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BiographyGovindasamy Krishnasamy Thambi Naidoo
… Ordinance . The meeting decided to refuse registration under the Ordinance (which later became the Asiatic Act) and …
BiographyAhmed Timol
… moved to Durban, as Moodley could set up a new cell there, under the cover of the University. Whilst on a trip to …
Gertrude Fester Biography by Nehal Patel
… the Netherlands. Fester spent her entire life, much of it under the stresses of apartheid, educating women and children … for non-skilled labour. They had to…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1960-1969
… The Unlawful Organisations Act No. 34 comes into effect. Under this Act any organisation deemed a threat to the public … announces that the ANC and the PAC…
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1950-1959
… of threat by non-Whites on the White population group, under control. The Act also cut across all traditional … Black or Coloured. According to this Act…
BiographyCecyl Esau
… elected Vice-Chairperson of the Historic (History Society) under the leadership of Isaac Metembo. ↵ [3] Some of …
ArticleMaritime history and heritage: shipwrecks
… low oxygen levels, and resulting low decomposition rate, under water. …
Melinda Stuurman
… studied at CityVarsity, School of Media and Creative Arts under the watchful eye of Jenny Altschuler. I loved every …
ArticleLenin’s implementation of Leninism in Russia and the changes made
… miscarriages due to insufficient health facilities. Under the new rule factories were placed under the control of elected committees of workers. Lenin ……
Nelspruit the Segregated city
… in urban areas. The development of the homeland system, under the rubric of separate development, saw the policy of … area that was called Kangwane, to the…
ArticleThe History of May Day in South Africa
… The Federation also recommended to workers organizations under their jurisdiction that they abide by this resolution … politics in South Africa. Before the…
Patric Tariq “de Goede” Mellet
… Struggle, working underground and in exile and working under the mentor and leader OR Tambo (among many other … ‘halfnatjies’ or ‘having the touch of the tar…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1960s
… townships are cordoned off and the situation is brought under government control. A state of emergency is declared, … begins consideration of the situation…
ArticleThe Johanna
… vessel sailing from Kent, England, to Surat, India, under the command of Captain Robert Brown. She embarked on … Good Hope at the time, Simon van der Stel ,…
The 1980s and the crisis of Apartheid
… During the 1980s , the apartheid government came under increasing internal pressure. The National Party … society protests in the 1980s: 1983 Tricameral…
Re-Emergence of Congress Activity 1980s
… 53 clergymen were arrested in Johannesburg and charged under the Riotous Assemblies Act. By September, the … Black Municipal Workers Union. Both were charged…
ArticleWomen’s Workplace Oppression in 1970s South Africa by Cait Chapman
… 1970s, the roles women played were changing dramatically under the immense political, domestic and economic pressures … lively Coloured, Black and Indian…
General South African History Timeline: 1970s
… mass rally with Steve Biko . Winnie Mandela placed under house arrest. Robert McBride 's sister Gwynneth is … released, but the nineteen others are charged…
ArticleThe People’s Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN)
… for the South African government to bring Namibia under its control. After independence was gained in 1990, … as the armed wing of SWAPO, the people of…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Key economic policies changes (1994 - 2013)
… others too poor to meet their basic social requirements. Under this programme, free health care programmes were … barriers to trade and liberalizing capital…
ArticleColonial history of Nelspruit
… maps as "Nel's Spruit", the stream of the Nels, and it was under this name that the future town would be recorded in the … the South African War (1899 to…
The appointment of Judges
… that a written confession to a magistrate had been made under duress, to prove that it had been made under duress. The judgment, delivered on 5 April 1995,…
ArticleBiko’s imprisonment, death and the aftermath
… while in detention. Moreover, all these deaths happened under mysterious circumstances. In addition, the Johannesburg … Afro-Asian diplomatic efforts that…
Communist Party of South Africa, What is the Native Independent Republic? (1934)
… workers. But these will be such concessions which cannot under any circumstances substantially change the situation of … the possibility of improving their…
Archive2022 - President Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 10 February 2022
… of disaster as soon as we have finalised other measures under the National Health Act and other legislation to … rural roads programme will use labour…
ArticleGrade 12 - How SA emerged as a democracy from the crises of the 1990s
… During the 1980s, the apartheid government came under increasing internal pressure. The National Party …
Indian South Africans timeline 1980-1989
… underground. 1987 5 January, Natoo Babenia was detained under Section 29 of the Internal Security Act . 1989 15 …
ArticleCongress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa
… rifts and the undermining of traditional leadership under the apartheid regime. In 1975, Chief Buthelezi, a very … Mahlangu believed in the unification of…
ArticleFirst Anglo Boer War
… of State for the Colonies (referred to as Lord Carnarvon) under Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, who was premier from … republics and independent African…
PlacePietermaritzburg Botanical Gardens
On 3 March 1874, the Pietermaritzburg Botanical Garden was founded. It was run by the newly formed Pietermaritzburg Botanical Society until 1969, when it was…