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ArticleTreks & Land conflicts timeline 1602-1966
1602 20 March, The Dutch East India Company (VOC) comes into being. 1652 Jan van Riebeeck, a representative of the Dutch East India Company (VOC),…
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1900-1909
1900 - 1909 1900 January 7, Ambulance corps is reformed and stationed at Estcourt. January 21, Corps in action at Spionkop. Bearer's carry wounded through…
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1900-1909
Nelson Mandela Timeline 1800-2014
The Nelson Mandela timeline tracks the history of the first democratically elected president of South Africa through his childhood in rural Transkei, the…
Glossary: Americas by the 1500s
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1900 - 1909
1902 At the cessation of hostilities, Sir Alfred Milner, the former British High Commissioner and Governor of the Cape and now administrator of the two…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1700s
1700 The first "placaat" (ordinance or statute) restricting the importation of Asian slaves is promulgated. Dlamini chiefdoms move south from Delagoa Bay…
ArticlePass laws in South Africa 1800-1994
Slaves at the Cape were forced to carry passes. This made it easier for their owners and the local authorities to control their movements. The first time Pass…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1800s
1799-1802 Khoi-San rise up in an unsuccessful but protracted rebellion in the eastern districts of the Cape in what becomes known as the Third War of…
ArticleGrey Street Complex timeline 1800-1999
1854 15 May, The proclamation of the settlement of Durban into a Borough. The European population stands at 1,204. 1858 The Umzinto Sugar Company…
ArticleCapitalism in the USA 1900 to 1940
How did the Great Depression in the USA bring about a crisis of capitalism? Background and focus It is important to understand that the focus of THIS section…
ArticleContemporary issues: Women’s struggle, 1900-1994
A tumultuous history has left women in present day South Africa with a number of challenges to overcome. Most obstacles to the development of women can be…
ArticleCommunism in Russia 1900 to 1940
How was communism applied in Russia under Lenin and Stalin? Background and Focus In this topic, as well as the next, the rise of the two economic systems…
BiographyDenis Mayer
… Air Force in North Africa and Palestine clocking over 1600 flying hours in a number of aircraft including the Miles …
ArticleChief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli timeline 1800 - 1967
Historical Context to Chief Luthuli Chronology While Chief Luthuli himself preferred another spelling and signed his name without an 'h', his surname is…
ArticleSouth African major mass killings timeline 1900-2012
Between the 20th and 21st century, a number of people lost their lives in South Africa amid liberation struggle. However, some of these events were carried out…
ArticleHistory of Slavery and early colonisation in SA timeline 1602-1841
1602 Chamber Representatives of the Netherlands Parliament grant a founding charter to the Dutch East India Company to establish an Indian trading empire in…
Organisations involved in the Women’s struggle, 1900-1994
ArticleFrom Union to South African Republic 1900-1976
ArticleTimeline of Land Dispossession and Segregation in South Africa 1900-1947
By the 1900s African people had been dispossessed of their land and colonial rule was still in the process of being entrenched. The formation of the Union of…
100 Years of Struggle for Freedom
Black Concentration Camps during the Anglo-Boer War 2, 1900-1902
While the two main forces in the Anglo-Boer War 2 were White, it was not an exclusively White war. At least 15 000 Blacks were used as combatants by the…
ArticleTimeline of Land Dispossession and Segregation in South Africa 1800-1899
The nineteenth century was a period of several events whose socio-political and economic impact profoundly changed South Africa and the African continent…
ArticleSettler Colonialism and Afrikaner Nationalism
The rise of Afrikaner Nationalism like Capitalism and African Nationalism profoundly shaped the history of the country, and continues to influence the…
ArticleWomen and Children in White Concentration Camps during the Anglo-Boer War, 1900-1902
Due to the fact that Black People were detained in separate camps, the issue of Black Concentration Camps is dealt with in another chronology.Boer women,…
English Settlement in South Africa
British presence in the Cape between the 1600s and 1795 was largely confined to the shores of the Cape and Table Bay as a halfway stop by the East India…
BiographyMartin Lutuli
Martin Lutuli was born in the mid-1800s, he was raised and educated at the American Zulu Mission at Groutville in Natal, where his parents had been among the…
Archive1000 days of repression
Green poster with black lettering. Artwork of women with raised fist behind them. Notice of a vigil at St Mary's Cathedral, De Villiers Street. March 7th. …
A List of women involved in the women’s struggle in South Africa, 1900-1994
ALiz AbrahamsMagdelene Malotane Adams Rachel (Ray) Alexander-SimonsRuth AlexanderPhyllis AltmanRuth Elizabeth ArndtJacqueline ArensteinZainab AsvatBFrances…