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ArticleWomen and the struggle against Apartheid
… many women were involved was the Defiance Campaign of 1952. This was a campaign against apartheid laws, and people …
Nelspruit the Segregated city
… separation of the races. The Native Laws Amendment Act of 1952 set the basis for the state to control the distribution …
ArticleThe History of May Day in South Africa
… its grip on the Black majority of the country. In June 1952 almost two months after May Day the largest scale …
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew
… Third Annual Conference, 17 January 1923 Document 11 - Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union of Africa, … Secretariat of the International Communist…
2012 ANC National Policy Conference: Statement on the update of Conference Proceedings,28 June 2012
… We have a mini schedule for the media which is as follows: 11:00 President`s tour at the Progressive Business Foum …
Elections Programmes for Deputy President, Secretary General & Treasurer General, 16 May 2011
ANC Deputy President, Secretary General and Treasurer General will on Tuesday lead the movement`s election campaign in the Western Cape, Gauteng and the Free…
PlaceDiamond Hill Battle, Garden of Remembrance
… tps://magaliesmeander.co.za/news/the-battle-of-diamond-hill-11-12-june-1900/ …
EventProf. Hudson Ntsanwisi, former Chief Minister of Gazankulu, dies in Johannesburg
… was born in Shiluvane Mission Station in Tzaneen on 11 July 1920. He was the eldest of three children of Mlungisi …
EventPolice arrest members of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) High Command at Lilliesleaf Farm
South African police raided the African National Congress (ANC) underground headquarters, the Liliesleaf Farm in Rivonia, just outside Johannesburg. Apparently…
EventAlan Paton is born
… On 11 January, 1903 Alan Steward Paton, author of Cry, the …
Event523 people die in the Black concentration camps of the Second Anglo Boer War
… On 11 October 1899 war was officially declared between Britain …
EventThe Vereeniging peace conference begins
… Anglo-Boer War (South African War), which had started on 11 October 1899, there were attempts to reach peace. On 15 … Cape Town: NASOU.P 396| Potgieter, D.J…
EventThe second Anglo-Boer war, also known as the South African war, breaks out
… issued an ultimatum to Britain and two days later, on 11 October war was officially declared between Britain and …
EventSir John Frederick William Herschel dies
… On 11 May 1871 astronomer, Sir John Frederick William Herschel, …
EventMore than 400 miners killed in what was the worst mining disaster in South Africa
… were lowered, no signs of life were detected. After 11 days the rescue was called off. The majority of the miners …
PlaceDu Toit's Kloof Pass and the Huguenot Tunnel
… safer, faster (between 15 and 26 minutes) and shorter (by 11 km) than the old Du Toitskloof Pass travelling over the … before the Italian Prisoners of War ,…
PlaceGeorge, Garden Route- Western Province
… centre of the newly proclaimed district was about 11 km from the Sea on the Southern Slopes of the Outeniqua … Agricultural Federation the Department of…
ArticleTransition to Armed Struggle by Norman Levy
… with whomever [he] wanted” to form a military organization.11 Once given the green light, Mandela began to recruit … experienced.18 Ever since the Defiance…
National Arts Festival 2017
… Starting at the end of June/beginning of July, it runs for 11 days in the small university city of Grahamstown, which is …
EventKhoikhoi warriors defeat Portuguese thieves
… the raiders killing 64 of them including Almeida and 11 of his captains. This devastating defeat put pause to …
EventNasty C, the South African hip hop artist and song writer is born
… Junior Ngcobo, stage name Nasty C was born in Durban[i] on 11 February 1997.[ii] He started rapping at the age of …
PlaceLions Bridge, Church Street, Arcadia, Pretoria
… Kirkness and was officially opened by President Kruger on 11 June 1894. It is the oldest existing bridge over the Apies …
EventUN concerned about Fischer’s arrest
… of Mr Black" for nearly a year, he was again arrested on 11 November 1965 and sentenced to life imprisonment in May …
EventMK hero cadre Solomon Kalushi (Khala) Mahlangu is executed
… country to be trained as an Umkhonto We Sizwe soldier. On 11 June 1977 Mahlangu and others returned to South Africa, …
EventNotorious role of Ferdi Barnard is disclosed
… (DCC). The commission seized various files in a raid on 11 November on the offices of Pan Afrik Industrial Investment …
EventNelson Mandela condemns the Lockerbie bombing, the first mass killing of Americans by terrorists
… result. The bombing killed all 243 passengers, 16 crew and 11 people on the ground. He also proposed dealing with the …
EventMorgan Tsvangirai becomes Prime Minister of Zimbabwe
… Tsvangirai was sworn in as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe on 11 February 2009 as part of what was known as The Unity …
EventNongqawuse’s unfulfilled prophecy
… injunctions. The first date of resurrection was set for 11 August 1856, but as the day dawned and nothing happened, …
EventThe Trojan Horse Massacre
… aged 21, Shaun Magmoed, aged 15, Michael Miranda, aged 11 and injuring several others. An inquest was launched in …
EventSteven Biko is arrested.
… He was first taken to Port Elizabeth prison and on 11 September was transferred to Pretoria where he died in …