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Anglo-Boer War 1 (Transvaal War of Independence): The Battle of Ingogo Heights, near Schuinshoogte (also called the Battle of
… Anglo-Boer War 1 (Transvaal War of Independence): The Battle of Ingogo …
The Transvaal Provincial Division of the Supreme Court in Pretoria orders the KwaNdebele police to stop assaulting two emergenc
… The Transvaal Provincial Division of the Supreme Court in …
General Louis Botha, as chairman of the Boer committee, announces his intention of convening public meetings in Transvaal distr
… announces his intention of convening public meetings in Transvaal distr …
The ‘Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk’ starts its own training of ministers at the then Transvaal University College, with dr J.H.J.
… Kerk’ starts its own training of ministers at the then Transvaal University College, with dr J.H.J. …
Winston Churchill Masakeng Saoli, SA artist, is born in Acornhoek, Eastern Transvaal. He was detained during the 1970s. Dur
… Masakeng Saoli, SA artist, is born in Acornhoek, Eastern Transvaal. He was detained during the 1970s. Dur …
Voortrekker leaders Andries Hendrik Potgieter and Gerrit (Gert) Maritz, each with his own men, leave for Western Transvaal to p
… (Gert) Maritz, each with his own men, leave for Western Transvaal to p …
Leander Starr Jameson crosses the border into Transvaal, leading about five hundred hand-picked policemen of the Chartered Comp
… Leander Starr Jameson crosses the border into Transvaal, leading about five hundred hand-picked policemen …
BiographyM. J. M. Williams Shope
… was born in 1919 in the Letaba district of the northern Transvaal, he became a breadwinner for his family at an early … held until 1963. In 1954 he became…
BiographyKwena Matlala
… at Matlala's Location, Pietersburg District, Northern Transvaal [now Polokwane, Limpopo Province]. Kwena Matlala’s … [ Makhado ]), Sibasa District, …
BiographyMark Shope
… was born in 1919 in the Letaba district of the Northern Transvaal, he became a breadwinner for his family at an early … held until 1963. In 1954 he became…
Josias Madzunya
… Josias Madzunya was born in the Sibasa area of the northern Transvaal in about 1909, a member of the Venda tribe, … first to accept him, then later decided…
Alfred ‘Tough’ Hutchinson
… in 1924 in the Hectorspruit district of the Eastern Transvaal, he graduated from St. Peter's Secondary School in … A leader of the African National Congress …
BiographyCassim Saloojee
… was difficult for Indians to rent property or land in the Transvaal, were prohibited from purchasing land. Later his … was exposed to politics, and here that…
BiographyJames Madhlope Phillips
… of the Garment Workers Union, number 2 branch of the Transvaal, a position he held until1953 . That same year … . He became actively involved in the…
BiographySaul Msane
… a Zulu choir. In approximately 1907 he left Natal for the Transvaal and became a compound manager for a gold mine in … as a forum for registering grievances…
BiographyVusumzi (Vusi) Linda Make
… service between Evaton Township, Vereeniging District, Transvaal [now Gauteng] and Johannesburg, Transvaal [Gauteng] increased its bus fares A bus boycott…
Henry Reed Ngcayiya
… Congress. Two years later, after he had moved to the Transvaal, he served on the executive committee and was secretary of the Transvaal Native Congress (TNC)…
BiographyKing Sekhukhune
… Bapedi) who originated from the Bakgatla of the Western Transvaal. Sekhukhune, like Moshoeshoe King of the Basotho … (the fighting koppie) in the Lulu…
BiographyJoseph Chamberlain
… with regard to South Africa. He was loath to let the Transvaal fall into the orbit of competing imperial countries, especially Germany. But the Transvaal,…
BiographyDavid Wilcox Bopape
… in 1915 at Houtboschdorp near Pietersburg in the northern Transvaal. In 1916 his father fought against Germany in the … at the Botshabelo Training…
BiographyFrancois Pienaar
… He harboured ambitions of playing provincial rugby for Transvaal (now the Golden Lions). With that ambition in mind, he would regularly watch the Transvaal…
BiographyGovindasamy Krishnasamy Thambi Naidoo
… Cape Colony (now Northern Cape). He moved to Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) when gold diggings began in the Transvaal in 1886. He started hawking…
BiographyGoolam Hoosein Ismail Pahad
… as a committee member of the Kholvad Madressa of the Transvaal . He remained a member of that committee until … in Schweizer-Reneke, a small country town in…
BiographyMavivi Myakayaka-Manzini
… was born in Alexandra Township , outside of Johannesburg , Transvaal (now Gauteng ) in 1956, and then moved to Soweto … continued her studies at Turfloop…
BiographyPeter Nkutsoeu Raboroko
… did not finish them. In 1935 he became president of the Transvaal African Students' Association and also joined the … and between 1950 and 1952 he was the…
BiographyCyprian Mpho Shilakoe
… Shilakoe was born on 3rd August 1946 in Barberton, Eastern Transvaal. Shilakoe spent his childhood on an isolated mission station at Buchbeesreich in the…
BiographySister Bernard Ncube
… Ncube helped form local women’s organisations in the Transvaal region and in 1984 was elected president of the Federation of Transvaal Women (FEDTRAW) …
BiographyHemant Kumar Waghmarae
… 1967. These high schools are all in Gauteng (formerly the Transvaal). He then completed a two year Primary School Diploma at the then Transvaal College of…
List of deaths in detention
… Jacob 20. Haroon, Abdullah (Imam) 04/02 28/02 10/03 01/06 17/06 10/09 27/09 ? ? ? ? ? ? 45 Held: Silverton … Tbalo 34. Tshazibane, Wellington 35. Botha,…
BiographyKing Dinuzulu
… for his life, so they took him to a safe place in the Transvaal. Early in 1884, they turned to a group of Boers on the Transvaal border to aid them in…