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ArticleThe Group Areas Act of 1950
… response to what they perceived as their country's social problems as from the 1870s onwards. Fear of cholera, … location, or village; or a Coloured persons…
EventLucas Mangope leaves Mmabatho due to uprising
… he had tried to boycott participation in South Africa's first democratic elections. Mangope rejected the South African Independent Electoral Commission's…
EventA strike by White mineworkers turns into open rebellion
… strike since 28 December 1921, stormed and occupied police stations, railway installations and mines on the Witwatersrand. They also attacked Johannesburg's…
EventRichard Maponya, one of South Africa’s richest businessmen, is born
… services, motor dealerships, a BMW franchise and petrol stations. His biggest project to date is the joint venture … Richard Maponya, one of South Africa’s…
BiographySimon Nkoli
… illegal for the entire family to live together, and Nkoli’s childhood memories include moments of hiding from the … live with his grandparents in the Orange…
Intersex South Africa (ISSA)
… in 2010 by late activist Sally Gross. According to ISSA’s manifesto, the goals of their mission include raising awareness of intersex issues in South … They…
Sadecque Variava
… family was steeped in anti-apartheid politics, and Variava’s brothers Haroon and Yusuf also became heavily involved in … having leadership qualities. …
EventSouth Africa concludes an agreement with the Marconi Company for a high
… in 1900 proved successful. By 1912, there were Marconi stations all over the world, including South Africa, which …
Rustenburg the Segregated city
… Phokeng. Some two hundred farmers decided to come to the mission and eject the homeless people, but Bishop Kevin … people originally settled in Bethlehem,…
ArticleList of uMkhonto weSizwe Operations
… Government buildings: Port Elizabeth; Station Commander’s office and New Law Courts damaged July 1982 Government … at 18h50; one injured 08/09/83 Economic…
ArticleList of passenger on the Truro, 16 November 1860
… Madras 19 Rungiah Page Missing 36 M Unknown Madras 20 Venkamah Page Missing 23 F Unknown Madras 21 … 21 M Unknown Madras Madras 34 Thondroya…
ArticleCommunism in Russia 1900 to 1940
… through the state assuming ownership of the country’s resources and distributing these resources equally amongst …
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1960-1969
… banning of the ANC in 1960 and the reconstruction of its mission in exile, the ANC formed a strategy of establishing … first major international criticism…
PlaceThe Mead and Meadway, Pinelands-Cape Town
… of the trust, namely Richard Stuttaford of Stuttaford’s fame. The first Pinelands Homes were thatched and fashioned … pockets and Trees litter the Landscape…
ArticleDr Alfred Bitini Xuma Timeline 1893-1998
… district of the Transkei. 1900 Xuma attends the Wesleyan Mission School in Manzana. 1908 After completing primary … States of America via Cape Town and…
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1930-1939
… unconditionally by Government at night on September 20, 1932 after he had commenced his 21-day fast. September … water with or without salt and soda" against…
ArticleCODESA 1 Timeline
… at the World Trade Centre in Kempton Park, Johannesburg. 20 November 1991: Agreement is reached on outstanding issues … and IFP announce the rescheduling of…
PlaceBetty's Bay
… between Pringle Bay and Kleinmond. The history of Betty's Bay involved tales of Khoisan Strandlopers , bandits in … archeological sites where stone hand-axes…
Chapter 4 - The role of the Communist Party in the ANC by Richard Monroe
… Party in Congress? Its approach was typified by the Party's general secretary, Moses Kotane, whose official biographer … history of the SACP, "both to fulfil…
PlaceTsolo, Eastern Cape
… (prior to 1910) St Augustine's was established in 1865 by the Reverend Bransby Key as a … Hope established his magisterial seat near St Augustine's, on a…
Place"When Woodstock had a Beach"
… completed in 1977. Over the centuries, Cape Town's coastline has undergone dramatic transformations, shaped by … since been reclaimed for development as…
ArchiveCHAPTER 2 - You only win once by Howard Barrell
… 1976 A struggle is made up of failures essentially. It’s true. You only win once, and that’s at the end. - Joe Slovo … cordon sanitaire which had curtailed…
The armed struggle and state repression of the 1960s
… was against killing people, and rather burnt down power stations and government buildings, although on occasions … the economic position of white people. The…
Safety and security issues
… to their mothers. If the incident is reported to the child's mother, she would often not report it to the police for … malicious damage or unauthorised…
ArticleTransformation in Southern Africa Timeline 1700-1800
… 1818 Zwide of the Ndwandwe becomes aware of Shaka Zulu’s strategy of pulling together the scattered Mthethwa tribe … Both sides suffer heavy losses. 1834 A…
BiographyWangari Maathai
… groups conserving the environment and improving women’s quality of life. [ix] Ultimately this initiative progressed … Belt Movement Maathai supported women…
BiographyRonald “Ron” Press
… the Cinematograph Workers Union, a post he held for over 20 years. He was in one of the White worker-commando's during the 1922 Rand Revolt as a dispatch…
BiographyPravin Jamnadas Gordhan
… during the 1970s and 1980s and participated in the NIC’s call to boycott the then government’s Tricameral Parliament elections in the 1980s. During the ……
ArticleInternational Rugby World Cup Timeline 1983-2011
… the apartheid government. The 1976 All Blacks (New Zealand's national rugby team) tour of South Africa, which occurred … working committee and begin a…
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Chapter 1 - State Formation in Nineteenth-century South Africa by Yonah Seleti
… had emerged at the end of the eighteenth century, Sobhuza's Ngwane were expelled north of the Pongola Valley. The … of several Protestant and Catholic…