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EventThe Dutch Indiaman, the Nieuwe Haerlem, is wrecked in a storm in Table Bay
… crew and cargo. He waited for about a year before he and his crew were taken on board by the homeward-bound fleet … Geleynsz de Jongh. During the waiting…
43. Resolutions adopted at a mass meeting of the Natal Indian Patriotic Congress, 1909
… rejection of candidates for admission, and requests that His Excellency the Governor be pleased to direct the … the nature of class legislation, respectfully…
PlaceBrackenfell, Cape Town
… In 1901, Andries Brink sold a portion of his farm: 'Kruispad', to George Henry Walton. He was a … who then renamed the farm: 'Brackenfell', in honour of his…
EventIsmael Mahomed became first black judge appointed to the Supreme Court of South Africa
… to the Supreme Court of South Africa. At the time of his appointment the South African government and liberation … Mahomed was born in Pretoria in July 1931…
EventJames Filbert Sojane, sports administrator and pioneer in the taxi industry, dies
… the Free State, Sojane moved to Johannesburg to stay with his sister in Orlando East. He got a job at a clothing … a car. He operated the car as a taxi and…
EventMac Maharaj, Laloo Chiba, Raymond Nyanda and Andrew Masondo arrive on Robben Island prison
… prisoners, Nyanda received news that he had 'won' his case on appeal and that his sentence was shortened. He was removed from Robben …
EventANC President Albert Luthuli banned
… to report frequently to the SA Police in the area. After his part in leading the 1952 Defiance Campaign, a … he was challenged to denounce the ANC or be…
EventKwame Nkrumah is released from jail
… formed government a year later on 12 February 1951, after his party, the Convention People's Party (CPP), won the 1951 … until the country achieved…
EventChris Hani is born
… to enter priesthood, but because of the disapproval of his father he was moved to study in Matanzima Secondary … in Cala, Eastern Cape. Hani’s political…
EventMarais Steyn dies
… died of heart failure at the age of 83 in Stellenbosch. His political career started in 1948, when he stood for the … later tourism and Coloured affairs as…
EventHunter and politician Johannes Viljoen dies
… no other Whites had ever been. Many people, as well as his relatives, assert that it was on one of these trips that … Falls. During the civil war in the…
EventStanley Bongani Nkosi, SA artist, is born in Newcastle, Natal
… Natal (now kwaZulu Natal). When Nkosi was three years old his family moved to Dukathole near Germiston in the Transvaal … He attended school in Germiston…
EventSA Prime Minister, J.B. Vorster, vows to fight against terrorism
… Vorster confirms that there was no prior consultation with his government over Rhodesia's closure of its border with Zambia, but that his government will…
EventTrevor Manuel, Minister in The Presidency: National Planning Commission, is born
… the Labour Party Youth in 1969 at the encouragement of his father. In 1983, he became one of the founding members of … secretary. In 1985, Manuel was…
PlaceClarkson, Eastern Cape
… A red haired man who stood over 6 feet tall, he spent his long adult life working to abolish the Transatlantic … in London, in the Lake District and then…
Hendrik Verwoerd: 10 quotes by Hendrik Verwoerd (Politics Web), 20 September 2016
… of the House of Assembly in Parliament, Cape Town. In his biography of the man Verwoerd: Architect of Apartheid … had a “dominating personality, and those…
Chapter VIII - Treason - South African style 1
… we left the office. Nelson Mandela drove in from Soweto to his law office at the other end of town for a couple of … work and would meet us along the…
ArticleIndian Passive Resistance in South Africa: 1946 - 1948
… considers it reasonable that the Administrator in giving his approval to racial restrict ions introduced into land … Indian applicant had to satisfy the City…
EventPeter Lindenberg, South Africa’s powerboat champion
… European Barefoot Water-Skiing title in 1977.[i] Peter won his first South African powerboat racing title, as well as … from Formula One powerboat racing 18…
Invitation: BikoHausen - Steve Bantu Biko and Karlheinz Stockhausen in Johannesburg, 1971
… in March 1971, the composer Karlheinz Stockhausen and his wife Mary Bauermeister visited Soweto. They were … We can however imagine and extemporize. Together…
PlaceMelrose House, Jacob Mare Street, Pretoria
… George Heys, a young man from Durban, made his fortune in the diamond rush in Kimberley by establishing … that operated between Kimberley and Pretoria. With…
PlacePreller-Rondawels, Pelindaba
… suicide here on the 29th of March 1936, and a cairn in his memory has been erected on the farm, at the site of his suicide. The house enjoys a beautiful…
Document 30 - Letter from S. P. Bunting fo E. R. Roux, 9 January 1929
… were now trying to finance elections. Wolton came out with his attack on the party, very poisonous & diseased, but in … reply he was induced to stop till…
Chapter 5 - TOWARDS PEOPLE’S WAR
… Secondly, with Mabhida at the head of the Party, given his strong footing within the ANC, this promised to bring … to the Party collective to which he or she…
Wosa on the 1997 Conference for Socialism
… apparently took an interest in local developments besides his political labour problems, and as these developments have … as we found out soon afterwards. He…
ArchiveCHAPTER 5 - Armed Propaganda and Non-Colaborattion, Rationalising weakness, August 1979 - December 1980 by Howard Barell
… activists in October 1977, a month after Steve Biko's death in detention, created more fertile domestic ground for … political activist at the time, recalls…
Extract from a speech made in the House of Assembly on January 1976 in reply to a motion of no confidence in the Government by the Leader of the Opposition
… just what Albert Hertzog would have liked, and what he and his people are now reproaching us for - what this would have … my colleague, the hon. the Minister…
Black ViewPoint - Black Development by Njabulo Ndebele
… conflicts. There are the conflicts he experiences within his own ethnic group; those he experiences within his racial group, and those he experiences as a…
ArticleA History of Lückhoff High School, 1932-1969
… van der Westhuizen as principal and a Mr F. De Klerk as his assistant. However, the Superintendent-General of … appointed in October 1934, with Mr Jan Theron…
The Great Trek Was Not Over Abolition by Ron (Republican Trekker Volk), 30 October 2008
… own slaves. Canadian professor Wallace Mills noted this in his course on the Great Trek & the Encyclopedia Britannica … Piet Retief only mentioned the…