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PlaceGroot Constantia, Constantia Valley
… der Stel in 1692, and after its destruction in a fire on 19 December 1925, it was restored by architect FK Kendall in … der Stel in 1692, and after its…
PlaceMalawi
… most densely populated nations with a population of 19 129 952 million people (in 2020). Capital city is Lilongwe …
EventSupreme Court changes ruling on forced removals, traditionally
… remove a group of people from their land. However, on 19 September 1985 a Supreme Court ruling declared that forced …
The Khoikhoi carry out a series of raids on the free burghers’ herds
… as a 'war of liberation'. On a cold and drizzling day on 19 May 1659, the Khoikhoi carried out a series of raids on …
EventHarry Frederick Oppenheimer is born in Kimberley
… business interests. Oppenheimer died in Johannesburg on 19 August 2000. References Gwyneth Williams & Brian …
EventCanada offers a second contingent of troops to the British in the South African War
… on 30 November 1899. The second contingent comprised of 19 officers and 371 men and their horses was organized into …
Documentry on the Life and Death of Ahmed Timol Premieres on SABC3, on 1 February 2015.
Indians Can¹t Flywill screen for the first time on 1 February, at 19H30. The 48-minute television documentary tells the story of Ahmed Timol, a 29-year…
4. Complaint of ill-treatment on an estate
… of their number, Bhagoo, is reproduced below. It is dated 19 February 1884. Source: I.I./1/18, 18911884, Natal …
PlaceLeipoldtville, West Coast
… and the distance from Graafwater to Leipoldtville is 19 kms. Northeast of Elands Bay en route to Graafwater, lies …
EventSouth West African People's Organisation (SWAPO) is founded to oppose South African rule
… in Windhoek, South West Africa (presently Namibia) on 19 April 1960 by Herman Toivo Ya Toivo. The party was …
ArticlePre-colonial history of Southern Africa
South Africa has one of the longest sequences of human development in the world. It begins with two million years old hominid fossils. Human Origins South…
Nelson Mandela ‘Release Us or Treat Us as Political Prisoners’, 22 April 1969
… whereas Dangala will have done exactly half of his on 19 May 1969. Every one of those serving terms between two and … available to all without exception. The…
The Heritage Museum at Villa Zain by Joline Young
… of the rich history that fills these walls. I have given 19 years of my life to set up a museum that tells the story …
ArticleNUSAS Wages Commission Timeline 1971-1973
… wages paid to workers of different race. 18 July - 19 July, Stevedores turn out in large numbers at the …
ArticleIndian Indentured Labour in Natal 1860-1911
… of Births and Deaths and to hear civil cases. Law 19 of 1874: Medical fees for every Indian immigrant was …
Growing social unrest: Community mobilisation, strikes and student protests in the Western Cape in the 1980s
… students Bernard Fortuin aged 15 and William Lubbe aged 19 were shot dead from an unmarked police vehicle in Elsies …
ArticleEuropean trading systems in the Middle Ages - fourteenth to sixteenth centuries
Expanding European frontiers The Trek Boers, with their servants and slaves, move inland From the late 1600s and into the 1700s, the Cape settlers moved…
Submissions by the McGill University students 2012
Ben Forstate Ben Forstate is a U3 Student at McGill University studying Political Science and Geography. He enjoys basketball, reading, writing and…
ArticlePassive Resistance Campaign Timeline
… in Natal and within two weeks, 4000 -5000 were striking. 19 October, At a meeting of the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) …
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 1 - People, Politics and Ideology by Malegapuru William Makgoba
… Sobukwe, leader of the Pan Africanist Congress, May 1959.© Drum Photographer 1959 / Bailey’s African History Archive In 1958, Sobukwe and others left the ANC…
EventProtest against gender- based violence throughout South Africa
… was triggered by rape incidents, including one of a 19-year-old first year student, Uyinene Mrwetyana from the …
EventThe first part of the South African Press Commission's report is tabled in parliament
… On 19 February 1962, the first part of the South African Press …
EventThe government launches 'Operation Iron Fist' in townships
… it returned uneasy calm to townships.A few days later, on 19 September, amid accusations that the security forces were …
Durban 1973, a National Breakthrough, in the Context of a Globally Developing Socialism? But what if the reality was actually an emergent 50-year international capitalist 'counterrevolution' of 1973-2022? by David Cooper
… struggles of the 1950s-60s, of the Cuban revolution of 1959 and the 1968 Paris ‘moment’ of worker-student struggles; …
ArchiveA death warrant for Afrikaans by Hermann Giliomee, 11 November 2019
… ‘The liberal interpretation of South African history’ in 1959. It is not known whether Cillié ever read it, but if he … total numbers of undergraduates…
Verwoerd's Grim Plot by Nelson Mandela
… Verwoerd's Grim Plot By NELSON MANDELA No.36, May 1959 South Africa belongs to all who live in if, black and … and Development. (Article in "Optima", March…
ArticleSouth African Communist Party (SACP)
… Bernstein and Brian Bunting. A banned organisation, 1950-1959 In 1950 the apartheid government introduced the Unlawful …
Nelson Mandela Correspondence regarding the families move to Brandfort
… of the bedroom. I think of you always and love you. 19 November 1979 TO WINNIE Zindzi likes reading and it is a … possibility - of the family moving to the…
Why General Smuts won on 4 September 1939
… it garnered 46 231 votes to the United Party's 51 148,19 to General Hertzog's "personal ascendancy" in that … he had changed sides some time before. Die…
Biography of Eli Weinberg by Karen Folz
… [online] Available at http://www.chabad.org [Accessed 19 November 2016] Keller, B., (1995). ‘Joe Slovo, … [online] Available at http://www.nytimes.com …