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ArchiveAfrica South Vol.4 No.4 Jul-Sept 1960
… Towards Independence, Colin Legum. At Last Sierra Leone, Dr. Edward W. Blyden. The Algerian War, Anthony Wedgwood …
EventSouth Africa is said to resume its membership of the Commonwealth
… withdrew its membership in 1961 under the leadership of Dr. Verw oerd. References: Commonwealth, (1994), ‘The …
EventAllan Boesak resigns from the church
… The Presbytery of South Africa announced that Dr Allan Boesak, reverend of the Nederduitse Gereformeerde …
EventCorner stone of Mission Church is laid in Graaff-Reinet
… building was completed later in the same year. In 1965 Dr Anton Rupert prevented the breaking down of the church and …
EventMalawi’s Kamuzu Banda losses election
… Malawi's first President Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda since independence from Britain in …
EventA teachers training college in South Africa opened in Wellington
… refugees and this region was known as: 'Limiet Vallei'. Dr. Andrew Murray, a Minister in the Dutch Reformed Church, …
EventANC President, Oliver Tambo, denies that the ANC is in secret negotiations with the South African government
… of Parliament and leader of the Progressive Federal Party, Dr. Frederik van Zyl Slabbert expressed his satisfaction with …
EventA memorandum containing a proposed constitutional dispensation is delivered to the CPRC
… officially by the Transvaal leader of the National Party, Dr. Connie Mulder, who claimed they were honest and …
Citation for Saleem Badat by Professor Paul Maylam, 10 April 2015, Rhodes University
… 2015) By Professor Paul Maylam Eight years ago, in 2007, Dr Saleem Badat stood on this stage to deliver his first … honorary doctorates to its former vice…
ArticleColonial history of Bloemfontein
… where Josias Philippus Hoffman was chosen as President and William Collins as Secretary of the Orange River Sovereignty. … grew to such an extent that the…
ArticleThe Natives Land Act of 1913
… Native Land Commission was proclaimed in August 1913. Sir William Beaumont, a former administrator in Natal and Supreme … Cape Town. In attendance were John…
PlaceHilton College an Independent Boy's Boarding School
… in 1872 were: 'Gould Lucas , a magistrate and Reverend William Newnham , a teacher and cleric'. Lucas was … studied mathematics at St John’s College,…
ArticleThe South African Communist Party and May Day – Some Key Moments
… on May Day; one example of this is photos from the William Matlala collection of an SACP rally in Witbank in 1991 (see Wits Historical Papers Research…
ArticleBureau of State Security (BOSS)
… by the Z- Squad, by use of letter bombs. Another victim, Dr. Richard Turner was also believed to have died at the … and Muldergate, started at the beginning…
Oliver Tambo, 1 October 1987 - Reproduced in Oliver Tambo and the Struggle against Apartheid, edited by E. S. Reddy
… as Chief Albert Luthuli, Moses Kotane, J. B. Marks and Dr. Yusuf Dadoo - but the continuity of leadership provided … campaign from 1946 to 1948 against…
Oliver Tambo, October 1987
… as Chief Albert Luthuli, Moses Kotane, J. B. Marks and Dr. Yusuf Dadoo - but the continuity of leadership provided … campaign from 1946 to 1948 against…
The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa: Chapter Two - By Riashnee Pather
… This Nationalist Bloc consisted of individuals such as Dr. GM Naicker and the trade unionist HA Naidoo. According to … One of the more prominent members of…
EventThe TEC decides on Bophuthatswana’s incorporation following major unrest
… Mangope was overthrown as leader of Bophuthatswana and Dr. Tjaart van der Walt was appointed as the territory's new …
EventBishop Ambrose Reeves returns to South Africa
… Anti-apartheid cleric, Dr Richard Ambrose Reeves, Anglican (Church of the Province …
EventThe South African government finally approves the introduction of 99-year leasehold rights for blacks in the townships of Nyanga, Langa and Gugulethu
… was made by the Minister of Cooperation and Development, Dr. Gerrit Viljoen. Viljoen stressed that this would only …
EventKuruman missionary Robert Moffat is born
… London Missionary Society at Kuruman and father-in-law of Dr David Livingstone, was born in Ormiston, Scotland, to a …
EventFormer National Minister of Arts and Culture, Pallo Jordan, is born
… an African novelist, linguist and academic and his mother, Dr Priscilla Phyllis Jordan, was a teacher, researcher and … at www.sahistory.org.za [Accessed:…
ArticleThe Padavatan Six and the 1917 Natal Floods
… task even for men of great physical strength. The Victims Dr Neelan Govender (son of Sabapathy Periyasamy Govender) … and a bewildered goat on a rapidly…
PlaceLamont-Hussey Observatory
… began on 11 May of that year. The first director was Dr. R.A. Rossiter (also from the University of Michigan). He … began shortly after. The first research…
Address to the Annual Conference of the Natal, 23 November 1951
… Africans are fighting shy of unity. The groups supporting Dr Malan and Mr Havenga have amalgamated to form one powerful … take a tremendous effort for the…
Archive of documents pertaining to Pixley ka Isaka Seme
… Hermon, 30 January 1911 (PDF) Presidential address by Dr. Pixley ka Seme, 1933 (PDF) Royal Zulu willing to become a …
EventZola Skweyiya is born
… of the Republic of South Africa since 17 June 1999, Dr Zola Sidney Themba Skweyiya, was born in Simonstown. …
EventPresident John Vorster resigns
… in the Muldergate/Information scandal, named after Dr Connie Mulder, then Minister of Information. Vorster was …
EventDorothy Fischer becomes the first South African woman to undergo a heart transplant
… an operation. When she died twelve and a half years later, Dr Chris Barnard, who with his team operated on her, conceded …
EventFormer anti-apartheid activist, Allan Boesak accuses ANC
… Dr Allan Boesak, former anti-apartheid activist, leader of …