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Mission Stations - N-S
… NISBETT BATH , Namibia: LMS; RM; WMMS. It was visited by James Backhouse in January 1840 who reported as follows: … comfortable; a portion of its clay walls…
ArticleKing Kong the Musical 1959 -1961
… and Ian Bernhardt, the musical’s creative team was led by Harry Bloom, best known for his book Episodes, Todd … become an international masterpiece. They…
ArticleUniversity of Pretoria 2015-2016 Student Protests Timeline
… upgraded into a fully fledged independent University and by 1932 the medium of instruction became exclusively … changing student and staff demographics…
In summary: Factors resulting in the crisis
… called Inkatha: The resistance issue was complicated by Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi and the Zulu nationalist … refused independence for Kwazulu which was…
ArticleFreedom Charter timeline 1948-1961
… home is successful in Johannesburg despite being opposed by the nationalist-minded Mandela and Tambo who object to the … June was observed annually as…
ArticleBiko’s imprisonment, death and the aftermath
… at which his family was present. The explanation given by the Minister of Justice and Police, Jimmy Kruger, was that … and people close to Biko. The medical…
The Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA): CODESA 1
… 1 generated hope but also took place in a period marked by uncertainty, mass action and increasing violence, violence … of Codesa 1 and its build up was the…
ArticleMarikana Massacre - 16 August 2012
… industrial action', is strike action undertaken by unionised workers without the union-leadership's … undergoing a wildcat strike. The 30 miners were forced…
Mission Stations - M
… station at Mahamba in 1844. The incident mentioned here by Merensky did not take place, as he states, as a result of … and MAQUASSI , Transvaal: WMMS. It was…
ArticleEOAN Group
… The EOAN Group was founded by Helen Southern-Holt in 1933. EOAN Group was a social and … grew to have 15 branches throughout the Cape Peninsula by the mid…
ArticleResponses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: The Formation of the International Socialist League (ISL)
… political voice of organised white labour in South Africa. By 1914 the party had succeeded in gaining the support of the … strike , known as the ‘July Strike…
ArticleThe Union of South Africa 1910
… The Boer Republics, however, were chiefly concerned by British attempts to annex their self-declared republics, a … put them at the mercy of capital and…
A new class struggle
… following list of twenty anti-Indian attitudes compiled by him, contains real as well as imaginary complaints: The … with 4 and 5 , above, may have brought…
ArticleThe Strikes and Popular and Political Support
… By late February 1973, the spread of the strikes was the most … (NIC), the head of the KwaZulu Territorial Authority led by Chief Mangosuthu G. Buthelezi,…
Documentary Photography and Awakening the International Community, 1976-1994
… Documentary photographers eluded on-site censorship by choosing subjects located where censors would not think to go and by avoiding government black lists…
ArticleEuropean missionaries in southern Africa: the role of the missionaries
… affairs of the region. On the one hand they were driven by a strong desire to genuinely serve humanity and bring … enough, in the long run it was found that…
Indian South Africans timeline 1940-1949
… Committee in controlling the purchases of property by Indians in Durban is ratified by the NIA's general body. The NIA's decision to cooperate … purchasing…
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1960-1969
… activists. Both the PAC and ANC were severely crippled by the arrest, detention and imprisonment of their leaders … and the ANC. Attempts to bring the PAC…
ArticleCape Town Timeline 1300-1997
… 1564 An account of the shipwreck of the São Bento by mariner Manuel de Mesquita Perestrelo is published in … of 21 years. Extended in 1623 and 1647. 1605…
ArticleIndustrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU)
… Short of funds and poorly organised, it was overshadowed by the more dynamic Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU), founded in Cape Town in 1919…
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1900-1909
… 30, Disembarks at Port Louis, Mauritius. Attends reception by Indian community. November 19, Leaves Mauritius for India. … of the Transvaal. George Godfrey…
ArticleSouth African Communist Party (SACP)
… 30 July to 1 August 1921. The party was founded mainly by radical White workers and socialists who had experienced workers' struggles in Europe and were…
ArticleThe Cape Minstrels: Origins and Evolution of Tweede Nuwe Jaar (Second New Year) in the Cape
… imported . Even though the slave trade was banned in 1808 by the ‘British Crown,’ it was only in 1834 that slavery was … After 1692 though, most of the…
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1910-1919
… from this total, the rest represents the amount remitted by Mr. Jehangir B. Petit on behalf of Prof. Gokhale. We have … in what manner, apart from the sum of…
ArticleDevelopments leading to the New Dispensation
… By the late 1970s, and especially as a result of the June … forced to consider reforms to Apartheid policy, pressured by growing political resistance to the…
ArticleThe Western Front
… to the other. Armies on both sides held their positions by means of trench dugouts along the 400 long line. Neither … advance at the bloody Battle of the…
Second World War and its impact, 1939-1948
… South African politics. At that point, the country was led by the United Party, a coalition of the National Party (NP) … as Prime Minister of the country,…
Control: 1910 - 1948
… introduced in 1894 to do away with communal land rights. By introducing limited individual tenure it was hoped that … as it stood, evicted African tenants…
The Bill of Rights
… the nature of the right and the nature of any duty imposed by the right. 3. When applying a provision of the Bill of … to the rights in the Bill of Rights…
ArticleBlack Women’s Federation
… from the USA, where Black American women were moved by the problems faced by Black South African women. The federation grew from … The government also banned…