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BiographyTeboho MacDonald “Tsietsi” Mashinini
… protesting students ended up killing Hastings Ndlovu and 12-year old Hector Pieterson , turned him into an instant …
ArticleCape Town Timeline 1300-1997
… 1679 A Slave Lodge is built to house Company slaves. 12 October, Simon van der Stel is appointed Commander of the … in Cape Town to discuss the manifesto…
BiographyBessie Amelia Head
… and Bessie Head Literature Awards were established. On 12 July 2007 the library of Pietermaritzburg was renamed the …
BiographyEla Gandhi
… cannot teach African children”. In 1952, when Ela was 12 years old, her father started going to Defiance Campaign …
ArticleNelson Mandela Awards 1960s - 2000s
… scroll being received by the Vice-President of Mozambique. 17 March, Honorary citizenship of Olympia (original site of … bestowed by the Town Council of the…
ArticleA decade by decade events account of the women’s struggle in South Africa
… Albertina Sisulu joins the ANC Women's League. 1949 Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) founder and … and can no longer hold office in any union. 1954…
South Africa Communists Speak Documents from the history of the South African Communist Party 1915 - 1980
… Labour Party published in 'The International' September 17, 1915. Document 7: Report on the general meeting of the … editorial in The International, March…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 3 Source-based Questions
… June 1789. For the source’s online origin, see footnote [12] 10. Analyse the Journal in Source H 10.1. How useful is … For the source’s online origin, see…
ArchiveSouth Africa and the Communist International : A Documentary History, Volume 2 : Bolshevik Footsoldiers to Victims of Bolshevisation 1931-1939 edited by A. Davidson, I. Filatova, V. Gorodnov and S. Johns
… 11 Letter from ECCI to S.P. Bunting, 15 July 1932 Document 12 Minutes of Meeting of Political Commission, Political … from E. Dennis to Comintern, 22 October…
A growing urban African population
… (later Western Coloured Township). In 1928 there were 12 000 people living in the three townships. By 1931, the population had increased to 17 000 growing to…
ArticleFreedom Day: 27 April
Freedom Day on 27 April is an annual celebration of South Africa's first non-racial democratic elections of 1994. It is significant because it marks the end of…
General South African History Timeline: 1970s
… minister covering French investments in South Africa. 12 June, The seventh ‘homeland’ is inaugurated with the … the arms embargo against South Africa. The…
Durban Mayors and other city officials
… R Ellis Brown (1946 - 47) Leo Boyd (1947 - 49) Ken Clarke (1949 - 50) Percy Osborn (1950 - 54) RA Carte (1954 - 55) G …
ArticleJames Sebe Moroka Timeline 1892 - 2012
… attends reconciliatory talks between the AAC and the ANC. 1949 December, Moroka is elected president- general of the …
ArticleEnuga Sreenivasulu Reddy Timeline 1924 - 2020
… 1948 Reddy obtains his M.A. from New York University. 1949 26 May, E.S Reddy joins the United Nations Secretariat …
References and links: Local History
… Journey through Pretoria’s Main Attractions” from ShowMe, 12 December [online], Available at … [Accessed: 12 January 2015]. ShowMe, (2008/8), “The 1956…
40 years after: Understanding the Soweto Uprising by Motsoko Pheko (Pambazuka News), 30 June 2016
… facts are found in State Versus Zephania Mothopeng and 17 Others – Supreme Court of South Africa – South and Eastern … 2. John Ganya 11 years 48 years Soweto…
Online directory - archives and media sources
… 24 Hamilton Street, Arcadia, PRETORIA Telephone: +27 (0)12 - 323 5300 Fax: +27 (0)12 - 323 5287 Website: http://www.national.archives.gov.za … Church…
EventThe Rembrandt Tobacco Corporation was founded in South Africa
… were manufactured in an old flour mill in Paarl on 12 June 1948. After 1954 the group expanded worldwide and …
ArchiveThe Final Prize by Norman Levy
… Chapter 11 The Final Prize: A Charge of Treason - Chapter 12 The Final Prize: Transition to Armed Struggle - Chapter 13 … - Chapter 16 The Final Prize:…
PlaceBoksburg, the Witwatersrand
The Town of Boksburg was founded in 1887 as the Administrative Centre of the East Rand. It is the second oldest Town on the Witwatersrand. Boksburg was an…
Anti-Indian Legislation 1800s - 1959
… a gift of crown land and full citizenship rights. 1872 Law 12/1872 - makes provision for the appointment of a Protector … is introduced in Natal to…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1990-1999
… time that Mandela and Buthelezi meet in thirty years. 12 February, Negotiators of the ANC and the South African … campaign to put pressure on the South…
ArticleRace and ethnicity in South Africa
… Act of 1950 and Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act of 1949 . The Group Areas Act put an end to diverse areas and … forced removals. The Prohibition of Mixed…
History of Muslims in South Africa: Bibliography by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… M, The Early Cape Muslims, Cape Town, A A Balkema, 1978. 12. The Mosques of Bo-Kaap, pp 42-46. 13. ibid, p 43; Davids, … [unpublished], 1985. 15. The Mosques…
Message from President Jacob Zuma
… the oldest liberation movement in the continent, has had 12 Presidents since 1912. They were John Langalibalele Dube … second term from 1937 to 1940, AB Xuma…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1920 - 1929
… Government to intervene on their behalf. 1926 December 17 1926 - January 12 1927, The First Round Table Conference is held between the … the defunct…
Document 11 - Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union of Africa, Annual Conference Agenda, St Phillips School, Chapel Street. District 6, Cape Town, 18 January 1923
… the Victims of the Port Elizabeth tragedy October; 1920. 12. Anniversary Commemoration. 13. Policy of the "I.C.U." in … to Languages in which the…
EventAbdul Samad Minty, anti apartheid activist, is born
… of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) and the Commonwealth. On 12 September 2008 South Africa nominated Minty for the post … at www.iaea.org [Accessed 21 Sep…
EventLord Charles Henry Somerset, governor of the Cape Colony, is born in Badminton, England
… Cape from 1814 to 1826, was born in Badminton England on 12 December 1767. Under his term as governor, Somerset played … in Table Bay on board the Nautilus…