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EventA delegation of seven Coloured leaders meets with SA Prime Minister Vorster to discuss the future of the Coloured community
… was decided unequivocally to tell the government that the present political dispensation of apartheid was unacceptable. …
EventDisaster strikes as Portuguese ship São João sinks
… went down near the mouth of the Mzimvubu River (at the present Port St. Johns) with 600 people on board. The ship …
EventAdam Kok III is killed in an accident
… December 1875. He is revered by the Griqua people of the present day as the greatest of the Kok chiefs. …
Message by Albert Luthuli to Asian-African Conference, 7 April 1955, Bandung
… the deliberations at Bandung, Indonesia, on April 18 will present the point of view of the African and Asian people for …
EventFirst recorded discovery of diamonds in the colonial period of South Africa
… By 1871, more diamonds were found in the vicinity of the present-day Kimberley, leading to the establishment of De …
EventPieter Jacobs Marais reports discovery of gold
… farm, Bultfontein, in 1853. The site was just north of the present Sandton. Though Marais thought that he was the first …
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Report on Delegations, Publications and Organisations of the PRC
… of Indians in South Africa, both these delegates were present and kept is touch with Mrs. Pandit and her … SAIC delegated Kajee, Pather and Christopher, were…
ArticleCape Town Timeline 1300-1997
… River. 1485 Cão puts ashore at Cape Cross, north of present-day Walvis Bay. 1487 The Portuguese explorer … down the coast to reach southern Angola. He…
Article1946 African Mineworkers Strike
… The offence created by the Proclamation was that of being present at a gathering of more than 20 persons, whereas the … could hold meetings was big enough to…
PlaceSt George’s Grammar School, 1 Queen Victoria Street, Cape Town
… April 1848, by Bishop Robert Gray on the premises of the present Cathedral at the top of Adderley Street in Cape Town. … Building on the Mowbray Campus,…
Document 83 “Native Bourgeoisie as a Class”, Umsebenzi, 16 February 1935
… of the Native bourgeoisie, whose existence is at present being disputed. Further the article very clearly … Native bourgeoisie and the Native petty…
1. The whole Coolies petition the Durban Corporation for better wages
… Coolies have got large family and the wages that we get at present is not enough to maintain our poor distressed family … obliged to come in our bare body,…
Political assassinations 1974 - 1994
… TV. 24 May Outside Mbabane, Swaziland Theopholis Dlodlo, Tutu Nkwanyane, Mildred Msomi ANC members Shot dead in car. 5 … Nywayo chair of the ANC Empangeni…
ArticleA decade by decade events account of the women’s struggle in South Africa
… so far for women's rights could not be guaranteed." Also present at the launch are the Deputy President of South … Zuma, the ANC deputy president; and,…
Documentary Photography and Awakening the International Community, 1976-1994
… harmony in spite of apartheid, these two photographs present an optimistic vision for the transition from … was fueled by the government. Writing in 2000…
ArchiveFrom the Archive | The workers’ struggle by Joe Foster (New Frame),28 Feb 2019
… was ripped from its land in the space of a few decades. At present, capitalist production massively dominates all other … develop a worker response. Although…
ArchiveMafika Gwala Second Annual Lecture and Book Launch, 5 October 2016
… The primary aim of these lectures is to inspire the present generation of artists and academics to revisit the …
EventMass arrests in Pondoland
… to trial. While the South African Defence Force (SADF) was present in support of the police during at least part of this …
EventKabila is inaugurated as president of the DRC
… the largest UN force ever deployed in the world, was also present. Cannons fired salutes as the first president of the …
PlaceGeorge, Garden Route- Western Province
… after the British occupation in 1806. It then embraced the present Districts of: "Mossel Bay; Calitzdorp ; Oudtshoorn; … through the Years, also been…
20. Johannesburg Parsees claim special status
… de Villiers, the then burgomaster of Johannesburg, and at present member of the Legislative Council of the Transvaal, … tax to the late Republican Government…
EventPope John Paul II celebrates a papal mass in South Africa
… objective of his visit to the African continent was to present a papal document outlining the Roman Catholic …
Activity: The first farmers in Southern Africa
… how the farmers lived. Use your poster as the framework to present an oral in which you must explain how early farmers …
ArticleThe Basotho
… Kingdom of Lesotho became an independent nation and the present Monarch, King Letsie III is a great grandson of King …
EventChief of the Lebelo group of the Ndebele, Johannes Jane Tane Kekana, dies
… father, broke away from the Ndebele in the area of the present-day Potgietersrus. He succeeded his father as captain …
ArticleA tribute to a great struggle stalwart Paul David by Siva Naidoo
… espoused human values, which are so sadly lacking in our present body politic and society. His contribution to the …
ArticleUniversity of Witwatersrand Student Protests 2015 Timeline
… workers because students who were there in solidarity were present and the workers wanted them to be in the meeting. “ … David Dickinson, and the only other…
BiographyDr Alfred Bitini Xuma
… anti-pass campaign had lost momentum. The initial plan to present the petitions to parliament by August 1944 was … Dadoo and Thema travelled to Cape Town in…
General Act of the Berlin Conference on West Africa, 26 February 1885
… the basin of the Ogowé, to which the provisions of the present Act do not apply. The southern boundary will follow … Article 8 In all parts of the territory…
After Apartheid – Culture in the New South Africa Vol. 2
… Cultural and historic vision, which it so sorely needs at present. Contributions: Neville Alexander, Jane Duncan, …