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EventGideon Nieuwoudt dies
… 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…
South Africa: Writer Mafika Gwala Passes Away (allAfrica), 9 September 2014
… Minister Nathi Mthethwa has sent his condolences to the family and friends of legendary poet and short story writer, Pascal Mafika … on Sunday. "It is with…
5th Jozi Book Fair
… 5th Jozi Book Fair Khanya College invites you to the 5th Jozi Book Fair taking place from 25-26 October 2013 at Museum Africa in Newtown, Johannesburg. This…
PlaceFort Wonderboompoort, Wonderboom-Pretoria
… Completed on 4 September 1897 by the Krupps firm, Von Dewitz and Weiner, the fort cost £49 000 and had the same type of entrance as Fort Schanskop. Ramparts…
EventLinguist and educationist Sedumedi Moloto is born
… linguist, educationist and teacher who served as chairman of both the Tswana Language Committee of South Africa and the Botswana National Language Committee…
PlaceRotunda, Bay Hotel- Camps Bay
… 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…
EventBlacks in South Africa protest against segregation
… On the 300 anniversary of the arrival of Jan van Riebeeck in Table Bay, the African National … Muller, C.F.J. (ed)(1981). Five Hundred years: a history of…
EventBritain refuses Uganda’s request for independence
… Uganda is an east African country that had a number of kingdoms as well as political institutions by the 1800's. The interior was penetrated by Arab slave…
PlaceIziko Museum's, Cape Town
… Iziko is an isiXhosa word meaning “hearth.” A hearth is the traditional centre of the home where families would get together to share their … https://www…
EventAnti apartheid activist Dr. Richard Turner is assassinated
… A passionate lecturer pioneering the teaching of radical political philosophy, Dr. Richard Turner was assassinated. Turner met his untimely death on the…
PlaceGroote Kerk, Pretoria
… The Dutch Reformed Kerk, Pretoria was established in 1854, when it separated from the Rustenburg congregation. The site where the first church was built…
PlaceRailway Station and Post Office, Point Road, Durban
… This building was erected in 1900 as part of a general upgrade by the Natal Railways. It replaced an earlier structure built between 1876 and 1878 when the…
Excerpts from Priscilla Jana’s book 'Fighting for Mandela' that relate to Solomon Mahlangu
… pp. 41 – 49. If the breadwinner was imprisoned I would organise help as much as I could, and all the time I knew it was the right thing to do, just as using…
EventEdenburg is founded
… The church village Edenburg in the Orange Free State was established when the farm … to build a church. The initial application for recognition of Edenburg…
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…
PlaceVineyard Hotel, Colington Road, Newlands
… under old NMC legislation on 18 February 1977.Over the past two Centuries, The Vineyard has proudly evolved into one of the most Environmentally-friendly,…
Event5 Children Murdered in SADF Umtata Raid on Alleged APLA Arms Storage Facility
… as they lay sleeping in their Umtata home. Believed to be the arms storage facility for the Azanian Peoples' Liberation Army (APLA), police … at the house…
PlaceEbenezer, Limpopo
… Ebenezer was established in 1831 as a station of the Rhenish Missionary Society . The 1875 census indicated that the Village had a population … New…
PlaceLutheran Church, Martin Melck House and Sexton House, Strand Street, Cape Town.
… The Lutheran Church in Strand Street in Cape Town is the oldest church building in South Africa, dating back to 1792. This unique group of 18th century…
PlaceOld Magistrate’s Offices and Residence, Main Street, Simonstown
… next to Goede Hoop in Simon's Town and is located in City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. This museum depicts the history of the Simon’s Town…
EventKen Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian author and environmental activist, is executed
… Born in the Ogani District of Nigeria, Ken Saro Wiwa studied English at the Government College Umuahia. He took up a post as a Civil …
PlaceCape Maclear, Malawi
… Cape Maclear or Chembe is a town in the Mangochi District of Malawi's Southern Region. The town, situated on the Nankumba Peninsula, is on the … Potgieter, D…
Press Statement by O. R. Tambo, December 1964
… 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…
PlaceOlivedale , Randburg
… The Property was purchased in 1940 by a Dutch diamond trader … had a House erected upon it. During WWII Italian prisoners of war were used to build…
PlaceSt James, Cape Town
… The Seaside Resort of St. James was located on False Bay , some 26 km South of Cape Town , the Suburb derived its name from the Church of St. James, …
PlaceGoedverwact
… Mission station of the Moravian Church on the Western slopes of the Piketberg, in the magisterial district of Piketberg. …
PlacePhilippi
… The settlement of Springfield was established sometime before December 1896, … 1898 its name was changed to Philippi. Philippi is one of Cape Town’s…
EventUnited Nations Charter is adopted
… The United Nations Charter was adopted in San Francisco by the United Nations Conference on International Organisations. … General Jan Smuts had prepared…
PlaceCarmel, George
… In 1721 the farm Langverwacht was allocated to Jean le Roux, a Huguenot settler. After a post office was opened on the site during the latter half of 1905,…
PlaceBaxter Theatre, Rondebosch- Cape Town
… The Baxter Theatre Centre opened on 1 August 1977 and was designed by Jack Barnett as honor to the late Dr. W Duncan Baxter’s bequest for the purpose of…