SAHO global search
2,369 records
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,…
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). …
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."…
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…
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…
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…
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!…
Re-emergence of resistance, 1980-89
… of witchcraft killings began to sweep through the Northern Transvaal. This phenomenon took place against the backdrop of … conspiring to limit the power of…
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…
ArticleRole of Black people in the South African War
… took part in General French's march to Machadodorp in the Transvaal. Over 5000 others, mostly transport drivers and … districts of Natal, Zululand and the…
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…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - The glitter of gold by Emilia Potenza
… summer's day in 1886, two prospectors discovered gold on a Transvaal farm called Langlaagte. Gold was not new to the Transvaal. African had mined gold…
PlaceRepublic of Griqualand West or the Digger's Republic
… by the Boer republics of the; Orange Free State and the Transvaal ,. As well as various other groups like the … , and the Batlhaping under Chief Mankuroane …
PlaceBritish Bechuanaland
… in 1866 in the Tuli region of present-day Botswana the Transvaal Voortrekkers attempted to annex the greater part of … in the Cape Colony did not support…
EventThe Native Land Act is passed
… whole of South Africa, in practice it applied only to the Transvaal and Natal. In the Free State, such legislation was … for Black franchise. Sharecropping…
ArticleZion Christian Church (ZCC)
… Mission and was ordained as a bishop of the ZAFM for the Transvaal. Due to differences pertaining to administrative …
Durban an Overview
… chose to leave the province, resettling in the OFS and Transvaal. By 1845, when Martin West was appointed the …
The Court’s position in the justice system
… Eastern Cape; Northern Cape; Free State; Kwa-Zulu Natal; Transvaal; Transkei; Ciskei; Venda and North-West. There are …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1800-1899
… in what came to be known as the Orange Free State and the Transvaal before their expansion was halted in the late …