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EventAfrikaner nationalists rebel against a Union Jack in new South African flag
… in 1925 by D.F. Malan. The introduction of the bill came 15 years after the Union of South Africa was formed. The Boer …
EventSouth African man walks from England to France through Channel Tunnel
… a mystery how Dyer managed to survive the highly dangerous 15 hour trip through the tunnel, or how he managed to evade …
EventGabon gains independence from France
On 17 August 1960 Gabon, the last of the four territories, which had formed French Equatorial Africa, achieved independence. Gabriel LÁƒÂƒ©on M'Ba become the…
EventColoureds are removed from the voters roll
… formed the Franchise Action Council in Cape Town and over 15,000 Coloured people marched through the streets of the …
EventCall for a stay-away in Black townships
… in the boycott. The following day police report that 15 Black protesters and one policeman were killed in the …
EventGriffiths Mxenge is murdered
… of the apartheid government‘s death squads. In 1996, 15 years later the Amnesty Committee of the Truth and …
EventAfrica Women’s Peace Train leaves Kampala for Johannesburg
… Women's Peace Train was launched in Kampala, Uganda, on 15 August in a ceremony in which a Peace Torch was received. …
EventLocal government elections thrown in disarray
… and Parliament, which had gone into recess on September 15, to reconvene as soon as possible. Speaker of Parliament, …
EventBritain and the Zulu Nation sign a peace treaty
… Cetshwayo was exiled and despatched to Cape Town on 15 September 1879. The Zulu nation did not accept the …
EventChris Hani, the SACP secretary-general, is assassinated
… second shot at his head." Hani was killed in front of his 15-year-old daughter Nomakhwezi. The death of the leader of …
EventLucas Ntuba Radebe, SA soccer hero, is born in Diepkloof, Soweto
… soccer legend was born in Diepkloof, Soweto. At the age of 15 his parents sent him to live in Bophuthatswana so could be …
EventMbhazima Shilowa, former premier of Gauteng, is born
… of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU). On 15 June 1999 Shilowa was appointed premier of Gauteng. He …
EventA wave of strikes hits Durban and spread countrywide
… went on strike and other strikes followed between the 15 and 24 January. British-controlled Frame group with …
PlacePhansi Museum
The Museum houses some of the finest examples of African artefacts, such as: beadwork, headrests, milk pails, snuff containers, tobacco pipes, telephone wire…
ArticleHIV/Aids in South Africa timeline 1940s-2009
… is the leading cause of death worldwide among those 15-59. The Global Fund is established to boost the response … of opportunistic infections and anti…
ArticlePan Africanist Congress timeline 1959-2011
… the conference Leballo claimed that he would command 15 000 men trained in Lesotho to invade South Africa. His … Mahlangu are tried in a Tanzanian court and…
EventOlive Shisana was born on this day
… town of Pietersburg, South Africa, on the 27th of November 1950. [1] She holds a BA degree which she obtained from the …
PlaceWits Art Museum
… the Nelson Mandela Bridge . Its’ collections begun in the 1950’s and was known as the first collecting institution that …
SASPU National, 1980 - 1987
SASPU National was one of two publications produced by the South African Students Press Union (SASPU), the other being SASPU Focus. A non-profit newspaper,…
Document 67 - Letter from the African Metal Trades Union, Johannesburg, to the Workers’ Party of South Africa, 21 February 1937
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 67 - Letter from the African …
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 …
ArticleDifferences between Capitalism & Communism and why did it start in Russia?
Please note that this information was part of our old 'history classroom content' written in 2003, we have updated is slightly to meet the needs of the new…
Bibliography: Missionary settlement in southern Africa
… and SHEPHERD, RHW. 1954. South African Missions, 1800-1950. London: Thomas Nelson and Sons. DELAGORGUE, Adulphe. …
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions Timeline 1919-1997
… strike. 1948 Rise of the Nationalist Party to state power. 1950 Introduction of the Suppression of Communism Act. 1952 … statement that non-White workers…
‘Ubuqaba’ and ‘UbuGqobhoka’: Reading Zakes Mda’s Heart of Redness through a Post-Developmental lens by Rachel Fenton
… and effective than their colonial counterparts” (1995, p. 15). This sentiment is similarly expressed by Camagu; “The … and Distribution of Messages. SAADYT…
ArticleFootball in South Africa Timeline 1862-2012
… 1947 White Springbok team tours Australia and New Zealand 1950 In Elisabethville, Belgian Congo, Katanga defeats the … Pirates crowned PSL champions for the…
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…
Devout domesticity? A century of African women's Christianity in South Africa by Deborah Gaitskell
… frenzy of unpremeditated talking' (Brandel-Syrier, 1962: 15, 34-9; Brandel, 1955: 181-2). Insufficient evidence about … self-confident African Christian…
The strangulation of activity
… ORGANISATIONS HRC, January 1989 1. Chronology of bannings 1950 One of the first restrictions on freedom of opinion and … association imposed by the…
PlaceDwarsvlei, near Pretoria
… The Farm Dwarsvlei is situated 15 kilometres North of Krugersdorp, on the road to Hekpoort, … similar to the Battle of Colenso, seven Months earlier, 15…