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PlaceFraserburg
… The division of Fraserburg was originally part of the district of Worcester and was proclaimed a separate … January 1890 its Southern Districts were given…
PlaceSt Michael and All Angels Anglican Church, Boksburg
… 1974. This delightful Sir Herbert Baker church is near the South West corner of Boksburg lake. Replacing an earlier … Provincial Heritage Site. Designed…
Demonstrations against Proclamation of Republic: Answers to Questions by May 1961
… leaders for answers to three questions concerning the planned demonstrations. The following are answers of Dr. Naicker.] Question: Do you advocate peaceful…
EventSA signs diplomatic relations with Vietnam
… With the processes of the dismantling of the apartheid system and preparations for democratic rule under way, the Republic of South Africa opened itself to…
EventHome Affairs Minister Mapisa
… passports discovered during anti-terror operations. The meetings, expected to continue until the end of the week, also concerned improving cooperation…
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 …
EventIndian Rights Campaigner Bhawani Sannyassi Dayal is born
… Johannesburg as son of Jariam Singh, a former president of the Transvaal Indian Association. In 1913 he was one of the organisers of the Indian strike led by…
PlaceFort Cunynghame
… with Komgha and a number of other establishments in the Transkeian Territories, was manned by the Frontier and Mounted (FAM) Police. It was named after … …
ArchiveStatement
… Statement by Alfred Nzo, Secretary General of the ANC National Executive Committee, on the current situation in South Africa. The regime over the past few…
ArchiveCollaborators and falsifiers exposed
… With the official opening of the Sultan Technical College, the members of the College Council had taken a decision to …
EventGandhi demands end to White ‘hooliganism’
… meeting in New Delhi, Mahatma Karamchand Gandhi called on the South African government to stop the hooliganism by Whites. The authorities warned the Passive…
ArchiveFifty seven years of NUSAS - Have we learned our lessons?
… Critical overview of history of the National Union of South African Students in which the speaker questions the success of some of the policies and…
ArchiveCircular from John Daniels, SRC Vice-President
… Organisations, National Unions of Students, regarding the NUSAS Deputation to the Minister of Justice following the banning of the NUSAS President. Includes…
EventMarianne Kriel was born on this day
… University.[ii] Kriel earned herself a gold medal at the All Africa Games in the 100 metre backstroke in 1995.[iii] Marianne Kriel won a bronze medal in the…
PlaceKwaDukuza
… 1825, King Shaka , son of Senzangakhona and Nandi, who was the king of the Zulus from 1816, established a royal settlement as a halfway station between the…
EventAt a summit SA Trade Unions resolve to defy apartheid and labour laws
… Location: back to this day in history search archive During the summit conference organised by non-racial labour unions … Union delegates discussed South…
EventSA Olympic team leaves for Barcelona
… The South African Olympic team of ninety-five members took off to participate in the 22nd Olympic games staged in Barcelona, Spain in 1994. … was South…
EventSouth African boxers,Zolile Mbityi and Peter Malinga both win world titles
… world titles. Mbityi, South African (SA) flyweight, won the International Boxing Organisation (IBO) flyweight title, while Peter Malinga, SA welterweight,…
EventNP set to withdraw from GNU
… Deputy President F.W. de Klerk announced that the National Party was to withdraw from the Government of National Unity on June 30. This came after the…
EventGeneral Koos de la Rey, buried in Lichtenburg amid a very tense atmosphere.
… de la Rey, known as Koos de la Rey, a Boer general during the Second Anglo-Boer War who is widely regarded as being one of the strongest military leaders…
”A House in Harrington Street”, photographic exhibition by Nicholas Eppel
… The Centre for Curating the Archive, invites you to A House in Harrington Street, by … Eppel’s debut solo exhibition reflects three years in the life and…
EventFormer South African Prime Minister JG Strijdom dies
… Johannes Gerhardus (JG) Strijdom was born in 1893 in the Cape Colony. He trained as a lawyer at the Victoria College (now Stellenbosch University). Strijdom …
EventStruggle icon Nxele Makana drowns while escaping from Robben Island
… Post the Fourth Frontier War 1811-1812, the Cape Governor, Sir Charles Somerset, made a verbal treaty with Gaika, the supposed paramount chief of the Western…
EventRwandan and Burundian presidents J Habyarimana and C Ntayamira are killed in an air crash
… 0n 6 April 1994, an extraordinary event in the history of the African continent took place in Kigali, Rwanda when two … Tanzania, at which they discussed…
Ubuntu Awards 2018
… ABOUT THE AWARDS The Annual Ubuntu Awards have grown exponentially since they were launched in 2015. Now in their fourth year, the Awards are carried live on…
PlaceUganda
… in East Africa , whose diverse landscape encompasses the snow-capped Rwenzori Mountains and immense Lake Victoria … wildlife includes chimpanzees as well as…
PlaceRuth Prowse School of Art
… With the death of Ruth Prowse in 1967, her Mansion Property “the Retreat” located on Birkdale Avenue, 5 Elson Rd, … Centre. Prowse was a respected Artist…
PlaceOfficers’ Club, Military Base, Wynberg
… on 22 August 1969. Wynberg Military Base is, with the exception of the Castle, the oldest military establishment in South Africa. Its …
PlaceLanherne Building, Humewood Road, Port Elizabeth
… resident engineer and general manager of the South African Railways. During WWII it was converted to a … home for servicemen, and in 1960 it was sold to the…
EventSAFCA distances itself from boycott of South African goods
… The South African Federation of Consumer Associations (SAFCA) … issued a statement distancing itself from a body called the South African Consumers…