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The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
… political. Although it has been on the statute books since 26 June 1986, no opportunity has yet arisen to invoke this … least 25% of the total, and women…
ArticleEnuga Sreenivasulu Reddy Timeline 1924 - 2020
… 1948 Reddy obtains his M.A. from New York University. 1949 26 May, E.S Reddy joins the United Nations Secretariat as …
ArticleNo Land, No House, No Vote Timeline
… battles - we have been betrayed so many times before." [10] End notes: [1](Mail and Gaurdian Staff Reporter, 2005) ↵ … 2009) ↵ [8] (Losier, 2009) ↵ [9] (IRIN…
ArticleWorld War I Timeline 1915
… merchant and passenger shipping around the British Isles. 10–13 March 1915 Battle of Neuve Chapelle”” British and … the British suffer 11 000 casualties and…
PlaceOld Town House, Greenmarket Square, Cape Town.
… National Monument under old NMC legislation on24 February 1939. …
EventWolraad Woltemade drowns at sea after saving 14 people from a sinking ship
… of South Africa instituted the King's Medal for Bravery (1939). In 1970, the Woltemade Decoration for Bravery was …
EventSouth African artist Gerard Sekoto is born
… Sekoto to quit teaching and move to Sophiatown, where in 1939 he began painting full-time. During this time he …
PlaceBelmond Mount Nelson Hotel, Cape Town
… in use today . Peace reigned in Cape Town from 1918 to 1939 . After the conflict in the rest of the world, a mood of … different budget requirements…
ArticleLetters: Albertina Sisulu
… marriage that went on to stand the test of pain, time and 26 years of separation. Complementing each other with wisdom, … really remarkable South Africans",…
PlaceMiddleburg, Eastern Cape
… an Agricultural School was started in the same year. In 1939, Grootfontein gained College status. The Grootfontein …
40 years after: Understanding the Soweto Uprising by Motsoko Pheko (Pambazuka News), 30 June 2016
… 12 years 37 years Atteridgeville Pretoria 4. Bennie Ntoele 10 years 38 years Mamelodi Pretoria 5. Hamilton Keke 5 years … 30 years Gugulethu Cape Town 9…
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March, Pretoria, 9 August
… Estimates of the number of women delegates ranged from 10 000 to 20 000, with FSAW claiming that it was the biggest … terms of the Native Laws Amendment Act,…
The appointment of Judges
… Then began the process to select the Court's other 10 members. The appointment process, set out in the interim … to choose the remaining six judges from a…
PlaceDurban Harbour and Port
… restrictions are for a ship length of 200 m, a beam of 26 m, and maximum draught of 11.6 m. The Harbour Master has … for permission if larger vessels are to…
ArchiveCelebrating 50 years of South Africas Freedo
Black, red, yellow and white poster. COSATU logo. Artwork of people protesting. 50th Annniversary poster of the signing of the Freedom Charter in Kliptown,…
ArchiveAppendix 1: Time Line of South African history by Denis Goldberg
… White and Black people outside of marriage were forbidden. 1939 On 6 September South Africa declared war on Nazi … systematically controlled. Between 1948…
ArticlePolitical executions in South Africa by the apartheid government 1961 - 1989
… Nathaniel Magwaca, a municipal policeman from Langa, on 26 September 1962. Nqulwana was executed on 23 November 1967. … other accused received lengthy…
ArticleA History of the South African Film Industry timeline 1895-2003
… and thereby formed the African Theatres Trust Ltd on 10 April 1913. He also formed African Films Trust, a film … They Built a Nation/Die Bou van 'n Nasie was…
Albertina Sisulu, Freedom Fighter
… houses." After obtaining her junior Certificate in 1939, Albertina was accepted for nursing at the Johannesburg …
ArticleTimeline on the defacing of statues
… South African flag used by the Apartheid government. 2015 26 March, The statue of King George V located at the … say students who defaced statue at UKZN ,…
ArticleThe Langa March, 30 March 1960
… non-White civilians and three non-White police officers. 26 Black policemen and 365 Black civilians were injured – no …
ArticleNon-European Unity Movement (NEUM)
… number of intellectuals. When the AAC was next convened in 1939, Dr Xuma , its vice president, resigned without … within the ranks of the ANC. Developments…
ArticleTimeline of Land Dispossession and Segregation in South Africa 1800-1899
The nineteenth century was a period of several events whose socio-political and economic impact profoundly changed South Africa and the African continent…
Chapter 1 - The House at Lower Seoli
… was unknown. Some refugees were schoolchildren as young as 10 years who were in the loving care of Canon John Osmers. … Patrick - 21 yrs from Bloemfontein…
Bambatha Rebellion 1906 bibliography
… of 1906: Nkandla operations and the Battle of Mome Gorge, 10 June 1906 " Military History Journal, 8(1), Hadebe, M.M. …
Grade 8 Archive
… beginning of the French Revolution, which would last for 10 years. The Revolution destroyed the Old Order in France …
Post-Election Political Violence
… to 195, a drop of 60%, followed by a further drop of 10% the following month. Since then, with minor fluctuations, … was running during 1996 at a level less…
PlaceThaba Tshwane or Voortrekkerhoogte
… was renamed Voortrekkerhoogte ("Voortrekker Heights") in 1939 by the government of the Union of South Africa , …
EventNicolaas Johannes Diederichs, South Africa’s fourth state president, is born
… Oxwagon Trek of 1938. After the Economic Volk Congress of 1939, he was elected as chairman of the Reddingsdaadbond, an …
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew
… Hall, City Hall, Cape Town, 4-5 January 1944 Document 10 - Y. M. Dadoo , "The Non-European Unity", Freedom, 4,1, … Congress of the People at Kliptown,…