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Documentry on the Life and Death of Ahmed Timol Premieres on SABC3, on 1 February 2015.
Indians Can¹t Flywill screen for the first time on 1 February, at 19H30. The 48-minute television documentary tells the story of Ahmed Timol, a 29-year…
4. Complaint of ill-treatment on an estate
… of their number, Bhagoo, is reproduced below. It is dated 19 February 1884. Source: I.I./1/18, 18911884, Natal …
ArticlePre-colonial history of Southern Africa
South Africa has one of the longest sequences of human development in the world. It begins with two million years old hominid fossils. Human Origins South…
The Heritage Museum at Villa Zain by Joline Young
… of the rich history that fills these walls. I have given 19 years of my life to set up a museum that tells the story …
ArticleNUSAS Wages Commission Timeline 1971-1973
… wages paid to workers of different race. 18 July - 19 July, Stevedores turn out in large numbers at the …
ArticleIndian Indentured Labour in Natal 1860-1911
… of Births and Deaths and to hear civil cases. Law 19 of 1874: Medical fees for every Indian immigrant was …
Growing social unrest: Community mobilisation, strikes and student protests in the Western Cape in the 1980s
… students Bernard Fortuin aged 15 and William Lubbe aged 19 were shot dead from an unmarked police vehicle in Elsies …
ArticleEuropean trading systems in the Middle Ages - fourteenth to sixteenth centuries
Expanding European frontiers The Trek Boers, with their servants and slaves, move inland From the late 1600s and into the 1700s, the Cape settlers moved…
Submissions by the McGill University students 2012
Ben Forstate Ben Forstate is a U3 Student at McGill University studying Political Science and Geography. He enjoys basketball, reading, writing and…
ArticlePassive Resistance Campaign Timeline
… in Natal and within two weeks, 4000 -5000 were striking. 19 October, At a meeting of the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) …
EventProtest against gender- based violence throughout South Africa
… was triggered by rape incidents, including one of a 19-year-old first year student, Uyinene Mrwetyana from the …
EventThe first part of the South African Press Commission's report is tabled in parliament
… On 19 February 1962, the first part of the South African Press …
EventThe government launches 'Operation Iron Fist' in townships
… it returned uneasy calm to townships.A few days later, on 19 September, amid accusations that the security forces were …
Nelson Mandela Correspondence regarding the families move to Brandfort
… of the bedroom. I think of you always and love you. 19 November 1979 TO WINNIE Zindzi likes reading and it is a … possibility - of the family moving to the…
EventNigerian Federal troops begin a major offensive in Biafra.
… Boddy-Evans, A., 2011. ‘This Day in African History 19 August’ from African History [online] Available at …
The Causes of the Boer War by Prof. Marius Swart
The Anglo-Boer War was an event which had a long prelude and the after effects have not completely disappeared as yet. In fact, people who were in some way…
EventMahlatse Chiliboy Ralepelle becomes the first Black Springboks captain
… was selected for the under- 15 squad in 2001 and the under-19 squad in 2004. Ralepelle made history in 2006 when he …
EventJan van Riebeeck's statue, presented by Cecil John Rhodes, is unveiled in Cape Town
On 18 May 1899, a statue of the first European to settle at the Cape, Jan van Riebeeck, was unveiled. The statue stands on Heerengracht Street in Cape Town. It…
ArticleWalter Sisulu Timeline 1912-2003
… to Europe and of everything he saw and experienced there. 19 March, Sisulu flies to Durban, to discuss the possibility … activities on 26 June 1959 inter…
Why General Smuts won on 4 September 1939
… it garnered 46 231 votes to the United Party's 51 148,19 to General Hertzog's "personal ascendancy" in that … he had changed sides some time before. Die…
ArticleA decade by decade events account of the women’s struggle in South Africa
… African Coloured People's Organisation . 1951 October 19 , Sita Gandhi and her mother Sushila and father Manilal … Gill Marcus, becomes editor of ANC's…
Biography of Eli Weinberg by Karen Folz
… [online] Available at http://www.chabad.org [Accessed 19 November 2016] Keller, B., (1995). ‘Joe Slovo, … [online] Available at http://www.nytimes.com …
Biography of Can Themba by Aisha Ahmed
… In: English in Africa. Grahamstown: Rhodes University, pp. 19-29. Johnson-Castle, Patricia. "Group Areas Act of 1950 | … History Online". Sahistory.org.za. N…
PlaceWoodstock
The Village of Papendorp lay some 2 km East of Cape Town, on the Main Road to Stellenbosch, later to become known as, Albert Road. The Area was named after…
PlaceNewlands
… time. The railway line from Salt River reached Newlands on 19 December 1864. Today, however, it has become synonymous …
South Africa Communists Speak Documents from the history of the South African Communist Party 1915 - 1980
… and early in 1919 in English, Zulu and Sesutu. Document 19: 'Communism in South Africa' by David Ivon Jones, …
PlaceNelspruit
… As the largest Nature Reserve in South Africa, it covers 19 480 km² and is home to a diverse population of wildlife, …
PlaceTanzania
The Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama explored the East African coast in 1498 on his voyage to India. By 1506, the Portuguese claimed control over the entire…
PlaceJohannesburg Botanical Garden
… cities in the World without a botanical garden. Then, on 19 November 1968, a report by the director of the parks and …
ArchiveHow colonial violence came home: the ugly truth of the first world war by Pankaj Mishra (The Guardian), 10 November 2018
"Today on the Western Front,” the German sociologist Max Weber wrote in September 1917, there “stands a dross of African and Asiatic savages and all the world…