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EventThe Liquor Laws Amendment Bill comes into effect
… Beer Protests from 1928-9 and protests in Cato Manor in 1959. Only when the Liquor Laws Amendment Bill came into …
EventFollowing the infamous Treason Trial, ANC leader Chief Albert Luthuli is banished by the Apartheid Government for five years
… were found not guilty and were acquitted. However in 1959, the government banished Luthuli to his village at the …
EventThe last passenger boat of the Union Castle line, the Windsor Castle, leaves Table Bay
… on to Port Elizabeth East London, and Durban. Launched in 1959, the Windsor Castle was the flagship of the Union Castle …
EventMadagascar adopts its second constitution
… Philibert Tsiranana. The first constitution was adopted in 1959. Unlike many other former French colonies, Madagascar …
ArchiveOne hundred years of an air force inspired by General Smuts, by John Kane-Berman (PoliticsWeb), 18 July 2018
… colours of perhaps a dozen different nations, among them Britain, the US, South Africa, Russia, and Germany. Smuts's … During the Second World War the RAF…
EventBritish secretary of war, Lord Kitchener drowns near Orkney Islands
… Asquith to try to get the support of that country for Britain's fight against Germany. He drowned when the HMS …
International Boycott of Apartheid Sport by Mary Corrigall
… With special reference to the campaigns in Britain by the Anti-Apartheid Movement Paper prepared for the … a result of this development that the sporting…
EventGambia becomes a republic
… countries in West Africa. It gained its independence from Britain on 18 February 1965. On 24 April 1970 Gambia became a …
EventGhana imposes a total ban on exports to South Africa and South West Africa
… policy. The country gained independence in 1957 from Britain and became the first in …
ArticleThe role of traditional leaders during Apartheid
… passing of the Promotion of Bantu Self-Government Act in 1959 , which provided for the establishment of 10 …
The Democratic Party (DP)
… that year. However, the history of the DP goes back to 1959 when a number of liberal members of the United Party … principles and ideals around which the PP…
EventJomo Kenyatta is elected Prime Minister of Kenya
… in 1963, following that country’s independence from Britain. In 1964 he became the first President of the …
EventCedric Mayson is charged with treason
… He was released on bail, fled the country and arrived in Britain the day before his case was due to resume on 18 April …
EventThe Anglo Boer War
… Britain sends 30 000 additional troops to South Africa in the …
EventGhana is admitted to the United Nations
… 8 March 1957, two days after it achieved independence from Britain. The country which had previously been known as the …
ArticleSonghai, African Empire, 15-16th Century
… for example the Gold Coast. Industrial development in Britain led to increasing trade with West Africa in … products like palm oil, rubber, and cocoa. To…
ArticleThe Azania Liberation Support Committee and its publications
… and mutually antagonistic tendencies of the left in Britain, as well as in the USA and France, the publications … secretary general and chairperson of MAWU –…
ArticleIndian South Africans Timeline 1910-1919
… 18 July, Gandhi leaves South Africa for London. 4 August, Britain, and automatically South Africa as part of the … Imperial War Conference, attended by…
EventSA signs Nuclear Non
… weapons. Other countries that signed the treaty included Britain, the Soviet Union, the USA and fifty-seven …
EventPrincess Margaret dies
… Princess Margaret, the younger sister of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, died peacefully in her sleep at …
EventPaul Kruger is sworn in as president of the Zuid
… to negotiate complete independence for the ZAR from Britain in 1884, at the London Convention. …
Beerhalls in Soweto from Soweto Heritage Survey Final Report compiled by Steven Lebelo and Elsabe Brink for the National Monuments Council, Northern Region
… as those situated in the city were flourishing. Then in 1959, following the murder of a white man near the Mai-Mai … Administration gave a directive that by…
EventUganda gains independence
… East African country Uganda gained independence from Great Britain as a parliamentary democratic monarchy with …
EventCapital City of Zimbabwe is renamed
… Immediately after obtaining independence from Britain in 1980, Zimbabwe embarked on the process of renaming …
EventFirst Multiracial Election is held in Zimbabwe
… an agreement was struck. The Lancaster agreement that Britain helped draft led to peace in the country and its the …
EventThe Bloemfontein Convention is signed
… the Orange River Convention) between Sir George Clerk (for Britain) and twenty-five 'representatives of the people' in …
ArticleGrade 10 - Topic 1: The world around 1600
… Architecture in the 16th and 17th centuries: the Taj Mahal Britain and the end of the Mughal Empire. European Societies …
ArticleAfrikaner Broederbond
… nationalists campaigned against South Africa joining Britain in the fight against Hitler's Germany. Hertzog …
EventJeremy Cronin and British couple are sentenced in the Cape Town Supreme Court
… months of her twelve-month sentence and she returned to Britain with her new born daughter in October. …
EventSandra Smith is the last woman to be executed in South Africa
… 7 people at a time. Out of nearly 3 000 hangings between 1959 and 1989, only 14 were women. Of the 14, most were …