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PlaceAnnlin, a Suburb of Pretoria
… Municipal Area of Pretoria. It was named in honour of Ann Elizabeth van der Linde, wife of the owner of the ground on …
EventDelagoa Bay railway line is officially opened
… and Kruger as it would give the Republic access to the port in Delagoa Bay, thereby making it independent of the … had attempted to control the flow of…
EventPrincess Margaret dies
… Princess Margaret, the younger sister of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, died peacefully in her sleep at the age of 71 … JR., Princess Margaret Dies at 71;…
ArchiveJakes Gerwel: The epitome of integrity and courage by Niren Tolsi, 30 November 2012
… Somerset East and matriculated at Paterson High School in Port Elizabeth. He obtained a BA honours (cum laude) from the …
54. South African Indian Congress: first annual report, 1924
… formally elected on the proposal of Mr. V. A. Pillay of Port Elizabeth delegation, which was seconded by Mr. P. K. Naidoo …
ArticleCape Town Timeline 1300-1997
… mail service between Cape Town and Algoa Bay (present day Port Elizabeth) is inaugurated 1805 Khoikhoi runners are employed … Sisulu visits Bloemfontein,…
The search for Peter Johnson’s story
… established, such as the Soweto Civic Association and the Port Elizabeth Black Civic Organisation, as well as the Congress …
ArticleState of Emergency - 1985
… , where 17 people were killed during a commemoration in Port Elizabeth , Eastern Cape. The government further sought to …
ArticleSouth African major mass killings timeline 1900-2012
… police after a crowd stormed a bottle store in KwaZakhele, Port Elizabeth. 23 April, Nine Alexander residents are killed by …
ArticleIndustrial and Commercial Union Timeline 1919-1989
… the Industrial and Commercial Union (ICU) is arrested at Port Elizabeth 24 November, Clements Kadalie, the founder of the …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1940-1949
… to devote more and more of his time to politics. The Port Elizabeth branch of the ANC organises protest marches against …
PlaceAnerley, South Coast of KZN
… km from Durban, down the South coast of KZN and 10 km from Port Shepstone. Said to be named after a district in the … km from Durban, down the South coast of…
Americans for South African Resistance, 25 June 1982
… by great mass meetings. There were mass prayer meetings in Port Elizabeth, Durban, Johannesburg (in the Orlando Township) and … from his son Joe. Joe was a…
American Supporters of the Defiance Campaign by George M. Houser
… by great mass meetings. There were mass prayer meetings in Port Elizabeth, Durban, Johannesburg (in the Orlando Township) and … from his son Joe. Joe was a…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1980-1989
… began in Atteridgeville spreads to Cradock, Graaf Reinet, Port Elizabeth, Soweto and the east Rand, with 13000 students … abducted by the security police…
Place'Abbervlaack', a Railway Station in the Northern Cape
… Railway Station some 34 km from Port Nolloth. It takes its name from the surrounding plain, …
EventAnglo-Boer War 2: The siege of Okiep, in Namaqualand, starts
… (fortifications). The majority of the refugees fled to Port Nolloth, as two British gunboats were en route there. On … three weeks. On 4 May 1902, a relief…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 17 January 1977, Volume 83
… in Pietermaritzburg and Sighart Bourquin, Chief Director, Port Natal Bantu Affairs Administration Affairs Board in …
EventFirst sextuplets in the world to survive their infancy are born in Cape Town
… and three girls (Emma Louise, Nicolette Anne, and Elizabeth Rebecca) were born by caesarian section. They were …
EventSA artist Helen Martins is born
… Helen Elizabeth Martins , artist known for her queer sculptures at …
Mission Stations - A-F
… Transvaal: see MOLEPO , Transvaal BETHELSDORP , Port Elizabeth, Cape: LMS 1802; CUSA 1804. It was visited by Henry … as well as its founder, Vanderkemp: "A…
PlaceCoffee Bay, Wild Coast
… hikes. Coffee Bay is the only coastal resort, other than Port St Johns , to have a tarred road to its door from the … "the Hluleka Nature Reserve , between…
PlaceAkasiapark, Residential Area for Civil Servants
… from 1947 to 1 December 1959, then Acacia Park after the Port Jackson Willows growing there. The SA Navy is to …
Gandhi, Tamils and the Satyagraha in South Africa by E.S Reddy
… He was not allowed to land in Durban and had to go from to port on the deck of the ship. He died on board Gertrude … They were refused landing first at…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.6 No.2 1985
… Roy Joseph Cotton Patrick FitzGerald Damian Garside, Elizabeth Villet, Thembeka Mbobo, Chris van Wyk Andries …
PlaceAbaxab, a Railway Siding in the Northern Cape
… a railway enterprise so that an industrial, commercial or port, etc. establishment or group of establishments can be …
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - New Workers, New Unions
… 100 Johannesburg Municipal Transport Workers’ Union 600 Port Elizabeth and Catering Trades Employees’ Union 60 Port Elizabeth Tram and Bus Workers’ Union 100…
”A House in Harrington Street”, photographic exhibition by Nicholas Eppel
… and household of long-time Harrington Street resident, Elizabeth Barrett, and stand as a testimony to community …
EventNicolaas Jacobus Smit, Vice-President of the ZAR, is born in Graaff-Reinet.
… Jacobus Smit, (descendent of Jan Smit and Adriana Tol) and Elizabeth Magdalena van der Merwe, (descendent of Willem …
PlaceRichards Bay
… Richards Bay went from small fishing Village to a major Port, opened in 1976. Richards Bay now boasts one the largest … East that same year. Today, it’s the…