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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…
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 …
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 …
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…
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…
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 …
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 –…
EventNotices served on Solly Sachs
… union. The second order restricted his movements to the Transvaal and prohibited him from attending any meetings …
EventBusiness leader Matome Maponya is born
… Ltd (ARDC), was born in Thabakgone, Tzaneen in the Eastern Transvaal (Limpopo Province). He was president of the …
EventFormer Springbok rugby captain, Franscois Pienaar, is born
… 1969, Jacobus Francois Pienaar was born in Vereeniging,Transvaal (now known as Gauteng Province). Born into a …
EventUnion of South Africa is inaugurated
… colonies: Cape Colony , Natal, Orange River Colony and the Transvaal. …
EventCecil John Rhodes is forced to resign
… by the forces of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR or Transvaal Republic). The operation was further doomed when an …
EventAllison Wessels George (Mhlongo) Champion is born
… Natal. He assumed the full-time secretary position of the Transvaal branch of the Industrial and Commercial Workers …
EventPaul Kruger is sworn in as president of the Zuid
… as the first State President of the restored ZAR (Transvaal Republic). He proceeded to negotiate complete …
South African cricketers walk out in protest against apartheid after just one ball is bowled by Arunabha Sengupta, 3 April 2013
… a unique protest. On April 3, 1971, Currie Cup champions Transvaal met The Rest of South Africa at Newlands, Cape … contained a galaxy of stars. Donald McKay…
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,…
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…
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…