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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 …
EventEmily Chinea is the first woman to be officially executed in SA
… topic: The first women to be executed in the Cape and Transvaal The first documented woman of the Cape to be hanged … woman to be condemned to death and…
69. ‘Moderate Indians’ form the Natal Indian Organisation
… Indian Organisation, was established. The Natal I. O. and Transvaal I.O. became affiliate members of this national … in the Indian community and to the…
ArchiveBibliography by Howard Barrell
… versus Baleka and Others. Supreme Court of South Africa. Transvaal Provincial Division. Record, in Department of … South Africa (Johannesburg: Ravan Press,…
ArticleThe Roots of Segregation: 1860-1910
… State and further north, across the Vaal River into the Transvaal region. In essence the frontier farmers believed … and, especially, the rich gold deposits …
ArticleYoung Communist League of South Africa (YCLSA)
… Branches are being established in various centres in the Transvaal, Cape Colony and Natal, and it has long passed the … the YCL fell into the background…
ArticleThe 1913 Mineworkers’ Strike
… and for the industrialisation of the country. They saw the Transvaal as ruled by a Republican government that … has declared war against the working class of…
ArticleIndustrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU)
… Kadalie A new membership drive into rural areas of Natal, Transvaal, and the Orange Free State later in the same year …