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PlaceNorth Lodge, Parktown, Johannesburg
… designed by Herbert J Aldwyncle, was completed in 1906 for for the “Oats King” Henry Wilson. This quaint …
BiographyHermanus Gabriel Loots
… ↵ [viii] Ibid. p. 4. ↵ [ix] Ibid. pp.14-16. ↵ [x] Ibid. p. 12. ↵ [xi] Susan I. Blackbeard,’ Power, Politics, and …
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 …
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 1 (1923-2001)
… in the early 1900s. It was started by Cecil John Rhodes in 1906 (himself a diamond mining magnate) and aimed to provide … with Sir William Hoy of the South…
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…
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 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…
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 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…
PlaceOld Municipal Offices, Berlandina Street, Roodepoort
… was designed by Charles Hosking and was completed in 1906 as the first permanent offices for the new …
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…
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…
PlacePolokwane Museum
… Museum is housed in an old Victorian shop dating back to 1906. This National Monument was renovated in 1986 and is a …
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…
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…
ArticleThe Bambatha Rebellion begins
… people shown would have served in the Natal Rebellion of 1906 (Bhambatha Rebellion) and some also during the …
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 …
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 …
ArticleFietas: Pageview timeline 1880-1988
… area with the intention of developing an ‘Indian’ area. 24 August, Indian representatives declared that the area near … to Orlando, and the rezoning of…
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…
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…
ArticleAhmed Mohamed Kathrada Timeline: 1929 - 2017
… months until the campaign petered out. 1941 At the age of 12, Kathrada joins the Young Communist League of South … first person in the country to be detained…
ArticleUnited Democratic Front timeline 1983-1990
… collectively oppose the state’s constitutional reforms. 24 January, 25 selected activists hold a commission, Chaired … campaign June, National State of…
EventSpringboks lose to the Lions
… became known as the Springboks on their tour to Britain in 1906. Since those early years, teams from abroad repeatedly …
ArticleGrade 7 - Term 1: The Kingdom of Mali and the City of Timbuktu in the 14th Century
… average a thousand camels, sometimes reaching as many as 12 000 animals. Runners were sent ahead to oases to ship out … reconstruction of the current Great…