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EventRichard Maponya, one of South Africa’s richest businessmen, is born
… Richard John Maponya was born in Lenyenye in the Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo Province). The founder and first …
EventThe Johannesburg Meteorological Observatory opens
… The Observatory was founded as the Transvaal Meteorological Department, and was initially meant …
EventCaptured Gen. Cronje and his wife are shipped to St Helena
… of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR, also known as Transvaal Republic) and his wife Hester, with about 1 000 …
Draft Report of the National Executive Committee
… such as the situation in Natal and the dispute in the Transvaal and the financial crisis confronting the Congress … there was no response except from the…
EventJan Christoffel Greyling Kemp, general during South African War, is born
… was born in the district of Amersfoort, Eastern Transvaal. He was the second child of Jurie Johannes Kemp and …
Event13 year-old South African Native mineworker is published in a newspaper
… that could happen only in South Africa." In reaction, the Transvaal mining quarters said that the treatment of the …
EventAfrikaans becomes the official language of the Union of South Africa
… of South Africa was formed in 1910, it consisted of the Transvaal, the Orange Free State, Natal and the Cape …
EventGeneral Koos de la Rey, buried in Lichtenburg amid a very tense atmosphere.
… leaders during that conflict, was buried in Lichtenburg, Transvaal. On 15 September 1914 de la Rey was on route to …
EventNicolaas Jacobus Smit, Vice-President of the ZAR, is born in Graaff-Reinet.
… the Cape prior to 1688. Smit, a Boer general in the Anglo-Transvaal War and Vice-President of the South African …
PlacePaul Kruger’s House, 60 Church Street West, Pretoria
… Following the restoration of independence to the Transvaal in 1881, Kruger moved permanently to Pretoria . At … condition. The following year it was handed…
EventUnited Party MP for Benoni, D.G. Ross, dies in England after a long illness
… The 68 year-old Ross was born in the Cape, but moved to Transvaal where he spent the greater part of his life. During … Second World War Ross served as an…
EventSACTU launches a national potato boycott.
… workers on potato farms. In areas like Bethal in Eastern Transvaal (now Mpumalanga), recruited workers were expected …
EventPretoria receives city status
… which was constituted in 1910 with the merger of the Transvaal Colony (former Boer Republic of the ZAR), the …
EventThe Second General Election is held in the Union of SA
… Province, sixteen in the Orange Free State and four in the Transvaal. The results for the other political parties …
EventGen. Louis Botha, soldier, statesman and first prime minister of the Union of South Africa, is born.
… A Boer general and statesman, he was leader of the Transvaal army in the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) from …
EventSouth African Police (SAP) is founded
… Colony, the Natal Colony, the Orange River Colony and the Transvaal Colony. The entire force had to be restructured and …
EventStanley Bongani Nkosi, SA artist, is born in Newcastle, Natal
… old his family moved to Dukathole near Germiston in the Transvaal (now Gauteng). He attended school in Germiston …
EventClayton Sithole, the last political activist to die in Apartheid police detention
… in John Vorster Square police station, in Johannesburg , Transvaal (now Gauteng ). This police station gained a …
ArchiveAll That Glitters - ’The rock on which the future will be built’ by Emilia Potenza
… the society. For example, iron-smelting in the Southern Transvaal had a large impact on hunting and farming in the … rights to the area. In addition, both…
PlaceNewcastle
… a stop on the journey from Port Natal -Durban and the then Transvaal! Whilst today's major road, the N3, between the two … the Orange Free State and the Zuid…
EventPretoria is proposed as the new capital of ZAR
… of the Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR), or the old Transvaal, was transferred from Potchefstroom to Pretoria in …
EventSouth Africa holds a referendum to decide if SA should become a republic
… West Africa (now Namibia). The two former Boer republics, Transvaal and Orange Free State (now Free State), and South …
EventThe first regional committee of the UDF is established in Natal
… 1983 the Natal UDF region was launched, followed by the Transvaal in June and the Western Cape in July. The national …
EventJimmy Kruger announces amendment to the Internal Security Act
… deemed to be threatening public order, would apply in the Transvaal Province with immediate effect for one year. The …
EventReconciliation talks between F.W de Klerk and Nelson Mandela are rescheduled due to violence in Sebokeng
… in Sebokeng, a township in the southern Gauteng (then Transvaal) area, on 26 March 1990. After F.W de Klerk gave …
EventJohn Koenakeefe Mohl, SA artist is born
… Sun, was born at Dinokana village in Lehurutshe, Western Transvaal (now North West Province). A break in Mohl’s career …
EventMilner proposes conditional voting rights for ‘non-Whites’ in SA
… that would later make up the Union of South Africa (Transvaal, the former ZAR, the Free State, Natal and the …
EventRailway line between Cape Town and Beira in Mozambique is completed
… was bound for Marandellas to bring the war to the Transvaal region of South Africa. …
EventRobert Koch announces the discovery of a rinderpest vaccine
… epidemic affected most of southern African, but it hit the Transvaal and Northern Cape particularly hard, bringing …
EventJameson Raid starts
… the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (also called Republic of Transvaal). The group was under the command of Lt-Col. Henry …