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ArticleArt South Africa Today exhibitions
In May 1963, the Cape Times announced the launch of ‘a national art exhibition, open to South African artists of all races’. The first iteration of Art South…
The Centenary Celebration of the February Revolution 8-12 March 2017
In 1917 ordinary workers and rank and file soldiers overthrew the Tsarist autocracy that had been in power in Russia since the late 1400s. This became known as…
BiographySipho Samuel Hashe
Sipho Samuel Charles Hashe was born in Middledrift, Ngcabasa Village (Eastern Cape) in 1934. He relocated to Port Elizabeth in the 1950s. During this period…
BiographySicelo Shiceka
Sicelo Shiceka was born on 8 June 1966 in the village of Ingquza Hill, near Flagstaff, Lusikisiki in the Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape) His greatest…
BiographyAshlatha Rambally
Ashlatha Moodley (nèe Rambally) was born in Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) in 1946 and grew up in the small town of Colenso. After completing her…
BiographyDorothy Cleminshaw
Dorothy Cleminshaw (nee Mullany) was born in Cape Town on the 15th of September 1922. She went to Ellersie College in Sea Point and matriculated with a full…
BiographySibongile Susan Mkhabela
The youngest child of Mozambican immigrants, Sibongile (Bongi) Susan Mkhabela (nèe Mthembu) grew up in Zola, one of the poorest areas in Soweto, Transvaal…
ArchiveSA Air Force operation, 20 December 1983, Fourth party congress-Cabinet reshuffle-Relations with South Africa-MNRM actions, Keesing_s Record of World Events, Vol 29, December 1983
Article1967 Terrorism Act, No. 83 of 1967
The 1967 Terrorism Act was one the most important pieces of legislation passed by the South African apartheid regime. Though the Act’s stated purpose was to…
EventSANNC (ANC) meeting is attended by a large number of people
… to discuss the conditions caused by the Native Land Act of 1913 and to chart a way forward. Also in the agenda of the …
Mission Stations - M
MAASDORP, Stockenstrom, Cape: UC. Believed to have acted as an outstation only. MABAALSTAD, also known as EMMAUS, Transvaal: HM 1868 MABETSHA, Ngqeleni,…
ArticlePoor Whites and their Political Weapon: Constructing the Kakamas Dam
… water scheme and continue alleviating poor whites. In 1913 Kakamas officially became a state work colony. [18] In …
BiographyYusuf Joe Jacobs
Yusuf (Joe) Jacobs was born in District Six, Cape Town on 17 September 1940. His father was Ismail Jacobs, a tailor. His paternal grandfather was Manan Jamie…
BiographyJohn Collins
John L Collins was born on the 23 March 1905 in Hawkhurst in Kent, England. He was the youngest child on the four children born to Arthur Collins, a master…
BiographyJennifer Schreiner
Jennifer Schreiner (known as Jenny) was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) in 1956 to G.D.L. Deneys and Else Schreiner. Else and Deneys were…
ArchiveSA Air Force operation, SAAF blasts ANC, Pretoria News, 23 May 1983
ArchiveInterview with Ruth Mompati, by Julian Marshall, BBC Radio 'Focus on Africa', 23 May 1983
PlaceDutywa, Eastern Cape
… was laid out in 1884 and was made a municipality in 1913, formerly part of the Transkei bantustan. It is the …
ArticleRustenburg Timeline 1850-2001
1850 The Nederduitsch Hervormde Church (Nederduitsch Reformed Church) establishes a congregation in Rustenburg. 16 November, A Hervormde congregation is…
1. The Way to Fox Street
… the fledgling Union government in 1914. Although the 1913 Natives' Land Act was already beginning to undermine the …
EventFormer South African Prime Minister and State President John Vorster is born
Former South African Prime Minister and State President, Balthazar John Vorster was born in in Uitenhage in the Eastern Cape on 13 December 1915. Vorster began…
EventMarcus Garvey, Jamaican-born Black nationalist who advocated the departure of African-Americans back to Africa, is born.
Marcus Garvey's name is synonymous with Pan-Africanism and the Rastafari Movement. He was born in Jamaica on 17 August 1887, and as a young man developed a…
PlacePhoenix Settlement and Gandhi Trail
The Phoenix Settlement comprised of 100 acres of land and was purchased by Gandhiji in 1904. It was on this Settlement that Gandhi started his journey of…
ArticleIndian South Africans
From bondage to freedom - The 160th anniversary of the arrival of Indian workers in South Africa The feature on Indian South Africans forms part of our…
Chapter 2
… forward from the tribal organisations. The following year (1913) the disastrous Native Land Act turned the eyes of the … with Dutch Feudalism. What did…
ArticleThe History of Education: 1658 to present
… satisfy both white communities (Afrikaans and English). 1913 The Land Act establishes 'reserves' (later called …
Mission Stations - T-Z
… SAfMS 1867; ECS 1899; WMS TSUMEB , Namibia: RM 1907; Rc 1913 TUKU , Cape: WMS TULBAGH , Cape: RM 1817; LMS TUNXA , …
ArticleRuth Robb and her involvement with Black Sash
… she was a part of our world. Ruth was born on December 25, 1913 in Plymouth, England to her parents Benjamin Wingate …
'Opening Address' at Annual Conference of the South African Indian Congress by Dr. S. M. Molema, 25 January 1952
… and ruined by such enactments as the Natives Land Act (1913), Native Service Contract Act (1934) and Native … by such legislation as the Immigration…
”Opening Address” at Annual Conference of the South African Indian Congress, by Dr. S. M. Molema, January 25, 1952
… and ruined by such enactments as the Natives Land Act (1913), Native Service Contract Act (1934) and Native … by such legislation as the Immigration…