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EventBomb meant for Kangaroo Court judge, May Ledwaba kills sleeping William Ledwaba
… policemen involved seems to be the correct date, and not 19 September as indicated by Coleman. …
EventFormer Minister of Defence and others are charged with murder
… African Defence Force Minister, General Magnus Malan and 19 other former senior military officers were charged in the …
EventThe Rand Revolt strikers’ stronghold at Fordsburg Square falls to the government
… with high treason and the possession of loot. From 15 to 19 March 1922, government troops cleared the areas of snipers …
EventAsiatic Law Amendment Act is passed in Transvaal parliament leading to increased Indian protest under MK Gandhi
… [online], available at: sahistory.org.za [accessed 19 March 2009] …
PlaceFort Wiltshire
… by the British military during the frontier war of 1818-19, and was named in honour of Lt-Col Thomas Wiltshire of the …
Defining the term 'Bantu'
The following article is based on an essay from Kees van der Waal’s chapter in “Critical Essays on Afrikaans Places of Memory” The term ‘Bantu has gone…
ArticleThe Arrival of Jan Van Riebeeck in the Cape - 6 April 1652
… food dwindled and at the end of the winter approximately 19 men had died. The arrival of Van Riebeeck marked the …
ArticleIndian South Africans
From bondage to freedom - The 160th anniversary of the arrival of Indian workers in South Africa The feature on Indian South Africans forms part of our…
PlaceRobben Island Museum
… in South Africa and Namibia from 1948 until 1990. In 1959. A maximum-security prison started to operate on Robben …
PlaceSoweto, Johannesburg
… non-European affairs , initiated the naming of Soweto in 1959. He called for a competition to give a collective name …
ArticleDr Alfred Bitini Xuma Timeline 1893-1998
… ), at his home in Sophiatown. December 1958-February 1959: Xuma meets with representatives of the South African Bureau for Racial Affairs (SABRA). 1959 17…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter I - The Missionary Movement where it came from
From the book: The Role of the Missionaries in conquest by Nosipho Majeke THE COMING of the missionaries to Southern Africa at the end of the 18th century…
EventSA's Fifa membership reinstated
… than comply with the South African apartheid policies. In 1959 Fifa issued an ultimatum that the South African football …
PlaceRosebank, Cape Town
… reached Rosebank, (the southern suburbs train route) on 19 December 1864. The Suburb of Rosebank is similarly Home to … The railway line from Salt River…
PlaceMalay Quarter, Cape Town
The area, known as the Malay Quarter of Cape Town, nestles against the steep slopes of Signal Hill. It formerly covered a much larger piece of land but this…
PlaceBo-Kaap Museum
Situated at the foot of Signal Hill, on the fringe of the city centre, and formerly known as the Malay Quarter, the Bo-Kaap’s origins date back to the 1760s…
EventAssassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand
19th century Europe had a complex system of political and military alliances in place. The assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Serbian…
EventBritain and Egypt sign the Suez Canal agreement.
… and agreed to the Suez Canal Agreement. This was signed on 19 October 1954, and involved the withdrawal of Britain's … Available at: www.geography.about.com …
EventGeneral H. Van Den Bergh blames the SACP for anti
… On 19 November 1970 the head of the Bureau of State Security …
EventUDF activist Toto Dweba’s mutilated body is found
… that her husband was abducted from his place of work on 19 August 1985. He was fatally stabbed and mutilated in …
EventHouse of Representatives impeaches American President Bill Clinton
… An impeachment inquiry was set in place, and on 19 December 1998, the House of Representatives impeached …
EventSouth Africa completes destroying its stockpile of anti-personnel mines
… on the manufacture and use Anti-Personnel landmines. On 19 February 1997 the South African cabinet resolved to …
EventWorld War I begins
19th century Europe had a complex system of political and military alliances in place. The assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Serbian…
EventArrival of Chinese labourers in South Africa
… that terminated with compulsory repatriation. On the 19 June 1904, the first Chinese labourers thus arrived at the … [online], Available at www.chineseforum…
PlaceRobert Sobukwe Town, was called Graaf-Reinet
The oldest town in the Eastern Cape, the fourth oldest in South Africa and certainly one of the most atmospheric, Graaff-Reinet lies enclosed by a bend in the…
PlaceOliewenhuis Art Museum
… of wild olive trees growing on the surrounding hills. On 19 July 1985, after prolonged campaigning by the art loving …
EventFirst celebration of International Women’s Day
… European countries in March 1911. It was celebrated on 19 March and over a million men and women took to the streets …
ArchiveChimamanda Ngozi Adichie: A Reformist-Feminist by Charles Nwosu
… worried about what to wear, so as to be taken seriously. [19] She worried that if she appeared too feminine she would … The Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Website,…
ArchiveHow China broke the chain of infection by Vijay Prashad
… Control Measures During the First 50 Days of the Covid-19 Epidemic in China – proposes that if the Chinese … there would have been 744 000 additional…
ArticleThe Contentious Relationship Between Ngqika And Ndlambe
… led the Rharhabe people of the Amaxhosa in the early 19 th century. Their relationship is of significance … she was returned before the matter became a big…