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PlaceHaarlem
… Sixteen kilometers East of 'Avontuur' and 29 kilometers from Uniondale , a village was established by the Berlin Mission Society and was named Anhalt…
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 ……
EventPower Struggle in Zulu hierarchy
… A heated dispute between Mangosutho Buthelezi, Minister of Home Affairs and leader of Inkatha Freedom Party, and his … Zulu celebrations, raising fears of…
PlaceQuadrant House, 114-115 Victoria Embankment, Durban
… a naval college. McKinlay is considered to have been one of the most important motivators of what has become known as the " Berea Style ". It was declared a…
EventPrime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is killed in Nigeria’s first military coup
… Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was the first Prime Minister of Nigeria after it gained independence. He served his term … until he died in 1966 when he was kidnapped…
PlaceOnze Molen, Durbanville
… The mill was erected in 1840 and continued to function as such until after the turn of the 20th century when its mechanism and top portion were …
EventFifth Constitution Amendment Bill is introduced
… The Republic of South Africa Constitution Fifth Amendment Bill, establishing a framework for deliberations on the country's future constitutional, economic…
PlaceCeres, Western Cape Winelands
… Ceres is the Administrative centre and largest Town of the Witzenberg Local Municipality in the Western Cape … It was named after the Roman goddess of…
Nelson Mandela Correspondence with family
… Introduction The Robben Island prisoners settled down to the mindless timetable of imprisonment, filling hours with manual labour which …
EventSASOL plant under attack
… The attacks on SASOL I, NATREF and SASOL II took place on the night of 31 May/1 June 1980 in order to coincide with Republic Day. …
ArchiveAfrican Communist, 1959 - 1994
… The SACP did not publicly announce its existence until the state of emergency was declared by the government after the police …
Dawn
… The official policy of the African National Congress was one of non-violence. However, after fifty years of non-violent …
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Wynberg
… by free burghers in 1657, and for more than a century most of them travelled into Cape Town to attended religious services. However because of the distances…
PlaceTable Bay
… Table Bay is a natural inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, overlooked by Cape Town and the famous Natural Table Mountain . Bartolomeu Dias was the … New Dictionary…
PlaceGroote Schuur Estate
… lions and a leopard, for which he built an extension onto the menagerie to house the creatures. On the slopes just above the land presently occupied by the…
PlaceFourteen Streams
… Baard District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa. The estimate terrain elevation above seal level is 1226 metres. The railway line from Kimberley…
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 … https:…
PlaceTanzania
… The Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama explored the East African coast in 1498 on his voyage to India. By … succeeded in driving the Portuguese from the area…
Event18 mineworkers die in Carletonville
… On 29 July 1999, a team of AngloGold mineworkers at the Mponeng mine in Carletonville … drilled into a pocket of flammable methane gas in the rockface. They…
PlaceFunda Community College
… College was founded in 1984 in Soweto, Gauteng with the support of private sector funding and built on land which was donated by the Urban Foundation and IBM…
PlaceTenterden, 60 Durban Road, Wynberg
… The property was originally part of the Vredenhof Estate which had been allocated to William … a Cape Dutch idiom but it subsequently acquired a number of…
ArchiveTribute to Ottilie Schimming Abrahams (2 Sept 1937-1 July 2018) – some notes and memories by Heike Becker
… In the late 1950s Ottilie Schimming Abrahams was among the first generation of Namibian students who pursued post-secondary education in …
ArchiveReflections on life in a rearview mirror by Jo Ractliffe, 27 Jun 2011
… with your 80th birthday—that Sunday morning when a group of us were summoned to your house at the crack of dawn in an atmosphere of great mystery and ……
EventPetronella Nellie du Toit South African soprano singer is born
… Nellie du Toit began her singing career at tender age of nine, and by the age of sixteen she began to sing opera. After completing her school education in…
PlaceDurbanville
… The site currently known as Durbanville was originally … . On 2 September 1836 it was renamed; "D'Urban" in honour of Sir Benjamin D'Urban, Governor of the…
PlaceCity Hall, Pretoria
… Pretoria is commonly known as Jaccaranda City, because of the purple flowered bush that flurishes there! It has recently changed its name to Tshwane! The…
EventSADF responds to allegations by FAPLA
… Following a press conference of General Staff Lieutenant-Colonel Antonio dos Santos Franca … his forces had killed over 230 South African troops in the…
Cape Flats Details - Life and Popular Art in Cape Town’s Townships
… Author : Chris Ledochowski This book is the culmination of 10 years of documenting life in the Cape Flats African and Coloured townships of Cape Town by …
PlaceClarkebury, Eastern Cape
… The Village of Clarkebury was established in 1830 as a station of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society. James Backhouse …
PlaceFairview Wine and Cheese Estate, near Paarl
… An immigrant from Lithuania, the young Charles Back I, landed on these shores in 1902. … his life in South Africa as a butcher boy in what is now the Cape…