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PlaceLanga Township, Cape Town
… the turning point was the massacre, on Sharpeville Day, of 31 peaceful protestors on the dusty streets of Langa township …
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1940-1949
… October 17, 1940. Speaks on Penetration Commission October 31, 1940. Addresses meeting in Pietermaritzburg, Natal … E. S. Dangor; S. V. Patel; I. A. Cachalia…
PlaceCape Saint Francis, Lighthouse in the Eastern Cape
… kw lamp giving the light a range of 28 Sea Miles. Until 1959 the revolving light was driven by clockwork, actuated by …
ArticleA History of the South African Film Industry timeline 1895-2003
… Mirror (started in 1913) got sound in July 1939. On August 31 the Germans invaded Poland and World War II broke out. The … Bpk was established and was later…
ArticleThe Contentious Relationship Between Ngqika And Ndlambe
… and extending northward into the interior mountains .” [31] Jacob Cuyler Image source By 1812, the British had … Ibid, 110 ↵ [28] Ibid, 116 ↵ [29] Ibid, 82 ↵…
ArticleKasturba Gandhi timeline 1869 - 1944
… non-violent, with the desire to avoid confrontation. July 31, Limit for Indians to register. 2000 Indians meet outside … M.K. Gandhi is released after the…
Biography of George Hallett by Hunter Kolon
… being a struggle photographer in apartheid South Africa [31] . Cameras were confiscated, photographers were often … Hallett,” accessed October 17, 2016,…
Biography of Johnny ‘Mbizo’ Dyani by Brandon Norman
… later on 26 October. He was only thirty-nine years old. [31] Johnny’s body was returned to East London, where local … 265-266. ↵ [29] Rasmussen, Mbizo, 22. ↵…
ArchiveHugh Lewin obituary by Peter Hain (www.theguardian.com), 21 January 2019
… In 1959, Hugh Lewin, who has died aged 79, joined the South …
Article2016 in Review
In 2016 South Africa History Online celebrates 15 years of being a public open source heritage site. What a journey it has been. At the end of the first week…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1970-1979
… Organisation (Azapo) holds its inaugural conference. 30-31 October, An Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) delegation claims …
Indian South Africans timeline 1970-1979
… held incommunicado for four months. They were charged on 31 January 1975, and after a lengthy trial, nine were …
ArticleHistory of Women in Prisons during Apartheid
… and do things to them that I can’t a man’ (Russell 1989; 31). This suggests that a woman’s time in prison could add up …
ArticleThe Cape Coloured Corps and the First World War
… left Kimberley in three special trains for Durban on the 31 March. On 3 April they left for Egypt on the H.M.T. …
Article1970s: Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
… broke away to form the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) in 1959. Resistance in the 1960s a. The Sharpeville Massacre By … Uprising on 16 June 1976 . What is…
ArchiveSonia Bunting: Continuous Compassion and Adamant Activism by Jack Lucas
… source of political dissent since its founding in 1959. Sonia’s enduring political activity did not go to … integrity, determination and simplicity.” [31]…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Contextual Overview
… as ‘sacred’ and that the Volk were the chosen people. [31] He made the Great Trek seem as Exodus from British rule … in South Africa: The African National…
ArticleMiriam Makeba: Activist on Two Fronts by Connor Kirkpatrick
… was performing for and interacting with White people. In 1959 she was given the opportunity to perform oversees. … [online] Available at http://www.aluka.org…
Afrikaner Newspapers and the newspaper industry from 1830
… broke SA’s ties with Britain to declare SA a republic on 31 May 1961. When Verwoerd was killed on 6 September 1966, he … opinion makers in the United States,…
PlaceKgalagadi Transfrontier Park
Where the red dunes and scrub fade into infinity and herds of gemsbok, springbok, eland and blue wildebeest follow the seasons, where imposing camel thorn…
ArticleThe History of Education: 1658 to present
… Boycott of schools in Southern Transvaal and Eastern Cape. 1959 The Extension of University Education Act establishes … detained as a result of police…
Chapter 12 - Blind alley of guerrillaism
… against passes, in the struggles of women in Natal in 1959-60, in the resistance to Bantu Authorities which erupted … process. This, too, was the position of…
Chapter 9 - Division weakens the movement
… are all of them bourgeois!" ( The Africanist , January 1959) "Their white allies are all of them bourgeois!" Here … were still looking for a lead in struggle…
Chapter eight - Conclusion
… Party who had to do a job, to carry through a mission". By 1959 he had joined the PAC and now re-asserted his support … second Congress of Black Writers and…
The Detention Weapon
… provides for indefinite interrogatory detention. Section 31 provides for 6 months 'witness' detention. Section 50 … (Sections 28, 50 and 50A) 3. Witness…
ArchiveA Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai
… traders: we please the poorest class of customers 31. Cape traders protest against the Hawkers’ Licences Act …
ArticlePoor Whites and their Political Weapon: Constructing the Kakamas Dam
… but continued after the signing of the peace accord on 31 May 1902 in Pretoria (Johannesburg). By 1912 the left and …
A Brief History of Mali by US Department of State updated 01 October 2015
… autonomy. Independence as Republic of Mali : In January 1959, Soudan joined Senegal to form the Mali Federation, …
Bibliographical Data
… South Africa since 1948 (New York: Praeger, 1958, 1959). Other relevant materials are listed in the …
ArticlePass laws in South Africa 1800-1994
… the first Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa. On 31 May 1910 the British colonies of the Cape Natal, Orange … a republic had already been tabled in…