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BiographyChristopher Ndodebandla Dlamini
… was born in Benoni, Transvaal, on 10 October 1944, one of the five children of Anna and Gilbert Dlamini, a worker in an electro-planting … in terms of…
Yunus Ismail Mahomed
… in 1967. As a young scholar he became conscious of the inequities of the apartheid system. The train journey that he daily … in 1981 under the notorious…
Anti-Indian Legislation 1800s - 1959
… between the Natal Government and the British Secretary of State for the Colonies, the Natal Coolie Law, Law 14 of … population i.e. as labourers. 1890 The…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at the 104th Annual General Meeting of the Chamber of Mines of South Africa
… Nelson Mandela at the 104th Annual General Meeting of the Chamber of Mines of South Africa …
BiographyDr Gurunathen (Guru) Kistnasamy
… Primary School state–aided primary school consisting of one large classroom divided into two, catering for all … had a “platoon” section that catered for the…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1950s
… Indian Congress (TIC) initiates and implements the 'Decade of Defiance'. 1950 Florence Matomela leads an anti-pass … in Cape Town 1 March, Dr. F Malan…
ArchiveSome aspects of the South African industrial revolution
… in South Africa at the time and specifically makes mention of the industrial development in particular the mining, … schemes; and the improvements made in…
ArticleEastern Cape Wars of Dispossession 1779-1878
… The series of clashes historically known as, Frontier Wars date back to … which in turn dispossessed Xhosa and Khoikhoi people of their land and cattle among…
ArticleHistory of Slavery and early colonisation in SA timeline 1602-1841
… 1602 Chamber Representatives of the Netherlands Parliament grant a founding charter to the … return trips from Batavia (i.e. present day Java as part of…
BiographyVicky Sampson
… Faye and Victor Sampson. Her father, Victor, was a member of the Golden City Dixies, a travelling vaudeville group. … states that this “was [her] entry into…
EventSA Police kills eleven Pondo tribesmen when they revolt against the imposition of Bantu authorities.
… The system of Black authorities and the reforms brought about in the … into ethnic units, and ignored the Black man's demand for representation in the…
Louis Charles George 'Loet' Douwes-Dekker
… attended Durban High School,graduated from the University of Natal in 1961,completed an honors degree at University of South Africa,and later master's degree…
BiographyDaniel Moabi (Dan) Mohapi
… education at Sekano Ntoane, Soweto, in 1976. He was part of a religious youth movement and from his experiences in the … he began organising unemployed…
BiographyNyangana Zithulele Absolom Cindi
… Cindi was born in Alexandra Township, Johannesburg on 18th of August in 1950. Cindi began his primary education at … failing to show the security police a …
BiographyJayaseelen Naidoo
… on 20 December 1954 in Durban. He was the eighth child of Bakkium and Valatham Nadioo, a court interpreter. Naidoo … evicted from their home in Durban…
BiographyEbrahim Ismail Asvat
… from Vereeniging, Transvaal (now Gauteng). He was a Member of the Committee of British Indian Association (BIA) and Secretary of its … and sentenced to three…
Biography of George Hallett by Hunter Kolon
… decades living in exile. He left the country because of the continual hardships and injustices of the apartheid state. Hallett grew up in a fishing village ……
Cornelius Judah Fazzie
… School in East London where he came under the influence of the deputy headmaster who was an ardent African Nationalist .A member of the African National…
Biography of Bessie Emery by Elizabeth Venditti
… first black South African woman to publish a collection of short stories. [i] She was also described as a passionate and invested woman in all subjects of…
BiographyLebo Mathosa
… in Daveyton in the East Rand. She began singing at the age of seven in the local church choir. The Mathosa family moved … Mathosa attended the St. Mary’s…
BiographyAmina Desai
… activist died in 1969, Amina Desai took over the running of his business. Political activist, Ahmed Timol , who died at the hands of the Security Police in…
Pamphlet by Professor Z. K. Matthews, published in November 1946
… The Natives Representative Council was established in 1937 in terms of the Representation of Natives Act 12 of 1936. That Act formed pan …
List of deaths in detention
… those who went against the Apartheid state was one of the many weapons that the government used to quell … List of deaths in detention …
BiographyJeevenundhan (Jeeva) Rajgopaul
… designated for Indians under the notorious Group Areas Act . He attended the local primary school and then attended … as a Physical Science teacher at…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 2 - Industrialisation and the Revitalisation of Black Politics in the1940s by Mohamed Adhikari
… Change and Nationalism commissioned by The Department of Education Three documents, fundamental changes that took … people for “national freedom” and demands…
PlaceChatsworth, Suburb of Durban
… The origin of Chatsworth Chatsworth is a historically Indian township located in Durban some 14km south-west of the City centre, in the Umhlatuzana River…
ArticleStudent Protests at Tshwane University of Technology - Timeline
… As part of the governmental process for transformation of institutions through re-structuring and mergers in … Nzimande also calls on TUT’s management and…
BiographyMangaliso Patrick Mkhatshwa
… was restricted to Pretoria under the Internal Security Act . Mkhatshwa was detained from August to December 1976, when he was the secretary of South African…
BiographyAnderson Khumani Ganyile
… Pondoland rebellion against the Bantu Authorities Act,lending his assistance as secretary to be peasant … was detained without charge for the full length of…
ArticleSouth African Coloured People Organisation (SACPO)
… successive governments since shortly after the founding of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal and the Boer Republics. The … impact on the Coloured population…