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… Statement calling on the public to support a petition of the Students Representative Council of the University of Cape …
EventWinnie Mandela is found guilty
… Congress Women League president and Deputy Minister of Arts and Culture, was found guilty on four charges of kidnapping and four of being an accessory after…
Zweli Mkhize slams Zuma in hard-hitting statement, 01 April 2017
… Cape Town - ANC treasurer general, Zweli Mkhize, says the ANC leadership should have been consulted on President … said in a statement on Saturday said that…
PlaceAluin Krantz West, a Farm Near Alexandria
… Located in the Sundays River Valley, in the District of Cacadu District Municipality, Eastern Cape. … New Dictionary of South African Names by Peter E Raper …
EventGermany declares South West Africa a German protectorate
… Otjimbingwe in 1885, then at Windhuk in 1891. It covered the core of what is today Namibia. Over the next hundred years, African peoples living in Southwest…
EventAmy Biehl’s murderers receive amnesty from TRC
… The four murderers of Amy Biehl, American Fullbright exchange student, are granted amnesty by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). They appealed ……
EventGeraldine Fraser is born
… was born on 24 August 1960, in Lansdowne, Cape Town, the daughter of a teacher and factory worker. She became politically … active at Livingstone High School…
Letter from Maryland (http://www.archaeology.org/) by Julie Schablitsky
… tracing their lineages through manumission records, the wills of slave owners, and censuses. Nancy Daniels, for example, is … Africa, and we are from Europe…
PlaceRhodes University, Grahamstown
… Rhodes University, founded in 1904, the University has a well-established reputation for Academic … 8200 students, Rhodes is a small University, which enjoys…
PlaceBethelsdorp, Algoa Bay -Eastern Cape
… Back in 1802, the establishment of a Missionary Village on a deserted farm near Algoa Bay, now Port Elizabeth, became a thorn in the side of the colonial…
EventProfessor John Fleming “Jack” Brok dies
… died – he was a scientist, physician and a professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Cape Town. Fleming was born on 27 March …
PlacePretoria Correctional Service Museum
… The first prison building in Tshwane, built by Alexander Anderson at the corner of Pretorius and Paul Kruger streets, has an appealing …
ArchiveBlack Sash / Sash
… originally published as Black Sash, is a detailed record of the activities of the Black Sash organisation: the petitions, protests, …
EventSANDF soldiers strike
… Problems with the integration of " uMkhonto we Sizwe" (MK), the military wing of the African National Congress (ANC) and … Fraser, R. (1994). Keesing's…
PlaceOld Stables, Oatlands, Simonstown
… This building was originally erected in the 18th century as a set of stables on the well-known Oaklands property. Shortly after the second …
PlaceOld Post Office, Rissik Street, Johannesburg
… Johannesburg has many historic landmarks and the Rissik Street Post Office is one of them. Built in 1897, it’s among the city’s oldest surviving buildings…
PlacePhoenix Settlement and Gandhi Trail
… The Phoenix Settlement comprised of 100 acres of land and was purchased by Gandhiji in 1904. … in Durban South Africa in 1903 and in 1904 he moved the entire…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Glossary
… From the book: Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid commissioned by The Department of Education homelands ”” those territories reserved for …
Turning Points Books 1-6
… A textbook series commissioned by the Department of Education , produced by the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation and STE …
PlaceLions Bridge, Church Street, Arcadia, Pretoria
… The bridge was designed by the Department of Public Works of the ZAR, under the guidance of Sytze Wierda. It was built …
EventFormer Kenyan President, Jomo Kenyatta, dies
… on 20 October 1891 and grew up in Ichaweri, southwest of Mount Kenya. Kenyatta ran away from home to become a pupil at the Church of Scotland Mission, where…
EventRioting and destruction in Cato Manor and Durban continues
… efforts to remove Black people from Cato Manor close to the Durban city center to Kwa Mashu, a newly established black township on the outskirts, was met…
EventAfrican Mineworkers’ strike starts
… African mineworkers, led by John Beaver (JB) Marks, leader of the African Mineworkers' Union, started on this day. The strike was initiated by the Communist…
EventPope John Paul II appoints 31 cardinals, three from Africa
… Pope John Paul II appointed 31 new cardinals; three of them were from Africa. These were the Nigerian Cardinal Anthony Olubunmi Okogie, Ghananian Peter…
PlaceWupperthal Mission Station, Clanwilliam
… oasis in a very rugged wilderness, 72 km southeast of Clanwilliam and about 250 km from Cape Town . This … since 1865, although its origins are actually…
PlaceOld gaol, Seventh Avenue, Roodepoort
… The original building was apparently already in existence in 1890 when it was converted to use as a gaol for the mining village of Florida. The structure was…
Document 44 - Letter from Leon Trotsky to T. W. Thibedi, 4 September 1932
… very great step forward if we could establish an organ in the negro language. I suppose that the material hindrances would be great in this time of deep…
22. Natal sirdars regarded in India as pariah
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai By 1911, the public outcry in India against the…
PlaceGenadendal Historic Village & Museum
… This interesting and Historic Village of Genadendal is the oldest Moravian Mission Village in … Church buildings and a School that dates back to 1738. The…
EventGabon gains independence from France
… On 17 August 1960 Gabon, the last of the four territories, which had formed French Equatorial …