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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…
Mission Stations - T-Z
… SAfMS 1867; ECS 1899; WMS TSUMEB , Namibia: RM 1907; Rc 1913 TUKU , Cape: WMS TULBAGH , Cape: RM 1817; LMS TUNXA , …
ArchiveRobert Grendon: A Life Rediscovered, (Daily Maverick), 4 March 2024
… exposé of the injustice of the Natives Land Act (1913), a work on Setswana proverbs, translations into …
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…
"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…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1930-1939
… land that formed part of the reserves (as set out in the 1913 Land Act) from 7.3% to 13%. It also establishes the …
ArticleAfrikaans: the Language of Black and Coloured Dissent
IntroductionAfrikaans, one of the official languages, together with English, during South Africa’s Apartheid era, often occupies a politicised space as the …
ArticleBantu education and the racist compartmentalizing of education
In 1949 the government appointed the Eiselen Commission with the task of considering African education provision. The Commission recommended ‘resorting to…
EventGerman Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, famous German commander of German forces in North Africa, dies on this day
The legendary German general was known as the "Desert Fox for his brilliant military exploits in north Africa during the Second World War. He was born in…
EventThe Rand Revolt breaks out
The end of World War I was followed by a global depression that affected South Africa as well. Soon after the war, in 1918 and 1919, Black workers across…
EventFirst celebration of International Women’s Day
The first International Women's Day was launched in several European countries in March 1911. It was celebrated on 19 March and over a million men and women…
Rafique Mayet
Rafique (Rafs) Mayet was born in 1955 in Durban, Natal (now Kwazulu-Natal). Mayet matriculated in Durban and worked at various jobs since completing school,…
Women in the apartheid society by Fatima Meer
… in the 1940s, resisted the extension of passes to women in 1913 and in the 1950s, and agitated against the expropriation … National Council of Women in South…
Pretoria the Segregated city
Contents Pretoria the Segregated city The Tomlinson Report Atteridgeville and Saulsville Hammanskraal Mamelodi Mabopane Laudium Eersterus …
ArticlePolitical executions in South Africa by the apartheid government 1961 - 1989
On 9 June 1983, three members of the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC), uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), were executed at the gallows in Pretoria…
The significance of the Bulhoek massacre today by Sam Matiase, 11 May 2015, South Africa
… Native Location’s Act of 1884 and the Native Land Act of 1913 occasioned the Bulhoek massacre both designed to drive …
ArticleSS Mendi
The sinking of the SS Mendi was caused by the reckless action of the captain of the SS Darro. It remains the greatest wartime maritime disaster ever suffered…
ArchiveRace or Class? Community and Conflict amongst Indian Municipal Employees in Durban, 1914 - 1949 by Goolam Vahed
ArchiveSA Air Force operation, City blast victims buried, Pretoria News, 26 May 1983
ArchiveSA Air Force operation, Blast: Good clues found, Pretoria News, 23 May 1983
ArchiveDENIS GOLDBERG 11 APRIL 1933-29 APRIL 2020 - The boy who would build a nation
ArticleThe Conflict between the AZAPO and the UDF - popular violence in the 1980s and 1990s
Popular violence in the decade between 1984 and 1993 is well documented. Existing literature on this brutally violent chapter in the history of the liberation…
PlaceKirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens, Cape Town
… Town’s, Table Mountain . Kirstenbosch was established in 1913 to promote, conserve and display the extraordinarily … Town’s Table Mountain. Kirstenbosch was…
PlaceMuseum Africa
… old fruit and vegetable market - which was built in 1913 and has now been imaginatively converted into a modern …
BiographyMiriam Makeba
Miriam Makeba was born in March 4th, in 1932 Johannesburg, during a time of economic depression. Her mother, a domestic worker, was imprisoned for six months…
BiographyNise Bulelwa Malange
Nise Malange was born in 1960, in Cape Town Western Province (now Western Cape Province), South Africa and grew up in Clovelly. As a young teenager she became…
BiographyKing Cetshwayo
King Cetshwayo’s place of birth was his father’s (Mpande) kraal of Mlambongwenya, near Eshowe. He was born in 1826, a very troubled period in the history of…
BiographyJames Edward April
James Edward April was born on 20th of March in 1940, in Bokmakeri Athlone, Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape).He is the youngest of seven children…