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ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 1 (1923-2001)
This short history of Electrical Supply Commission (ESKOM) aims to provide an overview of the history of the power utility over its first seventy-eight years…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1930-1939
… employees were among the lowest paid workers in Durban. A 1946 survey of the 6,140 residents of the Magazine Barracks …
EventKing George VI is born
Albert Frederick Arthur George who later became King George IV was born at York Cottage in Norfolk on 14 December 1895. George ascended the English throne…
ArticleSouth African Constitution: The Bill of Rights
On 21 March, South Africa celebrates Human Rights Day. This day is a commemoration of the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre and how far the nation has come in the…
EventChad gains its independence
… all defeated and a French territory was established in 1946 as part of French Equatorial Africa. The fight for …
PlaceNational Botanic Gardens, Pretoria
… The Botanical Gardens had been founded in 1946. After the University of Pretoria granted approval to …
BUT NOT FOR BREAD ALONE
… Insurance Act of 1937, re-enacted in amended form in 1946, provided for a UI Fund to which certain classes of … monies previously stolen from the workers…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1960-1969
Indian South Africans Timeline: 1960-1969 1960 19 February, Dr Monty Naicker called for strength in resistance, citing the example of Patrice Lumumba of…
PlaceWelkom
An Industrial and Commercial heartland, the City derived its name after the Farm; 'Welkom'. Welkom was founded in 1948 by Sir Earnest Oppenheimer, (who was the…
ArticleCensus in South Africa
From 10 to 31 October 2011, South Africa will be conducting its third census since the advent of democracy in 1994. Undertaking a census is a massive exercise…
EventSeretse Khama is re-united with his British wife
Seretse Khama succeeded his father, Kgosi (King) Khama III known as Khama the Good, ruler of the Bangwanto people. Subsequent to his father’s death Khama was…
EventBotswana President, Seretse Khama dies
Bechuanaland (now Botswana) President, Seretse Khama died on 13 July 1980 he died in Gabarone, Botswana. He was born on 1 July 1921 at Serowe, Botswana. His…
EventANC adopts the Programme of Action
… and other forms of non-violent resistance, similar to the 1946 Passive resistance campaign mounted by the South African …
EventThe UN decides not to support the request of the Union of South Africa concerning the treatment of Indians in SA
… at the UN and advise the Indian delegation. On 8 December 1946, the General Assembly adopted Resolution 44(1), its …
EventSA Corps of Military Police is reorganised
… the South African Corps of Military Police, on 18 October 1946. …
BiographyMatthew Goniwe
Matthew Goniwe was born on 27 December 1947 in Lingelihle Township on the outskirts of Cradock in the Eastern Cape. His parents David and Elizabeth were farm…
South African and World leaders
South African leaders South Africa has a long and very rich history. Many different cultures and communities live side by side and even together in South…
ArticleThe Union of South Africa: Movement towards Republic
The Afrikaner ideal of a republic South Africa only became a Republic on the 31st May 1961, but the formation of a Republic had been the dream of many…
BiographyNomhlangano Beauty Mkhize
Nomhlangano Beauty Mkhize was born on 12 April 1940 in Sophiatown, Transvaal Province (now Gauteng). Her family’s forced removal from Sophiatown to Meadowlands…
BiographyNtongela Masilela
Professor Ntongela Masilela was born on 9 December 1948 in Orlando West, Soweto, Transvaal Province (now Gauteng), the eldest son of Florence Vuyiswa Masilela…
BiographyRay Harmel (nee Adler)
Ray (or Taube, her Yiddish name) Harmel was born in Lithuania in 1905. Strongly influenced by some of her six brothers, she joined the-then illegal Lithuanian…
BiographyChief Justice Raymond Zondo
Chief Justice Raymond Mnyamezeli Mlungisi Zondo (popularly known as Judge Raymond Zondo) was born in the rural town of Ixopo, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) in 1960…
BiographyAmbrose Mzimkhulu Makiwane
Ambrose Makiwane was born in 29th of November in1921 near Cala in the Transkei. He attended Clarkebury School and was expelled after participating in a student…
ArticleDutch Reformed Church (DRC)
When the Dutch settled in South Africa in the 16th and 17th centuries they transplanted their Dutch Reformed theology to the African continent. Jan van…
ArticleThe history of Migrant Labour in South Africa
Introduction The migrant labour system marks a period in which African men were integrated into wage labour. Black men changed from being farmers in their…
EventSusanna Kok, SA medical missionary whose work led to the effective diagnosis and treatment of leprosy, dies
Susanna Helena Kok was born in 1911 in the Free State. She studied medicine at the Universities of Cape Town and the Witwatersrand and became a missionary…
Liberation organisations
UDF The United Democratic Front (UDF) was a non-racial alliance of about 400 national, regional and local organisations. It was launched in Cape Town in 1983,…
Oliver Tambo, 1 October 1987 - Reproduced in Oliver Tambo and the Struggle against Apartheid, edited by E. S. Reddy
… had carried on a great passive resistance campaign from 1946 to 1948 against racial discrimination. Dr. Yusuf Dadoo …
Oliver Tambo, October 1987
… had carried on a great passive resistance campaign from 1946 to 1948 against racial discrimination. Dr. Yusuf Dadoo …
EventSA Artist, Father Frans Claerhout, is born
… completing his studies, he immigrated to South Africa in 1946 as a Catholic missionary. He was initially posted to the …