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EventMusic teacher Dorothy Boxall dies
… Boxall's death, the Children's Music Festival Society, the Transvaal School Music Association and the Johannesburg …
ArchiveBiography of Naphtali Mbuti Nkopane
… on the 18th of August 1944 on a farm near Nigel in the Transvaal. In 1949 his family moved to Evaton in the Vaal, in …
EventForeign Affairs Deputy Minister Pahad is born
… of Foreign Affairs, was born in Schweizer Reneke, Western Transvaal ( North West Province ). Pahad had been a m ember …
EventNeil Aggett dies in detention
… Neil Aggett , Transvaal organiser for the Food and Canning Workers Union …
EventThe Progressive Teachers’ Congress is secretly launched
… Congress (PROTECO) was clandestinely launched in the Transvaal to fill the vacuum, which was created by the …
EventSRC president Ngwako Ramalepe dies
… by police at the Kgapane station, Lebowa, in the Northern Transvaal (presently known as Limpopo) and later dumped along …
ArchiveAll That Glitters - Before the mineral discoveries by Emilia Potenza
… Part 1:Background information and source material on the Transvaal Background information Trekker (Boer) parties went to the Transvaal as part of the Great…
EventSA architect Gerard Moerdijk is born
… of Dutch descent, was born in the Waterberg district, Transvaal (now Limpopo Province). He was one of the first …
EventThe national Chairman of SABRA warns of sour relations in the Union
… His utterances came during the opening of the Bureau’s Transvaal Congress in Pretoria on 10 September 1960. …
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid by Dr Peter Alegi
… and officials in football leagues and clubs in Natal and Transvaal. African football's founders on the Rand, for … & District Native Football Association…
EventA full scale police search, headed by a specially trained anti-terrorist unit is launched
… some forty miles west of Louis Trichardt, Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo). The shoot-out happened at the height …
EventManilal Gandhi leads a resistance group across the Natal
… Gandhi leads a batch of Passive Resistors across the Natal-Transvaal border. He is not arrested, but members of his …
EventAnti-apartheid activist, Beyers Naude is born
… Christiaan Frederik Beyers Naudé was born in Roodepoort, Transvaal, on 10 May 1915. He was named after C.F. Beyers, a …
ArticleYouth and the National Liberation Struggle
… the African People’s Organisation (APO) and the Natal and Transvaal Indian Congresses were in their twenties and … to take shape once more. In the rural…
ArticleDr Alfred Bitini Xuma Timeline 1893-1998
… of the Wilberforce Institute’s board of trustees in the Transvaal. July: At the annual SAIRR conference in … authorise Xuma to take control of the affairs of…
PlaceLydenburg, Mpumalanga
… boasts some of the best preserved Zuid Afrikaanse and old Transvaal architecture in the Country. Lydenburg, which means … Lydenburg was one of several…
PlaceOld Anglican Church, Rustenburg
… and is one of the oldest Anglican Churches in the Transvaal. It was declared a National Monument under old NMC …
PlaceMill House and Water Mill, farm Naauwpoort, District of Marico
… and is one of the few such structures surviving in the old Transvaal. It was declared a National Monument under old NMC …
EventWalter Sisulu’s appeal is dismissed
… The Transvaal section of the Supreme Court dismissed an appeal by …
EventSculptor Lucas Sithole is born in KwaThema
… South African sculptor, was born in KwaThema, Springs, Transvaal (now Gauteng) to a Zulu father and a Swazi mother. …
EventJustice Coetzee refuses to lift banishment on four Black newspapers
… lift the banning order on four Black newspapers, the Post Transvaal, Saturday Post, Sunday Post and the Sowetan. In …
EventLouis Botha becomes Union’s first Prime Minister
… member of the Volksraad of the South African Republic (Transvaal), representing the Vryheid district in 1897 and …
EventJB Marks is born
… unionist and political activist was born in Ventersdorp, Transvaal (now North West Province) on March 21 1903. He was …
ArticlePass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
… campaign initiated by the Indian community in the Transvaal, led by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi , in 1906. This … agriculture, inevitably found their way into…
Centenary of the 1913 Land Act By Colin Bundy, 18 April 2013
… for Africans. In the Boer Republics of the OFS and Transvaal, Sotho, Venda, Tswana, Pedi and Tsonga polities … to seek individual tenure. More frequently –…
Speak - the voice of the community
… by the Speak Community Newspaper Project, reflected the Transvaal communities' struggle against relocations, shack …
EventThomas Kgope is born
… Thomas Kgope, talented SA artist, was born in Rustenburg, Transvaal. After Kgope showed interest in art, artist Norman …
ArchiveMy Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… the African National Congress of South Africa (ANC) in the Transvaal, 30 September 1951 . Introduction PART 1 PART 2 …
ArticleTimeline of the Group Areas Act and Selected Related Pieces Legislation
… 1885 The Asiatic Bazaar Law was passed in the Transvaal, which authorized the creation of separate … a particular amount of time (Horrell, 1978: 4). 1932 The…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - 1947-Press Reports on the Campaign
… of the S.A. Muslim League." In statement issued by the Transvaal Passive Resistance Council the Council states that … 241 Resisters had been imprisoned,…