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Address by Deputy President Thabo Mbeki at teh Development Planning Summit Hosted by the Intergovernmental Forum, 27 November 1995
… government. Our fundamental challenge, then, is to construct a truly developmental state. International …
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1940-1949
… Committee. January 30, On the eve of his court trial, under the Emergency Regulations, Dadoo issues a statement … with his legal counsel, Harry Bloom, to…
EventBritain proclaims Natal a British colonial territory
… British forces under Governor Sir George Napier took over Natal and … it a British Colony. A year later the colony was put under the Cape Colony…
ArticleEvents leading to the Bambatha Rebellion
… into becoming agricultural labourers, the Natal government under Charles Smythe, imposed a Poll Tax of £ 1 on all men …
Durban Historical & community
… Vetch, Capt RE West. Martin Wissing, George H The list is under construction. Please use the contribute link to post …
ArticleHarriet Bolton and the Garment Workers Industrial Union
… By the 1970s she was a national representative of TUCSA. Under pressure from the Garment Workers Industrial Union …
Article1973 Durban Strikes – TUCSA – Harriet Bolton
… paid lip service to the ideal of African unions registered under the same legislation as White, Indian and Coloured …
ArticleAhmed Mohamed Kathrada Timeline: 1929 - 2017
… full-time for the Transvaal Passive Resistance Council under the mentorship of I.C. Meer. The South African Indian … to escape from the country. He is…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1700s
… and the Khoi-Khoi proved right. They are placed under protection of the Company and given back their cattle. … to all those who help him in the campaign…
ArticleFederation of South African Women by Skylar Jayes
… and invited other women’s organisations to take part under the banner of FEDSAW (Mompati 311). To find women who … fined any individual that permitted a…
ArchiveState of the Nation Address by President Cyril Ramaphosa, Cape Town City Hall, 8 February 2024
… provide free health care for pregnant women and children under the age of six. Tintswalo’s formative years were spent … than 200 accused persons are being…
ArticleSouth Africa before and in the build up to 1899
… did not give up its ambition for unifying South Africa under Imperial British rule. The two Boer republics of the … the most difficult to mine because the…
ArticleThe Khoisan
… led by Jacobus Afrikander, and a number of Griqua rebels under Gamka Pienaar. The Korana 'raider' groups were defeated and came under the control of the Cape…
ArticleCongress of South African Students (COSAS)
… the ANC was banned along other liberation movements under the Unlawful Organisations Act. A guiding principle for … as well as political issues. Throughout…
ArticleSecond Anglo-Boer War - 1899 - 1902
… did not give up its ambition for unifying South Africa under Imperial British rule. The two Boer republics of the … the most difficult to mine because the…
PlaceGouritsmond
Gouritsmond, also known as Gouritz, offers a tranquil Coastal gem along South Africa’s Shoreline, where the Ocean meets the Gouritz River in perfect harmony…
EventBoers defeat British in the battle of Ingogo (Anglo-Boer War 1)
… or Anglo-Transvaal War- a Boer force of about 200 (under General Nicolaas Smit) defeated a British force of about 600 (under the leadership of Major-General…
ArticleTimeline of the Group Areas Act and Selected Related Pieces Legislation
… municipal areas, including almost the whole of Durban, under investigation to be defined as to which groups were … in Pretoria, which was previously an…
Article1960 - 1994: Armed Struggle and Popular Resistance
… a mutual non-interference pact, at Nkomati in March 1984. Under the terms of the Nkomati Accord South Africa was to … of 17 March and 30 April 1985. The…
ArchiveThabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma, Cyril Ramaphosa: The people who killed Eskom over 25 years by Ferreira, Harper and Saba (Mail and Guardain), 20 January 2023
… previously excluded. Although South Africa has largely under-performed global growth over the past three decades, …
The Choice of Termination Act is Enacted by the Parliament of South Africa
… world”. It starkly contrasted with the access available under the Apartheid-era Abortion and Sterilisation Act of 1975 under which abortion access was…
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions Timeline 1919-1997
… South African Railway and Harbours workers union, under the able leadership of Lawrence Ndzanga, affiliates to … (ILO) voted to expel South Africa. 1963 -…
ArticleNon-European Unity Movement (NEUM)
… (which they called 'theses') before turning to the subject under discussion without mentioning that they were quoting … was open to criticism. At no stage…
Nelson Mandela Timeline 1920-1929
… of pass laws is discussed at a Native Conference, held under the Native Land Act of 1920. Present at the conference … Union. 15 April, At the Convention of…
ArticleJohn Langalibalele Dube Timeline 1940-1950
… , convened in Bloemfontein. Dube placed the school under the supervision of a Board of Advisors, chaired by … Fort Hare. 1930 The Zulu choir of the Ohlange…
ArticleThe formation of the SANNC/ANC
… failed in its aims as White supremacy was entrenched under a unitary state. On 8 January 1912, several hundred … a moral and social order they correctly…
ArticleThe Arrival of Jan Van Riebeeck in the Cape - 6 April 1652
… Bay in April 1652 www.andrewboraine.com Van Riebeeck was under strict instructions not to colonise the region but to … to protect his settlement. By the end…
ArchiveA Speech to Displease All Parties by Imraan Coovadia, 11 October 2021
… wrote that “problems don’t melt like soap/ but [they] itch under the skin like a ringworm.” In those lines he make a … I mean the sense of falling, finding…
EventThe Choice of Termination Act is enacted by the Parliament of South Africa
… world”. It starkly contrasted with the access available under the Apartheid -era Abortion and Sterilisation Act of 1975 under which abortion access was…
ArticlePolitical changes from 1750 to 1835
… larger conflicts. The Ndwandwe, led by Zwide, the Ngwane under Sobhuza and the Mthethwa under Dingiswayo changed the military, political and social … The…