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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…
District Six: 3,000 ex-residents on land claims waiting list by Diana Mellow (GroundUp), 23 September 2016
… Six residents and their descendants will campaign for the area to become a National Heritage site. District Six was … a whites-only residential zone on 11…
Burundi: A year later, still in crisis by Simon Allison (Daily Maverick), 05 May 2016, South Africa
… gender activist from Burundi, is what life is like at the moment for that beleaguered country’s citizens. “In … today is not safe tomorrow. Civilian life…
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 …
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 …
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…
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…
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. …
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…
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…
Nelson Mandela Correspondence with family
… Introduction The Robben Island prisoners settled down to the mindless timetable of imprisonment, filling hours with manual labour which …
PlaceFourteen Streams
… Baard District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa. The estimate terrain elevation above seal level is 1226 metres. The railway line from Kimberley…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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 …
EventJoe Slovo is born
… Joe Slovo , the former South African Communist Party (SACP) and African National Congress (ANC) leader and Minister of Housing was born in Lithuania. From…
PlaceEerste Rivier, Cape Town
… Eerste River was a Railway Station of the Cape Town , Wellington and Docks Railway Co Ltd, and … as a Village after 13 February 1862. This was when the…
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 ……
EventSA military integration is disputed
… The transition in the South African Defence Force (later SANDF) was not … between British military advisers and the commanders of the SANDF over the…
PlaceWrensch House, 77 Lower Wrench Road, Observatory
… The main building, as well as some of its outbuildings, date from the last quarter of the 18th century, but subsequent …
PlaceAir Force Museum, Port Elizabeth
… This museum depicts the history of the South African Air Force and houses a collection of old …