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EventF.W. de Klerk clamps down on KwaZulu
… F.W. de Klerk imposed a state of emergency in KwaZulu-Natal, coinciding with a report by the South African Human … (SAHRC) that it had recorded 266 political…
ArchiveA Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai
… writes to his brother in India 11. A Brahman seeks work in Natal 12. The pickled money-order receipt 13. Wife lays … Gyapershad was decoyed 16. Advice to a…
ArticleMetal and Allied Workers Union (MAWU)
… place every Wednesday. At political tensions grew in Natal in the 1980s, members of MAWU meeting at the church had …
Durban Historical & community
… – Mohandas (Mahatma) Karamchand , founder of the Natal Indian Congress and father of India’s independence, set …
ArticleHarriet Bolton and the Garment Workers Industrial Union
… than 24 000 workers walked out of clothing factories in Natal, effectively halting the industry for the day. In doing …
Article1973 Durban Strikes – TUCSA – Harriet Bolton
… basis. These unions, including the parallel to the Natal garment union, battled to survive. By the late 1980s, …
Institute for Industrial Education (IIE)
… Schlemmer, Director of the Institute of Social Research at Natal University, was its chairperson. Others associated with …
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1960-1969
… disguised themselves as Muslim priests and wandered around Natal to live with friends like George Singh in Riverside, … Dr Naicker addressed a meeting at the…
PlaceOld House Museum, 31 Diakonia Street, Durban
… This museum is also known as the Natal Settlers Museum. The property originally extended from … George Robinson in 1858. Robinson was the publisher of the…
Nelson Mandela’s address to rally in Durban 25 February 1990
… delivered in Zulu. Friends, comrades, and the people of Natal, I greet you all. I do so in the name of peace, the … is so desperately and urgently needed in…
ArticleAnti-South African Indian Council (SAIC) Campaign
… were never taken seriously by the Nats. The newly revived Natal Indian Congress (NIC) and the South African Indian … been growing within the anti-apartheid…
PlaceUmlazi
… 1845 when British settlers forcibly occupied what was then Natal (now KwaZulu Natal ) and created a number of ‘Native locations’ for the Zulus in the Natal…
EventThe railway line between Durban and Pietermaritzburg is completed
… constructed as result of a mounting need for transport, as Natal had to hold its own in the advance of commerce and the … progress in South Africa. The…
EventSouth African poet, writer and political activist, Mafika Pascal Gwala is born in Durban.
… on 5 October 1946 in Verulam, north of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal. He is the second child of five children of his … He matriculated in Inkamana High School in…
PlaceOld Fort and Cemetery, Durban
… The first formal European settlement of the Bay of Port Natal took place in 1824, when a small trading party made … , Governor of the Cape sent a small…
ArticleThe Natives Land Act of 1913
… Land Delimitation Commission and the Lagden Report In Natal, the Zululand Land Delimitation Commission was … favour of agricultural farming. Between 1906 and…
EventAmanzimtoti blast kills five
… explosion in the Sanlam shopping centre in Amanzimtoti , Natal South Coast. Umkhonto we Siswe (MK) cadre Andrew … launch guerrilla activities against…
PlaceGanesha Temple, Mt Edgecombe
… architect Kristappa Reddy. Situated on the road to KwaZulu-Natal’s , Wild North Coast , the temple is a classical …
EventChief of the Zondi, Bambata is killed
… at Dinuzulu's royal homestead. Bhambatha returned to Natal to continue his campaign of resistance. In April 1906 … lawlessness had broken out in many…
Introduction
… concomitant in the agitation, set loose by whites first in Natal and Transvaal, and soon afterwards in the Orange Free … for ending the indenture and…
EventEleven people are killed at Donnybrook, Kwazulu
… The killing of eleven people at Donnybrook, Kwazulu-Natal on the 21 March 1996 can be considered as part of the … height during the run-up to the 1994…
ArticleFootball in South Africa Timeline 1862-2012
… soccer clubs are active in Durban and Johannesburg 1882 Natal Football Association (Whites-only) is founded. 1892 The … over group areas case at Curries…
ArticleFirst Anglo Boer War
… Shepstone , the former Secretary for Native Affairs in Natal, to the Transvaal as special commissioner. Shepstone … High Commissioner of South East Africa…
PlaceUtrecht
… get water for their daily needs. The history of Utrecht in Natal began in 1852 when a group of Dutch Voortrekkers from the Cape settled along the Buffalo…
EventSouth African Police (SAP) is founded
… the successor to the police forces of the Cape Colony, the Natal Colony, the Orange River Colony and the Transvaal … Resistance campaign erupted on the…
Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism - Bibliography
… Norman. The “Shepstone System” in The Colony of Natal and Beyond the Borders . In A. Duminy and B. Guest (eds.), Natal and Zululand from Earliest Times to…
EventButhelezi says Zulus would continue carrying cultural weapons
… of traditional weapons came around the 1880s when the Natal Code of the then British colony of Natal (now KwaZulu Natal) banned these weapons. The Kwazulu…
EventMazisi Kunene, Zulu poet and ANC activist, is born
… was born on 12 May 1930 in Amahlongwa, Southern KwaZulu Natal to a Swazi mother and a Zulu father. He studied Zulu Literature at the University of Natal and…
ArticlePolitical changes from 1750 to 1835
… to establish the country we know as Lesotho. KwaZulu Natal was the part of South Africa that suffered most … affected by the mfecane and Zulu expansion was…
EventJeff Radebe is born
… of Transport (2004), was born in Cato Manor, Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). …