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EventVerwoerd’s grandson joins ANC
… of former South African Prime Minister, Hendrik Verwoerd, main architect of apartheid, joins the African National … of the ANC even before he joined the…
ArticleThe co-optation of the African National Congress: South Africa’s original ‘State Capture’, Sampie Terreblanche
… Oppenheimer met regularly for lunch or dinner and the main corporations of the Minerals Energy Complex (MEC) met … later given the additional privilege of…
ArticleReactions to the formation of a republic
… was to favour republicanism and the United Party (UP), its main opposition, did for a time provide a home for those … those that did not. He declared that in…
Township Uprising, 1984-1985
… the last five months of 1984. At the November meeting the main focus was however the form and direction of the UDF, not … UDF, formed the Transvaal Regional…
ArchiveThe exilic geographies of the South by Benjamin N. Lawrance and Vusumuzi R. Kumalo
… of an exilic movement that had begun in earnest in the mid 1950s. The future Nobel laureate, Nadine Gordimer, … audiences to understand the brutality of…
EventThe first recognised AIDS cases are reported in the USA
… might have been introduced to humans in the 1940s or early 1950s. However, in January 2000 (San Francisco, California) …
ArticleThe role of gender in Ndebele architecture
… the very farmers who defeated them over a century ago. The chronology of Ndebele wall art therefore places it firmly …
Images That Preserve History, and Make It : ‘Rise and Fall of Apartheid’ at Center of Photography by Holland Cotter (The New York Times), 20 September 2012
… Constitution league, known as the Black Sash, in the mid 1950s. A coalition of white women opposed to apartheid, its … the protest, as he had been at…
PlaceLanglaagte Deep Residential Village, Johannesburg
… Rhodes’s behalf, was guided from Ferreira’s Camp to the main group of gold reefs by a son of the widow Petronella … the owner of a farm at Langlaagte, on…
ArticleMandela and the South African Communist Party
… Mandela and MK The late 1950s saw the first hints of an armed struggle occurring in … failures of the non-violent strategy of the ANC during the 1950s. A…
Community Arts Project (CAP)
… established in Cape Town in 1977. Originally located at 17 Main Road, Mowbray, the facility moved to the old St. Philips …
ArticleSouth Africa’s electoral history timeline 1910-2009
… right to vote. 1915 Second general election in which the main issue was South Africa’s participation in World War I. …
ArticleWorld War I
… major historical event became known as The Great War. The main belligerent European countries involved in the War were …
PlaceSt Saviours Church Anglican Church and Cemetery, Bowwood Road, Claremont
… St. Saviours Church is at the Corner of Bowwood and Main Roads in Claremont, Cape Town, South Africa. St. … Anglican Church, which is situated at the…
ArticlePort Elizabeth Timeline 1799-1986
… government contractor, supplying beef to the troops. 1815 Main Street is laid out. 1820 10 April, Arrival of the … of a whale fishery. October, A plot of…
ArticleTswana
… similar dialects, beliefs and society structures and the main distinctions between the three groups were only … In fact, most archaeologists presume the…
EventFormer South African Prime Minister and State President John Vorster is born
… World War II. He became a member of the NP cabinet in the 1950s. In 1953 he was elected to Parliament as member for …
ArchiveCongress Resister 1983 - 1989
… associated themselves with the non-racial policy of the 1950s Congress Alliance In 1981, a meeting was held in …
PlaceLowveld National Botanical Gardens
… The character of the Garden is shaped by the two main rivers that cut across it, namely the Crocodile and Nels … are visible. When in bloom the Clivias at…
PlaceGeorge Harrison Park
… been removed and is on display in the mining district in Main Street, in downtown Johannesburg. On view are two … to commemorate the official discovery of…
EventSan involvement in the Battle of Chrissiesmeer
… on the British forces under General Smith-Dorrien. Botha's main aim was to cripple the advance of Smith-Dorrien into the … on the slopes and were not able to…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Foreign Relations during Apartheid, 1948
… an effective and peaceful means of pressure. However, the main trading partners of South Africa continually voted … the policy, mandatory sanctions were…
Soweto forty years on: The Black student rebellion of 1976 by Professor Noor Nieftagodien
… Afrikaans. Although this policy was on the books from the 1950s, the government insisted on its implementation from the … they caught many by surprise…
EventThe Castle of Good Hope, oldest surviving colonial building in South Africa, is completed.
… of Good Hope for the Dutch East India Company (VOC). The main reason for building the castle was to provide protection … 26 April 1679, and the five bastions…
The Durban Strikes and the making of the Political Struggles in South Africa by Vuyisile Msila
… and grew its muscle from the working people. Then in 1950s the South African Congress of Trade Unions (Sactu) …
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 2: The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
… the value of setting up a ‘group system’ – five or six main ‘groups’ or ‘finance houses’ that exercised control of … went off the gold standard. In the late…
PlaceDiep River
… with effortless gardens and homes. Closer to the Main Road and the Railway Line lies the Industrial area, give … than many other suburbs, and, it has Martins…
PlaceGouritsrivier, Near Mossel Bay
… the system are the Buffalo River from the West -with its main tributary the Touws River, together forming the Groot River, which joins the main stream 85 km…
PlaceAdderley Street, Cape Town
… The 'Herengracht Street' was Cape Town 's main street, running from the foreshore to the foot of … shops make for some interesting shopping - these are the…
PlaceMofolo Arts Centre
… area were preceded by the Polly Street Art Centre of the 1950s which was later transferred to the Jubilee Arts Centre …