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EventMayor of Welkom, in the Free State, is tarred and feathered
… town then sought to humiliate him in order to dissuade him from authorising the erection of the facility by assaulting … Institute of Race Relations, Race…
EventThe Big Three are convicted of treason
… sentenced the eleven Trialists. The sentences ranged from ten to twelve years' imprisonment. … Political History: a chronology of key political events from…
EventThe Pope arrives in Lesotho
… hijackers claimed that their intention was to free Lesotho from a military government, which was fully backed by the …
EventStudents at Durban
… had come on to campus. Students decided to stay away from lectures until the university had resolved the matter. …
EventPeter Nchabeleng President of Northern Transvaal UDF dies
… committee in Pietersburg, gave a different version from the one given by the police. Maurice testified "he was … Deaths, Peter Nchabaleng's Memorial Service,…
EventThe Dutch East India Company decides to send French Huguenot refugees to the Cape
… Calvinist Reformed Church that was established in 1550. From the mid 1500s until the mid 1600s, Huguenots were …
EventHome Affairs Minister Mapisa
… work in the elimination of the scourge, saying that from what had been reported it appeared that those caught …
EventThe Sunday Times political journalist is suspended
… Harper P,(2003),'Journalist Suspended over Ngcuka row',from the Independent Online,14 September,[Online],Avaliable …
EventAfrica Women’s Peace Train leaves Kampala for Johannesburg
… train, leaving Kampala on 16 August, was made up of women from across Africa who wanted to raise awareness around the … Train: 16 August - 26 August 2002…
EventMore than 100 miners are crushed to death near Orkney
… amounts invested in it and the resulting wealth derived from it. South Africa is a world leader in deep mining, with …
EventFriedrich Engels, German philosopher, dies in London
… The two relocated to Belgium after Marx was expelled from France. In 1846, Engels and Marx set up a Communist …
EventSir John Robinson forms Natal’s first ministry as Prime Minister
… knighted for his efforts. Due to ill health he resigned from office in 1897, and wrote an autobiography called A life …
PlaceFort Cunynghame
… it is stated that about one hundred men were employed away from the force in various situations ... In July 1878 the …
PlaceMjanyana Hospital
… Parts established a mission station and lazaretto there, from that developed a government/public organisation, …
EventChristoffel Coetzee de Villiers (37), compiler of South African genealogical registers, dies
… by G. McCall Theal, and sponsored by the Cape Government from 1893 to 1895. The system of genealogical numbering that …
EventThe introduction of new South African flag 1994
… Africa. The flag was designed by Frederick G. Brownell, from theState Herald of the Republic of South Africa. …
EventElsa, the lioness made famous by Joy Adamson’s book Born Free, dies in Kenya
… three cubs and that she still remembered them. Elsa died from Babesia felis, a tick-borne blood disease, on 24 January … Father of Lions, Tribute to Elsa…
EventThe Native Affairs Commission went once more to Ntabelanga for negotiations
… His declaration inspired a pilgrimage of his followers from all over South Africa. About 3 000 people arrived in the …
EventThe United Nations adopts a resolution establishing an eleven member United Nations Council for South West Africa
… was also banned. References: O’Malley P. ‘1967’, from O’Malley, [online], available at …
EventSouth African woman, Janice Bronwyn Linden, is sentenced to death in China for smuggling drugs
… On 9 April 2010, Janice Bronwyn Linden, 35 from Wentworth in Durban was sentenced to death by a high … P. (2011) ‘SA has 660 held abroad for drugs’, from…
PlaceQueen’s Tavern, 16 Stamford Hill Road, Durban
… Indian Sporting and Dining Club. It had old newspapers from places like Cairo and Calcutta. They were collecting …
PlaceWhite Horse Stones, Naval Hill, Bloemfontein
… side of Naval Hill in Bloemfontein, and is Constructed from rocks painted white. It was built by British troops …
PlaceState President Swart Park, Bloemfontein
… During renovations the stadium's capacity was expanded from 18,000 to 20,000. …
23. Durban merchants plead for Sunday trading
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South …
Mzimhlophe /Qhudeni
… trading store or bus stop by that name. Across the valley from Mzimhlophe there was Gubazi and behind it Singabantu …
PlaceMichaelis School of Fine Art
… of 16th – 18th century Dutch and Flemish art (bought from Sir Hugh Lane in 1912) to the Union of South Africa , … students in the second wave of FeesMustFall…
Call for Participants: Academy for African Urban Diversity
… If this point is agreed upon by a wide variety of actors—from media, to governments, UN agencies, development banks as … workshop, to be held at the…
Milton Obote by Angela Thompsell updated 28 February 2016
… of Uganda, but that was a largely ceremonial position, and from 1963 to 1966, it was the Kabaka (or king) of Baganda … he was facing resistance. The most…
PlaceStevenson Gallery, Woodstock-Cape Town
… was the first South African gallery to exhibit artists from other countries in Africa, and over time developing a … programme with a particular focus on the…
ArticleAbout South African History Online (SAHO)
… digital education. Since 2012, over 160 students—ranging from undergraduates to PhD candidates—have contributed as … in open-source technologies. We welcome…