The Battle of Blaauwberg, also known as the Battle of Cape Town, fought near Cape Town on Wednesday 8 January 1806, was a small but significant military...

Republic following the 1802 Treaty of Amiens. It was re-occupied by the British following the Battle of Blaauwberg in 1806, and British possession affirmed...

Battle of Blaauwberg at present-day Bloubergstrand. The Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814 confirmed the transfer of sovereignty to Great Britain. Traders of...

The Battle of Blood River (16 December 1838) was fought on the bank of the Ncome River, in what is today KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa between 464 Voortrekkers...

reoccupied the colony after the Battle of Blaauwberg and it remained a British colony until the establishment of the Union of South Africa in 1910. The French...

This is a timeline of the history of the area in present-day South Africa....

Day. The EFF called for the resignation of President Cyril Ramaphosa and an end to load-shedding. The leader of the EFF, Julius Malema, warned businesses...

first casualties of the Battle of Blaauwberg drowned when their boat was driven by the large surf into the rocky point at the end of Stadler road and...

Lists of battles Before 301 301–1300 1301–1600 1601–1800 1801–1900 1901–2000 2001–current Naval Sieges See also List of Napoleonic Battles Battles of the...

Bechuanaland (later part of the Cape Colony). Following the Battle of Blaauwberg (1806) Britain had officially acquired the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa...

of the Vaal river.: 230  Commandant-General Andries Pretorius led the commandos against the British forces later that year, leading to the Battle of Boomplaats...

1976. 1982 brought the effects of a world economic crisis to South Africa, and the price of gold fell in 1985. The result of these things and other economic...

Battle of Blaauwberg: British infantry force troops of the Batavian Republic in the Dutch Cape Colony to withdraw. January 9 The Dutch commandant of Cape...

was a group of four conflict photographers, Kevin Carter, Greg Marinovich, Ken Oosterbroek, and João Silva, active within the townships of South Africa...

The Battle of Ventersdorp was a violent confrontation on 9 August 1991 in the South African town of Ventersdorp between supporters of the far-right Afrikaner...

establishing British rule in South Africa in combination with the Battle of Blaauwberg. The fort has never fired a shot from its guns. Fort Frederick was...

police station in the township of Sharpeville in the then Transvaal Province of the then Union of South Africa (today part of Gauteng). After demonstrating...

Party) was a South African political party formed in 1977 through merger of the Progressive and Reform parties, eventually changing its name to the Progressive...

election was conducted under the direction of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), and marked the culmination of the four-year process that ended apartheid...

(FF+) also being in favour of Cape independence. The party is lead by Phil Craig, who was previously involved in the founding of the Cape Independence Advocacy...

month of office, when he proclaimed: "Each of us is as intimately attached to the soil of this beautiful country as are the famous jacaranda trees of Pretoria...

Parliament of the Republic of South Africa, was the legislature of South Africa between 1984 and 1994, established by the South African Constitution of 1983...

the small Federal Council of Retail and Allied Workers also split away. In, 1985 it was a founding affiliate of the Congress of South African Trade Unions...

by a merger of most of Prime Minister Barry Hertzog's National Party with the rival South African Party of Jan Smuts, plus the remnants of the Unionist...

is a conservative Christian party based on Biblical principles. The leader of the party is Kenneth Meshoe. Following the 2016 municipal elections, the ACDP...

The Boipatong massacre took place on the night of 17 June 1992 in the township of Boipatong, South Africa. The attack on township residents was carried...

Congress in 1950 and describes his organisation of guerrilla plan and underground organisations to battle against apartheid. In 1961, Mandela was convicted...

successor organisation of the TRC. The TRC was set up in terms of the Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act, No. 34 of 1995, and was based in...

aims were to protest the introduction of the Apartheid pass laws for black women in 1952 and the presentation of a petition to the then Prime Minister...

service delivery protests refers to a series of protests and civil disturbances taking place across urban areas of South Africa related to poor service delivery...