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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 …
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) …
PlaceMcGregor, Western Cape
… into 2½ha. Plots. By 1905, all the land had been bought by 19 smallholders and farmers, and their names are recorded on …
PlaceComrades Marathon, Durban-Pietermaritzburg
… The down-run records are held by David Gatebe (5:18:19 in 2016) and Frith van der Merwe (5:54:43 in 1989). The … 2020 and 2021 races had to be cancelled…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
PlaceLeipoldtville, West Coast
… and the distance from Graafwater to Leipoldtville is 19 kms. Northeast of Elands Bay en route to Graafwater, lies …
EventSouth West African People's Organisation (SWAPO) is founded to oppose South African rule
… in Windhoek, South West Africa (presently Namibia) on 19 April 1960 by Herman Toivo Ya Toivo. The party was …
ArticleUniversity of Witwatersrand Student Protests 2015 Timeline
… statement [6] that the university will be closed on Monday 19 October, “to allow council to report to University … Council full day meeting. Image source…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1930-1939
… and the Government of India with the Young Committee. 19-20 August, The South African Indian Congress (SAIC) holds … by J.H. Hofmeyr, the Minister of the…
BiographyJacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma
… went so far as to tell Zuma, ‘you broke Parliament’. On 19 February 2015, Zuma responded to Parliament on the …
ArticleThe British Anti-Apartheid Movement
… sold off their subsidiaries in South Africa and a further 19 reduced their investments. The number of British companies … doubling of the AAM’s membership,…
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 …