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ArticleThe South African War 1899-1902
… first battle took place at Talana, near Dundee in northern Natal on 29 October 1899. The battle was indecisive because … on 16 December 1899, although he…
ArticleNUSAS Wages Commission Timeline 1971-1973
… Commission is held at the Bolton hall at the University of Natal, Durban (UND). Beforehand, thousands of pamphlets … (UCT), Rhodes University (Rhodes) and…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: Pre-1500
… Iron Age people settle in what is now known as Kwa-Zulu Natal . c. AD 500 Early Iron Age people develop a new form of … attached...' Further east Da Gama and…
ArticleThe History of Separate Development in South Africa
… English language universities (Cape Town, Witwatersrand, Natal, and Rhodes); and two bilingual universities (Port … The University of Durban-Westville, which…
ArticlePrehistory of the Pretoria area
… several Nguni groups across the Drakensberg from KwaZulu Natal, in order to escape Zulu expansion. Mzilikazi , a … from Ohrigstad, together with a few…
BiographyStanley Huette Uys
Stanley Huette Uys was born on 27 April 1922, in Coalbrook, Orange Free State (now Free State Province). His parents, Dirk and Francina, were members of the…
Nicholaas Frederic de Waal
Born in Rotterdam in 1853, De Waal was the son of a banker who received a commercial education in Brussels and studied law. He travelled to Europe and America…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1990-1999
… talks in Durban to discuss ways of ending violence in Natal and in the townships on the Reef. A joint statement … an attempt to put an end to the violence…
Chapter 5 - Who would deliver us from oppression? Gumede and African politics in South Africa,1921-1927
… to the ICU had to be curbed. Thus instead of returning to Natal, Gumede set off on a tour throughout the Cape Province … the midland branch.374 The poor…
Performing Arts Council of the Transvaal (PACT)
… principle as the Cape Performing Arts Board (CAPAB), the Natal Performing Arts Council (NAPAC) and the Performing Arts …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1990s
… taken more than 2,500 lives in the last five years in the Natal region. 27 February, Nelson Mandela meets ANC officials … of South Africa's four provinces,…
Black Peoples Convention - National Leadership
… - Transvaal and OFS Regional Director Mncedisi Jekwa - Natal Regional Director Vacant - Western Cape Special … (or Cape) Youth Organisation Medupe Writers…
ArticleUnited Women’s Congress (UWCO)
… a structure that united women's organisations such as the Natal Organisation of Women (NOW) and the Federation of …
PlaceZululand District Municipality
… Known as: 'The Kingdom of the Zulu' . KwaZulu-Natal is a: "melting pot of African, European and Indian … In the 1840's, it became known as the British Colony…
ArchiveThe arch agitator of the Union by Shula Marks, 31 January 2019
… leader of the Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union of Natal (known as the ICU Yase Natal) received a notice from the minister of justice banning him from…
The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa: Bibliography
… Documents The Minutes of the Inaugural Conference of the Natal Indian Organisation. 4 May 1947. Correspondence from the Natal Indian organisation to J.C…
Chapter 1: Introduction
… of vigilantes and political violence in KwaZulu-Natal, it is important to give an account of what the situation in KwaZulu-Natal constituted and what factors…
ArticleLife Timeline of Jacob Zuma
… Gedleyihlekisa Zuma is born in Nkandla in northern KwaZulu-Natal. 1958 Zuma joins the African National Congress (ANC) … in the re-establishment of ANC…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1910s
… announces in the Viceroy's Council that emigration to Natal is prohibited with effect from 1 July. 13 March, The … of the municipal offices. 19 October, At a…
ArticleChieftaincy and Kingship in South Africa
… as ‘indirect rule.’ This system was adopted in colonial Natal. Theophilus Shepstone, the Secretary for Native Affairs … which led to civil war between ANC…
ArticleDecember 16 and the Construction of Afrikaner Nationalism
… province); north-east towards Durban (today’s KwaZulu-Natal), and towards today’s Free State province. One of the … as they became known, was Piet Retief …
ArticleTimeline of Land Dispossession and Segregation in South Africa 1900-1947
… about a quarter of the land owned. 1902 August, In Natal, the Zululand Land Delimitation Commission is appointed … identity where new areas could be…
ArticleTimeline of Land Dispossession and Segregation in South Africa 1800-1899
The nineteenth century was a period of several events whose socio-political and economic impact profoundly changed South Africa and the African continent…
ArticleCustomary Law in South Africa: Historical Development as a Legal System and its Relation to Women’s Rights by Devon Wall
… to receive some recognition. In the British Colony of Natal, this was the Natal Code of 1878. In addition to implementing English law, … land (Cape Articles…
EventDr. Margaret Roach ‘Killie’ Campbell, collector of Africana, dies in Durban
… Roach "Killie" Campbell was born in Mount Edgecombe, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) on 9 September 1881. She was educated at St. Anne's Diocesan College in Natal…
ArticleThe Landless People’s Movement
… 2005 the LPM only had local structures in Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal and Limpopo. [17] In KwaZulu-Natal, one of the main activities of the LPM were campaigns ……
ArticleRobert Mcbride timeline
… was a bus driver in the rural village of Harding, southern Natal. 1966 Derrick McBride, the father of Robert McBride, … by an elder friend, Ashley, a medical…
ArticleRole of Black people in the South African War
… their freedom. Thus, the Ambulance Corps was formed in Natal, was and became active on the British side during the … incursions into the area by Free State…
Soweto and mounting pressure on the apartheid state, 1970s
… (who had been elected as vice-president of the revived Natal Indian Congress ) were opposed to this new form of … conditions. A number of strikes were held …
The War
… first battle took place at Talana, near Dundee in northern Natal on 29 October 1899. The battle was indecisive because … on 16 December 1899, although he…