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BiographyGriffiths Mlungisi Mxenge
… he registered for the LLB degree at the University of Natal. His LLB studies were interrupted in 1965, when he was …
BiographyJohannes Nkosi
… growing African militancy. During the riots the ICU yase Natal was the strongest black organization in Durban, but the … • Skull badly fractured. The Natal…
BiographyCecil John Rhodes
… visit his brother, Herbert, who had recently immigrated to Natal. It was also believed, by both Rhodes and his father, … Kimberley. After a brief stay with…
BiographyOliver Tambo
… of his older brothers who worked as a migrant labourer in Natal, (now KwaZulu-Natal) also sent part of his wages to cover additional costs. … in a tragic…
BiographyLex Mpati
… the boundary between the Eastern Cape and Kwazulu-Natal. He was appointed Judge of Appeal for the Supreme Court …
BiographyAbraham H. de Vries
… as the Universities of Port Elizabeth, Rhodes, as well as, Natal. Finally, until his retirement in 1977, he lectured at …
BiographyKgalema Petrus Motlanthe
… by the ANC to turn to sabotage. Joseph Nduli , the ANC’s Natal [now KwaZulu-Natal] underground leader supplied the unit with explosives. … was engulfing the…
BiographyJoseph Chamberlain
… Africa. By October 1899 20,000 troops were stationed in Natal and the Cape, and more troops were on the way. After … in Durban on 26 December, he was given a…
BiographyNomhlangano Beauty Mkhize
… RWM to other areas which now include Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal, Northern Cape, and North West Province. Mkhize has …
The four policemen charged with the fatal beating of Steve Biko are denied amnesty.
WWII: East Africa. Japanese submarines shell Sydney and Diego Suarez naval bases on Madagascar.
BiographyStephanie Kemp
… SACP, and as Gender Co-ordinator for the SACP in KwaZulu-Natal. After her long service to both of these parties she …
WWI: The British navy defeats the Ottomans at the naval battle off Port Said, Egypt.
BiographySefako Mapogo Makgatho
… the admiration of missionaries and colonial officials in Natal, where there were over a thousand local Black … especially ‘Ndebeles' from the Eastern Cape…
PlaceSouth African Naval Museum, formerly the Navy Mast House and Dutch Store House
The origins of the Naval Museum date back to 1966, when a naval Historical collection was displayed at the Castle Military and Maritime Museum in Cape Town. In…
BiographyRuth First
… Joe Slovo , JN Singh (executive member of both the Natal and South African Indian Congress ), and Ismail Meer …
At a special press conference it is announced that a senior South African naval officer, commanding Simonstown dockyard, Commod
ArchiveNawal El Saadawi: Egypt’s grand novelist, physician and global activist
BiographyHarry Garuba
… English lecturer at the University of Zululand in KwaZulu-Natal. [6] In 2001 he became an African Studies and English …
ArticleJohn Langalibalele Dube Timeline 1940-1950
… Mission station of the American Zulu Mission (AZM), in Natal to Rev James Dube and his wife Elizabeth. 1877 Rev … uncle agrees to give Dube 500 acres of land…
The Simonstown agreement on naval cooperation between Britain and South Africa is formally ended by mutual agreement after 169
Holy Roman Empire fleet captures vessel Port of Africa at Mehedia in Tunis, naval headquarters of Turkish corsair Dragut.
South Africa tells Britain that unless the Wasp helicopter is delivered, the Simonstown Agreement on naval cooperation will hav
WWII: East Africa. Naval bases of Antsirañana and Diego Suarez, Madagascar are surrendered to the British by Vichy forces.
Commodore Dieter Gerhardt, former commanding officer of the Simonstown naval base, and his wife Ruth Gerhardt, are sentenced to
ArticleDurban Timeline 1497-1990
… because of the date, Da Gama named the land “ Terra do Natal ”. It is not known whether sailors landed here to take … ship Sao Thome was shipwrecked near the…