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Growing social unrest: Community mobilisation, strikes and student protests in the Western Cape in the 1980s
… students Bernard Fortuin aged 15 and William Lubbe aged 19 were shot dead from an unmarked police vehicle in Elsies …
ArticleEuropean trading systems in the Middle Ages - fourteenth to sixteenth centuries
Expanding European frontiers The Trek Boers, with their servants and slaves, move inland From the late 1600s and into the 1700s, the Cape settlers moved…
Submissions by the McGill University students 2012
Ben Forstate Ben Forstate is a U3 Student at McGill University studying Political Science and Geography. He enjoys basketball, reading, writing and…
ArticlePassive Resistance Campaign Timeline
… in Natal and within two weeks, 4000 -5000 were striking. 19 October, At a meeting of the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) …
EventProtest against gender- based violence throughout South Africa
… was triggered by rape incidents, including one of a 19-year-old first year student, Uyinene Mrwetyana from the …
EventThe first part of the South African Press Commission's report is tabled in parliament
… On 19 February 1962, the first part of the South African Press …
EventThe government launches 'Operation Iron Fist' in townships
… it returned uneasy calm to townships.A few days later, on 19 September, amid accusations that the security forces were …
4. Conclusion
The decisions made by the Party executive at the end of 1938 proved to be a lifesaver for the Party. Although Johannesburg and Cape Town officials continued to…
The Founder: An Ambiguous Figure by Chris Saunders
… off the roll of attorneys. He was nevertheless chosen in 1930 to be President-General of the ANC. His tenure of that …
The Colonial Photographic Discourse and Censorship – Challenges for Resistance Photographers
… and portraying African communities as static and bounded. 19 Although by the turn of the twentieth century there were … Act of 1927 and the Riotous…
Nelson Mandela Correspondence regarding the families move to Brandfort
… of the bedroom. I think of you always and love you. 19 November 1979 TO WINNIE Zindzi likes reading and it is a … possibility - of the family moving to the…
EventNigerian Federal troops begin a major offensive in Biafra.
… Boddy-Evans, A., 2011. ‘This Day in African History 19 August’ from African History [online] Available at …
The Causes of the Boer War by Prof. Marius Swart
The Anglo-Boer War was an event which had a long prelude and the after effects have not completely disappeared as yet. In fact, people who were in some way…
EventMahlatse Chiliboy Ralepelle becomes the first Black Springboks captain
… was selected for the under- 15 squad in 2001 and the under-19 squad in 2004. Ralepelle made history in 2006 when he …
EventJan van Riebeeck's statue, presented by Cecil John Rhodes, is unveiled in Cape Town
On 18 May 1899, a statue of the first European to settle at the Cape, Jan van Riebeeck, was unveiled. The statue stands on Heerengracht Street in Cape Town. It…
Biography of Can Themba by Aisha Ahmed
… In: English in Africa. Grahamstown: Rhodes University, pp. 19-29. Johnson-Castle, Patricia. "Group Areas Act of 1950 | … History Online". Sahistory.org.za. N…
PlaceWoodstock
The Village of Papendorp lay some 2 km East of Cape Town, on the Main Road to Stellenbosch, later to become known as, Albert Road. The Area was named after…
PlaceNewlands
… time. The railway line from Salt River reached Newlands on 19 December 1864. Today, however, it has become synonymous …
South Africa Communists Speak Documents from the history of the South African Communist Party 1915 - 1980
… and early in 1919 in English, Zulu and Sesutu. Document 19: 'Communism in South Africa' by David Ivon Jones, …
PlaceNelspruit
… As the largest Nature Reserve in South Africa, it covers 19 480 km² and is home to a diverse population of wildlife, …
PlaceTanzania
The Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama explored the East African coast in 1498 on his voyage to India. By 1506, the Portuguese claimed control over the entire…
PlaceJohannesburg Botanical Garden
… cities in the World without a botanical garden. Then, on 19 November 1968, a report by the director of the parks and …
Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis - Introduction
… in the term Khoekhoen (or Khoekhoe, for that matter), [19] while it is any case not the norm to include foreign … African Literature (Stellenbosch: SUN Press…
ArticleThe British Anti-Apartheid Movement
… sold off their subsidiaries in South Africa and a further 19 reduced their investments. The number of British companies … doubling of the AAM’s membership,…
BiographyJacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma
… went so far as to tell Zuma, ‘you broke Parliament’. On 19 February 2015, Zuma responded to Parliament on the …
PlaceSt Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Odendal Street, Germiston
… declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 19 September 1980. The Original name of the Congregation was … Miss D Davey. The Shields are the…
PlaceMbaula Village, Phalaborwa
… 42.8% are male and 57.2% are female. The Median age is- 19 (which is the age that divides the population in two parts …
Chapter 3. The Poor White Problem - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… in Complex South Africa (Faber and Faber, London, 1930), and by Professor De Kiewiet in A History of South … were obtained prior to the calamitous depression…
PlaceOnze Molen, Durbanville
The mill was erected in 1840 and continued to function as such until after the turn of the 20th century when its mechanism and top portion were removed and the…
PlaceAdams College, Amanzimtoti
… Institute' and it was later named after him in the 1930's. During the implementation of Bantu Education from …