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… Laid out on the Farm, Vergenoegd in 1854, it was proclaimed in 1855 and became a Municipality; the Sarah Baartman District Municipality, in 1881. Said to have been named after General Jan Willem …

… Ledwaba (16) was killed during a bomb attack on his home in Atteridgeville, Pretoria. In evidence furnished before the Amnesty Commission of the … serious heart attack a few days before the hearing and was in hospital at the time.May Ledwaba was actively involved in …

… Born in the Ogani District of Nigeria, Ken Saro Wiwa studied … Civil War and wrote a novel based on his experiences. In 1973, after having served as the Regional Commissioner for Education in the River State Cabinet, he was dismissed for his support …

… to the dependents of the Port Elizabeth Victims in Native Disturbance, October 23rd, 1920. 4. Wages Board as contemplated to be re-introduced in Parliament. 5. Acquiring a Printing Plant and Press for … Fund for One Big Union movement. 9. Labour Bureau in all industrial centres controlled by the Organisation. 10. …

… The action of the Executive of the Mine Workers' Union in calling upon the miners to scab upon the striking native … of treachery to the working class. It is craft unionism in excels is. The recent struggle along the reef was not a … versus wage-workers: If the white mine workers had come in line and supported the natives, the proletarian character …

… Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner In 1950 there was a big protest against this law called the … The next year there was a stay-away on Freedom Day. In Port Elizabeth we didn't have this influx control law … But now, at this time, they wanted to introduce this law in Port Elizabeth. So everyone in Port Elizabeth was very …

… my sons and my daughters As I pace the floor of my bedroom in the Grand Hotel, Oslo, putting the final touches on my … the great Continent of Africa and when we touched down in London - where I was overwhelmed by the size and … all the people of South Africa who have played their part in striving for peace and co-operation between the races. I …

… to trial records from the Cape Council of Justice in August 1735. Jacobsz was a sailor from Rotterdam who … Dutch East India Company. He had been accused of sodomy in Batavia in 1713 at the age of eighteen. Due to insufficient evidence … are we?”: Proteus and the problematising of History’ in V. Bickford-Smith and R. Mendelsohn eds. Black and White …

… The gun was designed in 1865 as a broadside gun for ironclad ships and harbour … defence. A total of 190 were made. The gun was last fired in 1903.. This gun was first mounted in Halifax Nova Scotia until 1878, then at Bermuda until 1881 …

… Bernstein. She passes away on the 9th September 2006 in Cape Town at the age of 91 from an aneurysm. In 1932 Bernstein and her mother immigrated to South Africa from England. She worked in the advertising and later publishing and journalism …

… delegates from 145 institutions. The conference was held in Pietermaritzburg. During the conference the following … on the eve of the proclamation of the Republic in protest against this undemocratic act. * We call on all Africans not to cooperate or collaborate in any way with the proposed South African Republic or any …

… Inanda Mission station of the American Zulu Mission (AZM) in Natal to James and Elizabeth Dube. His father, James Dube … where his father served as a Congregational Minister. In 1887 John Dube left South Africa to study at Oberlin College in the USA. In 1894 he married Nokutela  Mdima  Dube . He …

… taking the necessary steps to bring about improvements in the productive use of Black labour. The government would not obstruct changes in the country's traditional work patterns. The move to … Dr H F Verwoerd. His regime was not without problems as in the first few years in office he had to deal with a revolt …

… inhabited by Bushmen , estimated about the year 1530-1760. In the late 18th and 19th Century the Xhosa and White … arrived. The Bushmen were displaced and no longer found in the Area.  A British officer named Captain Alexander … Founded a Military Post there and named it Fort Adelaide in 1834. After the wife of King William IV. Despite the …

… On this day Sibongile Khumalo was born in Orlando, Soweto. She is one of the most recognized jazz musicians in South Africa. She was launched into the limelight in 1993 when she won the Standard Bank Young Artist Award at …

… and member of the United Democratic Front (UDF) in Clermont, Durban, who had resisted moves to incorporate … they were not familiar with Clermont. Tshabalala was shot in front of her five-year-old child as she was leaving her business in Clermont. The first botched attempt on Tshabalala's life …

… Railway Systems, the village played an important role in the Military and Economic affairs of the Region. In 1898 it was renamed Rosmead in honour of Sir Hercules Robinson, Governor of the Cape from …

… Mugabe's May 2005 eviction campaign remained homeless, in resettlement camps or were living without food, safe water or sanitation. "It is as bad as it can get," he said in Geneva. He deplored what he called a "shocking" lack of … and bulldozers to demolish street stalls and residences in urban shantytowns in its "Operation Restore Order" …

… 2,221 trainees who had gone absent without leave in October from the newly instituted South African National … the slow pace of integration into the SANDF and conditions in the camp. All the dismissed recruits were former members … viewed as deserters who missed an opportunity to remain in the SANDF. The ANC Pretoria-Witwatersrand and Vereeniging …

… B. J. Vorster is not only one of the most active speakers in the Republic of South Africa, but also one of the most sought after. As a speaker he is equally at home in Parliament as WELL as in his appearances outside Parliament. There is always a …

… Olaudah Equino was born in the region that is now known as Nigeria in 1945. At the age of 15, he was kidnapped and sold into … Indies. He later managed to buy his freedom and settled in the United Kingdom. One of his slave masters had taught …

… Indian Emigrants from Tamil Nadu, India, Mudaliar grew up in Johannesburg. She was named after the village her mother came from in India, Thillaiyadi. As she entered her teenage years in South Africa, Valliammai became increasingly aware of the …

… This was a poignant day for Winnie and she faced a future in which her husband’s arrest was inevitable and the … children would endure without him while Mandela was held in confinement. Winnie was separated from her husband most of … she decisively upheld Mandela’s legacy. Winnie was pivotal in the formation of the Black Women’s Federation in December …

… was declared a Republic. The campaign for independence in Kenya dates back to the 1940s before Kenyatta became the leader of the Kenya African Union (KAU) in 1947 and birth of the Mau Mau rebel movement. In 1952 in response to the Mau Mau rebellion, the government …

… forcibly removed from a whites-only carriage on a train in Pietermaritzburg, for not obeying laws that segregated … to race. Gandhi was practising as a young Indian lawyer in South Africa at the time, and this event proved a … of his political life.   Gandhi was later instrumental in protesting against policies of segregation in South Africa …

… Party of South African (CPSA) and natives' representative in parliament, announced in parliament that the party has disbanded. The announcement … Suppression of Communism Act, No. 44 of 1950 was approved in parliament in June 1950 and came into force on 17 July of …

… Party (SACP), Charles Nqakula, was born to a poor family in the Eastern Cape. Nqakula, like his peers,  developed political consciousness in the 1970's when he became political reporter for Imvo Zabantsundu in King William's Town. He was appointed to his present …

… and abolitionists as a home for African slaves freed in England. A Temne king sold a strip of land on the north … of the empire. Sierra Leone became a British crown colony in 1808. Throughout the 19th century, the colony steadily … local chiefs. After the British slave trade was abolished in 1807, the new colony was used as a base from which the act …

… eldest son of Ndamase, signed a treaty with H.G. Elliott in which he ceded sovereign rights and shipping in the Umzimvubu River mouth to the Cape government - a step his father had refused to do during his lifetime. In return, Nqwiliso was recognised as an independent ruler …

… cancer. He died at the age of 80 at Eugene Marais Hospital in Pretoria after he was released on medical parole from Kgosi Mampuru II Correctional Centre in June 2015, after having served 22 years in prison. . Derby-Lewis was convicted for his role in the …