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EventProfessor John Fleming “Jack” Brok dies
… of Cape Town. Fleming was born on 27 March 1905 in Port Elizabeth, situated in the Cape Colony (now known as Eastern …
ArticleCouncil of Non-European trade unions (CNETU)
… came from Johannesburg with 50 unions and 80 000 members. Port Elizabeth had 19 unions with 30 000 members, Pretoria had 15 … some of them waged strikes in…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1654-1899
… West, near Kimberley in the Cape Colony, arrive in Port Elizabeth from India, via Mauritius. The names of three … Natal, who absconded from their employers,…
ArticleThe African Students Association (ASA)
… on post offices and other buildings in Johannesburg, Port Elizabeth and Durban. ASA Leadership in Exile and the demise …
ArticleThe Inquest into Biko’s Death and his funeral
… Biko’s death revealed otherwise. During his detention in a Port Elizabeth prison cell he had been chained to a grill at night …
Say It out Loud by Mohamed Adhikari
… Cape Town, 13th April 1909 The 1910 Presidential Address, Port Elizabeth, Cape The 1912 Presidential Address, Johannesburg, …
PlaceOld Railway Station Museum, Uitenhage
… Street in the year of the opening of the railway from Port Elizabeth, it is reputed to be one of the oldest Railway …
EventLanga, Uitenhage Massacre: 20 killed by police on Sharpeville Commemoration Day
… districts around the country - including the Uitenhage/Port Elizabeth area in the Eastern Cape. The following year saw …
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1950 - 1959
… Congress annual conference. October, Riots break out in Port Elizabeth and other centres. November 12, J.B Marks is … in Cape Town, other areas of the…
Chapter 6. A Daughter of the Free State - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… disrupters. Some months later, the union sent me to Port Elizabeth to organise the garment workers there. I had no … my best. There were about eight hundred…
EventANC stalwart and Rivonia Trialist, Govan Mbeki, is released from Robben Island Prison
… government restricted him to the magisterial district of Port Elizabeth until November 1989. In February 1990, when the ANC …
EventCape of Good Hope Royal Observatory is founded
… drop time balls at the Observatory, in Simons Town and Port Elizabeth. These days the Observatory in Cape Town houses the …
EventThe first British Settlers arrive in Algoa Bay
… known as 1820 Settlers arrived in Algoa Bay, (now Port Elizabeth) on board of twenty-one ships, the first being the …
EventDemonstrating Clergymen are arrested in central Johannesburg
… and the homelands. Police were on high alert in Durban and Port Elizabeth as the school boycotts gained momentum. At Elsies …
ABBREVIATIONS USED
… Line PUTCO - Public Utilities Transport Corporation PE - Port Elizabeth SACOD/COD - South African Congress of Democrats …
PlaceNelson Mandela Bay Municipality, Eastern Cape
… Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality includes: ' Port Elizabeth now Gqeberha ; Uitenhage ; Despatch and Colchester … and Great White Shark) within it's Municipal…
EventThe AA is formed to coordinate motoring clubs
… of South Africa (AA) was formed at a meeting in Port Elizabeth attended by several provincial and other motoring …
EventThe last passenger boat of the Union Castle line, the Windsor Castle, leaves Table Bay
… from Southampton took a mere 10 days, and continued on to Port Elizabeth East London, and Durban. Launched in 1959, the …
BiographyJohannes Henricus Brand
… the Free Staters would move all the way to the coast at Port St Johns. Fearing a takeover of Basutoland by the Boers, …
ArticleSASO till SASCO
… 1977 August Steve Biko is detained at Walmer Jail, Port Elizabeth and held under Section 6 of the Terrorism Act. …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1866-1909
… issues and fight for their political rights is formed in Port Elizabeth. 1887 The Imbumba Eliliso Lomzi Ontsundu (Union of …
ArticleStudent Politics: SASO till SANSCO
… 1977 August, Steve Biko is detained at Walmer Jail, Port Elizabeth and held under Section 6 of the Terrorism Act. ... …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1960-1969
… government structures and installations in Johannesburg, Port Elizabeth and Durban. One of its aims was to "hit back by all … a member of the MK regional…
ArticleJune 16 Soweto Youth Uprising timeline: 1976-1986
… the late fifties. The Soweto Civic Association and the Port Elizabeth Black Civic Organisation are formed. 108 911 … 20 people were shot dead by the police…
Biography of Mtutuzeli Dudu Pukwana by Nick Mencia
… was a South African jazz pianist and alto saxophonist from Port Elizabeth. Due to rising political oppression imposed by the … this tragically common…
Selfless Biko 40 Years On by Barney Pityana (City Press), 10 September 2017
… While he was being detained in jail in Port Elizabeth, Barney Pityana read in a newspaper about Stephen … and locked up at the Baakens Street Police Station…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.3 No.2 Jun 1980
… Groups: CYA, Diepkloof; Malimo, Batho Location; Peyarta, Port Elizabeth; Dinotshi, Ga-Rankuwa; Khauleza, Alexandra; …
EventSir Patrick Duncan, Governor-General of the Union of South Africa, is born
… Vereeniging, Duncan Dock in the Cape and Duncan village in Port Elizabeth. …
National Arts Festival 2017
… which is situated in the Eastern Cape, 130km from Port Elizabeth. The Festival comprises a Main and a Fringe …
Bibliography: Missionary settlement in southern Africa
… held at Grahamstown, December 1898-January 1899. Port Elizabeth: Brooks, Mitchley and Sinclair. Pamphlet in the … 1902. The Early Annals of Kokstad and…