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EventUnion leader, Moses Mayekiso is reported to be under arrest on his return from Sweden.
… year. This was after metal workers in the Transvaal and Natal (now kwaZulu Natal) protested his release. On 28 June whilst Mayekiso was …
EventBoers and the British clash in the battle of Dalmanutha
… faced a full attack by General Sir Redvers Buller's Natal Field Army (also known as the Natal Field Force). By 24 September the entire Transvaal …
EventDeath in detention of Imam Haron
… initiated the tradition of getting progressive speakers to address his congregation. This tradition persists still …
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - 1948 - Press Reports on the Campaign
… down from a sky banked with grey clouds, a batch of 15 Natal-born Indians crossed over Transvaal border at Volksrust … interested in the peace. Dr Naicker,…
ArticleNokukhanya (Bhengu) Luthuli’s Life Timeline
… 1952 Albert Luthuli elected as president-general of the ANC and stripped of his Chieftaincy 1961, December 10 Albert …
PlaceCompensation, Settlement near Durban
… where in 1851 he produced the first sugar cane grown in Natal that was brought from Reunion Island. This Are was … that the Farm was now a White Area. On 6…
Documentary Photography and Awakening the International Community, 1976-1994
… a group of South African exiles - mostly members of the ANC - convened at the University of Botswana to discuss the … and students as well as politicians -…
13. Wife lays bigamy charge
… Magistrates Records, Durban Correspondence 102, 1895, Natal Archives. I am the wife of Seeniwasa Padayachi residing … there. They informed me that my husband…
Poqo political trials and the execution of its operatives in the 1960s
… apartheid government banned the African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), forcing them to … to strengthen underground structures…
EventSAIC Executive meets in Cape Town
… launched by the Passive Resistance Councils (PRC) of Natal and the Transvaal. SAIC also decided to send a … United Nations. Ashwin Choudree, delegate of the…
ArticleTransvaal Indian Congress (TIC)
… through the TIC Business and Economy Group. After the ANC was unbanned in 1990, the NIC and the TIC, had various meetings with the ANC over the role of the…
ArticleTreason Trial 1956 - 1961
… Amongst those released were African National Congress (ANC) President Chief Albert Luthuli; African National … thirty accused. Only a few of the African…
"Peace and Development in our Region" Speech at "War on Want" Conference by O. R. Tambo, London, June 1988
… their substance and intention from the ban imposed on the ANC in April 1960. When it was banned, the ANC was, like the UDF and other organisations, committed…
PlaceKwaDukuza
… halfway station between the Zulus and the settlers of Port Natal [Durban]. The huge settlement was known as KwaDukuza, … site in 1872 and named after the…
EventAfrikaans becomes the official language of the Union of South Africa
… it consisted of the Transvaal, the Orange Free State, Natal and the Cape Province. Dutch and English were the two … was unanimously adopted by three…
Interview with Archibald Gumede 21 August 1990
… is the meaning of the spread of the violence out of the Natal into the Transvaal? AG Well, candidly, the … African situation. Do you think the…
EventFawcett Commission into Concentration Camps in South Africa
… Office responded by appointing a Six Woman Commission to address her findings. The commission included Jane Waterson, …
EventMarcus Garvey, Jamaican-born Black nationalist who advocated the departure of African-Americans back to Africa, is born.
… the first UNIA branch outside Jamaica. He began to address the issues of social, political and economic equality …
PlaceKwaMashu
… The development of KwaMashu Township, in the KwaZulu-Natal province and located some 19km north of Durban , … and who was a member of the Legislative…
Article1973 Durban Strikes Conference , 26-28 January 2023 - Celebrating 50 Years
… Town (UCT) Department of Sociology, University of KwaZulu Natal (UKZN), the Chris Hani Institute and Workers College …
ArchiveBiography of Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin by Victoria Sedeno
… activist who was detained for her work in the underground ANC during the height of the anti-apartheid struggle reveal … journalist, her work in the…
EventBhambatha becomes chief
… (1906 uprising) as reported by J. L. Dube in Ilanga Lase Natal, with special focus on Dube's attitude to Dinizulu as … Master of Arts (History) dissertation,…
EventGen. Louis Botha, soldier, statesman and first prime minister of the Union of South Africa, is born.
… of the Union of South Africa, is born near Greytown, Natal (now kwaZulu Natal). A Boer general and statesman, he was leader of the …
Passive Resistance, 1946 by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Special Focus: Wrangling between political groups - 1948
… Congress, which had been formally joined the Cape and Natal Indian Congress, appealed against a Cape Division of … wonder what the reactions of our Communist…
ArticleRemembrance of Albertina Sisulu through the Work of Cartoonists
… but not that we let it remember for us. PRESENT DAY ANC LEADERSHIP PUTS TERMS AND CONDITION ON THE CONCEPT OF … the same values. CHIP's cartoon suggests that…
Formation and launch of the UDF
… shot and killed seven members of MK, the armed wing of the ANC. Those who were killed were Jabulani Godfery Miya, … killed. During their funeral a mourners…
ArticleParties involved in the history of elections in South Africa
… (UP) The Conservative Party African National Congress (ANC) National Party (NP) Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) Freedom …
ArticleAll African Convention, 1958
… was formed. Attended by more than 400 delegates from the ANC, CPSA, various ICU’s the Native Advisory Boards, African …
ArticleContemporary issues: Women’s struggle, 1900-1994
… Africa are faced with, the lack of access to adequate pre-natal and HIV-treatment seems to be the most common. Under …
ArticlePrehistory of the Bloemfontein area
… indicates that the Fokeng moved up from northern KwaZulu-Natal and were originally Nguni speaking. Type N walling, as …