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EventThe Cato Manor riots begin due to the ‘beer issue’ and looming forced removals
… note that some sources claim that the riots began on the 16 or on the 18 June 1959. …
EventThe South African security police bombed two houses in Manzini, Swaziland
… 1981. They attacked and destroyed three houses and killed 16 South Africans and a Portuguese national, Jose Ramos, who …
EventThe apartheid government agrees to eliminate racial segregation in theatres but not in cinemas
… abolished by President F.W. de Klerk on November 16, 1989, a few months before the unbanning of political …
EventThe National President of the Black People’s Convention, Kenneth Hlaku Rachidi, declares that riots have lead to a new era of political consciousness
… June 1976, almost two weeks after the Soweto Uprising on 16 June, Kenneth Hlaku Rachidi, the National President of the …
EventA resolution against the use of Afrikaans is taken during SASM conference in Roodepoort
… to consolidate strategies regarding the planned march on 16 June 1976 …
EventSecurity Council examines violence in South Africa
… the United Nations the Security Council convened on 15 and 16 July to examine concerns about violence in South Africa …
EventSusanna Kok, SA medical missionary whose work led to the effective diagnosis and treatment of leprosy, dies
… care, she went to Nigeria to work with a leper colony of 16 000 people. During her time here, she discovered a skin …
EventSir Benjamin D’Urban, for whom the city Durban was named, assumes office as Governor of the Cape of Good Hope
… of Antigua in 1819, as well as British Guiana in 1831. On 16 January 1834, D'Urban assumed office as Governor of the …
EventThe first missionary in Southern Africa, Gonçalo da Silveira, is murdered
… strangled to death in his hut, by order of the chief, on 16 March 1561. The expedition sent to avenge da Silveira …
EventSipho Gumede, South African jazz legend, dies
… a homemade guitar. He joined his first band at the age of 16 and soon became a known and sought after bass player. In …
A history of Volkskas and the Absa Banking group
… to put his idea in motion. Before the congress, on 12 August 1933, the Broederbond decided to appoint a … branch on 1 August 1935, in Market Street. Over the…
PlaceSt. Francis Church, Simonstown
… Written by Prof Boet Dommisse, who sadly passed away on 12 July 2014, it records the History the Parish Church from …
PlaceuMnambithi was called Ladysmith
… placed the British in a precarious position . About 12 000 British soldiers were faced with the defence of a …
PlaceFort Daspoortraand
… for the design of the fort, which was completed 12 November 1898 and cost £46 500. French and Italian …
EventGen. J.B.M. Hertzog is forced to resign as premier after his motion of neutrality in World War II is defeated in parliament
… parliament, and later passed away in 1942. Related: Grade 12 Classroom: Pact Government …
EventApartheid police officers admit to the killing of Biko before the TRC
… to Pretoria, where he was thrown into a cell. On September 12, 1977, he died naked and shackled on the filthy floor of a …
EventSpanish Flu strikes South Africa
… was held at the University of Cape Town (UCT) from 12 to 15 September 1998 to mark the 80th anniversary of the …
EventKing George VI is born
… following his brother, Prince Edward's abdication on 12 December 1936. George who was the Duke of York and his …
PlaceTokai Manor House, Tokai Road, Tokai.
… Monument, under old NMC legislation on 8 September 1961. The beautiful Tokai Manor House, just below Elephant’s …
Statement by Nelson R. Mandela on his relationship with his wife 13 April 1992
… intensified. I was compelled to go underground as of April 1961, living the life of a fugitive until my arrest by the …
EventSA’s Fifa membership reinstated
… should end racial discrimination within twelve months. In 1961, South Africa was expelled from Fifa. The Black …
PlaceGugulethu Township
… - including those from Retreat and Athlone. In November 1961, 2 000 Steenberg residents who were threatened with …
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 2 Essay Questions
… they would pay far less than what the items were valued. [12] The Khoikhoi retaliated by poising the water holes of the … [11] Ibid. [12] The Department of…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1866-1909
… Maxeke, form the AME Wilberforce Institute at Evaton. May 16, Members of the SANC form the Transvaal Native Congress …
EventWWI: battalion consisting of 'Cape Coloured men', called the Cape Corps, is established
… its peak strength it had around 23 000 members. More than 12 000 South African servicemen fought in World War One, and … Cape Corps faced Turkish forces…
Address by President Jacob Zuma on the occasion of the release of the 20 Year Review: South Africa 1994 to 2014, Sefako Makgatho Presidential Guest House, Pretoria, 11 March 2014
… includes extensive income support programmes for close to 16 million orphans and vulnerable children, older persons and … objective assessment of the…
IV - The Death of Steve Biko
… to Pretoria. He was taken to Pretoria that same night. On 12 September Mr. Biko was again examined by a district … single detainee — South African…
Biography of Lionel Ngakane by Rod Reyna
… with Lionel Ngakane, Cinaste, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 16-17. Crowther, B. 1952, The Screen in Review; Alan Paton's … with Lionel Ngakane, Cinaste, vol. 15, no. 2…
Prejudice, Politics and Patriarchy: The Social Decline and Changing Identity of David Lurie in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace by Charley-Ann Pearson
… ( Disgrace 11 ) ; ‘evasive and perhaps even coquettish’ (12). Again, David Lurie abuses his authority alongside the … known as the rock upon which the…
PlaceGordonia Division
… 152 mm, and a hot Summer climate. Population (1970): White 16 323; Coloured 56 644; Asiatic 3; Bantu 10 447. Gordonia …