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EventPAC’s leader, Potlako Leballo confirms that Poqo is the organisation’s military wing
… 7 April 1960), but the CPSA was banned earlier in 1950 under the Suppression of Communism Act, and re-launched …
ArticleDurban Timeline 1497-1990
… an ivory trading mission, but did not enter the bay. 1685 17 May, The English ketch Good Hope was caught in a squall … of Mgungundlovu, on the orders of…
PlaceKwaMashu
The development of KwaMashu Township, in the KwaZulu-Natal province and located some 19km north of Durban, resulted from the mass resettlement of the slum…
Message by Oliver Tambo on South Africa`s year of the women, a call to the peoples of the world, 01 November 1983
… founding of the South African Women`s Federation on April 17, 1954. We have thus dedicated the coming year as …
PlaceVan Riebeeck’s Hedge, Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, Cape Town.
… declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 17 April 1936, while the remains of the latter, in Klaassen …
EventGerman torpedoes sink the SS Mendoza close to Durban
… Allen Tony, (2008), SS Mendoza (+1942), from Wreck Site, 17 April 2008, [online], Available at www.wrecksite.eu, …
EventAbdul Samad Minty, anti apartheid activist, is born
… at www.iaea.org [Accessed 21 Sep 2011] Mamoepa, R. (17 September 2006). ‘Ambassador Abdul Samad Minty to Chair …
EventLord Charles Henry Somerset, governor of the Cape Colony, is born in Badminton, England
… in Table Bay on board the Nautilus and the Chapman on 17 March 1820. These became known as the '1820 British …
EventThe Directors of the Dutch East India Company propose Hout Bay to Jan van Riebeeck as a possible area to settle some Dutch families
Hout Bay is a sheltered cove along South Africa's Cape Peninsula. Before European settlement, the area was populated by Khoisan hunter-gathers who lived…
EventMarcus Garvey, Jamaican-born Black nationalist who advocated the departure of African-Americans back to Africa, is born.
… and the Rastafari Movement. He was born in Jamaica on 17 August 1887, and as a young man developed a love for …
An extract of the speech delivered by Albertina Sisulu on the first anniversary of the UDF
… happy to be one of those in the UDF, because in all these 17 years I’ve been banned it has been my wish that one day, I …
Bibliography: Missionary settlement in southern Africa
… and SHEPHERD, RHW. 1954. South African Missions, 1800-1950. London: Thomas Nelson and Sons. DELAGORGUE, Adulphe. …
PlaceSimons Town School, Cape Town
… department. By providing students aged approximately 15 to 17 with specialised knowledge and skills in their last three … department. By providing students…
ArchiveThe exilic geographies of the South by Benjamin N. Lawrance and Vusumuzi R. Kumalo
In August 1960, Dugmore Boetie fled South Africa and entered Bechuanaland (present day Botswana) on foot. He was part of a flow of “discontented young men”…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 3 Source-based Questions
… of Public Safety, Robespierre beheaded approximately 17 000 enemies of the French Revolution. [16] The enemies of … Robespierre. On 27 July 1794 Robespierre…
PlaceAlgiers, Capital of Algeria
Presumed to be named after the Harbour City, on the West side of the Bay of Algiers, Capital City of Algeria. Algiers is the urban area of Ganyesa, which is a…
EventThe Defiance Campaign against apartheid laws begins
Following the adoption of a Programme of Action in the 1949 annual congress, the ANC began the 1950s with mass action campaigns marked by boycotts, strikes and…
Document 45 - Letter from the International Secretariat of the International Left Opposition to Cape Town comrades, 23 October 1932
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 45 - Letter from the …
Document 37 - Letter from S. P. Bunting to E. R. Roux, 29 November 1930
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 37 - Letter from S. P. Bunting … Radical Tradition a Documentary History…
The Indians of Natal: Resistance to Apartheid, 1971-1985 by Davinder S. Dhillon
ABSTRACT OF THESES This thesis highlights the ebbs and flows of the Indian minority's struggles against the systematic and unjust segregation of mankind…
EventWalter Sisulu arrested under the Suppression of Communism Act
… A national work stoppage was organised for 26 June 1950 to protest against the newly-implemented apartheid laws. …
EventAfrican National Congress Youth League is founded
The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) is the youth wing of the African National Congress. It was formed in 1944 by members of the ANC who believed…
EventEban Abba, Israeli statesman is born in Cape Town
… simultaneously as ambassador to the United States from 1950 until his election to the Knesset (Israeli parliament) …
ArticleBloemfontein Timeline 1824-2010
… the convention is opened by the Mayor of Bloemfontein. 1950 18 March, The University of the Free State is founded. …
Background to the Freedom Charter 1955
… including Oliver Tambo , Sisulu’s successor. The period 1950 -1952 began with a commitment to militant African …
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1910-1919
… that Phoenix debt was incurred during struggle. March 17, Told The Star representative that Indians had come to … wrote to Gandhi, supporting passive…
Article“Bantu Education or the Street” by Norman Levy
… of the “Bantu” social structure to “native education”.17 Verwoerd was immersed in this rhetoric and drew on it when … been so fraught with gravity): “The…
The Legal Veneer
… on 2 July 1982, but has a long ancestry stretching back to 1950. Included amongst its progenitors are a whole succession … under security legislation has…
PlaceUniversity of the Orange Free State, Grey's College School
… With rapid expansion, the institution changed its name in 1950 to become the University of the Orange Free State – …
PlacePlumstead
Plumstead was developed on the site of an old VOC Military Camp some 13km South of Cape Town and, by 1823, was already a growing Village. The Cape Town-Wynberg…