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ArticleA History of South African Literature, timeline 1824-2005
… Bantu World , a black literary newspaper, was founded. 1940 The 1940s saw the beginnings of a flowering of … Mda, who worked for many years as a playwright…
Legislation, Dissent, and Violence in Sophiatown under Apartheid
… in the Transvaal where Africans had purchased property before the 1923 Urban Areas Act. The racial segregation of … targeted by speculators as a candidate…
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…
EventStompie Seipei’s murderer goes to jail
… The Rand Supreme Court sentences Jerry Richardson to death for the murder … some closure was reached when Winnie Mandela accepted, before the Truth and…
Pretoria the Segregated city
… segregation of Indians and Blacks had existed even before this law was passed, the principle was now greatly … by the City Council as an extension of…
Excerpts from Priscilla Jana’s book 'Fighting for Mandela' that relate to Solomon Mahlangu
… them, but the following morning they were taken to court without legal representation. We had not been told … fate and the huge international interest in…
ArchiveA Place In The City - The Rand On The Eve Of Apartheid by Luli Callinicos
Introduction Tomorrow awaits you, long way to walk. It’s no use talking, to gold-propped ears When the National Party won the 1948 election, white…
ArchiveThe Tay Bridge Disaster by Peter Ball (The Heritage Portal), 24 September 2016
… deaf ears. Hubris, which means arrogant pride, as in pride before a fall, has been the ruin of many a man, no more so … die a broken man ten months after the…
Document 58 - Letter from the Communist League of South Africa to the Workers’ Party of South Africa, 18 February 1936
… 1936. The Secretary. Workers' Party of S.A., P.O. Box 1940, CAPE TOWN. Dear Comrade, We are extremely disappointed … monthly, it will necessitate the passage…
EventWalter Sisulu, co-founder of the ANCYL and Umkhonto we Sizwe, is born
… helper and factory hand and was an active trade unionist before joining the African National Congress (ANC) in 1940. He immediately demonstrated a talent for…
The French Revolution
… General. The National Assembly met in an indoor tennis court in Versailles. They swore to not break up the meeting … be ruled. But the king was still an…
Chapter VIII - The Mandela’s – family extraordinary
… this, black or white, had ever walked down that street before. Winnie Mandela and her daughter Zindzi walked very … she came to see Nelson on visiting days…
How Zweli ‘misled’ Khwezi, 17 September 2017
… “loose woman” who initiated sex with Zuma; and - The night before she testified in court, she was startled awake in the middle of the night. She … faced that…
A Biography of Ernest Cole by Anna Hutchinson
… Kole, Ernest Levi Tsoloane and Cole, Ernest Born: 21 March 1940, Eersterust, Gauteng (then Transvaal), South Africa … 1964 Ernest Cole began to share a…
EventThabo Mbeki, former President of SA, is born in Idutywa, Transkei
… corruption scandal. However, Zuma was cleared when a high court judge ruled that the charges were unlawful. Mbeki … resigned from the presidency in 2008,…
EventSASO founder and Black Consciousness leader, Steve Biko dies in detention
… case against the two doctors who had treated Biko shortly before his death. Dissatisfied doctors, seeking another … of the medical authorities who had…
Prehistory: Pre colonial farmers in Gauteng
… pattern the centre, the domain of men, contains the men’s court, metal working area and cattle kraal. Men are usually … than anyone else, accumulating them…
BiographyDulcie Howes
… within the arts councils of Pact, Capab and Napac, before they became too big and their productions too lavish …
ArticleNamibian Timeline
… warns against a policy of annihilation of the Herero even before the proclamation to exterminate the Herero is … (UNIA), originally founded by Marcus Garvey …
ArticleA history of Kwaito music
This genre of music started emerging in the 1990s. It is a mixture of a number of different rhythms from marabi of the 1920s, kwela of the 1950s, mbaqanga…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1960-1969
… on behalf of the Greyville Indian Ratepayer's Association before the Group Areas Board. 5 December, The day of … member of the Congress of Democrats (COD),…
PlaceYMCA-Cape Town and later Athlone, as well
… YMCA's, various other local YMCA associations were formed before the establishment of the South African National Council of YMCAs, in the 1940's. From its…
The small matter of a horse: The life of 'Nongoloza' Mathebula, 1867-1948 by Charles van Onselen, 04 January 2012 (libcom.org)
… given a horse in part payment for his conscientious labour before returning to Bergville. In 1886, at the age of 19, … and 'Jonas' appeared before the…
ArticleThe Constitution
… a natural or juristic person in terms of subsection (2), a court: a. in order to give effect to a right in the Bill, … nature of that juristic person…
Establishment of the Food Committee
In the 1940s, as a result of the Second World War, South Africa was undergoing a downturn in economic fortunes. Unemployment and food shortages were rife,…
Establishment of Food Committee
In the 1940s, as a result of the Second World War, the South African economy was very weak.Unemployment and food shortages were rife, exacerbating this…
Establishment of the Food Committee
In the 1940s, as a result of the Second World War, South Africa was undergoing a downturn in economic fortunes. Unemployment and food shortages were rife,…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism commissioned by The Department of Education
"This first volume in the series, Turning Points in History, highlights two important events that occurred prior to the arrival of Europeans in South Africa -…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1960s
… refuses the aid of an attorney, on the grounds that the court has no jurisdiction over him because it cannot be … Albert Luthuli is awarded the Nobel Peace…
ArticleThe International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF)
… Fund.’ The accused in the 1956 Treason Trial outside the court. Source: Peter Magubane / The Drum Archive / … in prison for being a member of the ANC. A few…