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Extracts from Mandela’s speeches by Sapa, 6 December 2013
… Movement of East and Central Africa, Addis Ababa, January 1962. "South Africa is now a land ruled by the gun. The … and leaving the country without a…
Last of The Gandhians in South Africa
… enormous cost to the Indian and other oppressed people. In 1962, Hercules, the section of Pretoria in which Nanabhai …
Online directory - archives and media sources
National Archives The government archives service in South Africa houses and preserves the state records and other documents that have been collected since…
Women’s Enfranchisement Association of the Union (WEAU)
… white women were enfranchised) this percentage dropped to 10, 9% (Walker 1991, 23). …
ArticleTimeline of the 2014 general elections
… 2013 9 and 10 November 2013, South Africa’s first registration weekend …
EventAssassination attempt on Kwame Nkrumah, first prime and later president of Ghana
… state, with himself as president for life. On 9 September 1962 a little girl was killed and several people were injured …
EventSouth Africa becomes a charter member of the United Nations
… condemnation of apartheid grew, for example on 6 November 1962 the UN General Assembly passed a resolution condemning …
EventGroote Kerk pulpit is officially inaugurated
… Monument under old NMC legislation on 28 September 1962. Beside the church’s great architecture, the other …
ArticleSouth Africa in the 1970s
… were demanding a minimum wage of R30 a week. A day later 10 January 1973 another strike broke out at A.J. Keeler … in New Germany and Jacobs, south of Durban…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1903 - 1923 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… changed its name to Pretoria Muslim Congregation on July 08, 1981. 1906 Cape Muslim population census The State census … Durban Reference Library, Durban …
PlaceRwanda
… of Africa . People began settling in the area as early as 10.000BCE [i] . After several successive waves of migrations … Tutsi [vi] . Rwanda gained…
EventAbdul Samad Minty, anti apartheid activist, is born
… Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa. Between 1962 and 1995 he was the Honorary Secretary of the British …
EventThe South African Football Association (SAFA) is founded
… Africa because of its rigid racial segregation policies in 1962, the FASA sanctioned an interracial match in Maseru in …
EventKaunda calls for Thatcher’s exclusion from talks on South African sanctions
… apartheid government to end its policy of segregation. In 1962, the United Nations established their Special Committee …
EventFormer South African Prime Minister and State President John Vorster is born
… of apartheid laws by introducing the Sabotage Act in 1962. He also greatly increased the number of security police …
ArticleAhmed Mohamed Kathrada Timeline: 1929 - 2017
… due to its ‘political content’ 1944 His Standard 8 (Grade 10) Science and Mathematics teacher, a Mr du Preez, an … underground headquarters of the African…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Glossary
… empires in the world during the 15th and 16th centuries. [10] The Zionists - People who believe in the development and … international cooperation. It was…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1950 - 1959 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… Standard 8: 28 pupils Standard 9: 44 pupils Standard 10: 35 pupils Besides promoting Arabic in schools and … in 1952 in terms of the Group Areas Act of 1950…
ArticleNguni Stick Fighting
… 10.09.2016 ↵ [v] ibid ↵ [vi]ibid ↵ [vii] Cotzee HM, 2002 Zulu …
ArticleMohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) - Timeline: 1890-1899
… member of the Blavatsky Lodge for six months. June 10, Called to the Bar. June 11, Enrolled in the High Court. … of Natal were disfranchised. July 17,…
Glossary: Local History
… age or who are living at the same time. Hectare An area of 10 000 square metres. Hominid Humans and human-like …
ArticleProvincial Leaders
… Council of Provinces (NCOP). The NCOP has 90 members, 10 from each province. This council is supposed to make sure …
EventControversial 'Black Jesus' painter, Ronald Harrison, dies
… Artist, Ronald Harrison caused controversy in 1962 when he painted African National Congress (ANC) leader, …
Doing Oral History
… Roosboom or Enhlonhlweni as it I known in Zulu, is about 10 km from Ladysmith in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN). It is located … offices. The Shaka Day festival, a…
EventHalley’s Comet reaches the closest point to earth
… (online), available at: http://www.solarviews.com[Accessed 10 May 2010] Halley's Comet (online), available at: http://windows2universe.org[Accessed 10 May…
EventThe first part of the South African Press Commission's report is tabled in parliament
… On 19 February 1962, the first part of the South African Press Commission's …
PlaceStikland Cemetery
… by October with lush trees and flowering shrubs as well as 10 different allotments each sub-divided into 46 plots and … arrested during the 1960s and sent to…
ANC to convene Provincial Memorial Services in honour of Madiba, 8 December 2013
… Laying Ceremony Victor Verster Prison, Cape Town 06h00 10 December 2013 National Memorial Service FNB Stadium. …
ArticleThe Cabinet Reshuffle of 2017
… in comparison to the average black household. “Only 10% of the top one hundred companies on the Johannesburg … level is estimated at 72% whilst black…
ArticleBloemfontein Timeline 1824-2010
… June, first municipal commissioner is appointed. 10 June, The first newspaper, The Friend of the Sovereignty …