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EventThe Second General Election is held in the Union of SA
… prime minister, but many of his followers voted for the new party under General J.B.M. Hertzog. …
EventDeputy Minister of Defence attends commemoration of Delville Wood
… the 'Devil's Woods'. During the commemoration ceremony, a new South African coat of arms was unveiled at the South …
EventThe use of Dutch is ratified in the Cape parliament
… the position of Afrikaans for after the war culminated; a new upsurge emerged to establish Afrikaans as an official …
EventStanley Bongani Nkosi, SA artist, is born in Newcastle, Natal
… London School of Art for two months. In 1980 he visited New Zealand and the USA where he appeared on television …
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Glossary
… A map representing the ‘new’ Union of South Africa of 1956 (The British Cape Colony …
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 1 Source-based Questions
… of the existing dominant system by the working class for a new alternative system. Stalinism: The policies adopted by …
Archive2023 - President Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 9 February 2023
… quarters of 2021 and 2022, around one and a half million new jobs were created in our economy. The Presidential … sustained recovery into the future. We are…
ArchiveHow history will judge FW de Klerk by RW Johnson, politicsweb (28 November 2021)
… in the next decade or two. Currently it looks like the New South Africa is heading for failure. If fail it does, the … ANC, so keen were they to ingratiate…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - The glitter of gold by Emilia Potenza
… gold on a Transvaal farm called Langlaagte. Gold was not new to the Transvaal. African had mined gold hundreds of … no longer passed South Africa on their to…
PlaceCango Caves, Oudtshoorn
29 km from Oudtshoorn, at the head of the picturesque Cango Valley, lies the spectacular underground wonder of the Klein Karoo - the Cango Caves.The limestone…
PlaceSuurbraak, a Settlement in the Overberg Municipality
… harken back to a pre- electricity and pre-motor- vehicle age for South Africa .These both were only introduced in the …
Not in My Neighbourhood Documentary
… of Architectural Apartheid in São Paulo, Cape Town and New York. We will be screening the ROUGH CUT of Not in My …
PlaceAllanridge, Free State Province
… image of the train-coach; this 4-8-2T locomotive, supplied new to Loraine Gold Mine as No 1, was built in 1951 as works … New Dictionary of South African…
EventFirst Indian workers arrive in South Africa
… after the abolition of slavery and can be understood as a “new kind of slavery”. Workers were signed into five-year …
EventProfessor John Fleming “Jack” Brok dies
… Nutrition Society (SANS). References: Verwey, E.J. (1995). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.1, Pretoria: …
EventThe twentieth anniversary of the arrest of Nelson Mandela is marked by a call for his release by China
… public by the United Nations Centre Against Apartheid in New York. Mandela’s long-term incarceration began when he was …
EventNational Heritage Day celebrates South African cultural diversity
… Day in 2004 when a compromise was reached between the new government and the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP). On the …
EventDisbanding of Communist Party is announced
… Illustrated History of South Africa: the real story, New York: Reader's Digest Association, p. 381. …
EventAbolition of Internal Security Act
… the Interim Constitution. It was also agreed upon that the new structure of the police and the South African Defence …
EventA consumer boycott is called in Boksburg
… CP won 12 of 20 council seats. At its’ first meeting, the new Council decreed that it would begin rigorously enforcing …
EventBlacks boycott municipal elections
… the state hoped that through the elections it would get a new group of Black councillors to support it, and at the same …
EventFreedom of press is established at the Cape
… in our country. The colonists were so happy with this new freedom, that they acknowledged their appreciation with a …
EventBritish create the settlement of Sierra Leone, for freed slaves
… After the British slave trade was abolished in 1807, the new colony was used as a base from which the act could be …
EventDr Louis Luyt resigns as president of the SARFU
… to let down South Africa's rugby partners, Australia and New Zealand. References: …
EventBritish mission to subdue Sekhukhune is abandoned
… country was included without any question under Britain's new possessions. Sekhukhune did not accept British claims …
EventThe South African government is to grant self-government to KaNgwane
… was to have been part. South Africa and Swaziland were not new to conflicting claims about land. In September 1982, the …
EventNelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu on Robben Island 5 August 1982
… public by the United Nations Centre Against Apartheid in New York. Mandela’s long-term incarceration began when he was …
EventShaun Pollock makes history in a test match
… Dev of India, Ian Botham of England, Richard Hadlee of New Zealand and Imran Khan of Pakistan. Born on 6 July 1973, …
EventKenya is granted independence
… Jack was replaced by the black, red and green flag of the new nation. This followed the first all inclusive elections … The New York Times," Kenya Gains…
EventSophiatown residents are forcefully moved to Soweto
… and business areas of cities and towns white. A new, white suburb was built on the ruins of Sophiatown and …