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EventHilda Bernstein passes away
… Africa. She made a historic entry into the Johannesburg City Council when she became the first communist to be …
Labour Struggles in South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - 1921 by Evangelos A. Mantzaris
… Socialist League). Jewish Trade unionism in the Mother City at the turn of the 20 th century and Uncovers the …
ArticleWhy protect children’s rights?
… - are inappropriate for a person of that child's age; or place at risk the child's well-being, education, physical or … schoolchildren from abuse. Such…
EventMandela threatens armed struggle
… government's inability of putting effective measures in place. He ran short of accusing the government of fuelling … thwarting any effort of having a…
PlaceMogwase, Bojanala Region
… is another Town called Mogwasi that does lie close to Sun City. Mogwase was established, after redemarcation of … Indian, Coloured and White groups, mostly…
ArticleThe African Mine workers strike of 1946
… more reluctant than Xhosa and Sotho workers to strike. At City Deep, West Springs, Modder B, Nourse Mines, Robinson … return to work, but then refused to go…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1500s
… the South African coastline and basic trading takes place between the Khoikhoi and the Europeans. Nguni and Sotho …
ArticleList of employers to whom Indentured Indians were assigned
… PLACE EMPLOYER Calcutta Acutt, C & Co Madras Acutt, C & Co …
Iron Age Kingdoms of Southern Africa
… made the nomadic life more practical than settling in one place. As agriculture grew people settled in villages and …
ArticleTruth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
… (HRV) Committee investigated human rights abuses that took place between 1960 and 1994. Reparation and Rehabilitation …
ArticleBisho Massacre 1992
… political situation in South Africa. The massacre took place on 7 September 1992 in Bisho, then the capital of …
PlaceJohannesburg Civic Theatre
… Johannesburg’s Civic Theatre was built by the then city council in 1962, creating a high-profile landmark on the … to be both creatively and financially…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1960 - 1969
… bloodiest massacre in the history of South Africa takes place at Sharpeville, Transvaal . The police open fire on an … that he should go abroad. He argued…
EventWhite sympathisers join evicted Black squatters in a protest
… 1977 massive evictions and destruction of settlements took place at Unibel Modderdam, Werkgenot and KTC, a Black … settlement because it had acquired legal…
ArchiveThe Life of Trevor Huddleston, Makhalipile (the Dauntless One) by Victoria Vandiver, 3 May 2018
… gave him a quality that commanded the respect of the place” (Cole, 2002). An example of the effect he had on the … a certain ecstasy in the agony of…
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 1 (1923-2001)
… electrification in South Africa. Kimberly was the first city to be electrified with streetlights installed in 1882, … “Electricity for All”. [61] Between…
The ‘special branch’
… and them, some of the ANC leaders, and we went to a place called George in the Eastern Cape. We were going to … and to hold a meeting there for the ANC. And…
PlaceParsonage House Museum, Port Elizabeth
… house, now a museum is one of the oldest houses in the city and is a fine example of how the English style was … place …
PlaceNewington Road Victorian Houses, Port Elizabeth
… being sought out. Richmond Hill is a portion of the city in which time has stood still, and, if you’re prepared … place …
PlaceHarbour Board Building, Port Elizabeth
… . The old Harbour Board Building in Flemming Street in the city centre was used as: The Port Elizabeth Harbour's … place …
EventUSA drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki
… ignored, the USA dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. On 9 August 1945, the "fat man" nuclear …
EventPercy Qoboza, editor of the Post, states that it is difficult to see how a credible newspaper for Blacks can be created in South Africa
… returning to South Africa to work at the editor of the City Press. He has been heralded as one of the most …
EventRylands Civic Association collectively rejects the proposed move to remove non
… conscious persons. Dawood Khan, a member of the Cape Town City Council uttered; "this is a sad day for every non-White …
EventJonas de la Guerre leaves the Cape in an expedition to the north
… also left the Cape in search of Monomotapa, a legendary city. This area was situated in Zimbabwe, from the Zambezi to …
EventThe first museum is opened in Soweto, and is named after Hector Pieterson, one of the first casualties of the 16 June 1976 Soweto uprising.
… squalor and an upbeat lifestyle, it's a vibrant city which still openly bears the scars of the Apartheid past …
ArchiveThe Final Prize: Family - chapter 1
… meeting of the Young Communist League, to be held in the city. And so it was that I went in that same week, in …
PlaceFirst Raadsaal
… De Wet. At one time the Raadsaal housed almost all of the city's original civil institutions. … place …
PlaceTable View
… Further North of Cape Town’s City Centre , across the Rietvlei Lagoon which is popular for … place …
EventDr Ali Bacher, director of the SACU, announces the shortening of the ‘rebel cricket tour ‘as a gesture of support for the country’s dramatic political changes
… South African Rebel Tours were so called because they took place amid strong disapproval from several governments, the … and organizations like The United…
Pedi
… huts built around a central area which served as meeting-place, cattle byre, graveyard and ancestral shrine. These … They resisted so much in fact, that a…