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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 …
EventJosephine Wood, founder of the South African Library for the Blind, is born in Grahamstown
… of Grahamstown, George Samuel Wood and his wife, Frances Elizabeth Wood (nee Hoole). After matriculating at the …
EventAbout 130 people are reported drowned or missing when a Nigerian boat capsizes along the coast Cameroon
… The boat had departed Oron, Nigeria on its way to Port Gentil , Gabon with passengers from Nigeria, Benin, …
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…
PlaceAlabama, Klerksdorp
… career, during which she never docked at a Southern Port. She was sunk in June 1864, by USS Kearsarge at the Battle of Cherbourg outside the Port of…
EventA fishing trawler off the South African Coast catches a coelacanth
… Courtenay-Latimer was the curator of a small museum in the port town of East London, northeast of Cape Town, South … for the museum. On December 23rd, 1938,…
EventJohn Langalibalele Dube is born
… of the American Zulu Mission (AZM) in Natal to James and Elizabeth Dube. His father, James Dube was one of the first …
EventThomas William Bowler, prolific painter at the Cape, is born
… for until his dismissal in 1835. After marrying Jane Elizabeth Hawthorne, he set himself up as a ‘professor of …
EventDisaster strikes as Portuguese ship São João sinks
… down near the mouth of the Mzimvubu River (at the present Port St. Johns) with 600 people on board. The ship was …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1920s
… course. 40 000 African miners strike on the Reef and in Port Elizabeth 21 people are killed by the police. Dalidyebo, … of Limpopo. 23 October, African…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1970-1979
… after being transported in the back of a police van from Port Elizabeth with a brain injury. 25 September, Steve Biko’s …
Pedi
… labour to the Kimberley diamond fields and as far as Port Elizabeth. The Pedi paramountcy’s power was also cemented by …
EventThe first Indian people, 197 men, 89 women and 54 children, arrive in Natal
… Truro from Madras to work in the sugar cane plantation in Port-Natal. The group was made up of 197 men, 89 women and 59 …
EventWalvis Bay is handed over to Namibia
… of control over the Walvis Bay enclave by handing over the port and twelve offshore islands to the Namibian government. …
ArticleSouthern Methodist University Partnership Project - 2014 submissions
… golfing, offshore fishing and studying horology. Project: Elizabeth Davenport: A teacher and member of the Black Sash …
PlaceSaldanha Bay
… East that same year. Today, it’s the largest deep-water port in the Southern Hemisphere and ideal for exporting bulk … bring more private sector investment…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1804 - 1899 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… Muslims within a period of twelve years. 1840 Muslims in Port Elizabeth 29 By 1840 there were 150 'Malays' in Port Elizabeth and by 1849 they had built their…
Reports of the Passive Resistance Councils: Natal and Transvaal 1946 - 1947 by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer
… Mrs. Z. Gool, was sentenced in Durban on 13 August 1946. Port Elizabeth In July 1946 a Passive Resistance Council was set up in Port Elizabeth under the Port…
Document 91. ‘April 6: People’s Protest Day’. Flyer issued by the ANC (Transvaal) and the Transvaal Indian Congress
… creed. Document 93. Statement on violence in New Brighton, Port Elizabeth on October 18, by local ANC leaders, in the Eastern … papers for their lackeys; One…
EventBritish troops land in Madagascar.
… in the Bay and Bay Ambararata Mail, just west of the port of Diego Suarez at the northern tip of …
ArticleThe Early Cape Slave Trade
… as farm labourers. Names When the slaves arrived in the port of Cape Town, and were either assigned to the VOC, or … from the Cape to Boina Bay, and other…
PlaceBritish Kaffraria, now the Border Region
… seat of government was located at King William's Town. The port of East London , as well as the land immediately about … an attempt to pre-empt the smuggling…
ArticleTimeline of the Group Areas Act and Selected Related Pieces Legislation
… 1953: 243). 1903 The Locations Act was passed by the Port Elizabeth City Council. It created an African neighbourhood … Benoni 606 were built, in East London…
PlaceClocktower, Table Bay Harbour, Cape Town
… an icon of the old Cape Town Harbour. It was the original Port Captain's Office built in 1882. The pointed Gothic …
PlaceKwaDukuza
… as a halfway station between the Zulus and the settlers of Port Natal [Durban]. The huge settlement was known as …
Chronology
… the treason trial of 1956-1961 October-November , Riots in Port Elizabeth (October 18), Johannesburg (NoÂvember 3), …
I - Introduction
… sent off on the long, terrible drive to Pretoria””from Port Elizabeth, a big city with adequate hospitals? Why did the …
EventPrime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is killed in Nigeria’s first military coup
… massacre in South Africa. He was knighted in 1960 by Queen Elizabeth II. …
EventA Nigerian Boeing 727 airliner carrying 143 people crashes some twenty-five miles from Lagos, killing all on board
… (some reports state 142/141). The plane departed from Port Harcourt destined for Lagos airport when it conflicted …
PlaceTogo
… the south-west of the Country and is the largest city and port. Until 1884, what is now Togo was an intermediate zone …