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EventArthur Conan Doyle, medic during the Second Anglo, is born
… had graduated from Edinburgh University in 1881. Thanks to his qualifications, Doyle was sent to South Africa in 1900 to serve as a medic for the British…
EventThe Neptune, with 288* convicts on board, enters Simon’s Bay, with strong resistance from Cape inhabitants
… set sail from England, with 300 convicts aboard, en route to Bermuda. This convict ship was destined for the Cape, where Lord Grey intended to establish a…
Event19 die at Shell House massacre
… following a tip-off that IFP marchers were planning to attack the building. The Nugent Commission of Inquiry on … Shell house in Jeppe Street, Johannesburg,…
EventPublic places of recreation for whites only, are proclaimed
… after the Group Areas Act was first introduced. According to this act, urban areas were to be divided into racially segregated zones where members of ……
EventSouth African Communist Party leader, Dr. Yusuf Mahomed Dadoo dies
… the ANC President, Oliver Tambo spoke. Dadoo was laid to rest according to Muslim rights at Highgate Cemetery, a few metres away from … in India, and in…
EventPresident Paul Kruger and Commandant General Louis Botha issue a proclamation in Pretoria
… Botha issued a proclamation in Pretoria which promised to pay those Burghers who remained active with their Commandos for damage done to their farms by the…
EventSuppression of Communism Act 44 of 1950 severely limits what the media could report
… of Assembly that the CPSA had disbanded. The decision to voluntarily disband was made on 4 May by the CPSA’s central committee, which met in Cape Town (15…
EventProf. Raymond Arthur Dart, SA anthropologist and expert on the Taung skull, dies in Sandton, Johannesburg
… he grew up on a farm herding cattle. He won a scholarship to study at the University of Queensland in Brisbane and later went on to study medicine in Sydney…
EventMau Mau political prisoners escape from Mageta Island, Lake Victoria
… Victoria in a canoe. This was after the prisoners hacked to death a fisherman, Onimbo Haulu who refused them use of … of darkness, the political prisoners…
EventThe Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) is founded
… In an attempt to organise a broad-based and inter-racial women's … together Helen Joseph, Lillian Ngoyi and Amina Cachalia to form a steering committee. The…
PlaceShell House, Johannesburg
… takeover of the South African Government, has been sold to Union Investment Company Hosken Consolidated Investments … 1990, and was the site of a 1994…
Hastings Banda, the early years by Angela Thompsell updated 01 March 2016
… stories about Hastings Banda’s life before he rose to power in the 1950s, but he certainly had a transnational … so Europeanized and puritanical in his…
ArchivePostscript Ante by Howard Barrell
… of externally trained ANC cadres giving military training to township militants. The way in which one breakthrough now led quickly to another gave police no…
PlaceRustenburg
… known History of Rustenburg spans from the 15th Century to the post-Apartheid city, and the Town has become the fastest growing City in South Africa, due to…
19. Lawrence asks for exemption from discriminatory laws
… India, resident in the borough of Durban, and is anxious to obtain a letter of exemption declaring him exempt from the … Church, West Street, Durban, on the…
PlaceEastern Cape Province
… products from overseas or take them from South Africa to other Countries. Red Cap Energy is set to roll out three wind Farms with a combined capacity of ……
Statement by Oliver Tambo on South African Raid on Matola, 05 February 1981
… Mozambique. The following is from an address by Mr. Tambo to thousands of members and supporters of the ANC in Maputo.] … everywhere else in the world. If…
Apartheid’s Twisted Dream: David Goldblatt’s South Africa by Joseph Lelyveld, 2 July 2010
… half century ago, the comparison at this point serves only to hint at the moral clarity of his vision, the seriousness … personal was what he did out of his…
SABC CEO Jimi Matthews quits: ‘What’s happening at the SABC is wrong' (Tmg Digital), 27 June 2016
… Matthews tweeted a picture of his resignation letter to SABC board chair Professor Mbulayeni Maghuve on Monday … comment quoted at Icasa hearing Matthews…
PlaceEritrea
… route that such powers as Turkey, Egypt, and Italy hoped to dominate by seizing control of ports on the Eritrean coast. Those ports promised access to the…
PlaceWynberg Park, Southern Suburbs
… Every Summer, an array of colourful Hydrangeas blossom to create a carpet of colour. In the 1890s, the land for what … adorned the Area in huge numbers, but…
PlaceRailway Station, Muizenberg
… the starting point of the "Historic Mile" that stetches to St James. In the late 1800’s Muizenberg was the trendiest … 1883. Many thousands of day-trippers…
PlaceOld Town House, Greenmarket Square, Cape Town.
… and sophistication, so then its management committee began to require a meeting place to discuss the affairs of the Burgher Council. Early in the … the life…
PlaceAlbert Jackson School, Port Elizabeth
… The school's Founders Day is held on 8 September each year to coincide with the laying of the foundation stone on 8 … the school’s Founder’s Day is…
PlaceNZASM Station, George Norton Street, Krugersdorp
… It was declared a National Monument in 1983, devolved to a Gauteng Provincial Heritage Resource in 1999. [SAHRIS] … Rand Tram, Krugersdorp and Jeppe. The…
EventPenny Heyns, South African swimming star, is born.
… 1974 in Springs, Transvaal. Her parents later moved to the Natal South Coast. She attended Doon Heights Primary … event. Heyns continued her swimming career…
EventThe South African Football Association (SAFA) is founded
… period of racial segregation. Mluleki George was elected to serve as the interim chairman for the first year of SAFA's … the White Germiston Callies. In the…
EventBomb meant for Kangaroo Court judge, May Ledwaba kills sleeping William Ledwaba
… 5 inches in diameter, fitted with steel roofing screws (to serve as shrapnel) and about 800 grams of pentolite, a … killed while Selepe lost a hand and…
EventCharles Darwin and the HMS Beagle reached the Galapagos Islands
… think about the world in which they live.On a mission to survey the South American coast, the Beagle reached San … the inhabitants of the different islands"…
EventSA judge jails former state assassin Eugene de Kock for more than 200 years
… either executing anti-apartheid activists or forcing them to end their involvement with liberation movements by … and intensified during the 1980s when the…