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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. …
PlaceMea Vota, Rissik Street, Sunnyside, Pretoria
This dwelling was designed and built in about 1899 by A Westenberg and C van der Made, both engineers employed by the Netherelands-South Africa Railway Co, for…
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 …
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…
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…
PlaceWandel and Barnet Streets, Gardens
The five properties involved are part of a larger complex of Georgian terrace Houses, The original portions of this House reputedly served as an out-building…
PlaceRust-en-Vrede, Wellington Road, Durbanville
Construction of this complex dates from the mid 19th Century and reflects a blending of Cape Dutch, Georgian and Victorian Architectural Features. During its…
EventGriffiths Mxenge is buried
… civil rights lawyer and political activist murdered on 19 November, was buried at his home village of Rayi, near …
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 …
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 …
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,…
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…
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. …
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…
ArticlePoor Whites and their Political Weapon: Constructing the Kakamas Dam
… already provided land, food and work for 3000 settlers. [19] This grew to 574 families by 1945. [20] These settlers … armoedeverligting”, Historia (Vol. 57),…
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 …
The ANC’s MK Special Ops Unit Material - Yunus Carrim Collection - Press Clippings
… Cape Times, 21 March 1988 The hunted loner, Weekend Argus, 19 March 1988 Car bomb mayhem, Natal Witness, 31 July 1987 …
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…