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ArticleRock art as an expression of hunter-gatherer society and world-view
… touch them. Museums where we can learn about Rock Art The Transvaal Museum in Pretoria. The Johannesburg Rock Art …
EventThe Aula, auditorium of the University of Pretoria, is opened by the Governor
… The University of Pretoria (UP), previously known as the Transvaal University College (TUKS) was founded in 1908, and …
EventGreat Trek Centenary Celebrations commence
… of the republics of Natalia, the Orange Free State and the Transvaal. Among the reasons for the trek was the general …
EventP.W. Botha becomes Prime Minister
… die." The right wing elements in the NP, especially in the Transvaal, resisted Botha's suggestion and for some years the …
EventZulu King Zwelithini threatens to establish a separate Zulu state
… on the old Boer republics of the Orange Free State and the Transvaal. In 1951, the Bantu Authorities Act established a …
EventInterim report into the allegations of a “Third Force” by the Goldstone Commission is published
… supply of weapons to Inkatha. Senior Inkatha leader in the Transvaal, Themba Khoza, was also implicated in these …
Document 59 - Letter from Ruth First to The Secretary, South African Institute of Race Relations’, 17 August 1944
… labour which will be moved at a special congress of the Transvaal Agricultural Union in Pretoria on August 17. The …
EventLord Alfred Milner, British Colonial Secretary, and architect of the Union of South Africa dies
… formation of Union. Milner arrived at a compromise. The Transvaal and Orange Free State were allowed to have …
Commemorating the 55th death anniversary of Suliman Saloojee
… 33). He was a legal clerk and a member of the renowned Transvaal Indian Congress and the Transvaal Indian Youth Congress. He was also a prominent …
Chapter 9 - Division weakens the movement
… the rank and file, or account for funds, etc." [53] At the Transvaal ANC conference in October 1957, the provincial … the Africanists moved a vote of no…
PlaceBoys High School, Pretoria
… the government of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (later Transvaal) in central Pretoria. This school was not in …
EventThe United Democratic Front (UDF) is dissolved
… the UDF, and women's organisations like the Federation of Transvaal Women (FEDTRAW) were UDF affiliates and sought not …
EventLinguist and educationist Sedumedi Moloto is born
… of schools. In the latter capacity he served the Western Transvaal from Krugersdorp in the east to Supingstad near …
EventDr Robert Broom is born
… accepted the position of assistant palaeontologist at the Transvaal Museum in Pretoria. It was there that he began to …
EventMahatma Gandhi leaves the Tolstoy Farm 1913
… and non-violent campaigns left the Tolstoy Farm in Transvaal (now known as the Gauteng Province). After being …
Introduction
… in the agitation, set loose by whites first in Natal and Transvaal, and soon afterwards in the Orange Free State and …
50. The campaign resumed in 1913
… hostile to a honourable existence of the community in the Transvaal, my countrymen solemnly decided in the month of … for the whole of the Union instead of…
Chapter 5. A Rebel’s Daughter - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… I was born and brought up in the Lichtenburg District, Transvaal. Both my father and my grandfather fought in the … of Cape Town were even worse exploited…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 1: The Industrial Revolution in Britain and Southern Africa from 1860
… the Orange Free State and the South African Republic (Transvaal). Those who sought to make their fortunes in the … In 1854 the Orange Free State was…
ArticleSouth African Students Movement (SASM)
… 1971). The third campaign saw the ASM pitted against the Transvaal United African Teachers Association, which … school-going students, and in September 1972…
ArticleThe turbulent 1950s - Women as defiant activists
… Leaguers, trade unionists, members of the SAIC, of the Transvaal All-Women's Union and of the Congress of Democrats … Ida Mtwana (ANC Women's League), Josie…
Rustenburg the Segregated city
… the slaves of Boers from Lydenburg and other areas in the Transvaal. They were Afrikaans speaking black people … of the border, they came under the…
Document 105 - John Gomas, “Cape Town: Liberation League Activities”, South African Worker, 17 April 1937
… does happen, the latter will, like Indians and Natives in Transvaal, be deprived of and forfeit the right to own land … of Asiatics to own land, property and…
ArchiveA Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai
… 26. Johannesburg merchants answer their detractors 27. Transvaal Indians respond to the 1895 arbitration decision … reviewed by Indian Opinion 41. Statement…
PlaceNZASM Station, George Norton Street, Krugersdorp
… and is one of the last surviving structures of the old Transvaal railway system. It was declared a National Monument …
EventAbdul Samad Minty, anti apartheid activist, is born
… Abdul Samad Minty was born in Hartebeesfontein, Northern Transvaal (now known as Limpopo Province). In June 1958 he …
EventPenny Heyns, South African swimming star, is born.
… Heyns, was born on the 8th of November 1974 in Springs, Transvaal. Her parents later moved to the Natal South Coast. …
EventSouth African artist Gerard Sekoto is born
… the Pedi community in the Middelburg district of the Transvaal (now Mpumalanga). He was the son of Andreas Sekoto, …
EventFawcett Commission into Concentration Camps in South Africa
… They found that the camps in the Orange Free State and Transvaal were the most inhumane. Here, up to 3 500 captives …
EventC. Lindenberg Letty, botanical artist, is born
… Cynthia Lindenberg Letty was born in Standerton, in the old Transvaal Province in 1895. She was the eldest of five …