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ArticleTimeline of the German and Herero, Nama War and Genocide
… patrol is sent out from the fort, but they do not return. 12 January, Early in the morning two German officers head … be captured and punished for their…
PlaceThe Pines, Parktown, Johannesburg
… The dwelling was designed by JC Watson and completed in 1906 for the firm of Fraser & Chalmers as the home for its …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1950-1959
… and SACP called for a national day of action on June 26th.12 May, The Immorality Amendment Act No 21 of 1950 is passed, … (Eastern Cape) left eleven dead,…
PlaceNarainsamy Temple, Newlands, Durban
… decorated spire and a prominent pyramidal dome built from 1906-1908. The principal deities of the temple are Vishnu, …
BiographyDr Kwame Nkrumah
… in 1951, eventually resulting in Nkrumah’s release on 12 February that year. As Nkrumah stepped into institutional … The London years, 1945–47, Immigrants &…
BiographyKing Sekhukhune
… an important one. Sekhukhune versus the British On April 12, 1877, Sir Theophilus Shepstone annexed the Transvaal on …
BiographyGuy Tillim
… and Sculpture Park, Massachusetts, USA 2007 Documenta 12, Kassel, Germany Children in Conflict, Wolverhampton Art …
BiographyDulcie Evonne September
… home was raided in the early hours of the morning of 12 July 1963, following this, security police raided Neville …
BiographyHermanus Gabriel Loots
… ↵ [viii] Ibid. p. 4. ↵ [ix] Ibid. pp.14-16. ↵ [x] Ibid. p. 12. ↵ [xi] Susan I. Blackbeard,’ Power, Politics, and …
ArticleThe Group Areas Act of 1950
… for reasons of sanitation (Dison and Mohamed, 1960: 24). The Asiatic Bazaar law was reinforced in 1932 by a … station (South African Institute for Race…
PlaceYokohama, Muizenburg
… historical house called “Yokohama”, it was constructed in 1906 out of paper maché, imported from Japan. The house is a …
PlaceNorth Lodge, Parktown, Johannesburg
… designed by Herbert J Aldwyncle, was completed in 1906 for for the “Oats King” Henry Wilson. This quaint …
ArticleRuth First timeline 1925-2012
… out a poem by Bridget O’Laughlin in memory of First. 24 August, First’s funeral is held in Maputo and is attended … 1983 The Ruth First Memorial Lecture is…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1960-1969
… refused to sell his people for thirty pieces of silver.' 24 March, South African Prime Minister H F Verwoerd banned … delivered a keynote address at the…
Resistance Photography and Mobilization of the Resistance, 1946-1976
… African photographers of the Royal Photographic Society. [12] The difference between the colonial photographers and … even establishing an editorial board of…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1920-1929
… Asiatics to trade and acquire fixed property in the Union. 12 May, the Asiatic Inquiry Commission, appointed in February … of Indian organisations, but the…
BiographyDr Alfred Bitini Xuma
… the Prime Minister during a second round of talks between 12 and 14 February. They formally rejected the compromise … plans for a strike quickly gained…
PlaceOld Municipal Offices, Berlandina Street, Roodepoort
… was designed by Charles Hosking and was completed in 1906 as the first permanent offices for the new …
ArticleReactions to the formation of a republic
… Terre Blanche, H & Ilsley, J. 1999. Help-U-History Grade 12 . Cape Town: Kagiso Black South Africans For people who …
ArticleOliver Reginald Tambo Timeline 1917 - 2011
… OR joined the law company of Solomon Kowalsky. 1950s 1951 24 July, Qualifies as an attorney 1952 Establishes the first … Presents a paper entitled: Apartheid…
ArticleGandhi and the Passive Resistance Campaign 1907-1914
… as a protest against the Asiatic Registration Bill of 1906. The bill was part of the attempt to limit the presence … a string of laws to limit the rights of…
PlacePolokwane Museum
… Museum is housed in an old Victorian shop dating back to 1906. This National Monument was renovated in 1986 and is a …
ArticleThe Bambatha Rebellion begins
… people shown would have served in the Natal Rebellion of 1906 (Bhambatha Rebellion) and some also during the …
South Africa Communists Speak Documents from the history of the South African Communist Party 1915 - 1980
… League (SA) published in The International, September 24, 1915. Document 8 : 'The Parting of the Ways', editorial … editorial in The International, March 23…
EventSelf government is granted to the Transvaal
… government in Britain by the Liberal administration in 1906. Transvaal was followed by the Orange River Colony in …
EventEarly Xhosa author William Gqoba dies
… nine pieces in his anthology Zemuk' inkomo magwalandini (1906), and W.G. Bennie later used two of these in his …
Bathandwa Ndondo
… in Cala was a target for squads of security police. On 24 September 1985, Ndondo was picked up at his home in Cala … Reconciliation Commission Amnesty…
PlaceHeritage Route of Transvaal, Limpopo and Mpumalanga
… an exodus from British-controlled territory. Some 12,000 of these Boer emigrants moving Northward from the Cape … South African Republic'. It was governed by…
ArticleTimeline — Land Dispossession and Restitution in South Africa - 1995-2013
… to reconciliation, economic growth and stability. 1998 24 June, President Nelson Mandela attends a ceremony in … 20 percent of land in South Africa which…
EventThe Johannesburg Meteorological Observatory opens
… opened in 1905 and the first telescope was installed in 1906. The Observatory sits on a hill in the suburb of the …