budget especially those on deficit targets, monetary …

… Town on the banks of the Orange River, some 195 km from Bloemfontein, on the road to to East London. It was founded in 1849 and named …

… The original cross is currently housed in the Library of the University of the Witwatersrand, and was declared a …

… The railway line from Cape Town reached Maitland on 13 February 1862. The 1891 census indicated that Maitland had a population of … this number had risen to 5,071.  Maitland is situated in the middle of a number of important transport networks , …

… Table Bay is a natural inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, overlooked by Cape Town  and the famous Natural Table Mountain . Bartolomeu Dias was the first European to explore the region in 1486. The region …

… The Botanical Gardens had been founded in 1946. After  the University of Pretoria granted approval to the Department of Agriculture for the development of a …

… founded in 1917 by Sir Ernest Oppenheimer to exploit the gold fields of the East Rand, announced that it intended to transfer its main listing from the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) to the London Stock …

… The civil war in Somalia during 1980-1990 resulted in an … a widespread famine in Somalia. A major problem was that the humanitarian food aid sent to Somalia was hijacked by … and then traded with neighbouring countries for weapons at the cost of civilian lives.  The seriousness of the situation …

… On 23 April 1997, Eugene TerreBlanche, leader of the Afrikaner Weerstands Beweging (AWB) was convicted on two … to six years in jail. This sentence was handed down for the brutal assault of one of his workers, a Mr Paul Motshabi, whom he beat over the head and neck in March 1996.  Mr Motshabi suffered brain …

… The United Nations Charter was adopted in San Francisco by the United Nations Conference on International Organisations. The preamble to the charter was based on a draft which South …

… seized power in Libya after a coup d'etat. Gaddafi, the leader of the Free Unionist Officers movement, overthrew the monarchical rule of King Idris, who had ruled Libya since … 'South African President Nelson Mandela tried to solve the Lockerbie -Tragedy in Libya and in Scotland' [online] …

… December 23rd, Mr. Z.B. Molete, Publicity Secretary of the Pan Africanist Congress, is reported to have said that there are talks being held between the ANC and PAC, with Mr. Diallo Telli participating. [1] He further states that at the end of November there was a meeting between Mr. Leballo …

… is a prospecting City famous for its quality diamonds , the largest man-made excavation in the World and various other impressive tourists attractions! It is the Capital City of the Northern Cape and surrounded by five …

… In 1828 the Wesleyan Missionary Society established a station at … it was attacked and burnt down by amaMfengu warriors. The name amaMfengu means “wanderers” and the Fingo nation – like the Bhaca, Bhele, Hlubi and Zizi …

… The site currently known as Durbanville was originally … "D'Urban" in honour of Sir Benjamin D'Urban, Governor of the Cape. Durbanville is not your average Cape Town neighbourhood. There is so much more going on than the daily school run. This is a neighbourhood filled with …

… The Steenberg Estate, originally known as the Zwaanswyk, was granted to Catherina Ustings in 1688 and was one of the first farms in the Western Cape. Its Cape Dutch homestead … http://estatemagazine.com/the-restoration-drama-of-steenberg-estate/ …

… on 23 June 1989.This house dating from 1938 was built for the famous sculptor Anton van Wouw and is an example of Norman Eaton’s romantic, organic designs. The thatch roof overhang provides shade for the windows, the face brick finish is typical of the …

… [Extract] What the effect of muzzling a race of people, used to settling … not now care to enquire. We are concerned at present with the pointing out of one or two facts, which ought not to be ignored by Government. It was to be expected that the people would plead the hardness of the times caused by a …

… and Friends Thank you for attending this function at the invitation of an old man. What you have just witnessed … returning these items to me. However, I want you to see the symbolic significance of this event. Under the apartheid regime it was a common practice for the …

… On January 18, the world lost an icon. Only much of the world did not know it. South African-Jamaican writer … also largely overlooked and often forgotten, especially in the country of his birth. The son of a miner (who died when …

… Also known as the Tweetoring Kerk , The Dutch Reformed congregation of Bloemfontein was … 13 November 1848, and its services were initially held in the Raadsaal, a humble thatched building in St George's …

… The United Democratic Front (UDF) was a non-racial coalition group that was initially formed in protest to the Tricameral Parliament. It was one of the most significant anti-apartheid movements, and comprised …

… apartheid-era security police colonel, who was involved in the murder of several political activists in the Eastern Cape, died in Port Elizabeth after a battle with … cancer. In 1982, two student activists who belonged to the Congress of South African Students (COSAS), Siphiwe …

… The museum is located on 8288 Khumalo Street, Orlando West ( Soweto ). The museum is named after one of the first casualties.  But commerates all of those that …

… The Victorian Rotunda, a landmark in Camps Bay, is a beautiful, geometrical domed building, was the epitome of high society in Cape Town at the turn of the century when it was built as part of a hotel … <p>https://www.sa-venues.com/attractionswc/the-rotunda.php/<p> …

… 25 years to the day after the infamous Sharpeville Massacre, in which 69 people were killed, the South African Police opened fire on a crowd of people in … Robert J. Thornton. “The shooting at Uitenhage, South Africa, 1985: the context and interpretation of violence”, American …

… The action that culminated with the Boers shelling Rhodesian positions at Basuto Kop on 16 … 1900 can be traced in part by Rhodesian fears that the Boers would attempt to invade Rhodesia. The Boers were … Burret, R.S.,  Gaborone and the Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902 , from The South Africa …