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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 …
EventHendrik Verwoerd becomes Prime Minister
… ratified the Promotion of Bantu Self-Government Act in 1959. The Act classified black people into eight ethnic …
10 YEARS PROJECT
… 1983 (Act 110 of 1983), and section 69 of the Prisons Act, 1959 (Act 8 of 1959), and will apply to persons already sentenced, i.e. …
ArticleSouth African Coloured People Organisation (SACPO)
… of Coloured Affairs (UCCA), which was set up later in 1959, to advise the government on matters concerning … as the Coloured People Congress (CPC) after its…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 2 Glossary
… into North America. 18th Century – Exploration by Great Britain introduces smallpox into Australia. Trading Post: A …
EventZola Budd and Annette Cowley are banned from the Commonwealth Games
… Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. This was direct consequence of Britain's refusal to support economic sanctions against the …
EventSouth African Springbok rugby tour in UK is disrupted by anti-apartheid demonstration.
… in The Spectator called attention to the fact that Great Britain competes with many other oppressive nations and no …
EventThe U.S. vetoes Angola’s application for membership of the United Nations Security
… members who voted for Angola to become a member were Britain, France, Libya, Italy, Tanzania, Japan, Panama, the …
EventSeretse Khama is born
… and internationally obscure protectorate inherited from Britain to an increasingly democratic and prosperous country …
EventSiege of Kimberley is raised
… Second Anglo-Boer War between the two Boer republics and Britain, Gen. French relieved Kimberley after a siege of 123 …
EventSir John Herschel, British astronomer, arrives in Cape Town
… stayed on Table Mountain. In 1838, the couple returned to Britain. …
ArticleThe Azania Liberation Support Committee and its publications by Allison Drew
… 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 –…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 2 Source Based Questions
… Colonization also enabled European countries, such as Britain to become industrialized. [8] Raw materials that was … Definitive Visual Guide, Dorling…
The role of Cecil John Rhodes' British South African Company in the Conquest of Matabeleland
… as well as quarrying and timber work. [iii] During WW1 Britain lacked an organised labour system and depended on … Frenchmen to provide assistance. To…
South Africa in the 1900s (1900-1917)
… was short-lived: in 1795 the Cape Colony was annexed by Britain. Consequently, in 1835, ten thousand Boers left the … the following year the South African…
PlaceGroote Schuur High School
… school Groote Schuur High School was founded in 1959 as a co-educational Afrikaans High School in the …
The United Nations adopts resolution 1375 (XIV) on Apartheid
… On this day in 1959, the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution …
EventCastro decides to send troops to Angola to fight South Africa
… Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976 (University of North Carolina Press) Peter N. …
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.5 No.2 Jan-Mar 1961
… Ben Barka. The Public Relations of Africa, Roy Perrott. Britain’s Mixed Half Million, Colin MacInnes. Sweet Heaven, …
EventMandela is awarded the Joliot Curie Gold Medal for Peace
… (SAIC) and the leader of the anti-apartheid movement in Britain. Source: Leader Newspaper. …
EventSouth Africa and the United Kingdom embroiled in a diplomatic crisis
… announced it would not send four South African back to Britain to stand trial on charges of illegal export of arms. …
ArchiveThe exilic geographies of the South by Benjamin N. Lawrance and Vusumuzi R. Kumalo
… went into exile and published Down Second Avenue in London 1959. The formidable list of censorship provisions on the … left his beloved Sophiatown backyard…
EventGary Player won the US Open golf tournament and became the fourth winner to earn all four top-pro golf titles
… golf history. His first major championship win came at the 1959 British Open, and he was the first non-American to win …
EventFifteen African states tabled a draft resolution at the UN denouncing racial discrimination
… motion was adopted by thirty votes, with three countries - Britain, France and Spain opposing the resolution. The …
EventDemocratic Republic of Somali is formed
… The same development took place in British Somaliland when Britain ended its protectorate in June 1960. … www.bbc.com [Accessed: 24 June 2014]| BBC News ,…
EventZola Budd returns to SA
… South African athlete Zola Budd, who had emigrated to Britain in 1984 to take part in the Los Angeles Olympic …
EventPrime Minister Louis Botha resigns because of conflict with Hertzog
… that in the event of a conflict of interests between Britain and South Africa, he would put South Africa's …
EventMoses Josiah Madiba is born
… him to study primary and secondary teacher training in Britain as well as the teaching of English to foreign …
EventMalawi’s Kamuzu Banda losses election
… Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda since independence from Britain in 1964 concedes defeat to Bakili Muluzi in the …
EventFeminist writer and activist, Diana E. H. Russell is born
… degree at the University of Cape Town, Russell left for Britain. In 1963, she moved to the United States where she …