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EventEllen Kuzwayo becomes the first Black woman to receive an honorary degree from Wits University
… to force the Apartheid government to introduce a form of land ownership that would encourage private sector funding …
ArticleTimeline 20 years of Democracy 1994 to 2014
… of the Commonwealth . 17 November, The Restitution of Land Rights Bill is passed by President Nelson Mandela and … in 1999. 1 March, The Commission on…
BiographyLeonard (Len) Lee-Warden
Leonard (Len) Lee-Warden was born in 1913. A linotype operator, he came to South Africa in 1936 from England after serving a five year apprenticeship in London…
PlaceEnon
… the European farmers and towns inside the Cape Colony. The land was granted to the Missionary Society in trust, to be …
EventFighting breaks out on the Johannesburg market square
… poor white Afrikaners and those who had failed on the land. These trade unions, however, were not recognised by …
Speech at the Funeral of M.P. Naicker, London by O. R. Tambo, 8 May 1977
… people of his country was robbed of the citizenship of the land of his birth - South Africa... He died whilst on a …
EventPolice open fire to disperse a rioting crowd in Cato Manor, Durban
… years had to move out of their homes and away from their land. They were forced to the racially segregated areas of …
EventMangosutho Buthelezi reveals his daughter died from HIV/Aids
… been experienced by countless anxious parents across the land. Today, I voice their pain as well as mine. I say, on …
EventQueen Victoria issues charter for the formation of the British South Africa Company
… leaders, often unscrupulously, in which vast amounts of land were acquired. The BSAC recruited its own army, which it …
Event19 die at Shell House massacre
… The initial aim was to restore the Zulu kingdom and the land lost as a result of colonisation. …
Chapter 4
… Ages, with the serf or slave tied permanently to the land and denied the possibility of education. The English, on … his labour instead of a serf or slave…
PlaceAlexandra, Township in Johannesburg
… was the only Place where black people could buy free-hold Land until J.B. Hertzog . Black people in Alexandra became …
PlaceGrey Institute/School, Port Elizabeth
… first Town Councillors, the municipality took over vacant land on top of the hill opposite the Donkin Reserve, where it …
EventWestern countries, including South Africa, implement an airlift to supply provisions to the inhabitants of the eastern section of Berlin
… On 28 June 1948, Soviet forces had cut off all land access to the British, American and French zones of …
Farewell Speech On Eve Of Imprisonment, February 29, 1948
… of South Africa - the Parliament and the Government of the land, Our only crime is that we are putting into practice … responsible to the people. "By the…
Statement by Albert Luthuli to the council of the Institute of Race Relations, 19 December 1960
… it. It should be an occasion for all of the people of the land to join in a unifying celebration that will inspire … What we want is a link with the…
ArticleThe Wragg Commission (1885-1887)
… in Durban. Through the coastal belt of Natal they cleared land for cultivating sugar, maize, tobacco or vegetables. As …
EventThe first hijacking of a South African Airways plane takes place
… that it would be in everybody's best interest to rather land at Blantyre", he added. …
ArticleThe Cabinet Reshuffle of 2017
… transformation and addressing the questions of the land since the state of the nation address on the 9th of …
Document 76 - The Speakers’ Notes - A Brief Course on the Training of Organisers [Document found by the police during the Rivonia raid of 11 July 1963]
… people and the end of the military struggle over the land question. But it also saw the beginning of apolitical struggle based on political rights -…
Chapter One - From Abbotsdale to Kimberley
… and fiercely resisted the Dutch invasion of their land. The conflict led to the first frontier war from 1658 to … In 1870 a Bishop Gray bought about 800…
PlacePietermaritzburg Botanical Gardens
On 3 March 1874, the Pietermaritzburg Botanical Garden was founded. It was run by the newly formed Pietermaritzburg Botanical Society until 1969, when it was…
EventStart of the Muslim community’s Tana Baru Cemetery Uprising
… freedom and in 1805, they had been allocated a piece of land - the Tana Baru Cemetery - for burial purposes. In 1886, …
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