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EventChief of the Lebelo group of the Ndebele, Johannes Jane Tane Kekana, dies
… him. Shortly after the arrival of the Voortrekkers in the Transvaal, chief Lebelo Seroto, Kekana's father, broke away …
EventHelen Zille, former leader of the Democratic Alliance, is born in Johannesburg
… at the University of the Witwatersrand , Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) where she obtained a BA Degree. She …
Founding members of friends of United Democratic Front
… of Cape Town, Prema Nadio a promonent member of the Transvaal Indian Congress, Ismail Ayob is a prominent …
PlaceTembisa Township, Midrand
… more and more people from the Northern parts of the then Transvaal came to settle, there they decided to change the …
ArticleArmed Struggle, the anti-apartheid struggle accelerates 1984-1990
… In September 1984, riots broke out in the Transvaal and spread to other parts of the country. These …
Political deaths in police custody 1984 - 1989
… 11 April Nchabeleng, Peter (59) President of Northern Transvaal UDF Schoonoord, Lebowa Allegedly tortured by …
Introduction
… new leadership that took over Natal Indian Congress, the Transvaal Indian Congress, and the South African Indian … organisations: the Natal Indian…
EventThe Minister of Justice, Police and Prisons, Jimmy Kruger, received a report of a police investigation into Steve Biko’s death
… report submitted to the Attorney General of the Transvaal, signed by Professor Johan Loubser, Chief State …
EventThe government launches ‘Operation Iron Fist’ in townships
… At the height of township violence in Transvaal, President F.W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela held a …
EventANC claim responsibility for a land mine explosion which kills six
… kilometres to the west of Messina (now Musina), Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo). Johannes Frederick van Eck, his …
EventElisabeth Eybers, South African poet, is born
… Eybers was born in Klerksdorp, in the then western Transvaal. She moved to Amsterdam in 1966, and lived there …
EventMakapane’s Cave is under siege
… under Hermanus Potgieter at Moorddrift in northern Transvaal (now Limpopo). The punitive burger commando was led …
EventProfessor Bob Hepple is born
… Professor Bob Hepple was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). His father, Alex Hepple, was a trade …
EventLord Roberts crosses the Vaal River en route to Pretoria
… So, he proceeded to Pretoria in a bid to force the Transvaal government to surrender and accept the British …
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 …