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ArticleThe Crackdown on the Black Consciousness Movement in 1973
… BPC conference took place in Hammanskraal from 16 to 17 December 1972, with 1400 delegates from 145 organisations … school in Alice in the Eastern Cape,…
ArticleThe Cape Coloured Corps and the First World War
… board the H.M.T. Armadale Castle , arriving in Mombasa on 17 February 1916. For the first nine months, the battalion …
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BiographyB J Vorster [John Vorster]
… units, and the tightening of border controls On May 12, 1962 he revealed details of the General Laws Amendment … it would abrogate the rule of law in the…
EventSouth Africa's first democratic elections
Following a series of tense negotiations and years of liberation struggle, the first democratic election was held in South Africa on the 27th April, 1994. This…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 4 Essay Questions and Answers
… and Shaka . In a letter addressed Fynn, Isaacs said: [12] Source C: “Make them seem as bloodthirsty as you can, and … wrote of Shaka in his autobiography, …
PlaceAmalienstein, a Mission Station in the Western Cape
… first church service in the church building was held on 17 September 1853. Land was allocated to it for missionary … the Church Site. Daniël Hofmeyer sold…
BiographyPetros Sipho Sibusiso Mkhize (Mkize)
… resulted in immediate arrest. Between 1948 and 1986, over 17 million arrests were made under the pass laws - an average … 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki…
ArticleFanakalo: the language of mining culture
… requirement of Fanakalo for communication on the mines]. [12] Fanakalo functions as a shared means of communication … and ‘is learned within the domain of…
ArticlePoqo in the Western Cape and Transkei in the early 1960s
… In one such attack on 16 June 1962 three women, Magriet (17), Sarah Kamos (21) and Susie Noriet were killed for … inflicted with assegais, daggers and axes…
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…
BiographyTheophilus Shepstone
… Zulu military system. Shepstone annexes the Transvaal On 12 April 1877, at Britain's behest, Shepstone effortlessly … of the Zulu kingdom. The Zulu War…
BiographySir. Theophilus Shepstone
… Zulu military system. Shepstone annexes the Transvaal On 12 April 1877, at Britain's behest, Shepstone effortlessly … of the Zulu kingdom. The Zulu War …
ArticleGrey Street Complex timeline 1800-1999
… 1860 September, Cemetery sites are set aside in Durban. 12 October, Mr. Fisher is appointed full time Town Clerk at a … labourer. 1861 March, The town…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 1 Contextual Overview
… farmers, payable in the form of raw agricultural product. [12] This allowed them to keep and trade part of their … centralization and doctrinaire socialism …
PlaceAlbertynhof, Kimberley
… he works to uplift impoverished families. From 1936 to 1949 he served in the Society for the Poor and Relief and … Secretary of the Dutch Reformed Church in…
ArticleBoeremag Treason Trial Timeline
… the accused. The trial was postponed till 9 June 2003. 17 June, The treason trial of 22 alleged Boeremag members is … had helped to make, were inaudible and…
Chapter 26. Further Attacks-Passport Case - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… that his efforts had failed, he gazetted it. On May 6th, 1949, I applied for a passport to go overseas to attend an … a leading paper in Johannesburg, wrote…
Chapter 1 - The Promise of the Impossible Revolution: The Cape Town Industrial Socialist League, 1918 - 1921
… was established as the Industrial Socialist League. 12 THE SOCIAL BASE OF THE ISL- CT Historians and other social … the police were waiting for them outside…
EventInfant hominid discovered at Cradle of Humankind
… in a rock half the size of a rugby ball was discovered on 17 May 2009. The juvenile, a young male is believed to be … years old when he died. The fossils of…
EventAfrican National Congress Youth League is founded
… in 1948. The ANC officially adopted this program in 1949, which was implemented by James Moroka and Walter … boycotts and defiance. It was adopted by the ANC…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1990s
… by Justice Richard Goldstone, into the police killing of 17 peaceful demonstrators at the township of Sebokeng. 20 … a national membership drive, with…
BiographySefako Mapogo Makgatho
… Makgatho’s illustrious political career was waning. On 17 June 1933, at a Transvaal Native Congress provincial …
BiographyJulius Sello Malema
… (17 April 2016). ↵ [ii] Public Announcement of the ANC … (17 April 2016). …
Chapter 2. The Early History of the Garment Workers - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… Second Year .. .. 12 6 Third Year .. .. … Fourth Year .. .. 17 …
ArticleThe 2nd Johannesburg Biennale
… 1997, page 7 & 9. ↵ [3] ibid: 9 ↵ [4] ibid: 10 ↵ [5] ibid: 12 ↵ [6] Okwui Enwezor, ‘Reflections’, in Trade Routes … Stevenson: Johannesburg and Cape Town,…
Afrikaner
… of the Voortrekker Monument on the 16th of December. In 1949 a second festival was held during the inauguration of …
ArticleCODESA 2 Timeline
… 1992: De Klerk announces that a referendum will be held on 17 March amongst the white electorate to test their support for the reform process. 17 March…
ArticleSouth African Council of Churches (SACC)
… Town ... read on The South African Council of Churches 17 November 1999 submission to the Ad Hoc Joint Committee on …
EventPortuguese navigator Bartholomew Dias erects the first stone cross on the South African coast
… the padrao de Sao Gregorio , was erected at Kwaaihoek on 12 March 1488. The second one was called the Padrão de São … in Portugal in December. The journey…
ArchiveSouth Africa and the Communist International : A Documentary History, Volume 1 : Socialist Pilgrims to Bolshevik Footsoldiers 1919-1930 edited by A. Davidson, I. Filatova, V. Gorodnov and S. Johns
… January 1921 Document 3 Letter from J. Den Bakker to ECCI, 12 March 1921 Document 4 Letter from J. Den Bakker to M. … 1921] Document 7 Letter from W.H…