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PlaceAlgiers, Capital of Algeria
… of Ganyesa, which is a town with a population of about 19,000 people in the North West province of South Africa. It … The census of 2011 recorded the…
ArticleThe ANC’s MK Special Ops Unit Material - Yunus Carrim Collection - Interviews
… Unit Project Interviews, Aboobaker Ismail (Rashid), 19 March 2016 (Roodepoort), 9 July 2016 (Roodepoort), 27 …
ArticleCape Town Timeline 1300-1997
… the Company until sent back to Batavia three years later. 19 October, Autsumao (Herry), chief of the Goringhaikonas and … introduces trial. The Cape…
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 …
Johannesburg Timeline 1800-1991
… centre of Johannesburg are changed for diggers’s licences. 19 October, De Villiers begins the survey of stands on … together with most of his troops, is…
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…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 2000 -2010
… Provincial Executive Committees of Gauteng and Free State. 19 May, President Thabo Mbeki is awarded an Honorary … is indicted for fraudulent loans of more…
ArticleTimeline of South African photographic books and exhibitions 1958 - 2003
… Schadeberg in design and production at Drum magazine . 1959 Jürgen Schadeberg leaves Drum to pursue a career as a … by Jurgen Schadeberg on the San people,…
PlaceDullstroom, Mpumalanga in the Emalaheni Municipality District
Dullstroom dates back to the 1880’s and was name after its Dutch founder, Wolterus Dull, and the many Rivers found in the Area, hence the suffix- ‘stroom’,…
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…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 4: Turning points in modern South African History since 1948
… National Congress (ANC) held in Durban on 16 December 1959, the President General of the ANC, Chief Albert Luthuli … entitled "PAC Campaign will be test,"…
EventSA rugby team plays and wins the first test match against Ireland
… Lions captain" [online] Available at: scrum.com [Accessed 19 May 2009] South Africa Info Sports Trivia [online] Available at: southafrica.info [Accessed 19…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1910s
… undesirable and Indian immigration is halted indefinitely. 19 June, Black Land Act No 27: Prohibited blacks from owning … 7 per cent of land in the country)…
ArchiveThe Story of Jean Middleton by Grant Rohrmann
… they are not going to remain in that position forever.” [19] A national strike was supported by the South African … Online. (2012). Jean Clarice Middleton…
ArticleSouth Africa’s electoral history timeline 1910-2009
… -4.1% 103 -21 Conservative Party 680 131 31.5% +4.9% 41 +19 Democratic Party 431 444 20.0% +6.0%* 34 +14* HNP 5 …
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 …
EventThabo Mbeki, former President of SA, is born in Idutywa, Transkei
… at Lovedale Academy was interrupted by a strike in 1959, he completed his studies at home. He later moved to …
EventHendrik Verwoerd becomes Prime Minister
… ratified the Promotion of Bantu Self-Government Act in 1959. The Act classified black people into eight ethnic …
BiographyMohamed Farouk Asvat
… order - at the time of its closure by the regime on 19 October 1977. He subsequently worked at Northdale, …
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 11 - Topic 4 Glossary
… the end of World War I and was formally disbanded on April 19, 1946 [12] UN Partition Plan - This was a proposal by the … fundamentalist, militant, and…
PlacePhansi Museum
The Museum houses some of the finest examples of African artefacts, such as: beadwork, headrests, milk pails, snuff containers, tobacco pipes, telephone wire…
Chapter 6 - The Birth of SACTU
… was shown in the initial membership of SACTU. In 1956, the 19 affiliated unions had a total membership of only 20,000 - … not the result of any apathy among…
Albertina Sisulu, Freedom Fighter
… ANC Women's League in the 1940s, becoming its treasurer in 1959. She became a member of the executive of the Federation …
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 …