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ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement Timeline 1903-2009
… Movement (NEUM) form other organisations in the Cape and Natal. However none of these organisations survives long, … him when he enters St Francis College at…
EventDr Joshua Nkomo African nationalist and guerrilla leader is born.
… at Tjolotjo School.In 1941 he travelled to Durban, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) and enrolled at Adams College at Amanzimtoti, south of …
EventSAIC Executive meets in Cape Town
… launched by the Passive Resistance Councils (PRC) of Natal and the Transvaal. SAIC also decided to send a … United Nations. Ashwin Choudree, delegate of the…
Biographical contribution on Nozizwe Charlotte Madlala-Routledge
… Nozizwe Charlotte Born : 29 June 1952, Magog, KwaZulu-Natal In Summary : A student activist aligned to the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM), leader of the…
PlaceKwaDukuza
… halfway station between the Zulus and the settlers of Port Natal [Durban]. The huge settlement was known as KwaDukuza, … site in 1872 and named after the…
EventAfrikaans becomes the official language of the Union of South Africa
… it consisted of the Transvaal, the Orange Free State, Natal and the Cape Province. Dutch and English were the two … was unanimously adopted by three…
EventThe Rev. John Langalibalele Dube dies
… founder and first editor of the Zulu newspaper Ilanga lase Natal (now Ilanga), dies in Umhlanga, Natal. He was the first Black person to receive an honorary…
PlaceKwaMashu
… The development of KwaMashu Township, in the KwaZulu-Natal province and located some 19km north of Durban , … and who was a member of the Legislative…
Article1973 Durban Strikes Conference , 26-28 January 2023 - Celebrating 50 Years
… Town (UCT) Department of Sociology, University of KwaZulu Natal (UKZN), the Chris Hani Institute and Workers College …
BiographyNöel Robb
Nöel Robb (nee Barrow) was born on 25 December 1913, in Plymouth, England. She was the third child of Benjamin Wingate Barrow, a naval officer and his wife,…
EventBhambatha becomes chief
… (1906 uprising) as reported by J. L. Dube in Ilanga Lase Natal, with special focus on Dube's attitude to Dinizulu as … Master of Arts (History) dissertation,…
EventGen. Louis Botha, soldier, statesman and first prime minister of the Union of South Africa, is born.
… of the Union of South Africa, is born near Greytown, Natal (now kwaZulu Natal). A Boer general and statesman, he was leader of the …
ArchiveCHAPTER 2 - You only win once by Howard Barrell
… and trade unionism, which had become evident in strikes in Natal in 1973. Within some church circles a similar … abroad through Ray Simons, then in exile in…
Passive Resistance, 1946 by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Special Focus: Wrangling between political groups - 1948
… Congress, which had been formally joined the Cape and Natal Indian Congress, appealed against a Cape Division of … wonder what the reactions of our Communist…
ArticleUnited Democratic Front timeline 1983-1990
… committee consists of members from the Transvaal TASC, the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) and the Release Mandela … canvassed so regional structures can also be…
The Indian People In South Africa: Facts: About The Ghetto Act
… Indian labourers, who were indentured by the Governmentof Natal from 1860 onwards to work in the sugar fields. We … the Government of India. In terms of this…
Rejuvenation of the ANC and intensification of the struggle 1940s
… the Union. In 1947 the ANC signed an agreement with the Natal and Transvaal Indian Congresses, and formed the …
ArticleContemporary issues: Women’s struggle, 1900-1994
… Africa are faced with, the lack of access to adequate pre-natal and HIV-treatment seems to be the most common. Under …
ArticlePrehistory of the Bloemfontein area
… indicates that the Fokeng moved up from northern KwaZulu-Natal and were originally Nguni speaking. Type N walling, as …
EventWinnie Mandela at Johannesburg Magistrate’s court
… a strike. This was after he had been arrested near Howick, Natal (Kwazulu Natal) on 5 August 1962. Winnie Mandela who was Mandela’s …
EventSouth Africa holds a referendum to decide if SA should become a republic
… Province, though also in favour, had a smaller majority. Natal (now kwaZulu Natal), which was inhabited by more English-speaking whites …
EventChief Albert Luthuli, Nobel Peace Prize winner and former President of the ANC, is killed in Groutville
… Apartheid regime in Groutville, (then) Stanger, KwaZulu-Natal. Chief Luthuli was President-General of the African … in Zimbabwe, in 1898, the Chief's family…
EventFifty killed over three days during Inkatha
… (IFP) and United Democratic Front (UDF) supporters in Natal, South Africa, following the release of Mandela on 11 … reason was that the UDF was growing in…
EventThambi Naidoo mobilises the Indians
… 1913, Thambi Naidoo mobilised the Indians at Newcastle, Natal (KwaZulu Natal) Colony to start the Satyagraha Campaign (Passive …
EventPixley Seme, lawyer, journalist and co-founder of SANNC is born
… ka Isaka Seme was born at the Inanda mission station in Natal (now kwaZulu Natal). Seme was a founding member of the South African …
EventValliamma Munuswamy Mudaliar, SA political activist dies from a fever
… of other women in an illegal march from the Transvaal to Natal. In October 1913, once again mother and daughter were part of the second batch of women who…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Report on Delegations, Publications and Organisations of the PRC
… nearly a third of the total amount contributed to the Natal Council funds. An outstanding and highly successful … of PRC Work At the height of the campaign…
ArticleThe Union of South Africa: Movement towards Republic
… Discontent was welling up among many black people in Natal, particularly with regard to the allocation of land for … burdens that the colonial government…
Indian Community
… set aside several locations for Indians in areas around Natal. But living conditions in these areas were poor as … 30 pupils. By 1883, 21 mission schools…
ArticleWomen, employment and the changing economic scene, 1920s
… (Wells 1993: 66-67; 73-74). The role of women in the Natal beer riots in 1929 ICU women members, beer halls and … The regulations placed on the brewing of…