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EventSouth African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) is formed
… African Communist Party (SACP), the ANC, South African Indian Congress (SAIC) and the South African Coloured …
EventThe first OK Bazaars opens on the corner of Eloff and President Street in Johannesburg
… in small towns throughout the country, for example, where Indian traders had set up general stores. Despite this, OK …
EventNatal Law society apologises to Gandhi
… Natal Law Society opposed his application because he was Indian. The president of the Natal Law Society, David …
EventM.K. Gandhi is forcibly removed from a whites-only train carriage
… according to race. Gandhi was practising as a young Indian lawyer in South Africa at the time, and this event …
EventSir Ronald Ross, discoverer of the malaria mosquito is born
… Hospital Medical College. In 1881 he joined the Indian medical service and visited Madras, Burma and Andaman …
EventBritain proposes the sale of arms to South Africa
… of maritime trade routes in the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Britain's proposal threatened to cause the …
ArticlePass laws in South Africa 1800-1994
… Bloemfontein, had a population of 2 567 people, of which 1 688 were of Caucasian race. Most of the population was … put in place and specified that no…
Abdullah Ibrahim and the Politics of Jazz in South Africa
… restricted any and all movement. Indians played for the Indian community; Colored bands played jazz for their … to play together; you have to have a permit…
Biography of Abdullah Ibrahim by Chance Overby
… Figure 1 Image source Abdullah Ibrahim is a profoundly influential … cultural groups. This led to many Black, Coloured, and Indian citizens being limited as…
Chapter III - My very ordinary life
… as a teacher. I grew to love that Mahbubia School and the Indian girls and their families. Hyderabad was the largest … Notwithstanding all this, I absorbed…
Chapter 6
… the slavery of the compound system on the mines. On the Indian front they evolved what was known as the Pegging Act, … their campaign took a different form…
The genesis of the armed struggle, 1960-1966
… groups. Other liberation organisations, such as the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) and the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC), were not banned. These were …
PlaceMogwase, Bojanala Region
… of Bojanala Platinum, is Rustenburg. The majority of its 1,507,505 people speak Setswana. There is another Town called … has a predominantly Black African…
PlaceSutelong a township in the West of Mortele, Pretoria
… African people are 4,044 making up 99.85% of population. Indian or Asian are 5 people. White is 1 person. (This was taken from a 2011 statistics survey. The …
Make South Africa ungovernable: Broadcast on Radio Freedom: Oliver Tambo, 10 October 1984
… opportunity once more to salute our so-called Coloured and Indian compatriots for their overwhelming rejection of … as fact ... that more than 80% of the…
Make South Africa Ungovernable: Broadcast on Radio Freedom by O. R. Tambo, 10 October 1984
… opportunity once more to salute our so-called Coloured and Indian compatriots for their overwhelming rejection of … as fact ... that more than 80% of the…
47. The assault on Gandhi
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal … which appeared originally in the Gujarati section of…
ArticleThe Western Front
… successfully beaten back by a joint force of British and Indian armies. Battle of Neuve Chapelle, 10 – 13 March 1915: … Battle of the Somme – launched by the…
ArticleWorld War I Timeline 1916
… German offensive at Verdun. 29 April 13 000 British and Indian soldiers surrender to the Turks in the five month … first day of the planned Somme Offensive …
PlaceNelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum, Port Elizabeth
… art, international printmaking and Oriental art (including Indian miniatures and Chinese textiles). The the Arts Hall … art, international printmaking and…
Demonstrations against Proclamation of Republic: Answers to Questions by May 1961
… demonstrations for May 31? Answer: The South African Indian Congress is in full support of all-in national talks, …
EventThe last sitting of an all-white Parliament
… in which provision was made for increased Coloured and Indian parliamentary representation. This system of …
EventBlacks in South Africa protest against segregation
… the African National Congress (ANC) and the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) at a meeting held on Freedom Square, …
PlaceQueen’s Tavern, 16 Stamford Hill Road, Durban
… set it up as a Restaurant, called the British Middle-East Indian Sporting and Dining Club. It had old newspapers from …
23. Durban merchants plead for Sunday trading
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal …
Address by President Jacob Zuma at the official launch of the Dube Trade Port and King Shaka International Airport, 8 May 2010, Tongaat, KwaZulu-Natal
… these parts, often addressing the plight of the indentured Indian and African labourers. I was happy to hear that the graves of indentured Indian and African…
“What I Owe To Mahatma Gandhi”: An Article, September 16, 1948
… national hero whose name was a household word among the Indian community. I faintly realised in those early days the … visitors of the day. We had come to…
EventThe apartheid government establishes a Department for Coloured Affairs' (CAD)
… its head. "Coloured" South Africans, along the black and Indian population, waged a long battle to have their …
PlaceMadagascar
… Madagascar is the largest African island situated in the Indian Ocean, about 450 km (280 mi) east of the coast of … The Mozambique Channel is the channel of…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1903 - 1923 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… increasing Muslim population, for there were [1904] forty Indian schools in Natal, ten of which were privately run by … following the passive resistance…