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ArticleNatal Indian Congress (NIC)
The NIC (Natal Indian Congress) was the first of the Indian Congresses to be formed. It was established in 1894 by Mahatma Gandhi to fight discrimination…
BiographyAli Bacher
… state to a democratic nation. It was to be twenty years before a South African cricket team toured abroad, and it was …
BiographyNimrod Sekeramane Nathale
… China and Albania, seeking support for the organisation, before being deported to Egypt, where he lived in poverty …
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Chapter 3 - The South African Constitution: Birth Certificate of a Nation by Hassen Ebrahim
… British rule could be placed in concentration camps long before the Germans adopted this practice during World War 2. … and Religious Communities. A strong…
South Africa in the 1900s (1900-1917)
… 1820 The Cape Colony remained under Dutch rule until 1795 before it fell to the British Crown , before reverting back to Dutch Rule in 1803 and again to ……
ArchiveThe Moral Problem of Winnie Mandela by Paul Trewhela (Dailymaverick.com), 6 April 2018, South Africa
… presented against her day after day in the Rand Supreme Court in 1991, leading to her conviction for the kidnapping … by Winnie's boys and his face drenched…
ArticleZulu
… is part of Ubuntu (humane) philosophy. Origins: Long ago, before the Zulu were forged as a nation, they lived as … Amawasha, was active in Natal and the…
EventAWB leader, Eugene TerreBlanche, is convicted of attempted murder and assault
… for attempted murder and assault in a Potchefstroom court and sentenced to six years in jail. This sentence was … The second conviction arose from an…
EventDemonstrating Clergymen are arrested in central Johannesburg
… under the Riotous Assemblies Act and warned to appear in court on 1 July 1980. On 27 May the school boycotts spread to … in coloured schools in the Western…
Address by President Jacob Zuma at the official opening of the expanded OR Tambo International Airport, 20 April 2010
… at international arrivals, an enlarged and remodelled food court and retail facilities. As government, we have also … be open for traffic between Pretoria…
BiographyMarcus Solomon
… Economics through the University of South Africa (UNISA). Before his arrest he had begun reading Isaac Deutscher on … they learned about Paulo Freire’s…
BiographyIsmail Jacob Mohamed
… 1930 in Barkley East, Eastern Cape. His parents divorced before he was five years old. His mother, Rose Fortuin, … as an associate Professor. However, it was…
Chapter VIII - Treason - South African style 1
… this time, to avoid huge crowds of Africans thronging the court precincts, as there had been at the beginning of the … rose at four o'clock and we could be…
ArticleThembisile Chris Hani Timeline 1942 - 2003
… banned organization. They spend 30 days in isolation cells before their trail begins. Hani and the others are sentenced … with the rest of the group, is…
PlaceGroot Constantia, Constantia Valley
… Groot Constantia wine was one of Napoleon's last requests before he died in exile on St. Helena island ! The British … of Stockholm, at the bottom of the…
Document 57 - Letter from the Communist League of South Africa to the Workers’ Party of South Africa, 13 January 1936
… General Secretary, Workers' Party of South Africa, P.O.Box 1940, CAPETOWN. Dear Comrade, Your letter of the l0th … there is a grave danger of prolonged…
ArticleThe South African Coloured People’s Organisation (SACPO)
… the basis of general appearance, general view and lineage. Before Apartheid, various organisations represented the … he enlarged the Appellate Division –…
EventDr Abrahams to be returned to Bechuanaland
… prime minister, Dr H.F. Verwoerd, announced in a statement before the Supreme Court in Cape Town, that Dr. Kenneth Abrahams would be …
EventDate set for start of Passive Resistance Campaign
… July 1946 hundreds of resisters were arrested and appeared before court - some on as many as five different charges. The …
PlaceClaremont Main Road Mosque
… administered by the Abderoef family for over a 100 years before the congregation democratically elected an Imam (the … education and election-related…
The Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… Youth Society, flourishes during in the 1940s and 1950s." 1940 Electoral Laws Amendment Act of 1940 is passed Alexandra Bus Boycotts Dr. AB Xuma is elected …
EventWorld War II: The evacuation of Allied forces from Dunkirk ends as German forces capture the beach port
… On 4 June 1940, the evacuation of Allied forces from Dunkirk ended as … 338,000 Allied troops from capture by the Nazis. A month before the Dunkirk…
Address to the Congress of the People - Libya Tripoli, 19 March 1999
… is one of the last few visits that I shall be undertaking before retiring from public life in three months' time. It is … me for publicising the contents of…
ArticleTimeline of the Marikana Massacre 2012 - 2013
… murder of their colleagues shot on 16 August. 3 September, Court withdraws murder charges against the 270 people … police commissioner Riah Phiyega begins…
ArticleStudent Protests at Tshwane University of Technology - Timeline
… outstanding debt so student’s results will be released before exams and demands to end outsourscing at the … and SRC members. On Thursday 28 January, TUT…
ArticlePoqo in the Western Cape and Transkei in the early 1960s
… its objective of overthrowing the government. This was before the formation African National Congres s (ANC)’s armed … Aaron Njokwane were convicted and…
ArticleThe development of Music in South Africa timeline 1600-2004
… the festival - was the one that had been heard many times before: to regard their aim as the conscientising of fellow …
BiographyShaleen Surtie-Richards
… honour and celebration of her life, M-Net will air a never-before-seen documentary on her life and career titled, …
BiographySimon Gqubule
… for five years as students slept and studied in caravans, before moving it in 1980 to Imbali in Pietermaritzburg, …
EventBanyana Banyana player, Eudy Simelane, is found raped and murdered
… despite there being over 30 reported cases in the decade before Simelane’s murder. Upon leaving the court, Mvubu—who was sentenced to life imprisonment…