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The Battle of Square Hill
… which continued unabated for a month. During the night of 19 August 1918 the 160th Brigade of whom the 1st Battalion … had been in battle from 6.45pm on 18…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 2 Glossary
Terms You Need to Know: Christopher Columbus arriving in the America. Image Source Abolition: The ending of a law, a system or an institution. During…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 2 Contextual Overview
… 1920s failed to support agriculture in any serious way. [19] What followed after the crash was the Great Depression. … [Accessed 6 April 2021]. [18] Ibid. …
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Essay Questions
An image of bold, selfless youth in late 1970s South Africa inspired by the black radical consciousness philosophy. Image Source Essay Question: To what…
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 …
Digging deeper into our history by Nicole Mccain (News24), 13 September 2016
… their in_Herit Festival, which takes place from Monday 19 to Sunday 25 September. The festival offers free entry to … their in_Herit Festival, which takes…
PlaceSA Army College, Roberts Heights, Pretoria
… to Govern South Africa, it was renamed again on the 19 May 1998 by the incoming ANC regime, this time called …
Chapter 4: Public Response to Vigilantism and Political Violence in Kwazulu-Natal
… Beeld quoted in South African Digest , 18 March 1986, p. 19; Editorial, Die Burger quoted in South African Digest , 18 … quoted in South African Digest , 18…
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…
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 …
ArticleAfrikaans: the Language of Black and Coloured Dissent
… housing, sexual relations, schooling and land ownership’. [19] The 1976 Soweto protests against Afrikaans as a forced … ↵ [18] Jansen, Afrikaans: A Language…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1920s
… remains in power with increased parliamentary majority. 19 February, Andries Treurnicht is born on Middelpos farm in … of Indian organisations, but the…
ArticleUnited Nations and Apartheid Timeline 1946-1994
… lack of a two-thirds majority. The vote was 31 in favour, 19 against and 6 abstentions. 1948 12 July, India again … representatives from India, Pakistan and…
PlaceGroot Constantia, Constantia Valley
… der Stel in 1692, and after its destruction in a fire on 19 December 1925, it was restored by architect FK Kendall in … der Stel in 1692, and after its…
PlaceMalawi
… most densely populated nations with a population of 19 129 952 million people (in 2020). Capital city is Lilongwe …
EventSupreme Court changes ruling on forced removals, traditionally
… remove a group of people from their land. However, on 19 September 1985 a Supreme Court ruling declared that forced …
EventHarry Frederick Oppenheimer is born in Kimberley
… business interests. Oppenheimer died in Johannesburg on 19 August 2000. References Gwyneth Williams & Brian …
EventCanada offers a second contingent of troops to the British in the South African War
… on 30 November 1899. The second contingent comprised of 19 officers and 371 men and their horses was organized into …
Documentry on the Life and Death of Ahmed Timol Premieres on SABC3, on 1 February 2015.
Indians Can¹t Flywill screen for the first time on 1 February, at 19H30. The 48-minute television documentary tells the story of Ahmed Timol, a 29-year…
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 …
ArticlePre-colonial history of Southern Africa
South Africa has one of the longest sequences of human development in the world. It begins with two million years old hominid fossils. Human Origins South…
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) …
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 …