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EventAPLA burns down farm house in Fouriesburg
… facing an escalation in violence. The PAC is one of South Africa's major political parties that endorsed the peace …
EventA consumer boycott is called in Boksburg
… Boksburg was the largest of 104 municipalities in South Africa to fall into CP’s leadership. …
EventBlacks boycott municipal elections
… and apartheid, which would increase conflict in southern Africa. …
EventLeendert Janszen, junior merchant of the VOC, recommends settlement at the Cape
… the refreshment station at the Cape, the course of South Africa history was changed forever. … [Accessed 15 July 2009] | History of South Africa [online]…
EventSA eldest person celebrates her birthday
… The eldest person in South Africa and allegedly eldest in the world, Granny Moloko Temo, …
EventNatal Law society apologises to Gandhi
… racial grounds ". References: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/404977.stm …
EventThe General Assembly of the League of Nations meets in Geneva for the first time
… when the signatory countries ratified the Charter. South Africa was one of the original founding members of the UN in …
EventHendrik Witbooi, Chief of the Nama, dies
… the north of the country, which became known as South West Africa with the German colonization of 1885. A number of …
EventEmily Hobhouse receives a reply to her request to be included in the Ladies Commission
… conditions inside the British concentration camps in South Africa built for Boer women and children during the Second …
EventJameson Raid starts
… the ambition of Cecil John Rhodes for a united South Africa under British rule. Jameson was under the impression … C.F.J. (ed) (1981). Five Hundred years: a…
EventScientists find the virus that may cause Aids.
… time. The disease has caused a lot of damage in South Africa leaving large numbers of children orphans. The United … [Accessed: 09 April 2014]|SAHO, HIV/AIDS…
EventMoroccan explorer, Ibn Battuta is born
… places throughout the Middle East and North and West Africa. It would be 24 years before his return to Morocco and … " Medieval Sourcebook:Ibn Battuta:…
EventValliamma Munuswamy Mudaliar, SA political activist dies from a fever
… Thillaiyadi. As she entered her teenage years in South Africa, Valliammai became increasingly aware of the …
EventRoger Joyce Bushell, Auxiliary Air Force pilot famous for his escape from the German prisoner of war camp, is born in Springs, Transvaal (now Gauteng)
… (now Gauteng) to British parents. He lived in South Africa until he was 14, when his father sent him to study in …
EventThe Eureka Diamond is sold in London for 5 700 Pounds
… company De Beers bought it and brought it back to South Africa. … Davenport, J., Eureka – South Africa has diamonds! , from Mining Weekly, [online], … 05…
EventSir Ronald Ross, discoverer of the malaria mosquito is born
… his research and visited various countries including West Africa, Panama and other countries advising and aiding in the …
EventThe Congo Free State is established by King Leopold of Belgium
… Leopold II of Belgium. Congo was a large region in central Africa that had been able to resist European penetration. It …
EventThomas William Bowler, prolific painter at the Cape, is born
… his students. On encountering financial hardships in South Africa, Bowler returned to England. He died of bronchitis in …
EventPieter-Dirk Uys, SA activist, satirist, playwright and novelist, is born in Cape Town
… whom he describes as ‘the most famous white woman in South Africa’, and about whom he has written a biography. Uys, …
PlaceHoward College Building and the Memorial Tower Building, University of Natal
… was opened in 1931 by the Governor General of South Africa, the Earl of Clarendon. The Memorial Tower Building, …
PlaceFreshford House Museum, 31 Kellner Street
… Born and trained in England, Harrison immigrated to South Africa in 1894 and a few years later entered into a …
EventZulu army defeat British Army at the Isandlwana Mountain
… 1879, the British Army suffered its greatest defeat in Africa when 24,000 Zulu soldiers overran a British camp of 1 …
EventThe Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland collapses
… gave his famous 'winds of change' speech here in South Africa. By 1962 the British Government had already decided …
PlaceNorthern Suburbs of Cape Town
… River is less than 9 km long. It flows through South Africa’s oldest urbanised River Valley. Its source is on the …
Chapter I - Learning to live a half life
… to escape from my irksome house arrest by leaving South Africa. I certainly did not have any such plans, then or at … time. I had the right, as British born,…
SAHO Commemorates 40 Years Since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue by Olehile Bada Pharasi
… the foreign observer would be forgiven for thinking South Africa was experiencing its own “Arab Spring”. And, just as …
SAHO Commemorates 40 Years since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue by Roanne Moodley
… and free future than we ought to be at this stage in South Africa’s history. Do you find the similarities in our stories …
ArchiveOpening Address of Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory and Commemoration Project, by Nelson Mandela, 21 September 2004, Johannesburg
… In our view the work of archives in the South Africa of today is potentially one of the most critical …
PlaceGriquatown
… of a number of little 'outback' towns found in South Africa - sleepy, laidback and predominantly Afrikaans …
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Glossary
… or arguments volk - a nation or people. In South Africa, it refers particularly to the Afrikaner people. …