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PlaceRoodepoort Town School, Rex Street
… declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 10 March 1989. The Old Roodepoort Town School, consisting of …
PlaceOld Government Building, Church Street, Boksburg
… October 1890 and construction was completed on or before 10 April 1891. From 1902 to 1958 the building housed the …
EventAndries Dreyer, church archivist and collector of Africana, dies
… Andries Dreyer was born on 10 January 1872 in Philadelphia, in the present day Western …
EventThe Table Mountain cableway, one of the biggest tourist attractions in Cape Town, is inaugurated
… was completed. The car could ascend the mountain in under 10 minutes and carried 19 passengers and a conductor. …
EventFourteen are killed in Phola Park violence
… attack by residents of nearby Zulu hostel. She grieved for 10 minuites then fled in fear. Fourteen hostel dwellers and …
EventElephant poaching reaches an all time high
… In the 1960s, raw ivory prices remained between $3 and $10 per pound. In 1975, the price reached $50 because ivory …
EventThe Pope arrives in Lesotho
… by the lower turn out of people. Not more than 10 000 out of an expected crowd of one million people came to …
EventTruck drivers strike in major cities
… a wage increase of 9 percent across the board and 10 percent for workers earning the minimum wage. During the …
EventNelson Mandela is voted the greatest South African
… personalities. The ranking of the rest of the top 10 had yet to be decided. SABC3 intended to screen …
EventResearchers proclaim they found a type of SIVcpz that is almost identical to HIV
… of Alabama, made the finding during the course of a 10-year long study into the origins of the virus. Researchers …
EventPW Botha refuses to testify before the TRC
… authority could have been stretched a little bit. In his 10-page statement Botha believed that true reconciliation …
EventMore than 100 miners are crushed to death near Orkney
The mining industry in South Africa remains one of the most hazardous professions, this despite the enormous amounts invested in it and the resulting wealth…
EventSir John Robinson forms Natal’s first ministry as Prime Minister
… On 10 October 1893, Natal's first ministry was formed, with Sir …
EventChristoffel Coetzee de Villiers (37), compiler of South African genealogical registers, dies
… search archive Christoffel Coetzee de Villiers was born on 10 March 1850 in Swellendam, in the Cape Colony (now Western …
EventSouth Africa joins the OAU
… session of the AU was held in Durban, South Africa on July 10, 2002. Gallagher Estate in Midrand, South Africa, is …
EventA wave of strikes hits Durban and spread countrywide
… wages and better working conditions. For instance, on 10 January workers at A.J Keeler Transport went on strike and …
ArchiveBiography of Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin by Victoria Sedeno
… at two a.m. and was taken to Pretoria Central Prison. [10] She was forced to leave her three-year-old son behind … did not return to South Africa until the…
Call for Participants: Academy for African Urban Diversity
… and in what ways? AAUD will bring together a cohort of 8-10 post-field work doctoral students exploring diversity in … be held at the University of…
PlaceBacksberg Wine Estate & Cellars
… as the orchards were replaced with vineyards over the next 10 years. The cellars were opened to the public for the first … and adopted a zero tolerance…
PlaceStevenson Gallery, Woodstock-Cape Town
… outside advisor, bringing the total number of partners to 10. A further 17 support staff allow us to take a proactive …
Declaration on Apartheid and its Destructive Consequences in Southern Africa
International political processes leading to the "Declaration on Apartheid and its Destructive Consequences in Southern Africa" can be traced back to the year…
A Biography of Ernest Cole by Anna Hutchinson
… it has already been done by somebody else.’ (Knape, 25-26) He was not afraid to speak him mind, which tended to get … London, and Paris before arriving in…
ArticleA Spiral of Trials by Norman Levy
… sentence, for workers to break their contracts and abscond.10 It was the effects of these devices to secure the … mine wages had increased by a sixpence…
South Africa's freedom struggle by E.S. Reddy
… African and Indian Congresses in the stay-at-home on June 26, 1950, in protest against apartheid, and then to the … society. South Africa Freedom Day E. S…
Beerhalls in Soweto from Soweto Heritage Survey Final Report compiled by Steven Lebelo and Elsabe Brink for the National Monuments Council, Northern Region
… JCC) opened a beerhall in Western Native Township (WNT) in 1939. Sensing that their illicit beer trade would be …
Bibliographical note and further reading
… Dayal Sannyasi: A Public Worker of South Africa (Etawah, 1939); G. H. Calpin, A.I. Kajee: His Work for the South …
2007 ANC National Policy Conference: Report of the Commission on Strategy and Tactics, 30 June 2007, Gallagher Estate
… that these are defining characteristics of the ANC. 10. It is also proposed that discussion on these concepts … emancipation, including targeted skills…
ArticleThe African Mine workers strike of 1946
… who demanded the recognition of their union, and a wage of 10 shillings a day, a wage that the Chamber of Mines refused … 4. Abolition of the contract system…
PlaceBreederivier/Breede River, Western Cape
… Towns of Ceres and Worcester, in the Western Cape. It is 26,8 km in length from the Bridge over the Breede River to … Towns of Ceres and Worcester, in the…
PlaceBennebroek Wreck, Hamburg
On the 16t of February 1713, the Bennebroek which was an 'East Indiaman'- which is a large sailing vessel. This type of sailing vessel's were built from in the…