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ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1950s
… before or on 29 February 1952, and if this does not take place a mass contravention of such legislation will be … in the Defiance Campaign and said that he…
ArticleA timeline of Zuma-Gupta issues from Nenegate to the firing of Pravin Gordhan
… said the province advertises in many newspapers, including City Press.? 7 August 2011 Essop Pahad breaks all business … 2016 a meeting between Mcebisi Jonas…
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 …
ArticleBisho Massacre 1992
… political situation in South Africa. The massacre took place on 7 September 1992 in Bisho, then the capital of …
ArticleTruth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
… (HRV) Committee investigated human rights abuses that took place between 1960 and 1994. Reparation and Rehabilitation …
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…
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…
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…
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…
PlaceTable View
… Further North of Cape Town’s City Centre , across the Rietvlei Lagoon which is popular for … place …
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 …
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…
PlaceSAAF Memorial and Museum
… had to later withdraw. Mr RF McGAW was appointed in his place. The design for the Memorial allowed for a small … of Johannesburg, with McLennan & Zeffert in…
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…
PlaceThe Durban Centre for Photography
… the eThekwini Municipal Region entails photographs of the city in an attempt to understand urbanization patterns and … a collaboration of DCP’s urbanity…
Mandela and his three wives - Evelyn, Winnie and Graca by Sapa-AFP, 6 December 2013
… in the early 1940s to carve out a living in the big city. She was the cousin of African National Congress (ANC) … June 1958. She too came from the country,…
Event270 workers charged with Marikana Massacre
… charges were connected with the fateful event that took place on the 16 August 2012,whereby the South African police … they confront or attack the police and…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Contextual Overview
… also meant that there were working structures already in place that could support the knowledge, skill and investment … below. 3.1 Urbanization and the…
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…