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ArticleBlack Concentration Camps during the Second Anglo-Boer War, 1900-1902
… of hunger for we have no money to keep on buying food." 30 January, The population for the Black camps is 85 114 and … Rand re-opens, after all mines have…
EventSpringboks wallop their Australian counterparts
The Springbok rugby team, nicknamed Amabokoboko, national team of South Africa under mentorship of Nick Mallett, registered an important victory over the…
EventMembers of the AAM hand over a memorandum to Verwoerd's private secretary about Apartheid policies
… [online] Available at www.actsa.org ,[Last accessed: 01 March 2011] …
EventThe longest cricket test match in history is played between South Africa and England in Durban
… team, the Proteas, continue to break world records. On 01 February, 2013, Proteas captain Graeme Smith made history …
PlaceNewlands Cricket Stadium
… at the time. England won at Newlands in 1889, 1892, 1896, 1899 and 1906. South Africa finally turned the tables in the … cricket , with SA winning 18 out of…
BiographyJacob “Dancing Shoes” Morake
… his feet and moved away from an over-anxious Mitchell. The 30-year-old challenger was never really in the fight, but …
BiographyKrishna Rabilal
… loss and deterioration of equipment. On the morning of 30 January 1981, South African Defence Forces (SADF) members … 40th Anniversary of Matola Massacre…
EventEleven African demonstrators are shot dead by Rhodesian police in Salisbury
… ‘This Day In African History’, from About African History, 01 June, [online], available at …
ArticlePretoria Timeline 1800-2009
… the Pretoria News , based in Queen street. 1898-1899 Erection of the Staats Meisjies Skool (State Girls School) building. 1899 Outbreak of South African War…
BiographySonja Schlesin
… black aspirations. Schlesin was 59 when Gandhi was shot on 30 January 1948. In 1953, at the age of 65 she enrolled at …
BiographyChief Hendrik ‘Hennie’ van Wyk
Hendrik ‘Hennie’ van Wyk was born in Vredendal, Cape Province (now Western Cape) on 14th July 1936. His childhood witnessed the final days of colonial rule and…
BiographyChris Ledochowski
… film unit based in Khotso House. 1982-2010 Initiated a 30 year project documenting the life of a migrant worker in …
BiographyShanthivathie (Shanthie) Naidoo
… to sleep on the floor. She was denied even the minimum of 30 minutes a day for exercise to which prisoners were … (2012). From an email to SAHO, from Mr E S…
ArticleWomen and Children in White Concentration Camps during the Anglo-Boer War, 1900-1902
… camps by the British forces during Anglo-Boer War 2 (1899-1902). The first two of these camps (refugee camps) were … although she urges the Guild of Loyal…
Resistance Photography and Mobilization of the Resistance, 1946-1976
… educated, how I lurned much in reading with your Drum." [30] While many of the photographs in Drum were of cover … ↵ [3] Margaret Sartor, Lecture at Duke…
ArticleANC Origins and Background
… movement and labour. The end of the South African War (1899-1902) paved the way for the establishment of the Union …
Grade 12 - Topic 2 - Independent Africa
… Figure 2: Africa Today ( 28/01/2015) Source: … prime minister. Joseph Kasavubu is elected President. June 30, 1960 Belgian…
BiographyAhmed Mohamed "Kathy" Kathrada
… Kathrada, Mandela and Sisulu were among the last 30 to be acquitted. Despite constant harassment by the …
ArticleList of people banned under Apartheid
… Eric Antony Act No. 44 of 1950 Section 9 (1) 29 Nov. 1976 30/11/1981 Wynberg UCT graduate who had worked as a … Abduragman alias Maantjie Act No. 44 of 1950…
EventMichael “Muis” Roberts, South Africa’s best jockey is born
Michael Leonard Roberts was born on 17 May 1954 in Cape Town.[i] Roberts was one of South Africa’s most renowned jockeys.[ii] Roberts was nicknamed “Muis” …
BiographyDr Alfred Bitini Xuma
… suburb of Sophiatown, where he would remain for the next 30 years. He was the first and only western-trained African … of social and cultural activities in…
PlaceUniversity of Pretoria
… (ZAR) proposed that a University be established. By 1899, the South African War had broken out between the ZAR … College '. In the Years preceding the South…
ArticleFirst Anglo Boer War
… to the far more ruthless Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902. "Remember Majuba!" became a rallying cry of the … The siege of Lydenburg lasted from 6 January 1881 to…
Grade 4 Term 2 Timeline: Mahatma Gandhi
… He becomes an established political leader in South Africa 1899 He organizes an Indian ambulance corps of 1100 men …
The South African War
… await developments. At the onset of hostilities in October 1899 three separate migrations took place out of …
BiographyWendy Heather Woods
… of life under apartheid for Black people. Biko lived a 30-minute drive away in King William’s Town , Eastern Cape. …
PlaceSedibeng District Municipality
… several Heritage Sites related to the South African War of 1899-1902 and the two World Wars that followed. The … Vischkuil. The Main Economic Sectors are:…
EventDundee and Glencoe are retaken by General Sir Redvers Buller troops during the South African War II
… Sir Redvers Buller troops as the South African War II 1899-1902 (Anglo-Boer War II 1899-1902) intensified. The area west of Glencoe was under … 1999.| South…
EventBotha’s Pass in Natal is under attack by General Buller’s forces
… forces had been under siege by the Boers since 2 November 1899. A key position, Van Wyk's Kop, was too lightly armed to … as the Second Anglo-Boer War which…
EventGeneral De Wet is defeated by British forces
… At the height of the South African War 1899-1902 (Anglo-Boer War), General Christiaan Rudolph De Wet … defeated at Bothaville, South Africa by British forces…