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ArticleTransvaal Indian Youth Congress (TIYC)
… Indian Congress under Dr Yusuf Dadoo held a meeting at Red Square to formally launch the passive resistance campaign. … law. He was held in solitary…
ArticleThe Women’s struggle Timeline 1905-2006
… States (US) Institute of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AMEC) with the help of Bishop Henry Turner, she …
Durban an Overview
… was quite sizeable, and until 1932 comprised some 12 square miles, a number of suburbs developed about its …
ArticleThe Battle - Andries Pretorius and his men advance
… vow to God that in the case of victory; they would build a church to honour God and they would tell there children to … in the years immediately following…
ArticleNational Initiative for Reconciliation (NIR)
… violence. It was successful in attracting various church leaders to come together and work towards …
ArticleJohn Langalibalele Dube Timeline 1940-1950
… March, Kent ordains Dube in the chapel of the Lewis Avenue Church as a priest by the Congregational Church. A New York Herald reporter stated that Dube was …
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Source-based Questions
… disqualifications are being divorced and irregular church attendance. Although the constitution of the Afrikaner … of gaining control of school committees,…
ArticlePoor Whites and their Political Weapon: Constructing the Kakamas Dam
… previous developments of dams. It showed the role that the church played in uplifting poor whites. Lanie van Vuren, a … Afrikaans speakers who were members…
Indian Community in Lenasia
… site, 27 sites for industrial purposes, and sites for a church, two parks and a cemetery. Water reticulation and … never been possible because of the railway…
Fortieth Anniversary of the 1946 Mine Strike
… the Union called an open-air meeting at the Newtown Market Square, to report back to the miners what had - and what had … of explosion 1 . On the 4th August,…
ArticleHostel Dwellers Association (HDA)
… was launched on 1 June 1985 in the Presbyterian Church in Nyanga with 1000 hostel dwellers in attendance. …
ArticleDesmond Mpilo Tutu Timeline
… Desmond Tutu is ordained as a minister in the Anglican Church. 1981 Quote: "History, like beauty, depends largely on … Canterbury that you were ashamed to be…
ArticleNelson Mandela Awards 1960s - 2000s
… in honour of Nelson Mandela. New York City renames the square in front of the South African mission to the United … in Cuba. A Monument to Mandela is…
Indian South Africans timeline 1940-1949
… Seedat addresses a mass meeting of 2 000 people at Red Square, Durban. He made a statement that became synonymous … the Pretoria Agreement and, beginning…
ArticleSocio-economics in Sophiatown
… There were a few black schools run by missionaries and church groups, but many parents could not afford to send …
Liberation organisations
… of Truth) Document. The Kairos document called for the church to stand up for the poor and the oppressed, and stand … impatience of the youth with the lack…
ArticleBlack Community Programmes (BCP)
… Almost all of such BCP health projects were housed on church land. Church organisations assisted BCP with many of its programmes but BCP in turn assisted in…
ArticleRand Rebellion 1922
… artillery bombarded the strikers' stronghold at Fordsburg Square and in the afternoon, it fell to the government. … possession of loot. (to read about the…
Online directory - archives and media sources
… Private Bag X236, PRETORIA, 0001 Street address: 698 Church Street East, Arcadia, PRETORIA Telephone: +27 (0)12 - …
List of exhibitors - South African Society of Artists
… Frank Harold (Sam) C Canitz, George Paul Carter, Sydney Church, Freda Cole, Philip Tennyson Cork, Denis Santry Bom …
Mission Stations - I-L
… of worship, in which some of the elders of the Kat River church generally conduct the services". KATZENBERG, Cape: … in our little house in Kchalatlolu was…
The French Revolution
… were the clergy (those working for the Roman Catholic Church, like priests and monks) and the aristocracy (or … to pay higher and higher taxes to both the…
ArticleBloemfontein the Segregated city
… were usually administered under the auspices of an English Church Society where English was used as a medium of … Hill Convent was opened in 1871 by the…
The Freedom struggle in Rustenburg
… to apartheid mushroomed in the area, especially civic and church bodies and trade unions. By 1991, after the unbanning … opposed to apartheid. Bishop Kevin…
First Matabele War
… 6,000 acres of land. By mid-1894, more than 10,000 square miles had been docketed for farmland. Lobengula's …
ArticleThe formation of SASO and the Black People’s Convention
… not open to blacks either. For example, at a non-racial church conference, which Biko attended, white participants … to which Black South Africans were…
Durban Historical & community
… Shembe the founder of the largest independent African church also comes from Inanda. All three of these key figures …
Polokwane the Segregated city
… merged with the Waterberg Landbou. The swimming pool in Church Square was closed in 1961 and a new Olympic sized pool was … side by side. Residents attended…
ArticleThe History of Education: 1658 to present
… colonist children, 4 young slaves and 1 Khoikhoi child. A church clerk named Ernestus Back teaches them. 1682 A … (Committee to oversee education) is…
ArticleXenophobic violence in democratic South Africa
… informal settlements: Ekuphumleni, Stofland and Hasie Square located in Ward 2 of De Doorns, Breede Valley … the violence intensified, spreading to Stofland…