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Chapter 2 - The lack of a workers’ party
From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 2 - The lack of a workers' party The industrialisation of South Africa brought into exÂ…
The life, times, and memories of Joe Rassool
The life, times, and memories of Joe Rassool. The book takes us back to the late 19th century Cape Colony to the early 1950s covering the family history or the…
EventAmy Mollison sets a new world record when she flies from England to Cape Town in 3 days 6 hours and 26 minutes
… English Aviator who set numerous flying records during the 1930’s. She married fellow aviator Jim Mollison and the …
Desirable or undesirable Basotho women?' Liquor, prostitution and the migration of Basotho women to the Rand, 1920-1945' by P. L. Bonner
… women were in the forefront of this trend. In September 1930, for example, the Director of Native Labour (DNL) was … from Basutoland (CAD, NTS 7725 File 166…
EventProfessor John Fleming “Jack” Brok dies
On 3 July 1983, John Fleming (Jack) Brock died – he was a scientist, physician and a professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Cape Town…
EventA national congress, under auspices of the Dutch Reformed Church, meets to discuss the ‘poor White problem’
… (1893), Cradock (1916), Bloemfontein (1923), Pretoria (1930), and another in Bloemfontein (1933). However, the first …
EventAfrikaans author Mikro is born
… taught for a while at Kuilsrivier and Ritchie. From 1930 to 1931 he wrote poems for the magazine Huisgenoot and …
EventPixley Seme, lawyer, journalist and co-founder of SANNC is born
… 1912. He was the barrister and President of the ANC from 1930 to 1936 when he was ousted by Reverend Z.R. Mahabane. …
EventMazisi Kunene, Zulu poet and ANC activist, is born
… Mazisi Kunene was born on 12 May 1930 in Amahlongwa, Southern KwaZulu Natal to a Swazi mother …
BiographyPatric Tariq Mellet
… had three more children and remained in District Six until 1930 after which they moved to Doornhoogte (today Rylands) …
BiographyBenjamin Magson Kies
Benjamin Magson Kies Introduction Benjamin Magson Kies was an important South African political activist and theorist from about the middle of the 1930s…
BiographyKasturba Gandhi
Kasturba Kapadia was born on April 11 1869 in Porbandar, in present day Gujarat. She was the daughter of Gokuldas Makanji Kapadia, a wealthy merchant. Kasturba…
ArticleThe development of Music in South Africa timeline 1600-2004
1600s In the Dutch colonial era, from the 17th century on, indigenous tribes people and slaves imported from the east adapted Western musical instruments…
2. Potchefstroom: A Fighting Location
… he raised an extra £500 for the council during the 1929/1930 budget year. He brought dozens of court cases against … 42 After calling for a general strike on…
ArticleA Culture of Survival
It was a struggle to survive in the city. Workers' wages did not keep pace with the cost of subsistence, and most black families lived below the bread line. …
ArticleZulu
… . His first Zulu novel "Insila kaShaka" was published in 1930. We see a steady growth of publications especially novels from 1930 onwards. The clear-cut…
PlaceJagersfontein
… Due to the Great Depression, the Mine closed in the early 1930's and reopened in the late 1940's. Thereafter it …
PlaceFort Cox
… to offer Agricultural Education and Training in 1930, but then in the 1970, the Forestry component was … the school was given to Lovedale College at Alice…
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid by Dr Peter Alegi
… with Christopher Phera as captain, but reclaimed it in 1930, winning three of five competitions: the Bushbucks … thanks to Luthuli's efforts, elicited…
The Freedom struggle: Political mobilisation in Port Elizabeth
The Eastern Cape is regarded by many as the cradle of Black resistance against White oppression. After the defeat of the Xhosa by the British in the frontier…
Turning-point elections in South Africa, 1910 - 2009
… Source: New History of South Africa Cape Town) p231 In 1930, after a spirited struggle the vote was extended to …
EventUniversity of Pretoria is established
… as a fully-fledged and autonomous university on 10 October 1930, having been a university college since 17 May 1910. …
PlaceRoodepoort Museum
Set in the Roodepoort Civic Centre on Christiaan de Wet Road, the Roodepoort Museum capably covers Roodepoort’s long and diverse History, which dates back to…
EventTafari Makonnen proclaimed Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia
… the Emperor Menelik II as ruler of Ethiopia on 3 April 1930. He immediately set about modernising the Ethiopian …
EventFormer SANNC President Sefako Mapogo Makgatho dies
Sefako Mapogo Makgatho was born at GaMphahlele, in the Pietersburg district in Transvaal (now Limpopo province) in 1861. He was the son of Chief Kgorutlhe…
A Society for the “Advancement of Art”
… SA National Gallery. The attainment of this objective in 1930 did not enhance the Society's prestige, but the … Gallery's (SANG) Inaugural Exhibition on 3…
Women at the start of the 20th century
… in a male-run Union government. It was only in 1930 (many years after settler women elsewhere in the empire) …
PlaceGazebo, Civic Square
… Cooke says Zeederberg’s closed their business in 1930 and this coach was sold in 1932 to Bulawayo Municipal …
EventThe first mountain zebra foal is born in at the National Mountain Zebra Park
The Mountain Zebra is an endangered species native to South Western Angola, Namibia, and South Africa. It is boldly stripped in black and white or brown and…
EventThe AA is formed to coordinate motoring clubs
… with councils, municipalities and government. In January 1930 the FAC was liquidated and reconstituted as the …