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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 …
EventValliamma Munuswamy Mudaliar, SA political activist dies from a fever
… a large group of other women in an illegal march from the Transvaal to Natal. In October 1913, once again mother and …
EventEduardo Mondlane, president of FRELIMO, dies
… his secondary school education at Lemana in Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo) after which he registered at Wits …
EventAn inquest into the death in detention of the white trade union leader, Dr. Neil Aggett opens
… with astonishment and anger. On 05 February 1982, Aggett, Transvaal organiser of the Food and Canning Workers Union and …
EventTwo psychiatrists give evidence on the proceedings of David Beresford Pratt’s case
… in Pretoria before Justice Rumpff, Judge-President of the Transvaal (now known as Gauteng). The Magaliesberg farmer was …
EventZulu army defeat British Army at the Isandlwana Mountain
… until 1896 between the fragments of the Zulu kingdom, the Transvaal and the British. The battlefield of …
ArticleKKNK – Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees
… Gerrit Geersema (1994), former director of TRUK (The Transvaal Council for Performing Arts), the dramaturge Pieter …
ArticleAfrikaner Jewry in South Africa
… Lazarus’s maize (‘ mealie ’) farms of Middelburg, Eastern Transvaal were of such importance during the Second World War …
Soweto and mounting pressure on the apartheid state, 1970s
… Town. Later, after her banishment to rural Northern Transvaal, she set up the Isutheng Community Health …
ArticleThe Inquest into Biko’s Death and his funeral
… he died. In judgment handed down Judge President of the Transvaal Justice W. G. Boshoff said that there was prima …
EventSouth African historian Charles van Onselen is born.
… 1944, in the South African town of Boksburg, Gauteng (then Transvaal).[i] van Onselen has become one of the most widely …
Say It out Loud by Mohamed Adhikari
… Cape The 1912 Presidential Address, Johannesburg, Transvaal, 1st January, 1912 The 1913 Presidential Address, …
EventAfrikaner nationalists rebel against a Union Jack in new South African flag
… towards the hoist from the centre and the flag of the Transvaal spread towards the fly. …
EventSoweto agrees to pay rent
… between the Soweto People's Delegation (SPD) and,and the Transvaal Provincial Administration an agreement was reached …
EventChief Malaboch is taken prisoner
… traditional mountain kingdom of Blouberg as ordered by the Transvaal Republic (ZAR) Government. The authorities took …
EventFormer Springboks player, Naas Botha is born
… born on the 27 of February 1958 in Breyten, in the Eastern Transvaal (now Mpumalanga). He schooled in Pretoria, where he …
EventDinizulu succeeds his father, Cetshwayo, as King of the Zulus.
… districts of the neighbouring South African Republic (the Transvaal). *Dinizulu is also spelt as Dinuzulu. …