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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 …
EventAfrikaner women march to the union buildings in protest of SA's involvement in WW2
… South African involvement in World War 2 on the side of Britain. Mrs H.E.C. Armstrong, one of the organisers, wrote a …
EventCôte d’Ivoire gains independence from France
… the first African minister in a European government. By 1959, he had become the Prime Minister of CÁ´te d’Ivoire, and …
EventProfessional soccer is introduced in SA when the National Football League is founded
… soccer was introduced to South Africa when, on 11 May 1959, the National Football League (NFL) was formed. The …
EventKarel Schoeman, well known Afrikaans author, is born
… a BA in languages at the University of the Freestate in 1959, and He went on to study at the Catholic Seminary in …
EventThe first recognised AIDS cases are reported in the USA
… sample taken in the Democratic Republic of Congo back in 1959 was tested to reveal the HIV virus. This suggested that …
EventKuruman missionary Robert Moffat is born
… in the neighbourhood of Kuruman. The Moffats returned to Britain in 1870. The main achievement of Moffat was …
EventAlfred Milner becomes High Commissioner and Governor of the Cape Province
… in the Transvaal) heightened growing tension between Britain and the South African Republic (Transvaal). With his …
EventNatal becomes part of the Union of South Africa
… In 1844 Natal, annexed by Britain on 12 May 1843, became a district of the Cape Colony …
EventAlan Charles Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian is born
… (Now Zambia) to English parents. The family moved back to Britain when Rusbridger was five years old. He later studied …
EventNkomo, leader of ZAPU forms a coalition government with Robert Mugabe
… government. Three days later, Nkomo went to exile in Britain, but returned to Parliament in August. …
EventAfrikaner women march to the union buildings in protest of SA’s involvement in WW2
… South African involvement in World War 2 on the side of Britain. Mrs H.E.C. Armstrong, one of the organisers, wrote a …
Biography of Hugh Masekela by Fardin Rahman
… Africa’s first bebop band called Jazz Epistles. Through 1959, the band enjoyed their fair share of success by … group were having difficulty making money…
Grade 8 - Topic 2 - The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
… and the foundations of racial segregation by exploring Britain, diamond mining and increasing labour control and … foundations of racial segregation. Content…
ArticleTransport on land
… men riding penny farthings in the Knutsford Great Race in Britain. Image source Eventually, in 1885, the bicycle as we … the changes brought by the…
ArticleGayle: The Language of Apartheid South Africa’s Gay Underground
… expression that led to the birth of “Gayle”. Comparable to Britain’s Polari or South Africa’s own Fanakalo, “Gayle” is …
EventProposal made to stop sending Black troops to assist in WW1
… for the South African Native Labour Contingent to assist Britain in World War 1. Nationalists in SA did not approve of …
EventUgandan Prime Minister, Milton Obote announces the proposed division of Buganda
… place five years after Uganda gained independence from Britain in 1962 with Obote as the first Prime Minister. …
EventBritish troops land in Madagascar.
… port of Diego Suarez at the northern tip of Madagascar. Britain then attacked its ally, France. The British decided …
ArticleSS Mendi
… of South Africa at that time, informed Parliament that Britain had requested that the South African Native Labour …
ArticleThe World and South Africa when Nelson Mandela was born
… had entered the war on the side of the Allies - Great Britain, France, Russia - in April 1917, and sent troops to …
KwaMsiza - A Ndebele village: References/Bibliography
… Transvaal . Report prepared for the General Staff, Great Britain War Office. London. MATTHEWS, Thomas . 1971. Tribal …
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…
EventThe South African Football Association (SAFA) is founded
… governing body of soccer in South Africa. Then on 11 May 1959 the National Football League (NFL) was formed by 12 …
PlaceHazyview
… 000 plant species. Hazyview was officially recognised in 1959, after the first post office and railway stop was …
EventThe full citizenship of Coloured people is called for
… established, followed by a Union for Coloured Affairs in 1959. The Coloured Representative Council (CRC) was …
EventNigerian Federal troops begin a major offensive in Biafra.
… was eight years into its independence which it gained from Britain in 1960. At the time of the civil war the official …
EventThe Minister of Justice, Police and Prisons, Jimmy Kruger, received a report of a police investigation into Steve Biko's death
… governments, including the United States of America and Britain, condemned the South African police service and …
EventKenneth Kaunda accuses British Foreign Secretary of “kissing” apartheid
… Zambian President, Kenneth Kaunda publicly rebuked Britain's foreign secretary, Geoffrey Howe, accusing him and …
EventGold Coast (Ghana) gains independence
… Gold Coast (now known as Ghana) gained independence from Britain. Ghana became a member of the Commonwealth of Nations …