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… Jacob Borghorst succeeds Cornelis van Quaelbergen as commander at the Cape. …

… (ZAR) Volksraad proclaims Marico, Western Transvaal, as a separate district. …

… The first Cape cabinet is formed, with John Molteno as premier. …

… Sanlam is listed as a public company on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange …

… colonies of Tripoli, Cyrenaica and Fezzan are merged as Libya. …

… Bakili Muluzi is sworn in as Malawi’s first democratically elected president.  …

… Italy reorganises her Red Sea territories as the Colony of Eritrea. …

… Volksfront’ is founded with Gen. Constant Viljoen as leader. …

… South Zambesia and North Zambesia (Zambia) are united as Rhodesia Protectorate. …

… State President C.R. Swart opens Melrose House in Pretoria as a museum. …

… General JBM Hertzog, as prime minister, forms the first Nationalist government. …

… constitution is adopted. African History gives date as 19 April. …

… The contemporary Black Movement as it has developed from its forerunners …

… Five power stations are blown up as tensions rise during WWII …

… The contemporary Black Movement as it has developed from its forerunners …

… Thousands support stay-away call as anger rises in Transvaal townships …

… Aanvaarding van geweld as oplossing wek kommer (Article written in Afrikaans) …

… and Indian people of this country. We completely rejected, as we still do, all forms of white domination, and more … sentenced for political activities which we embarked upon as part and parcel of our struggle to win for our people the … acknowledged throughout the civilised world as the inalienable birthright of all human beings. These …

… His family was forced to move to Reservoir Hills as their property was taken over by the then Department of … ANC but to be involved in the armed struggle". "The main factor was economic. That made the National Party (NP) …

… army. This Voortrekker victory was commemorated since then as the Day of the Vow.  The second historical event that took … shot by police, passive resistance was no longer seen as an effective approach in bringing apartheid to an end. MK … and liberation struggle traditions and to rename this day as the Day of Reconciliation. On 16 December 1995, the Day of …

… on the initiative of the African National Congress. As a liberation movement the ANC was unique in so firmly … the Freedom Charter has met with international acclaim as an outstanding human rights document. The Freedom Charter … the status quo and to ensure that the fruits of war, colonialism, racism, sexism and oppression continue to be …

… - Youth League programme of action 06:86 - 08:40 - Career as a doctor 08:40 - 10:22 - Activities in the social field in … to join cabinet 14:91 - 15:89 - Reasons for appointment as Minister of Interior 15:89 - 16:87 - Areas of work covered … Duties as Minister of the Interior, Resettlement, Township …

… South Africans of the right to own land. Plaatje, known as Sol, came from a family that had been associated with … Life’s centenary, it’s worth revisiting Plaatje’s legacy as one of his country’s greatest public intellectuals. It’s … South Africanness. Early years Plaatje is best known as a leader of the South African Native National Congress, …

… and in 1950, he and his family were forced to register as Coloured, according to the Population Registration Act. … to continue his education at Wellesley Training College, as there had been no high schools in his home area for … of South Africa. Having grown up in a short period of colonialism, and spent most of his life in the apartheid era, …

… One way to understand its significance is to view it, as some historians have done, as a conflict that was as important in the making of modern South Africa as the … The second Anglo-Boer war, also known as the South African war, breaks out …

… partly in English and partly in Dutch, and started off as a weekly of four pages, until 1841 when it appeared twice … Wale Streets in Cape Town, in a building currently known as Waalburg. The publication was edited by a number of … Land) at a later stage, and was known for a brief time as the Advertentieblad (Advertisement newspaper). After …

… Piet Retief orders Erasmus Smit to ordain himself  (Smit) as minister of the Voortrekkers, but meets with violent opposition because they consider him as being too old and sickly at the age of fifty-nine. … Piet Retief orders Erasmus Smit to ordain himself  (Smit) as minister of the Voortrekkers …

… refusing to register for their passes. This became known as the 1906 Satyagraha Campaign. By 1913, a tax had been imposed on all former indentured labourers, known as the Indian Relief Bill. In protest of this, Gandhi … apartheid. The Defiance Campaign in 1952 can be seen as an example of this. …

… at the insistence of the Prime Minister P. W. Botha as a result of his involvement in the Information Scandal . "Muldergate", as the scandal was also named, involved Mulder, with the … Connie Mulder resigns as a result of his involvement in plot to sell apartheid …

… A new Egyptian cabinet is sworn in with Ahmed Nazif as prime minister. …