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PlaceCity of Matlosana Local Municipality
… is committed to providing sustainable services and development for all residents, leading the way with … as the oldest white settlement of the old Transvaal …
PlaceKrugersdorp
… town, regarded as the industrial hub of Western Gauteng. Gold , manganese , iron, asbestos and lime are all mined in and around Krugersdorp and its … is…
EventFirst celebration of May Day in South Africa
… On 1 May, South Africa will enjoy Worker's Day (effectively a May Day holiday). Worker's Day … the role played by Trade Unions, the Communist Party and other…
EventAnglo-Boer War 2. The British Colonial Office appoints a Ladies Commission to investigate the concentration camps in South Africa.
… impartial were, Mrs. Millicent G. Fawcett, Emily Hobhouse and Dr. Jane Waterson. They were appointed by the British … War. The camps were found to have been…
EventAdelaide Tambo returns to South Africa after 30 years
… Oliver Tambo. The Tambos' were married in December 1956, and in 1960, they were asked by the ANC to continue their work abroad. They then settled in London,…
EventEllen Kuzwayo becomes the first Black woman to receive an honorary degree from Wits University
… National Congress (ANC). Kuzwayo qualified as a teacher and taught for a few years until the government introduced … Bantu education. Kuzwayo lost her desire…
”Draft Declaration of Unity” [including 10-point Programme]. Statement Approved by the Continuation Committee of the Preliminary Unity Conference of Delegates from the AAC and the National Anti-C.A.D., December 17, 1943
… the Preliminary Unity Conference of Delegates from the AAC and the National Anti-C.A.D., December 17, 1943 …
PlaceUniversity of Cape Town
… University! UCT is also one of Africa's leading Teaching and Research Institutions, with a number of Campuses. UCT was … that grew substantially after 1880,…
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.3 No.1 Oct-Dec 1958
… Nations, Paramount Chief of the Hereros. South West Africa and the United Nations, Mburumba A. Kerina. The … No God. No Home, A.R.C. de Crespigny. The…
Document 50 - Socialist League of Africa , “South Africa: Ten Years of the Stay-at-Home”, International Socialism, 5, Summer 1961
… International Socialism, 5, Summer 1961 [....] In March and April 1960, the African population staged a series of demonstrations, marches and stay-at-homes…
EventKwame Nkrumah is released from jail
… Nkrumah prioritised unifying the four territories of the Gold Coast, as Ghana was previously known. He led the … schools, railways, hospitals, a system for…
ArticleA Luta Continua Dialogues
… an international dialogue series, bringing together Black and Indigenous activists, community workers, and thought leaders to discuss their interconnected…
EventMore than 100 miners are crushed to death near Orkney
… this despite the enormous amounts invested in it and the resulting wealth derived from it. South Africa is a world leader in deep mining, with its gold mines…
ArticleThe Roots of Segregation: 1860-1910
… majority of Africans living here had been proletarianised and were reduced to the status of labour. This labour was … The discovery of diamonds (1867) and,…
PlaceHeritage Route of Transvaal, Limpopo and Mpumalanga
… Country. The Limpopo River marked its border with Botswana and Zimbabwe to the North, while the Vaal River marked its … to the Transvaal’s future were…
ArchiveMeeting between a South African delegation led by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Honourable R F Botha and a United States delegation led by Dr C Crocker, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs: Santa Maria, Sal Island, 31 October 1984
… Minutes of a meeting between a South African delegation and a United States delegation to discuss the situation in Mozambique and Angola … the Minister of…
EventA blaze destroys Wanderers Cricket Club
… items like historic documents, photos, trophies and records. The fire, battled by seven fire crews, started … the site of the current railway station in 1888…
PlaceRoodepoort Museum
… the Roodepoort Museum capably covers Roodepoort’s long and diverse History, which dates back to 1884, despite having … the changes brought about because of…
PlaceLegogote Mountain Region, Mpumalanga
… Mountain 1 194m high, situated just South-East of eLundi and 12m North-East of White River. The name is said to be … this was provided here for Travellers,…
ArticleThe Constitution
… values: 1. Human dignity, the achievement of equality and the advancement of human rights and freedoms. 2. Non-racialism and non-sexism. 3. Supremacy ……
A growing urban African population
… War, a large number of factories were being established and were growing in size. More and more Africans moved to the city. As the African working … revenue…
EventGeraldine Fraser is born
… 1960, in Lansdowne, Cape Town, the daughter of a teacher and factory worker. She became politically active at Livingstone High … received her military…
EventAnglo American announces switching of main listing to London
… founded in 1917 by Sir Ernest Oppenheimer to exploit the gold fields of the East Rand, announced that it intended to … of Anglo American Corporation of South…
EventElectrically powered units replaced Johannesburg's horse-drawn trams
… meant that the usual means of transporting provisions and articles to and from the city itself became inadequate. This was primarily due to the extraction of…
EventQueen Victoria issues charter for the formation of the British South Africa Company
… such as the expansion into the interior of South Africa and the discovery of gold and diamonds. By the mid-nineteenth century, the mining …
EventThe second Ashanti War breaks out in Africa
… The second Ashanti war took place between 1873 and 1874, 50 years after the first one. The Ashanti Kingdom … the interior, but also dominated the coastal…
ArticleDutch East India Company (DEIC)/VOC
… day, four hundred years ago, a group of Dutch merchants and independent trading companies, impatient with the … trade with East Asia at the end of the…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1910 - 1919
… 1910. Joseph Royeppen , a Cambridge University graduate and a barrister and his companions are imprisoned for their opposition to … is illegal in terms of…
EventTerror strikes the Olympics Games in Atlanta
… pipe bomb in American history- which killed 2 people and injured 111. The motive for the attack, according to … attacks in 1997, targeting an Atlanta lesbian…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 7
… 1939. This Union opened its membership to European, Indian and Native workers in the industry. This open membership was … has always been faced with the…