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EventSir Thomas Cullinan (74), founder of the Premier Mine where the Cullinan diamond was discovered in 1907, dies.
… of the co-founders and a chairperson of what became the Transvaal Chamber of Industries, a member of the Transvaal Legislative Assembly and the first Union…
EventPresident Paul Kruger authorises the construction of the railway line to Delagoa bay
… line, which followed the discovery of gold in the then Transvaal area. On 2 June 1887, President of the Transvaal, Paul Kruger authorised the construction of…
EventNegotiators representing Afrikaner Republics travel to Pretoria to present terms of surrender
… 1899-1902, negotiators for the Afrikaner republics of the Transvaal and Orange Free State travelled to Pretoria to … of Vereeniging. The peace settlement…
BiographyMohamed Farouk Asvat
… Radio and performed by the Performing Arts Council of the Transvaal. They have also been read in London, Paris, …
BiographyNithianandan ‘Elvis' Ganese Govender
… Department of the ANC at its headquarters in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). 1994: Appointed Provincial …
EventBoers and the British clash in the battle of Dalmanutha
… corps of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR) or the Transvaal Republic, faced a full attack by General Sir … as the Natal Field Force). By 24 September the…
EventCharges against 53 of the 76 Africans detained after the Sharpeville massacre are dropped
… in the township of Sharpeville, near Vereeniging in the Transvaal. Scores of people were left injured and others were … March were dropped by the Acting…
Chronology
… United Front May 30 , General election 1939 Asiatics (Transvaal Land and Trading) Act Formation of the short-lived … about 111 wounded) 1943 Trading and…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1920 - 1929
… the South African Indian Congress. On her visit to the Transvaal, Joshi organises a meeting which the 15-year-old … Bill in view of the agreement reached…
EventSAIC Executive meets in Cape Town
… by the Passive Resistance Councils (PRC) of Natal and the Transvaal. SAIC also decided to send a delegation to New York … Ashwin Choudree, delegate of the…
EventUniversity of Pretoria is established
… The Transvaal University College, with branches in Johannesburg … of the Cape University. The Pretoria branch of the Transvaal University College, which…
EventHunter and politician Johannes Viljoen dies
… Willem Viljoen (Jan) died in the Marico district, Western Transvaal. Together with three other hunters, Viljoen was … to see the Victoria Falls. During the…
ArticleAhmed Mohamed Kathrada Timeline: 1929 - 2017
… arrive in Schweizer Reneke, a small town in the Western Transvaal (now Gauteng), where they open a small shop. 1929 … Kola. 1945 -1946 Kathrada is a…
Indian Community in Lenasia
… Abed, Ebrahim Dadabhai and Advocate Minty formed the Transvaal Indian Organisation, which was tasked to persuade … Lenasia during his term of office as…
29. Removal to locations: the people are terrified
… published in the Staats Courant of 26 April 1899, the Transvaal Government announced its intention to proceed with … viz, the whole status of the British…
Community Arts Project (CAP)
… and The Johannesburg Foundation all based in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). It helped shape the idea of culture …
Grade 11 - Topic 4 Timeline
… Northern Cape and some parts of the North West province) , Transvaal colony(present day Gauteng , Limpopo and Mpumalanga …
Rejuvenation of the ANC and intensification of the struggle 1940s
… In 1947 the ANC signed an agreement with the Natal and Transvaal Indian Congresses, and formed the Congress …
ArticleMatabele Wars 1836-1896
… enough to repel them. In 1852, the Boer government in Transvaal entered into a peace agreement with Mzilikazi. …
ArticleResponses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: The Formation of the International Socialist League (ISL)
… Party and it managed to win a straight majority in the Transvaal Provincial elections of March 1914. It also …
EventBritish mission to subdue Sekhukhune is abandoned
… subdue Sekhukhune came after the British Annexation of the Transvaal (April, 1877). When the Transvaal was annexed, Sekhukhune's country was included …
ArticleWomen and Children in White Concentration Camps during the Anglo-Boer War, 1900-1902
… of them, French's drive enters the south-eastern ZAR (Transvaal). 31 January, Mrs Isie Smuts, wife of Gen. J.C. … refuse to work for the British - are…
PlaceEersteling Monument, Polokwane
… at a time when the South African Republic of the Transvaal was practically bankrupt and, in a desperate … Preez’s discovery, the northern and eastern regions…
ArticleTswana
… the Tswana settled in what was known as the Western Transvaal. They were divided into two main groups: the … mid-nineteenth century, Afrikaners, newly…
ArticleAlbertina Sisulu and the organisations she was connected to
… Albertina was still incarcerated, the UDF section in the Transvaal held its Regional Executive Committee Elections and … her election by the vice-president…
PlaceHouse Schoch, Boschdal, District of Rustenburg
… Herman Eugene Schoch (1862- 1947), Surveyor General of the Transvaal, there are manuscripts pertaining to his father … interesting information on South…
EventThe Big Three are convicted of treason
… secretary, Molefe, national secretary, and Chikane, Transvaal Provincial secretary, together with more than … means. They were trialed in Delmas, Eastern…
EventSan involvement in the Battle of Chrissiesmeer
… to cripple the advance of Smith-Dorrien into the eastern Transvaal. According to oral tradition Smith-Dorrien's march … on the Boer side the British advance…
EventSouth African Committee investigates the Jameson Raid report
… of Cecil John Rhodes and the mining houses in the Transvaal the Transvaal Republic. Despite reaching this conclusion, very …
EventIndian Rights Campaigner Bhawani Sannyassi Dayal is born
… as son of Jariam Singh, a former president of the Transvaal Indian Association. In 1913 he was one of the … of my prison-life, Biography of Mahatma Gandhi,…