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ArticleTransvaal Indian Congress (TIC)
The TIC (Transvaal Indian congress) was first called the TBIA (Transvaal British Indian Association) which was founded in 1903. The organization was later…
Umbrella Contemporary Dance Festival
… 1999: The 11th Dance Umbrella was held from February 26 to March 20 and was considered by many as being one of the … 2015: In 2015 the Dance…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1940-1949
… Malan , begins to makes gains as the official opposition. 26 September , The African Democratic Party (ADP) is launched … Xuma issues a statement on the…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1600s
… establishment of a refreshment station at the Cape. 1649 26 July, Date of the well-known 'Remonstrantie' by Leendert … names Diamantberg, Paarlberg and…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1910-1919
… of the divergent interests of the people they represented. 26 March, Imvo Zabantsundu (‘African Opinion’) comments that … Edward Durghardt Du Bois and…
PlaceYzerfontein
Yzerfontein is considered the: ‘Pearl‘, of the West Coast. Yzerfontein, a hidden gem which is only, a pleasant one hour drive from the metropole of Cape Town,…
EventGwala and Mothopeng are released from Robben Island
… Terrorism Act and was sentenced to 15 years in prison on 26 June 1979. Even after their release, both men remained …
List of Laws on Land Dispossession and Segregation
… of its policy of apartheid. Group Areas Act (No: 41) 1950 The Group Areas Act was passed into law in 1950. After its passing, the Act permitted the…
ArticleThe South African general elections: 1994
… of the oppressed and exploited South African people. On 26 April 1994, South Africa’s new flag was raised. South …
Nelson Mandela Timeline 1910-1919
… small number who previously qualified in the Cape Colony . 26 February, Mahatma Gandhi supports the African Peoples …
ArticleThe Influenza epidemic
… followed a series of calamities that included the death of 26 000 women and children in the Anglo-Boer War, the failure …
The girl child
… inability to pay school fees. It has been established that 26 percent of girls in grade 12 in rural areas leave school …
EventMoïse-Kapenda Tshombé becomes the Prime Minister of the Congo
On 10 July 1964 MoÁ¯se-Kapenda Tshombé, leader of the Confederation of Tribal Associations of Katanga, became the Prime Minister of the Congo (now known as…
Notes on the Life of Ernest Cole 1940–1990 by Gunilla Knape
This book and exhibition are an attempt to construct a clear picture of Ernest Cole, a complex man whose work is little known, especially in his own country,…
EventNuclear Test Ban Treaty signed
Representatives of the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain sign a Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which prohibited the testing of nuclear weapons in…
EventKader Asmal, political activist and future Member of Parliament, is born
Kader Asmal political activist, human rights lawyer, former Minister of Education (1999-2004) and of Water Affairs and Forestry (1994-1999); is born in Stanger…
EventThe SA author and journalist, Herman Charles Bosman, shoots and kills his stepbrother David Russell during a quarrel
… editor of South African Opinion and Trek (1944-9). In 1950, Bosman began to write humourous short stories for the …
EventSouth African Parliament votes to repeal the legal framework of Apartheid
… of four Acts, namely, the Population Registration Act of 1950, The Group Areas Act, the Land Act and the Separate …
ArticleJohannesburg the Segregated city
… business rights to a large part of this suburb and, by 1950, property investors had begun to show interest in its … of White opinions prevailing at that time…
ArticleThe Natives Land Act of 1913
… as a tool to limit African political participation. Clause 26 of the Glen Grey Act was thus aimed at meeting the threat … to work for your white masters.”…
PlaceMbotyi, Eastern Cape
… or adventurous getaway. The Mbotyi river Lodge is 26 km from Lusikisiki, easily accessible by car and has an …
ANC National Executive Committee by ANC, December, 2012, 53rd ANC Annual Conference, Mangaung
… Gigaba, Malusi 24. Godongwana, Enoch 25. Gordhan, Pravin 26. Hanekom, Derek 27. Joemat-Petterson, Tina 28. Jordan, …
ArchiveRemembering Hugh Masekela: the horn player with a shrewd ear for music of the day by Gwen Ansell (The Conversation), 23 January 2018
… Kirk Douglas’s acting and Harry James’s trumpet, in the 1950 movie “Young Man With A Horn”. Masekela saw the film as …
29. Removal to locations: the people are terrified
… Pachai In a Notice published in the Staats Courant of 26 April 1899, the Transvaal Government announced its … as are granted to the other communities in town…
ArchiveSouth Africa and the Communist International : A Documentary History, Volume 2 : Bolshevik Footsoldiers to Victims of Bolshevisation 1931-1939 edited by A. Davidson, I. Filatova, V. Gorodnov and S. Johns
… October 1932 Document 17 Letter from S.P. Bunting to ECCI, 26 October 1932 Document 18 Report of Committee of Opponents … Party of Great Britain, 12…
PlaceWits Art Museum
… the Nelson Mandela Bridge . Its’ collections begun in the 1950’s and was known as the first collecting institution that …
SASPU National, 1980 - 1987
SASPU National was one of two publications produced by the South African Students Press Union (SASPU), the other being SASPU Focus. A non-profit newspaper,…
Document 67 - Letter from the African Metal Trades Union, Johannesburg, to the Workers’ Party of South Africa, 21 February 1937
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 67 - Letter from the African …
EventPAC’s leader, Potlako Leballo confirms that Poqo is the organisation’s military wing
… 7 April 1960), but the CPSA was banned earlier in 1950 under the Suppression of Communism Act, and re-launched …
Centenary of the 1913 Land Act By Colin Bundy, 18 April 2013
… controls saw the black urban population fall from 29% to 26%. Water can indeed be made to flow uphill if the social …