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ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1980s
… 1980 3 January, A police station at Soekmekaar, Northern Transvaal, is attacked. 1980 6 January, South Africa:Signs … re-elected as the National Party’s…
PlaceKlerksdorp- Matlosana Local Municipality
… River . This was where the first Boer settlement in the Transvaal was found. Opposite on the Eastern bank, lies the …
PlacePilgrims Rest, Graskop- Mpumalanga Province
… all hoping to make their fortunes in the second of the Transvaal Gold Fields . It was estimated that in the …
PlaceDriefontein, Mpumalanga
… residents at a local primary school in the then Eastern Transvaal (Mpumalanga) in his capacity as chairman of the …
Say It out Loud - The 1921 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 29th March, 1921
… Africa. I said that " the Orange River Colony and the Transvaal were simply Imperial prisons for Coloured people, … removal of the Colour Bar in industrial…
Chapter XIII - Journey to the banished
… comprehensive itinerary, covering the Northern and Eastern Transvaal, Swaziland, Natal, Lesotho (the British … trio. As soon as we arrived, total strangers,…
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 1 (1923-2001)
… to individual mining houses. [7] The Victoria Falls and Transvaal Power Company (VFTPC) was the principal generator … eventually opted for the “abundant…
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions Timeline 1919-1997
… Formation of the Council of Non-European Trade Unions (Transvaal) (CNETU). Formation of the African Mine Workers … apartheid legislation. October, The…
ArticleThe Zulu kingdom and the colony of Natal
… was the Number V Column at Luneberg to safeguard the Transvaal, which had been annexed by the British in 1877. The … Cetshwayo's son, Dinuzulu, entered into…
ArticleFootball in South Africa Timeline 1862-2012
… 1896 Indian football clubs come together to form the Transvaal Indian Football Association. 1897 The famous … a second time, after an earlier visit in 1931…
EventQueen of Gospel Rebecca Malope is born
… Malope was born in Nelspruit, Mpumalanga (then Eastern Transvaal). She became well known after winning the Shell …
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.11 No.1, No.2, No.3 and No.4 1993
… Andries Walter Oliphant REGIONAL EDITORS AND DISTRIBUTORS Transvaal: Lance Nawa, Raks Seakhoa, Sandra Braude Natal: Ari …
PlaceSophiatown
… Sophiatown was originally a Farm outside Johannesburg , Transvaal (now Gauteng ). It was bought by Hermann Tobiansky, …
Document 40 - Anti-CAD, Why You Should Not Vote [1958]
… not only in the Cape Province, but also in the O.F.S., Transvaal and Natal have called upon you not to betray them …
PlaceCape Province- 'Province of Good Hope' or previously the- Cape Colony
… region now called South Africa was only four provinces: Transvaal, Natal, Orange Free State and the Cape Province. …
EventSouth Africa Freedom Day - 26 June 1950
… Act. In March 1950, the African National Congress (Transvaal), the Communist Party of South Africa, the Indian …
ArticleRobert Mcbride timeline
… at the oil parastatal's Secunda plant in the eastern Transvaal. Here he meets fellow worker Thomas Matjeke a trade …
ArticleStates of Emergency in South Africa: the 1960s and 1980s
… at Sharpeville, near Vereeniging in the province of Transvaal, on 21 March 1960 , was a turning point in the …
Article”People’s Power!”, 1986
… areas, and in 1986 managed to organise in the Northern Transvaal, mainly around the University of the North. …
PlaceLichtenburg, North West
… The Town was established in 1873 and was named by: the Transvaal President, Thomas François Burgers . 'Lichtenburg', …
Indian passive resistance in South Africa: 1946 - 1948 by E. S. Reddy
… rose from a few hundred to 35,000 by 1947. The Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) had no membership, but its … Dr. G.M. Naicker as the "Ghetto Bill" - the Natal…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Where Working people Lived
… by municipalities, the provincial administration of the Transvaal, or by the central government itself. Housing in … near the centre of town. But the British…
ArticleThe History of Education: 1658 to present
… The first school is established in what later becomes the Transvaal. 1843 Various administrators in the Department of … in 1945 there are at least five…
A Chronological look (1943 to 1986) at the Life and Times of Mr George Ponnen
… meeting H.A. and I raised the question of unity with the Transvaal Garment Workers Union. BOLTON opposed Unity. The … RUDMAN a garment worker from the…
Fortieth Anniversary of the 1946 Mine Strike
… Union was revived on the initiative of the SACP and the Transvaal ANC, our late Chairman, JB Marks, became the … it, save that the initiative came from a…
49. The certificates are burned
… themselves indignity. Further, my countrymen here in the Transvaal have taken a solemn oath not submit to the Asiatic … benefit the colonists to have British…
Awards of Recognition to Honourable Early Associates of Gandhiji and Phoenix Settlement 1904-1914
… in the great march of workers from northern Natal into the Transvaal and was sentenced to three months in prison in … of the most dynamic and fearless of the…
South Africa's freedom struggle by E.S. Reddy
… In 1938-39 he became the founder and secretary of the Transvaal Non-European United Front and leader of the Nationalist Group of the Transvaal Indian…
ArchivePostscript Ante by Howard Barrell
… Under the nom de guerre of Gebuza, Nyanda had headed the Transvaal urban machinery of the ANC's military wing, …
PlaceUnion Buildings and Raadsaal, Church Square, Pretoria
… in Roman lettering. This building is the first of the Transvaal Republic to bear the Z.A.R. coat of arms. Van …