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ArticleJohn Langalibalele Dube Timeline 1940-1950
… qualification for the University College of Fort Hare. 1930 The Zulu choir of the Ohlange Institute, under the …
ArticleA History of Abantu-Batho Newspaper 1912-1931
… company in 1929 giving him a controlling stake. In April 1930, Gumede lost presidency of the ANC to Pixley Seme. The …
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…
PlacePretoria High School for Girls, Park Street
Pretoria High School for Girls was started by Lord Milner in 1902 as part of his efforts to anglicise the Transvaal under British Occupation. And so it was…
ArchiveThe women's suffrage movement: The politics of gender race and class by Cheryl Walker
… for women was defeated in the Cape House of Assembly, and 1930, the year when a racially exclusive Act of Parliament … policies. In the long years of…
EventNicolaas Johannes Diederichs, South Africa’s fourth state president, is born
Nicolaas Johannes Diederichs South Africa's fourth state president was born on 17 November 1903. After studying for his doctoral degree at the University of…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1940-1949
… was the first Provincial Congress to be held in town since 1930. 3 October, Dr. A.B. Xuma calls a meeting of twelve … the minutes of this meeting click here …
ArticleFootball in South Africa
On 15 May 2004 in Zurich, Switzerland, Joseph (Sepp) Blatter, president of FIFA, world soccer's governing body, made an historic announcement: South Africa…
ArticleA history of prison labour in South Africa
Prison labour has a particularly debatable history in South Africa. Historically, South Africa operated on the understanding that prisons were places of…
ArticleThe spread of these ideas to Europe and Australia
The indigenous inhabitants of Australia The continent of Australia was settled about 60,000 years ago. Before European settlement, most of the inhabitants of…
ArticleNational Union of South African Students (NUSAS)
In 1924 the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) was founded aimed at representing and promoting the interests of university and college students…
PlaceMapungubwe Interpretation Centre
… the remains and artifacts removed from Mapungubwe in the 1930's. The human remains we reburried. It was decided that …
EventFirst Fietas Festival to celebrate the legacy of the community
… was to Ormando East in the late 1920's and early 1930's. Fietas, as the place was popularly known to its …
Message from President Jacob Zuma
… first term from 1924 to 1927, Josiah Gumede from 1927 to 1930, Pixley ka Isaka Seme from 1930 to 1936; ZR Mahabane`s second term from 1937 to 1940, AB …
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - New Workers, New Unions
… Rand. Industrial School for white apprentices in the early 1930's New unions The semi-skilled workers formed new kinds … Their unions actually merged for a…
Chapter Six - The Fighter in Turmoil: 1946 - 1960
… A political Biography by Doreen Musson The years between 1930 and the 1940s were ones of profound change in the …
An interview with Mr. A.W.G. Champion
… was in the bad books of the government, so much so that in 1930 I was served with a notice by the Minister of Justice, …
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Introduction
From the book: Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism commissioned by The Department of Education Industrialisationand rural change were key…
61. Segregation reduces our people to helotry
… Pachai The Asiatic Land Tenure (Amendment) Bill of 1930 threatened to impose segregation upon Indians in the … South African Indian Congress in Johannesburg…
PlacePretoria Art Museum
The Pretoria City Council started a permanent collection of paintings from artists such as the German Baroque painter Joachim von Sandrart (1606 – 1688), the…
PlaceSt Margaret’s House, Parktown, Johannesburg
… angled off shoots of roofs and wooden windows. In 1930 stables and outbuildings were built on the adjacent …
EventJosiah Gumede is succeeded by Pixley ka Isaka Seme as ANC president
… At the annual ANC conference on 30 April 1930, Pixley Seme succeeded Gumede as president general, by a …
ArticleA history of Soweto
The consequence of this promising wealth was that a great number of people left their farms, rural homes and other towns in South Africa to make a quick buck…
Article1910-1924: African nationalism and working-class and popular protests
… blatant betrayal. In the first two decades of Union (1910-1930), the Governments of Louis Botha, Jan Smuts, and J. B. …
ArticleAfrican nationalism and working-class & popular protests, 1910-1924
… read more In the first two decades of Union (1910-1930), the Governments of Louis Botha, Jan Smuts, and J. B. …
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 1 Contextual Overview
What is Communism? Communism is a social, economic, and political ideology whose aim is to establish a communist society in which there is a collective…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 3 Contextual Overview
… who were held in orphanages and other institutions between 1930 and 1970. This content was originally produced for the …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: Pre-1500
Modern Humans evolve in Africa, including South Africa and the first African people begin to settle in South Africa. Hundreds of years later the first…
ArticleRight to Organise Timeline 1500-1994
… This gave farmers extended legal powers over their tenants 1930-1946 Council for Non European Trade Unions (CNETU) …
ArticleDr G M 'Monty' Naicker - Timeline
… to the medical school of the Edinburgh University. 1930-34 - The years of the gay student who pursued social and …