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ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1940-1949
… poll, he followed his conscience and resigned. The head of the University gave him a choice: either he accepts the … or he leaves the university. He was…
ArticleWorld War I
… This feature commemorates the outbreak of the First World War. This major historical event became … from previous wars, in Europe, is the scale and brutality…
The National Anthem
… Words This is the official version of the national anthem, combining Nkosi sikelel' iAfrika and Die Stem / The Call of South Africa Nkosi sikelel' iAfrika…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1980-1989
… a sabotage mission, take refuge in the Silverton branch of Volkskas Bank after realising they were being tailed by … police. They hold 25 civilians hostage…
ArticleBlack Sash
… The Women's Defence of the Constitution League In 1955 a small group of white middle-class women who were predominantly … formed an organization called The…
ArticleThe Azania Liberation Support Committee and its publications
… around 1983 by Roseinnes Phahle and other individuals of various broadly leftist political tendencies. The ALSC … Worker and Azania Frontline as publications…
ArticleBoipatong massacre - 17 June 1992
… in Boipatong outside Vereeniging was attacked by a group of about 300 armed men from Kwa Madala Hostel in nearby … the attack was aimed at undermining the…
South Africa in the 1900s (1900-1917)
… More than two and a half centuries prior to the birth of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela , Jan Van Riebeeck and his expedition of Dutch Calvinist settlers landed…
ArticleAfrica’s Millennium Development Goals
… perceived as a life line the United Nations and the rest of the world were throwing to Africa in order to save the … Goals was introduced in September 2000 …
ArticleDavid Goldblatt Timeline
… Born in Randfontein, South Africa, in 1930, the third son of Eli Goldblatt and Olga Light, both of whom came to South Africa as children with their parents,…
ArticleThe Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM)
… racial segregation in South Africa began with the arrival of the Dutch and English colonisers. Following its victory … and Coloured) population with an…
ArticleThe Wragg Commission (1885-1887)
… Within a decade, irregularities in the employment of Indians had increased to such an extent that that the … in 1885, to investigate the conditions and…
ArticleTransvaal Indian Youth Congress (TIYC)
… was formed in Transvaal (now Gauteng) as the youth wing of the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) in 1945. Its … Indian Congress (SAIC). There was a general…
ArticleSouth African Student Organisation (SASO)
… Organisation (SASO) was formed in 1968 after some members of the University of Natal’s Black Campus SRC (Student Representative Council) decided to break…
Indian South Africans timeline 1940-1949
… the meeting ends in failure. February, The decision of the Natal Indian Association (NIA) executive to cooperate … with the Lawrence Committee in…
ArticleThe International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF)
… Aid Fund (IDAF) was established by Canon L John Collins of St Paul’s Cathedral in 1956. Its mission was to work towards a peaceful solution to the problem of…
ArticleWorld War I Timeline 1914
… The outbreak of the First World War was precipitated by the assassination of the Austro-Hungarian Crown Prince Franz Ferdinand and his … The assassination…
Article1970’s: Poetry Timeline
… 1971 Closure of The Classic , by Nat Nakasa , editor. Publication of ‘ Sounds of a Cowhide Drum’ , Oswald Mtshali’s first book of poetry, …
America, Spanish conquest
… Spain. (These men were later murdered by the inhabitants of the island for mistreating them.) On his second voyage, … colonists fought among themselves and…
ArticleCommunity histories in Port Elizabeth
… Xhosa community The pre-1994 apartheid system of homelands or 'Bantusans' denied Xhosa people South African … to confine them to the nominally self-governing…
ArticleAnti-South African Indian Council (SAIC) Campaign
… Indians were officially recognised as a permanent part of the South African population and the Department of Indian Affairs was established with a White…
Conquest: 1600s-1800s
… insisted that we had been appropriating more and more of their land which had been theirs all these centuries... … they went to Holland, and they added: 'It…
ArticleDr Alfred Bitini Xuma Timeline 1893-1998
… 1893 Alfred Bitini Xuma is born, the seventh child born of Abraham and Elizabeth Xuma, an aristocratic Xhosa family living in Manzana Village in the Engcobo…
ArticlePass laws in South Africa 1800-1994
… time Pass documents were used to restrict the movement of non-European South Africans was in the early 1800’s. … to carry Passes since 1709. Farmers at the…
ArticleGrade 12 - The Cold War
… it called the ‘Cold War’ ? The reason lay in the threat of new and even deadlier weapons of nuclear technology that prevented outright open warfare. … by…
ArticleDrum Magazine
… The establishment of Drum Magazine in the 1950s, notwithstanding the newly-elected Nationalist Party’s policy of Apartheid, reflected the dynamic changes…
Port Elizabeth an Overview
… The first formal settlement of the Algoa Bay region took place in 1776 when a number of farms were allocated to local Dutch graziers. In 1799 the … at…
ArticleTreks & Land conflicts timeline 1602-1966
… comes into being. 1652 Jan van Riebeeck, a representative of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), establishes a station at the Cape of Good Hope, at the…
Increasing repression and the turn to the armed struggle
… A series of legislations were passed by the NP led government in the … operate underground, some were banned or endorsed out of Cape Town while others were…
ArticlePort Elizabeth the Segregated city
… from 1950 Conclusion 1910-1950 By 1950, the population of New Brighton had grown from 3,650 in 1911 to 35,000. Almost all of the population was Black. This…