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EventDutch Foreign Minister Luns is asked by the Johannesburg
… On 16 February 1960, the Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs …
EventThe Ncome Museum is opened
… confrontation between the Voortrekkers and amaZulu on 16 December 1838. The Ncome Monument and Museum Complex is …
EventPortuguese explorer Bartholomew Dias anchors at Walvis Bay
… was on this homewards journey that he reached False Bay on 16 May 1488 and named it the Cape of Good Hope. In 1910, …
PlaceRhodes
… It was laid out on the farm Tintern, and was proclaimed on 16 September 1891. The village was named after Cecil John …
ArticleThe Western Cape Farm Workers Strike 2012-2013
… was inspired by the Marikana Massacre that occurred on 16 August 2012, where the South African Police Service (SAPS) … to review minimum wages in the…
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1900-1909
… labour. Writes to Naoroji on same matter. February 16, Enrolls at Bar and settles down in Johannesburg. May 6, … and repeal Act May 15, Smuts rejects Gandhi…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1970 - 1979
… of Michael Harmel in Prague, Czechoslovakia. December 16, Dadoo speaks at the laying of the memorial stone at the … French Communist Party. June, Dadoo…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1654-1899
… to discourage the settlement of Indians in Natal. 1860 16 November, the first batch of 342 indentured Indian … Act is extended to girls aged 13 and older and…
ANC statement on the high court`s ruling against IT, 29 October 1998
The ANC has noted with disappointment the verdict of the High Court - Cape Division on the case between itself and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. …
Not in My Neighbourhood Documentary
… Najma Nuriddin and Kurt Otabenga Orderson. When: Tuesday 16 June (it's a PUBLIC HOLIDAY!!) Time: 6.30pm Where: The …
EventFirst Indian workers arrive in South Africa
… first group of Indian workers arrived in Durban harbour on 16 November 1860 aboard the ship “Truro”. British farmers …
EventNelson Mandela receives a hero’s welcome in New York
… 000 city police officers, 4 super-insulated bomb trucks, 16 teams of demolition experts, helicopters, boats, a …
EventThe first flight in Kimberley takes off
… flights to the public. The dates of 6 June 1911 and 16 June 1911 are respectively given in two other sources for …
Gold and Workers 1886 - 1924 by Luli Callinicos
… Workers Chapter 15 - White Workers and Colour Bar Chapter 16 - Black Workers' Resistance on the Mines Chapter 17 - The …
EventTito Mboweni, former Governor of the SA Reserve Bank, is born in Tzaneen
… Tito Mboweni was born on 16 March 1959, in Tzaneen Limpopo. After completing his high …
EventThe Azanian People’s Organisation is formed
… 19 October 1977 for their role in the resistance and the 16 June 1976 uprisings. The organisation sought to apply the …
EventSipho Malaza allegedly dies in detention
… suicide by hanging in the Krugersdorp police cells on 16 November 1977. Another document gives the date of his …
EventDanie Malan, SA athlete, sets a new world record in the 1 000m event in Munich
… There he set the world record time for the event, at 2.16.0. South Africa's isolation from international competition …
EventPolice break up demonstrations against South African rebel Cricket Tour
… inflamed the acrimony aganist the tour was that the 16 England players who went on the tour received financial …
EventPercy Qoboza, influential anti-Apartheid journalist, dies
… directed at the Apartheid regime especially after the June 16 Uprisings in Soweto . At the time of his death, Qoboza was …
EventCleric and anti-apartheid activist, Mpilo Desmond Tutu is ordained as Archbishop of Cape Town
… as Archbishop, Tutu was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on 16 October 1984 for his untiring efforts in calling for an …
EventRailway line between Cape Town and Beira in Mozambique is completed
… the South African War(Anglo-Boer War II, 1899-1902). On 16 February 1898, the first regular freight service began. …
EventSekhukhune successfully resists the Boers
… during a protracted Boer/Bapedi land ownership dispute. On 16 May 1876, the Volksraad of the South African Republic …
EventSir Ronald Ross, discoverer of the malaria mosquito is born
… Director-in Chief of the Ross Institute until his death in 16 September 1932. …
EventPolice increase their presence in Soweto
… Following the 16 June 1976 Soweto protest and the killing and injuring of …
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1903 - 1923 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… Muslim children in the field of education. On April 05, 1920, M A Gamiet, President of the Association, testified … as well as the Muslim community until his…
ArticleThe ‘four nation’ thesis
… and the Language of Non-racialism’, 15. ↵ [9] Ibid, 16. ↵ [10] Neville Alexander, ‘100 Years of the African …
ArticleThe Founding of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF)
… 13.Hlengiwe Hlophe 14.Marshall Dlamini 15.Mpho Ramakatsa 16.Sam Matiase 17.Alfred Motsi 18.Parks Khayane 19.Patrick …
A Message to Every Voter from the African National Congress, April 1958
… last resort are responsible for the Government. On April 16 you are going to exercise your right to vote for your …
The armed struggle and state repression of the 1960s
… many people were killed. The first act by MK took place on 16 December 1961, and during the next 18 months the group …