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EventThe Queen mother Elizabeth is born.
… She was educated at home, and at the age of 10 she was fluent in French. At the age of 13, she attended … supported the British public during the World War…
EventChief George Mzimvubu Mathanzima, former Prime Minister of Transkei, dies
… Hospital in Queenstown. George Matanzima was born on 26 December 1918 in Qamata in the Transkei. Together with his … he was pardoned and released. George…
Say It out Loud by Mohamed Adhikari
… Presidential Address, Cape Town, 2nd January, 1935 The 1939 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 11th April, 1939 PART II: OTHER MAJOR ADDRESSES Equal Rights:…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1960-1969
… to rally to the decision demanding a National Convention.' 26 June, despite state harassment, around 50 percent of black … was Subbiah Moodley , who was in…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Timeline
… of the ANC 1948 National Party comes to power 1955 26 June, Adoption of the Freedom Charter 1960 March, … Whites-only referendum 17 June, Boipatong massacre…
ArticleThe Group Areas Act of 1950
… (South African Institute for Race Relations, 1950: 26). When the Group Areas Act (GAA) was passed in 1950, it … land to be purchasable by Africans (Beinhart,…
Grade 4 term 2 Timeline: Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
… Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela is born at Mvezo in the Transkei 1939 He enrols at the University College of Fort Hare. 1940 …
ArticleANC and the early development of apartheid 1948-1950s
… and action against pass and other restrictive laws. On 26 March 1950, the ANC held a ‘Defend Free Speech’ convention … shooting, killing 19 and injuring 30…
EventDate set for start of Passive Resistance Campaign
… In July 1939 at a meeting of 6,000 Indians, held at the Indian Sports … decided upon at the earlier meeting of 7 May) on 1 August 1939. The campaign was in…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1910s
… against Indians. South Africa Act, 1909 (Sections 26, 35, 44, 147 and 151) leaves anti-Indian and other … Tolstoy Farm at Lawley for use of satyagrahi…
ArticleThe Jacob Zuma Presidency - 2009 to 2017 (March)
… times vindictive support of Zuma against his prosecutors. [10] Zuma’s image continued to be widely celebrated following … amount to an illegitimate drain of…
PlaceBarberton, Mpumalanga
… Howard Hill of Sheba. Hill, Howard Born: 15 Feb 1894 Died: 26 Feb 1895 Note: Howard Hill Child of Agnes and Howard Hill … Sheba Tramway; aged 26 years. James…
BiographyKobera Manual
Aunty Kobera Manual of Ocean View died at the age of 98 on Wednesday 27 July 2016. In 2009 I interviewed her at her home in Ocean View, when she shared some…
BiographyZanemvula Kizito Mda
… Western Cape, South Africa, from July 15 to December 10, 2013. He is a Patron of the Market Theatre, Johannesburg. …
BiographyKing Dingane ka Senzangakhona
… A reappraisal’ in The Journal of African History, Vol. 10, No. 2 (1969) ↵ [ii] Bulpin, T.V. Natal and the Zulu …
BiographyNana Sita
Please note: this is an extract from E.S. Reddy collection of articles. Nana Sita was born in Matwadi, a village in Gujarat, India, in 1898, in a family…
Document 69 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa, Johannesburg, to the Cape Town branch, 22 March 1937
… under the Riotous Assemblies Act. They are each on £ 10 bail. We have briefed Hansen for twenty guineas and the … scale in many branches of industry. Your…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Statistical analysis of Resisters
… 1 1 386 289 27 8 Age Groups 18 to 19 years 20 to 25 years 26 to 30 years 31 to 35 years 36 to 40 years 41 to 45 years … Briardene - Riverside Puntans Hill…
ArticleHitler’s racial state in Germany
… parts of Europe after the Second World War broke out in 1939. The Nazi racist ideology of a Herrenvolk ('master … laws went hand in hand with state violence…
ArticleIndian South Africans
… in South Africa or to return to India. By 1910, nearly 26.85% indentured men returned to India, but most chose to … workers from the west and south coast of…
Durban an Overview
… was built in 1923 but was destroyed by fire in September 1939: in 1910 a new town hall and municipal buildings were …
ArticlePolokwane/Pietersburg Timeline 1835-1995
… compulsory segregation of races imposed in selected areas 1939 September, Outbreak of the second World War. 1948 …
ArticleThe Transkei
… discredited in the eyes of his people. As far back as 1939, when the choice had had to be made of a successor to …
Political deaths in police custody 1984 - 1989
… Place of death Description 1984 15 July Ngalo, Johannes (26) Parys Found dead in cell due to serious internal … dead while trying to escape. 19 April…
ArticleAfrica’s Millennium Development Goals
… often not be paid for services rendered, whilst another 8/10 African women in the active workforce’s wages are not … 80% of the world’s HIV infected patients…
EventAmy Biehl’s murderers receive amnesty from TRC
… were set free. Beihl was a Stanford graduate, completing a 10-month course of study as a Fullbright exchange scholar at … with a brick and then beaten and…
ArticleStudent Protests at Tshwane University of Technology - Timeline
… at TUT. NSFAS was still unable to fund an estimated 10 000 students across TUT’s campuses who needed and … shoot rubber bullets at protesting students. About…
ArticleThe Big Debate
… discuss the foremost issues affecting South Africa. Season 10 began on the 10th of March 2019 with an episode on Land … every Wednesday at 10pm on SABC 2…
EventSouth African artist, Gerard Sekoto, dies
… in earnest when he moved to Sophiatown, Johannesburg in 1939. Life in Sophiatown provided him with his subject … expressionist style. He held his first solo…
ArchiveRex vs Isaac Tabata
… against I B Tabata for contravening Proclamation 31 of 1939. …