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ArticleDebating Stellenbosch University’s Language Policy
… Apartheid ideologies as well as racism and oppression. [19] This led to the Soweto Uprisings where banners were … Court judgements”, Daily Maverick, …
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BiographyB J Vorster [John Vorster]
… , H Festenstein, Dennis Goldberg and Bob Hepple . On July 19, Vorster said: ‘They wanted to crucify me when we … Africa poll whose results were released on…
Prehistory of the Rustenburg area
Prehistory of the Region Pre-history of Southern Africa Africans who worked with copper and iron inhabited the area between 350AD to 600AD. Linguistic and…
ArticleThe history of Migrant Labour in South Africa
… also ensuring there was no competition between mines [19] . The Witwatersrand Native Labour Association (WNLA) also … [17] De Vletter, F.1985 p 667. [18]…
EventAmy Mollison sets a new world record when she flies from England to Cape Town in 3 days 6 hours and 26 minutes
… English Aviator who set numerous flying records during the 1930’s. She married fellow aviator Jim Mollison and the …
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1900-1909
… Mauritius. Attends reception by Indian community. November 19, Leaves Mauritius for India. December 14, Reaches Rajkot … on South Africa at Indian Congress…
EventProfessor John Fleming “Jack” Brok dies
On 3 July 1983, John Fleming (Jack) Brock died – he was a scientist, physician and a professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Cape Town…
EventAfrikaans author Mikro is born
… taught for a while at Kuilsrivier and Ritchie. From 1930 to 1931 he wrote poems for the magazine Huisgenoot and …
EventPixley Seme, lawyer, journalist and co-founder of SANNC is born
… 1912. He was the barrister and President of the ANC from 1930 to 1936 when he was ousted by Reverend Z.R. Mahabane. …
EventMazisi Kunene, Zulu poet and ANC activist, is born
… Mazisi Kunene was born on 12 May 1930 in Amahlongwa, Southern KwaZulu Natal to a Swazi mother …
BiographyKasturba Gandhi
Kasturba Kapadia was born on April 11 1869 in Porbandar, in present day Gujarat. She was the daughter of Gokuldas Makanji Kapadia, a wealthy merchant. Kasturba…
PlaceThe Simon's Town Mosque
… be linked to the second Schoolroom, which was Erected in 1930. The addition of the beautiful Minaret, which catches … until close to the time of his death on…
New Generation Sculpture
… "Straddling the gap between was and is", The Weekly Mail, 19 - 25 June 1987, p. 21. 8. I. Powell, The Weekly Mail, 10 …
ArticleThe development of Music in South Africa timeline 1600-2004
1600s In the Dutch colonial era, from the 17th century on, indigenous tribes people and slaves imported from the east adapted Western musical instruments…
ArticleA Culture of Survival
It was a struggle to survive in the city. Workers' wages did not keep pace with the cost of subsistence, and most black families lived below the bread line. …
ArticleZulu
… . His first Zulu novel "Insila kaShaka" was published in 1930. We see a steady growth of publications especially novels from 1930 onwards. The clear-cut…
PlaceJagersfontein
… Due to the Great Depression, the Mine closed in the early 1930's and reopened in the late 1940's. Thereafter it …
ArticleWalter Sisulu Timeline 1912-2003
… Transkei, undergoes a traditional Xhosa initiation rite. 1930 Again a migrant, Walter returns to Johannesburg to … to Europe and of everything he saw and…
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
… Palmer, is active in campaign against residential permits. 1930 White women get the vote. This means that in effect the … African Coloured People's…
Biography of Eli Weinberg by Karen Folz
… the government had taken some anti-Jewish stances. In 1930, the National Party , which did not allow Jewish members … [online] Available at http://www.chabad…
PlaceFort Cox
… to offer Agricultural Education and Training in 1930, but then in the 1970, the Forestry component was … the school was given to Lovedale College at Alice…
ArticleWorld War I Timeline 1915
… 3 October Anglo-French army lands at Salonika, Greece. 19 December Months of fighting between Turkish and Allied …
Historical ships and shipwrecks along the South African coast
… They also yield data about the British Royal Navy, 19 th century passenger and mail shipping services, and First …
Polokwane an Overview
'Street soccer' game on a makeshift field, near Polokwane in the Limpopo Province. 2010. © Chris Ledowchowski The Limpopo Province was the scene of scores of…
ArticleSharpeville
… On 19 March 1960, the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) called on …
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid by Dr Peter Alegi
… with Christopher Phera as captain, but reclaimed it in 1930, winning three of five competitions: the Bushbucks … thanks to Luthuli's efforts, elicited…
The Freedom struggle: Political mobilisation in Port Elizabeth
The Eastern Cape is regarded by many as the cradle of Black resistance against White oppression. After the defeat of the Xhosa by the British in the frontier…
Turning-point elections in South Africa, 1910 - 2009
… Source: New History of South Africa Cape Town) p231 In 1930, after a spirited struggle the vote was extended to …
EventPallo Jordan opens the Mbuzini Samora Machel Public Library
… the 20th anniversary of the death of Samora Machel. On 19 October 1986, an air plane carrying the Mozambican … pointing to the apartheid government's…