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EventMbhazima Shilowa, former premier of Gauteng, is born
… Samuel (Sam) Shilowa, was born in Olifantshoek in the Transvaal (now Limpopo Province.) After High School, Shilowa …
EventState of Emergency follows Sharpeville massacre
… in Langa and Nyanga, Cape Town and Sharpeville, in the Transvaal. At Sharpeville, police opened fire on the …
Document 7 - The Freedom Charter
… from 1860 German Lutherans laboured among the Pedi of the Transvaal (who remain in the least Christianised today). By … still predominantly rural. However,…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Pretoria East
… the areas known later as the Orange Free State, Natal and Transvaal. Many new churches have arisen and the need for … State has its own synod in 1864,…
Say It out Loud - The 1935 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 2nd January, 1935
… also changed, and there was grave danger that the Transvaal basis of " no equality between black and white in … VI and above 1815 were in the Cape Province,…
68. Passive resistance 1946-1947
… to occupy municipal and Crown lands in controlled areas. TRANSVAAL PASSIVE RESISTANCE COUNCIL The Transvaal was not far behind Natal in organising for ……
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Foreword
… Progressives within the Natal Indian Congress and the Transvaal Indian Congress had initiated the new strategy of … the conservatives led by the Kajee-Pather…
Draft Report of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, submitted to the Annual Conference, December 15-17, 1950
… Day" when people were advised not to go to work in the Transvaal. On April, 1950, MR. C.S. RAMOHANOE, the Transvaal-President, issued a statement asking the…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter XI - Completion of military conquest
… was done to out-manoeuvre both the "Free State" and the Transvaal, both of whom claimed it for obvious reasons. With … Campbell lands, while M. W. Pretorius,…
ArticleThe history of Migrant Labour in South Africa
… Department in 1893 to focus on resources in the former Transvaal. The Department was established to primarily focus … it had already recruited 100 082 Black…
ArchiveConcentration camps in the South African War? Here are the real facts by Fransjohan Pretorius, (The Conversation), February 18, 2019
… campaign against two small Afrikaner republics: the ZAR (Transvaal) and the Orange Free State. The scandalous campaign … to end the war. But after the…
Say It out Loud - A letter to the Coloured People of South Africa
… was read into it by some of the political leaders of the Transvaal immediately after the publication of the Draft Act … as members of Parliament. ( sic ) In…
Hundred years of resistance, E.S. Reddy, 29 January 2012
… during a lull in the passive resistance movement in the Transvaal, hailed the event as representing “the awakening of … and immigration restrictions against…
PlaceKilnerton Training Institution
… the Rev. Owen Watkins started a “Trial Mission” in the Transvaal which was based in Pretoria (now Tshwane) . One unique feature of the Methodist mission in…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.3 No.4 Dec-Jan 1980
… Miriam Makeba by Nkoana Moyaga Back: Evictions, Eastern Transvaal by Ralph Ndawo Columns and Features VOICES FROM THE …
EventPresident Paul Kruger and Sir Alfred Milner meet in Bloemfontein to discuss the franchise question
… secret agreement between the two presidents, to assist the Transvaal in the event of a war with England. The South …
EventWW2 veteran Job Masego dies
… veteran, who sunk a German supply boat, died in Springs, Transvaal (now in Ekurhuleni Municipality), after being …
EventThe Draft South Africa Act is signed
… National Convention held by four British colonies, namely, Transvaal, Orange, Natal and Cape, the draft South Africa Act …
EventOrigin of Johannesburg’s name is explained
… of authority in the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR or Transvaal Republic) or were involved in events leading to the …
EventEmily Hobhouse is born
… British in the Orange Free State (now Free State) and the Transvaal. Horrified by the ghastly conditions in the …
EventAdoption of the Orange Free State constitution
… the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR), also known as the Transvaal Republic, were engaged in a war against the …
EventPieter Willem Frederik Wenning, SA painter, is born in The Hague, Netherlands
… live in South Africa in 1905. Though he had settled in the Transvaal, he travelled all over South Africa and developed a …
EventEugene Terre Blanche, controversial leader of the AWB ( Afrikaner Resistance Movement), is born in Ventersdorp.
… organisation, in a garage in Heidelberg, in the then Transvaal (now Gauteng ). The AWB’s intention was to …
EventPeter “Terror” Mathebula dies
… champion boxer died. Mathebula was born on 3 July 1952, in Transvaal (now Gauteng ). A flyweight division boxer, … compatriot Sydwell Mhlongo in Rabosotho…
Document 47. Minutes of the Annual Conference of the ANC, December 15-19, 1949
… the National Executive, 23 from Cape Province, 41 from the Transvaal, 2 from Natal, and 23 from the Orange Free State.] … Mr. L.K.Ntlabati added that pending…
Chapter 15. The African Worker-A Policeman and Pair Of Handcuffs Always Waiting - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… of the Industrial Council for the Clothing Industry, Transvaal, the labour force in the clothing industry in the … cent to 70.6 per cent. For the clothing…
EventNatal votes for the formation of the Union of South Africa
… the Cape and Natal, and the Afrikaaner republics of the Transvaal and Orange Free State into the Union of South …
EventRichard J. Goldstone, former Justice of the Constitutional Court of SA, is born
… and couple of years later he was made the judge of the Transvaal Supreme Court. Towards the end of apartheid, … gaza Conflict ’from United Nations Human…
EventHerman Charles Bosman guilty of murder
… was then teaching in the Marico district of North-Western Transvaal, became involved in a quarrel with his stepbrother …
EventTreason Trial of 16 UDF members resumes
… members of the UDF. The rest were members of UDF-aligned Transvaal or Natal Indian Congress (TIC and NIC).The trial …