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EventSir James Liege Hulett dies in Durban, South Africa
… 1838 in South Yorkshire, England. In 1857, at the age of 19, he came to South Africa. Sir Hulett founded Tongaat …
PlaceCentral African Republic
Diamond prospectors in the Central African Republic have found polished flint and quartz tools that are at least 8,000 years old. About 2,500 years ago local…
PlaceLighthouse, Beach Road, Green Point
… 1865, improved in 1906 and electrified in 1929. Standing 19.5m above high water, its light has a range of over 20 km. …
ArticleThe Linton Panel & the San language
Very little is known about the languages of South Africa's San people, as most of these beautiful, ancient languages were never recorded. Fortunately, the /Xam…
ArticleANC and the early development of apartheid 1948-1950s
… ended tragically when police started shooting, killing 19 and injuring 30. The ANC declared 26 June as a national …
Call for Papers: Teaching Palestine: Pedagogical Praxis and the Indivisibility of Justice
… study tour will be convened in South Africa on March 18-19, 2019 (international conferences), and March 20-25, 2019 … Palestine South African conference on…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1980-1989
… outside Pretoria, using Soviet Grad P rockets. 19 November , Griffiths Mxenge, an attorney and a member of … in Lesotho. The incursion is widely condemned…
PlacePretoria Art Museum
The Pretoria City Council started a permanent collection of paintings from artists such as the German Baroque painter Joachim von Sandrart (1606 – 1688), the…
PlaceSt Margaret’s House, Parktown, Johannesburg
… angled off shoots of roofs and wooden windows. In 1930 stables and outbuildings were built on the adjacent …
EventJosiah Gumede is succeeded by Pixley ka Isaka Seme as ANC president
… At the annual ANC conference on 30 April 1930, Pixley Seme succeeded Gumede as president general, by a …
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches held at Pretoria on 23 May 1983, Volume 77 and Volume 78
… Transcript of evidence (continued from 17, 18, 19 and 20 May 1983) from Bishop Desmond Tutu, to the …
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches held at Pretoria on 20 May 1983, Volume 76
… Transcript of evidence (continued from 17, 18, 19 and 20 May 1983) from Bishop Desmond Tutu, to the …
PlaceKeur River Bridge
Situated on the Historic Montagu Pass this bridge was built in 1847. This solid bridge was designed by Charles Michell and built by Henry Ford White (who…
EventSouth Africa win the most medals at the 7th All African Games
… with 128 medals. The closing ceremony of the games was on 19 September. The 1999 Games included: athletics, baseball, …
PlaceHouses Brill and Andrew Murray, together with Tuck Shop, Grey-College, Bloemfontein
… designed by Frank Taylor, and were officially opened on 19 December 1907 by the then Governor of the Orange River …
ArticleA history of Soweto
The consequence of this promising wealth was that a great number of people left their farms, rural homes and other towns in South Africa to make a quick buck…
Article1910-1924: African nationalism and working-class and popular protests
… blatant betrayal. In the first two decades of Union (1910-1930), the Governments of Louis Botha, Jan Smuts, and J. B. …
ArticleAfrican nationalism and working-class & popular protests, 1910-1924
… read more In the first two decades of Union (1910-1930), the Governments of Louis Botha, Jan Smuts, and J. B. …
PlacePrince Edward Islands
The sub-Antarctic Prince Edward Island Group consists of; Marion Island (19km long 12 km wide) and Prince Edward Island (10 km long and 6.5km wide). These…
PlaceRavenswood House, Hatfield Street, Gardens
Ravenswood House is the only known example in Cape Town of the late classical Georgian Architectural Style of the beginning of the 19th Century. This Double…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: Pre-1500
Modern Humans evolve in Africa, including South Africa and the first African people begin to settle in South Africa. Hundreds of years later the first…
ArticleRight to Organise Timeline 1500-1994
… This gave farmers extended legal powers over their tenants 1930-1946 Council for Non European Trade Unions (CNETU) …
ArticleDr G M 'Monty' Naicker - Timeline
… to the medical school of the Edinburgh University. 1930-34 - The years of the gay student who pursued social and …
ArticleSouth African Indian Congress (SAIC)
The period 1860-1923 is characterised firstly by the introduction of indentured Indian labourers into Natal and of the "passenger" Indians who came to trade,…
EventSolly Sachs leaves South Africa
… of Communism Act (1950) had been served on him on 19 May 1952 and his arrest on two occasions during the same …
EventNelson Mandela was issued with his first passport after being released from prison
… was issued with his first South African passport on 19 February 1990, 8 days after he was released from prison. …
EventUN approves embargo against Ethiopia and Eritrea
… http://www.bangla2000.com/News/Archive/International/5-19-2000/news_detail1.html …
EventAhmed Ben Bella is moved to a French hospital after 11 days of hunger strike
… bases of the latter across the border in Morocco. On June 19, 1965, after less than three years as Prime Minister and …
SEME by Richard Rive and Tim Couzens
… So lack-lustre and turgid was his Presidency between 1930 and 1937, that Seme was at one stage accused of … faction in the movement, who rallied around Seme…
EventInsulin is first introduced to the American public
… the Nobel Peace Prize committee subsequently regretted. On 19 July 1923, insulin was introduced to the public. It had …