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Hanover Park, Cape Town
Place
Jan 29, 2022

Hanover Park, Cape Town

The Village of Hanover Park was incorporated on August 14, 1958, into Cape Town. It had a population of 305.

National Botanic Gardens, Pretoria
Place
Jul 14, 2011

National Botanic Gardens, Pretoria

The Botanical Gardens had been founded in 1946. After the University of Pretoria granted approval to the Department...

Land Claims Court of South Africa, Randburg
Place
Apr 13, 2022

Land Claims Court of South Africa, Randburg

The Land Claims Court (LCC) was established in 1996 and its primary focus is dealing with these land restitution and lan...

First & Second River Temple's
Place
Sep 26, 2017

First & Second River Temple's

The First River Temple, built the banks of the Umbilo River, near Bayhead Durban, in 1875. This is the first Hindu Templ...

Caledon Museum, Eastern Cape
Place
Apr 08, 2019

Caledon Museum, Eastern Cape

The Caledon Museum is split into two Buildings depicting very different parts of local History. The Victorian Hou...

Calitzdorp, Route 62
Place
Sep 20, 2016

Calitzdorp, Route 62

Calitzdorp is a Town on the Western side of the Little or Klein Karoo in the Western Cape Province of South Africa and l...

Gouritsrivier, Near Mossel Bay
Place
Mar 16, 2011

Gouritsrivier, Near Mossel Bay

It enters the Indian Ocean on the Southern Coast of Africa and 34 km south-west of Mossel Bay. The bridge swing and bung...

Donkerhoek
Place
Mar 11, 2022

Donkerhoek

The Willem Prinsloo Agricultural Museum is also in the vicinity. This Museum preserves and presents South African agric...

The Langman Hospital, Part of the 'The Ramblers Club' in Bloemfontein
Place
Mar 28, 2022

The Langman Hospital, Part of the 'The Ramblers Club' in Bloemfontein

Ramblers Club is one of the most Historic Buildings in Bloemfontein. As the oldest Sports Club and former Military Hospi...

Virginia Airport, Durban
Place
Jul 08, 2020

Virginia Airport, Durban

Durban Virginia Airport is a Public Airport serving the City of Durban, in the Province of KwaZulu-Natal.

African National Congress Timeline 2011 - 2020
Article
Mar 16, 2022

African National Congress Timeline 2011 - 2020

AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS TIMELINE — 2011 – 2020 2011 8 January 2011 African National Congress (ANC) Presi...

Constitutional Court of South Africa, Johannesburg
Place
Mar 20, 2019

Constitutional Court of South Africa, Johannesburg

This historically rich site - where densely populated and frenetic Hillbrow meets leafy and affluent Parktown and bureau...

The turbulent 1950s - Women as defiant activists
Article
Mar 31, 2011

The turbulent 1950s - Women as defiant activists

In the 1950s the government's increasingly repressive policies began to pose a direct threat to all people of colour, an...

Mariannhill, Pinetown
Place
Apr 07, 2020

Mariannhill, Pinetown

Mariannhill lies in a densely green, intense Landscape swept by Forests and sheltered, leafy Neighborhoods outside Durba...

Ysterplaat, Cape Town
Place
Mar 01, 2022

Ysterplaat, Cape Town

Ysterplaat is an old Northern Suburb of Cape Town and home to an Airforce Base, School's and a Museum; amongst many Chur...

Hazyview
Place
Nov 24, 2017

Hazyview

A Village that is inundated with History and very quicky being modernized but will always keep it's charm! The na...

African National Congress Timeline 2000 -2010
Article
Nov 21, 2011

African National Congress Timeline 2000 -2010

During this period the ANC consolidated its hold on power but also faced both internal and external challenges. Signific...

Nelson Mandela Awards 1960s - 2000s
Article
Jul 17, 2020

Nelson Mandela Awards 1960s - 2000s

Awards 1960s  1964 Elected Honorary President of the Students' Union, University College, London. 1965 ...

Diamond Hill Battle, Garden of Remembrance
Place
Jul 14, 2011

Diamond Hill Battle, Garden of Remembrance

The site of the Battle of Diamond Hill, which took place on the 11th and 12th June 1900, in which 14000 British soldiers...

Elaandslaagte, a Mission Station in Kwa Zulu Natal
Place
Mar 16, 2011

Elaandslaagte, a Mission Station in Kwa Zulu Natal

Elandslaagte was a mission station of the Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa, and was probably founded in about 1860....

Dutywa, Eastern Cape
Place
Jan 28, 2020

Dutywa, Eastern Cape

The town was founded in 1858 as a military fort after a dispute between a Natal Colony raiding party and local people. I...

Seshego, a Township
Place
Feb 18, 2022

Seshego, a Township

Seshego is a Township in the Polokwane Local Municipality of the Capricorn District Municipality of the Limpopo Province...

The Durban strikes and the resurgence of the trade union movement in 1973
Article
Oct 17, 2011

The Durban strikes and the resurgence of the trade union movement in 1973

When Black workers in Durban embarked on a wave of strikes in January 1973, the government and employers were shocked, a...

Kenhardt
Place
Feb 24, 2022

Kenhardt

Kenhardt has been for a long time the most remote Settlement in the North-Western Cape, founded 1868. Becoming a Municip...

Antipolis and Romelia Shipwrecks, Cape Town
Place
Jan 27, 2022

Antipolis and Romelia Shipwrecks, Cape Town

In July 1977, These two ships; Antipolis and Romelia, were both bound for the scrap heap in Taiwan. A Japanese tugboat n...

Student protests in democratic South Africa
Article
Jun 12, 2015

Student protests in democratic South Africa

 

Amajuba, a Mountain in Natal
Place
Sep 20, 2016

Amajuba, a Mountain in Natal

Mountain 14 km South-West of Volksrust and 32 km North of Newcastle. The scene of a Historic Battle in the First Anglo-B...

Johannesburg Art Gallery
Place
Jul 14, 2011

Johannesburg Art Gallery

The Johannesburg Art Gallery was first commissioned to be built in 1910, and was initially housed on the campus of Witwa...

Simon's Town Museum
Place
Oct 02, 2019

Simon's Town Museum

next door to Church

Tradouw Pass
Place
Jan 10, 2022

Tradouw Pass

This is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful and rugged mountain drives, in the Langeberg! (This Pass is in the Top 20 ...