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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 …
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…
Draft Report of the National Executive Committee
… such as the situation in Natal and the dispute in the Transvaal and the financial crisis confronting the Congress … there was no response except from the…
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,…
EventUniversity of Pretoria is established
… On 10 February 1908 a new department of the Transvaal University College (T.U.C.), situated in … TUC acronym. The University of Pretoria, into which the…
The Broederbond by Norman Levy
… from poor Afrikaner families, policemen and priests in the Transvaal province and (after 1921) Afrikaans teachers who … a parliamentary democracy. Initially…
EventWits attains full university status
… Kimberley in 1896 and transferred to Johannesburg as the Transvaal Technical Institute in 1904. The Institute became the Transvaal University College in 1906…
EventFormer SANNC President Sefako Mapogo Makgatho dies
… was born at GaMphahlele, in the Pietersburg district in Transvaal (now Limpopo province) in 1861. He was the son of … by Z. K. Mahabane. Makgatho remained…
ArticleSouth African Communist Party Timeline 1870-1996
… the war ends, he stays on and settles in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng Province) where he works as a lawyer. … at Tamposstad near Zeerust in the…
20. Johannesburg Parsees claim special status
… from other Indians. Source: Gov. P.S. 15/12/06, vol. 951, Transvaal Archives. The humble memorial of the undersigned Parsees, residing at Johannesburg,…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - 1948 - Press Reports on the Campaign
… Tomorrow (Sunday), fifteen Resisters will cross over the Transvaal border without permits in defiance of the … territorial boundaries of that country."…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement (BCM)
… Medupe Writers' Association Natal Youth Organisation Transvaal Youth Organisation Western Cape Youth Organisation …
In Conclusion: The Decline and Fall of the Tricameral Parliament
… a State of Emergency in parts of the Eastern Cape and the Transvaal that would be extended to the entire country a year …
ArticleThe House in session
… four were accepted at Indian schools throughout the then Transvaal (Desai, 1996). …
EventUniversity of Pretoria's 100th anniversary
… On 10 February 1908 a new department of the Transvaal University College (TUC), situated in Johannesburg, … TUC acronym. The University of Pretoria, into…
EventSir Percy Fitzpatrick, author of ‘Jock of the Bushveld’, is born
… his death Percy Fitzpatrick travelled to the Eastern Transvaal, where he worked as a journalist to support his … Bushveld, largely based on his experience in…
EventSir Patrick Duncan, Governor-General of the Union of South Africa, is born
… and Administrator of the Orange River Colony and of the Transvaal. In South Africa, Duncan was appointed as colonial secretary for the Transvaal. He held…
PlacePretoria, now known as Tshwane
… City was named after). Then becoming: the Capital of the Transvaal in 1860; administrative capital of South Africa in … , the High Commissioner for South…
Article1946 African Mineworkers Strike
… a very representative miners' conference was called by the Transvaal Provincial Committee of the African National … B. Marks, who soon thereafter was elected…
Zonal Centenary Memorial Lecture on the Life and Times of David Bopape, presented by David Makhura, ANC Gauteng Provincial Secretary, 21 June 2012, Tsakane
… he got a teaching post at Berlin School and joined the Transvaal African Teachers` Association (TATA). Bopape … "No Bopape, No School" in August 1944!…
Equal Rights: The treatment of Coloured People in the North, 1901
… that have been placed upon our fellow kinsmen in the Transvaal and O.R.C.; to protest against the curtailment of … departure from British tradition has taken…
Say It out Loud - Equal Rights: The treatment of Coloured People in the North, 1901
… that have been placed upon our fellow kinsmen in the Transvaal and O.R.C.; to protest against the curtailment of … departure from British tradition has taken…
54. South African Indian Congress: first annual report, 1924
… and this was attended by prominent Indians from Natal, Transvaal, and the Cape. The lack of any definite mandate … by the subsequent events. In August of the…
Discovery of the Gold in 1884
… case of all other gold discoveries made previously in the Transvaal, deposits had invariably proved to have a short … Prior to the discovery of the Main Reef…