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EventAfrikaans becomes the official language of the Union of South Africa
… were attempts to gradually replace Dutch with Afrikaans. On 23 April 1914 C.J. Langenhoven, member of the Cape … In 1919 the Dutch Bible was translated into…
EventCongo Free State becomes the Belgian Congo
… II of Belgium handed over the Congo to the Belgian state on this date. Previously he held it as a private project … Christian missionaries. The king and his…
EventCecil John Rhodes is buried in the Matopos
… ). Rhodes visited England in 1901. He was already ill on his return to Cape Town in the early months of 1902 and … Muizenberg , Cape Town . In his will he…
EventRestitution of Land Rights Act is signed
… claims of individuals and communities dispossessed on or after June 1913. The court, with the same status as the … to buy or expropriate land and return it…
EventKenyan independence hero Bildad Kaggia dies after a long illness
… African customs and traditions. He later joined and sat on the central committee of the Mau Mau. When Kenya gained … due to clashes with Kenyatta over land…
EventPeter van der Merwe, South African cricketer, dies
… Peter Laurence van der Merwe was born on 14 March 1937 in Paarl, Cape Town. He began playing … match referee for eight years. He died in Port Elizabeth on 23…
EventSA jazz singer, Letta Mbulu is born in Soweto
… Letta Mbulu was born in Soweto on 23 August 1942. As a teenager she joined the cast of the … returned to South Africa. Soon after they worked together on the…
EventThree cases of Buboinic plague are reported in Cape Town
… The first cases of Bubonic plague in Cape Town emerged on 1 February 1901. The disease then spread across the city … pestis”. It spread through a bite by…
Event5,580 Egyptian prisoners of war are exchanged for four Israelis held by Egyptian troops
… of Egypt by the three aforementioned countries began on 28 October 1956, when Israeli troops crossed the frontier … of conspiracy between Israel and Britain…
EventIvorian Footballer, Arouna Kone, is born in Anyama, Ivory Coast
… Arouna Kone was born in Anyama, CÁ´te d'Ivoire on 11 November 1983. Kone began his football career as a … him to the international scene. He subsequently…
EventPhambili Ka Ntloko, national organiser of AZAPO, is born
… Phambili Ka Ntloko was born on 18 April 1960 in Queenstown, Eastern Cape. As a high … Organisation’s (AZAPO) Queenstown branch and served on its community…
EventMaggie Laubser, SA painter and winner of several awards, dies
… Born on 14 April 1886 in a wheat farm called bloublommetjieskloof … her from pursuing singing as a career. Laubster died on 17 May 1973 … , [online],…
EventA booby-trapped TV kills Tsitsi Chiliza, wife of an ANC official in Harare, Zimbabwe
… On 14 may 1987, a Zimbabwean citizen, Tsitsi Chiliza, who was … In 1988, the ANC office in Zimbabwe was hit by a rocket. On another occasion a car bomb…
A collection of articles, speeches and letter pertaining to Dr James Sebe Moroka
… Article in the Indian Opinon by Jordaan K Ngubane on James Moroka, 28 November 1952 (pdf) Article of the … General (pdf) Dr James Moroka with Hendrik…
EventGerard Moerdijk, SA architect of several church buildings and the Voortrekker monument, dies
… famous work is the Voortreker Monument in Pretoria, died on 29 March 1958, aged 68 years old. Moerdjk matriculated at … he went to further his studies in…
EventThe passive resistance movement begins with a mass meeting of 2000 Africans
… The passive resistance movement began on 30 March 1919 when a mass meeting of two thousand Africans … to ensure this was upheld. However, police used force…
EventTwenty-four Kikuyu tribesmen are sentenced to death for the Lari massacre in Kenya
… situation. The massacre followed the eruption of violence on 20 October 1952, as the Mau Mau protested the arrest of … and comments from those who witnessed…
EventOldest part of Johannesburg, Marshalltown, is planned
… On 27 September 1886, Henry Brown Marshall asked Kidger … the first quarter of the same year Gold was discovered on the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. The…
PlaceAlbertskroon, Suburb of Johannesburg
… Greymont and Montgomery Park. Established about 1896 on the Farm Waterval, it was named after the Alberts family, … Spring in Gauteng is tucked away under…
ArchiveCHAPTER 4 - A turn to masses by Howard Barrell
… 1979, the ANC tried to understand how its very emphasis on armed activity was undermining its efforts to mount a … strategy between the early 1960s and 1978…
The Johannesburg Biennale by Bisi Silva (Artnet), 1998
… a series of national pavilions, Enwezor collaborated on a series of diverse exhibitions with six international … Gu. Called United Nations Project 1993-2000,…
Links & Partnerships
… with Possibility, the official Gateway. This site touches on everything South African, including South Africa's … is a freely accessible online scholarly…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the closing ceremony of the 19th meeting of heads of government of the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) St Lucia, 4 July 1998
… Africa with them and made the Caribbean a part of Africa. On this occasion I can think of no better way of evoking what … by all who wish to see those whom…
Search for a United Front against racism
… Secretary of the Natal Indian Congress, who was released on Tuesday morning, after serving his term of imprisonment as … Conference of the Anti-Pass…
Document 27 - Letter from E. R. Roux to Douglas Wolton, 5 September 1928
… appeal by the time this reaches you. I hope to see S.P.B. on his return to England and get acquainted with the final … class. We have got to put forward…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Search for a United Front against racism
… Secretary of the Natal Indian Congress, who was released on Tuesday morning, after serving his term of imprisonment as … Conference of the Anti-Pass…
Chapter 5. A Rebel’s Daughter - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… for him. To feel near him, I used to put his jacket on, with the excuse that it was cold. My mother must have … we were at my grandmother's farm, a neighbour…
Student Politics in the Era of Democracy
… ideas of freedom and demands such as a South Africa based on the Freedom Charter, in which 'the people shall govern', … such a student movement. What SASCO…
PlaceKwazulu Natal Province
… of the Zulu) was granted self-government under apartheid on 1 December 1977. According to the apartheid social … along the Coast what is now Durban . This…
Chapter 3 - Historical Lesotho
… last century, Lesotho has become increasingly dependent on its migrant labour. About 140,000 worked in South Africa … from the customs union with SA. Having…