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ArticleAzanian Students Organisation (AZASO)
… by at least 15 branches from institutions in the Transvaal, Western Cape, Natal and the Eastern Cape. Despite …
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Support from persons and Organisation - 1948
… It is a very large country. Indians wishing to go to the Transvaal from Natal can do so only if they have a permit. … on their movements. Many have succeeded…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1920-1929
… on Dingaan's Day . 1922 The Stallard Report of the Transvaal Local Government Commission recommends allowing … of African freehold title in the Urban Areas…
Devout domesticity? A century of African women's Christianity in South Africa by Deborah Gaitskell
… from 1860 German Lutherans laboured among the Pedi of the Transvaal (who remain in the least Christianised today). By … still predominantly rural. However,…
Introduction
… Association, the Natal Indian Patriotic Union, and the Transvaal Indian Political Association were founded and began …
PlaceDiamond Hill Battle, Garden of Remembrance
… and rail links were repeatedly being disrupted. The Transvaal commandos were despondent and exhausted after …
Event”Ghetto Act” or The Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act No 28 of 1946 is passed
… signed in 1947 between the African National Congress, the Transvaal Indian Congress and the Natal Indian Congress, to …
EventEvelyn Dalberg, SA opera singer, is born in Germany
… mezzo-soprano roles for PACT (Performing Arts Council of Transvaal). Dalberg also sang for CAPAB (Cape Performing …
EventThe SA author and journalist, Herman Charles Bosman, shoots and kills his stepbrother David Russell during a quarrel
… district of the North West Province (then North-West Transvaal). On 18 July 1926, while home on vacation in …
EventElectricity cut off in Tumahole township
… in Tumahole Township, Free State was cut off after the Transvaal provincial authority decided that it would no …
EventSA author, Nadine Gordimer, is born
… for Literature, Nadine Gordimer , was born in Springs, Transvaal (now known as Gauteng).One of South Africa’s most …
EventThe Vereeniging peace conference begins
… On 15 May 1902, thirty delegates from each republic, Transvaal and Orange Free State attended the Peace …
EventThe South African War: The lifting of the siege of Mafeking
… British to withdraw their soldiers from the border of the Transvaal. When the British failed to heed the instruction, …
EventThe second Anglo-Boer war, also known as the South African war, breaks out
… Boer republics that were involved in the conflict were the Transvaal and the Orange Free State Republics. In the …
EventVoortrekkers are defeated during the Battle of Boomplaats
… Voortrekkers to flee north of the Vaal River and into the Transvaal. The Battle of Boomplaats was a direct result of …
PlaceuMnambithi was called Ladysmith
… hunters on their way to the gold fields in the then Transvaal , and the diamond diggings at Kimberley . Today, it … staging- post for fortune-hunters en…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Special Focus: Wrangling between political groups - 1946
… over leadership in the time of their countries' need said. Transvaal Wrangling While the Indian Community is facing a crisis, the people in the Transvaal are…
Bibliographical note and further reading
… and the Secretary of State for the Colonies (C.O.); in the Transvaal Archives, we found material in the series … Other works include B. Pillay, British…
PlaceUniversity of Pretoria
… of; the University of Pretoria. The Pretoria branch of the Transvaal University College (TUC) was the forerunner of the … derived from the acronym for the…
ArticleApartheid Legislation 1850's-1970's
… prevented Indian ownership of land in White areas. The Transvaal Dealers (Control) Ordinance No 11 of 1925 This … Asiatics in the Northern Districts of Natal…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1903 - 1923 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… the country, and was the most effective institution in the Transvaal for mobilising merchants and workers. The Hamidia … as imams of the masjid: Maulana…
PlaceAlbertynhof, Kimberley
… and Relief and Secretary of the Dutch Reformed Church in Transvaal and 1949 to 1956 Secretary of the Federal Poor …
EventThe Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act is introduced
… the chairman of the Natal Indian Congress and Dadoo of the Transvaal Indian Congress. After the act was passed, a day of …
EventSimon Petros Matseke, prominent in African social and political life, dies in Pretoria
… Speaker and Organizer in the 1930s. He was a member of the Transvaal African Congress (TAC) and eventually succeeded …
EventUmkhonto We Sizwe, military wing of the ANC, claims responsibility for power station blast
… occurred at two electrical power stations in the Eastern Transvaal, causing several millions Rands worth of damage. MK …
EventMohandas K. Gandhi is arrested as he leads a march of Indian miners in South Africa
… later, an act was introduced in which all Indians in the Transvaal were required to carry a pass. Under Gandhi's …
EventGeneral Louis Botha wins elections
… and republics - Cape Colony, Natal (now kwaZulu Natal), Transvaal and Orange Free State (now Free State) - together …
EventSA artist Ernest Methuen Mancoba is born
… artist Ernest Methuen Mancoba was born in Boksburg, Transvaal. He left for Paris to further his studies in 1938. …
EventGeneral De la Rey protests British mistreatment of women and children
… 1899 and was the result of the British annexation of the Transvaal, soon after gold had been discovered in the region …
PlaceCurry's Post
… travellers - made this their stop en route to the old ‘Transvaal’ reef. The Curry’s Post of today is considered …