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ArchiveThe Anti-Apartheid Movement Abroad by Max Rossiter
… early roots, it had strong institutional links to Great Britain. The men who set it up were predominantly British … In 1906, a delegation from the ANC was…
Chapter Seven - Re-examining the Past
… African Bureau, a small radical organisation in Britain. The Bureau sought to organise support and solidarity … Patrick Duncan as well as to the Communist…
PlaceUlundi, Kwa-Zulu Natal, (also known as Mahlabathini)
… forced in Pondoland , the Transkei and Sekhukhuneland . In 1959, the second step was taken with the passing of Bantu …
"We have Decided to Liberate Ourselves": Address to the Royal Commonwealth Society by O. R. Tambo, London, 23 June 1986
… therefore, on the question of how to make this country, Britain, take its proper position among the countries of the … of nations. As we know, in its…
PlaceRustenburg
… a Centenary Celebration, over the Weekend of 27- 30 March 1959. The gathering was attended by Churchmen from the entire …
EventSolomon Popoli Linda, singer and composer, dies
… and 'The Lion King'. After collapsing on stage in 1959, Linda was diagnosed with a kidney disease. He died on 8 …
EventSA’s Fifa membership reinstated
… than comply with the South African apartheid policies. In 1959 Fifa issued an ultimatum that the South African football …
ArchiveSouth Africa in World War One, 31 October 2018
… faced South Africans with a conundrum. Should they join Britain and her allies, despite having fought so fiercely … of their friendship. The price they had…
PlaceVolksrust, Mpumalanga
… were injured. Attractions and The Battle Sites: In 1894 Britain and the Transvaal Republic decided to strike a new … Memorials, both dedicated to victims of…
Document 51 - Leon Trotsky, Remarks on the Draft Theses of the Workers’ Party of South Africa, 20 April 1935
… set themselves. The South African possessions of Great Britain form a Dominion only from the point of view of the … triumph of Socialism in South Africa as…
ArchiveChapter 15 The World is my Oyster Life Number 7 1985-1994 by Denis Goldberg
… that was beyond their daily experience. For example, in Britain you could live anywhere you chose if you could afford … Yet over and over again I experienced…
PlaceCalvinia
… hatred of the Boers by demonstrating an active loyalty to Britain and by defiantly asserting the limited civic rights … hatred of the Boers by demonstrating…
PlaceAddington Hospital, Durban
… Addington who held the post of Prime Minister of Great Britain in 1801. Addington Hospital is a District and … Addington who held the post of Prime Minister…
BiographyWinnie Madikizela-Mandela
… the trauma of incarceration, on February 4 1959 Winnie gave birth to a daughter she named Zenani. On …
PlaceBoschendal Wine Estate, Cape Town
… was established and began exporting deciduous fruit to Britain on a large scale. In 1976, the beautifully restored …
EventWhite women achieve suffrage in South Africa
… their temperance campaign would be ignored. As in Britain, the first organised advocates for women's suffrage …
EventThe first 1820 British Settlers arrive in South Africa
… After the Napoleonic wars, Britain experienced a serious unemployment problem. …
The Role of Women in the Struggle against Apartheid, 15 July 1980
… Act No. 52 of 1957 rolled back the fare increase. In 1959, Cato Manor, near Durban, became the site of large-scale … African men had to drink in municipal…
Article‘Liberated’ Slaves? by Joline Young
… While the abolition of the slave trade by Britain in 1808 was haled as a victory by abolitionists like … less regard than ‘slaves’. The abolition of slavery…
List of Laws on Land Dispossession and Segregation
… areas. Promotion of Bantu Self-Government Act (No: 46) 1959 The Promotion of Bantu Self-Government Act, passed in 1959, was built on the foundation laid by…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in exile
… to the NP’s unilateral declaration of independence from Britain and pulling out of the Commonwealth in 1961. The … formation of independent African churches…
ArticleManto Tshabalala-Msimang timeline 1940 - 2009
… Manto Tshabalala-Msimang is born in Durban, KwaZulu Natal. 1959 Tshabalala-Msimang matriculates from Inanda Seminary. …
ArticleThe South African Coloured People’s Organisation (SACPO)
… People Congress (CPC) after its conference in December 1959. CPC/SACPO’s decline gained even greater momentum due to …
PlaceCato Manor, Durban
… their homes. Bourquin wrote to the City Council on 23 June 1959 to say that something had to be done to improve the lot … liquor law infringements, the…
Hundred years of resistance, E.S. Reddy, 29 January 2012
… a union against the non-white people of the country. After Britain approved the formation of the Union of South Africa, … of Gandhi. The South African…
Some remarkable women who helped Gandhiji in South Africa by E. S. Reddy
… (1860-1926) Emily Hobhouse, daughter of a churchman in Britain, dedicated herself to the movement in Britain against the Anglo-Boer War. Her visits to the ……
Appeal for action against Apartheid - Statement issued jointly by Chief Albert Luthuli and Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr,10 December 1962
… terrorism and violence: Human Rights Day (December 10), 1959 - 12 South West Africans killed at Windhoek and 40 …
EventThe Erasmus Commission’s report implicates Rhoodie, Mulder and van den Bergh in SA’s infamous ‘Information Scandal’
… the attempt to purchase newspapers in the US, France and Britain did not materialise. It appears the Info scandal was …
PlaceNigeria
… under whom the empire disintegrated. In 1807, Great Britain abandoned the slave trade; however, other countries … wars began in the Oyo Empire, they lasted…
ArticleSouth African Constitution: The Bill of Rights
… Lebanon, Panama, Philippines, United Kingdom of Great Britain, United States of America, Union of Soviet Socialist …