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EventThe "Battle of Andringa": violently separating Stellenbosch
… University students engaged in a fight with the town’s Coloured residents on the corner of Andringa and Plein …
PlaceKomatipoort
… was to be 1 000 kW produced by five generators (No’s 1 to 5) of 1000,000 kW each and four generators (No’s 6 to 9) of 125,000 kW each. Each generator has its…
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1900-1909
… Estcourt. January 21, Corps in action at Spionkop. Bearer's carry wounded through heavy fire. January 28, Corps … 23, Conveys condolences on behalf of…
PlaceSlave Church Museum
… is located in Long Street, Cape Town and is South Africa’s oldest indigenous mission church that still exists in its original structure. … require anentrance…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1930-1939
… monetary affairs. The Supreme Court removes Pixley Seme's name from the Roll of attorneys. Yusuf Dadoo attends the … and General Smuts as deputy prime…
ArticleBoeremag Treason Trial Timeline
… for their clients. Thirteen of the men challenge the court's jurisdiction, claiming the government is illegitimate. 26 … "shadow Boer" who claimes he had…
PlaceKroondal, Rustenburg
… Kroondal, situated on a farm, was one of 22 German Lutheran mission congregations established in the former Natal and … in 1858 in the name of Jan Michiel…
ArticleOliver Tambo Speeches 1971-1979
… 600-year Alliance Between Britain and Portugal ". London, 20 June 1973 1975 " Presidential Address by Oliver Tambo to …
EventKuruman missionary Robert Moffat is born
… his wife Mary, an indispensible helpmate, carried on their mission work in the neighbourhood of Kuruman. The Moffats … of Southern Africa , Cape Town: NASOU,…
ArticleWorld War I Timeline 1916
… colossal slaughter of men in military history. 15 July–20 July The Battle of Delville Wood, part of the Somme … appoints Field Marshall Paul von Hindenburg…
References and links: Local History
… 2nd ed. Pretoria: Protea Book House. Ferguson S. (ed) 1998. Collins Pocket English Dictionary. s l: Harper Collins. Hoopes J. 1979. Oral History: An … 12…
Ernest Cole: Brave photographer who exposed horrors of apartheid from within by Teo Kermeliotis, (cnn.com), 5 January 2015
… with a great eye for detail, Cole was one of South Africa's first black photojournalists. His captivating and often … not the least in Cole's native country…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1903 - 1923 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… cause of more schools for non Whites. At the Association's inaugural meeting Effendi commented about fellow Muslims: … Sheik Amod Essack. The first…
BiographyPoonoosamy Ruthnam Pather
… after emigrating from Tanjore in India in the 1840s. PR's father was born in Mauritius and his mother was a Mauritian … affairs. He was made secretary of the…
EventMK soldiers threaten armed struggle
… anyone who would become involved in such a suicidal mission. Returning to the armed struggle would disrupt … Keesing's Record of World Events, News Digest…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1700s
… 54 000 sheep in 1700, by 1710 this number had increased to 20 000 head of cattle and 131 000 sheep. 1704 The free Trade … by the new system of land tenure…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1900s
… anything concrete for the Boers. 1901 July, Paul Kruger's wife, Gezina Susanna Frederika Wilhelmina, dies in Pretoria … : The 'Coolie Location' is struck by…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter XI - Completion of military conquest
… on the north-eastern border of the Cape Colony. "No-man's-land" was still in a state of ferment and by 1873 the … Missionary Societies, but it had been left…
PlaceClermont, a Township of Durban
… Government. In 1849 Reverend Posselt established the mission station of Christiannenburg, named after his wife … and Clermont were bought by Bergtheil. In…
PlaceDwarsvlei, near Pretoria
… East of Pretoria; Onderstepoort to the North; and Zilikat's Nek (Silkaatsnek) and Dwarsvlei in the West. The results of … following Morning. A week later,…
Ahead of the Bushfire Festival: Five things you might not know about Swaziland
… III, became king in 1986 at the age of 18. Swaziland’s new constitution came into force in 2006 and includes a … government controlling television and radio…
EventJoseph Kasavubu, first president of the Democratic Republic of Congo dies
… by his older brother who sent him to a nearby Catholic mission where he was baptized in 1925. On 25 November, 1965, …
EventLord Roberts crosses the Vaal River en route to Pretoria
… his forces crossed the Vaal River heading to Pretoria.This mission was not without obstacles as on his way northwards …
The Broederbond by Norman Levy
… (Chapter 3) The Broederbond Just as it was the white man’s way to think and dream for the Africans, the Broederbond … within a state by the end of the 1940s,…
ArticleCaste - meaning, profession, religion
… herdsmen www.hisgreatplan.com/india%20documents/Banjara%20...%20a%20People%20called%20by%20God.pdf Banmanus is … with weddings eg. in cutting hair etc. A…
ArticleBlack Concentration Camps during the Second Anglo-Boer War, 1900-1902
… system against Boer attacks on the British military's primary logistic artery - the railway lines and acted as … Standerton; Vereeniging; Volksrust; Bantjes;…
ArticleWalter Sisulu Timeline 1912-2003
… at Cofimvaba, Transkei, about 30 miles from his mother’s home at Qutubeni. For a long time during his early life, … of the different countries during the…
PlaceBill Ainslie Studios, Johannesburg
… in the founding of art initiatives such as the Cyrene Mission Station in Zimbabwe, Federated Union of Black …
EventNovelist and historian Bessie Head is born
… she was too Black and she was then raised in an Anglican mission orphanage. She was granted Botswana citizenship in …
EventKenyan independence hero Bildad Kaggia dies after a long illness
… stone to colonialism, Kaggia returned to Kenya with a mission to Africanise religions. He started his own church, … of parliament and served as minister in…