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… disabled, the Cape Education Department allowed her mother to become a permanent teacher. (At the time, married women were not usually permitted to hold permanent positions in government employment.) … League of South Africa (TLSA) . In January 1960, she moved to the Garden Village Methodist School in Maitland , Cape …

… Hyman M Basner was born in Russia in 1905, and moved to South Africa at an early age. Basner  and his mother  … other family members in South Africa in 1912.In 1922 to 1927 he studied law at the University of Califonia in Los Angeles in  the United States before coming to Johannesburg.He was a lawyer in Johannesburg and he …

… over from Britain during the  Anglo Boer War  in order to inspect the conditions in the concentration camps and then to give advice to the British government.  Emily Hobhouse  was very …

… Human Rights Commissioner,a businessman .He was married to Audrey Coleman, they had four sons, and became active … members of this organisation of parents that was formed to provide food, clothing and legal assistance to detainees under apartheid, as well as to monitor and …

… that joining the struggle was paramount. She decided to leave the country and join Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) in … exile. In 1976 she slipped over the border into Botswana to join the ANC and was later transferred to Angola where she received military training at …

… Muriel Alexander, in Johannesburg. From December 1921 to August 1923, Faure was in Antwerp where she studied under … she passed her examination with distinction and returned to Pretoria. Later, she obtained the Licentiate Diploma for … and drama. In 1925 she became more renowned when she began to work with the then rising star, Dutch actor, Paul de …

… Transvaal. He was an extremely wealthy man and was used to a life of luxury and comfort, yet he was one of the … supporters of the Satyagraha Campaign. He was not afraid to go to jail. Cachalia was imprisoned repeatedy during the …

… Joffe was born to a Jewish family on 12 May, 1932 in Johannesburg, Transvaal … as a solicitor in 1956 and six years later was called to the South African bar. In his autobiography, Mandela … 1963 and 1964. Mandela’s wife, Winnie approached him to defend her husband in the Rivonia Trial, where several …

… , and when the full-time organiser, Abaham Tiro , had to flee the country in 1973, Lekota took over this position.  … under the Terrorism Act , found guilty and sentenced to six years on Robben Island. While on Robben Island, he wrote these words to his daughter: Above all then, my dear, I am in prison for …

… Council (SSRC), Dan S. Montsitsi in connection with plans to commemorate the Soweto uprisings. Four white students are … in Namibia. September, 2000 stevedores threaten to strike if their wages are not raised. David Hemson, a student … seizing weapons from the police and using them to shoot back at the police. 19 June, The Government Gazette announces …

… The daughter of peasant farmers who were later forced to become farm workers and to give up their livestock.Dorothy attended mission schools … until Standard Nine, and at the age of fifteen gave birth to her only child and few years later. She joined the African …

… serving as a navigational instructor in George, he went to Italy where he flew photo-reconnaissance Mosquitoes. After … and government misbehaviour. He was once summoned to the Union Buildings by the Prime Minister  P.W. Botha  to account for the story carried by his newspaper. The story …

… military service system in 1969 (which allowed conscripts to move from school to university without serving a continuous 12 months in … in the first year.  Working at the Department of Justice to fulfill bursary obligations, he was dismissed in 1973 for …

… in Cecelia Court was under regular surveillance. According to Basil Brown, the New Unity Movement President, Dawood first rose to prominence in the 1950s as a leading activist of the … which played an important role exposing students to political ideas and world culture. The South Peninsula …

… relations, and global international affairs. From 1936 to 1948, Hammarskjöld held the post of undersecretary in the … Minister. Hammarskjöld represented Sweden as a delegate to the United Nations in several years since 1949 but only … of the United Nations and held the position from 1953 to 1961 [5] . Hammarskjöld died at the age of 56 in a plane …

… Native Congress. Two years later, after he had moved to the Transvaal, he served on the executive committee and … an African political organization was discussed. This led to the foundation of a new country-wide congress. Ngcayiya … was not an official member of the 1919 SANNC deputation to the Versailles Peace Conference and the British government …

… Lewis was in born Cape Town, 1895. Considered in the 1940s to be South Africa’s premier society portraitist, Lewis was … in the tradition of British painting and internalised to a high degree the style of Augustus John (1878–1961). The … prolific output was concerned with the lucrative demand to portray members of British society. He also took much …

… ministers and security force personnel, he was asked to explain why he was allowing church property to be used by anti-apartheid activists. He explained that he … unbanned ANC had been arrested, Bishop Dowling took action to determine where they were being held, and his intervention …

… as this timeline is a work in progress that will be added to over time. Please click on the contribute icon on this page if you would like to add an event. 1880 - 1904 Pageview is still known as the … to the ground. July, Most of the evacuees start moving back into the urban centre, mostly into the ‘Malay Location’, …

… African mothers like fowls who lay eggs for other people to take away and make what they like with them.' Lillian … education for our children. This Bantu Education Act was to make sure that our children only learnt things that would … afraid: 'what can we do? Let's just let our children go back to school.' So the parents started to send their …

… This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference … paper argues that those activists who provided support to the emerging Durban and wider workers strike movement in 1973 and its following years – including …

… of Witwatersrand for over three years before deciding to study at the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the … leisure activities of South Africans. Davis contributed to Frontline magazine and to various group exhibitions in South Africa including the …

… in 1942, he was associated with Paul Mosaka's efforts to launch the African Democratic Party in 1943. His name was … the Transvaal executive committee and in 1949 was elected to the ANC national executive committee. He opposed the election of J. B. Marks to the Transvaal presidency of the ANC in 1950 and joined …

… International Socialist League in the Cape and, according to Roux, for some years the only African Communist in South … Johannesburg . The same year he was elected to the party's central executive committee. With Benjamin Weinbren he worked in the mid-1920s to establish African workers' Organisations, personally …

… the Britons. Hofmeyr played peacemaker during the build up to the  Anglo-Boer War  and also tried to moderate Milner's demands on Kriger. After the war he devoted himself to Afrikaner cultural interests and a federal approach to the …

… Jacob Nhlapo was born in 1903 to Isaac Hulumeni and Catherina Maseko. He received primary … Higher Diploma with the same results. Nhlapo returned to Reitz to start his teaching career. Simultaneously he studied …

… the African National Congress  ANC). As an equal partner to John Langalibalele Dube, Nokutela Dube contributed to building everything that we know today as the John Dube … the United States of America (USA) between 1896 and 1899 to build the Ohlange Institute  (1900), the newspaper Ilanga …

… Aware of issues around women's rights, Sigcau undertook to challenge discriminatory traditions and laws in an active campaign to empower rural Transkeian women. She was instrumental in … by Transkei prime minister. Chief  Kaizer Matanzima , to resign from the cabinet in 1977 because she was unmarried …

… member of the Congress of Democrats (CoD) and contributed to the campaign for the Congress of the People , which was to be held at Kliptown in June 1955. She was arrested and … charged with treason on 5 December 1956, and was forced to leave her two young daughters Bess and Jenni.  She was …

… in England on 1 March 1929.  In 1931, her family moved to South Africa and settled in Durban , Natal (now … the height of apartheid in South Africa. Her devotion to Christianity didn’t prevent her from criticising South … the anti-apartheid struggle. She devoted most of her time to writing reports on living conditions of people under …