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EventUDF men takes refuge in the US consulate
… take this action to highlight the plight of South Africans under detention and the effects of the State of emergency on … As a result, the South African…
EventThe Bondelswarts surrender to the German forces
… A. Morris being forced into exile. When the colony came under South African rule, the Bondelswarts were hoping for a … They were disappointed when the South…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1500s
… hair, and with very large tails. 1595 4 August, Four ships under Cornelis de Houtman reach São Bras. This is the first …
Tsonga
… endured until the nineteenth century when the Tsonga came under the influence of the Zulu nation. Their cultural change …
ArticleA history of Kwaito music
… was created to keep a ready supply of cheap labour under control by the apartheid government. Many groups have …
Petros Mulaudzi of Nthabalala village
… is erratic and limited. The community is still living under the control and governance of local tribal authority. …
ArticleThe Anti-Pass Campaigns 1960
… with other leaders of the PAC, and they were all placed under arrest. Many other leaders were arrested in the …
ArchiveA mapping of the KwaZulu Natal political conflict with reference to Inkatha (1990-1993)
… in South Africa has experienced many challenges whether under the then restrictive apartheid rule or under the new democratic rule. Because of its very…
EventWinnie Mandela speaks out against Terrorism Act
… on the country's Terrorism Act. Mandela was twice detained under section 6 of the notorious Terrorism Act, which … days imprisonment without trial. She was…
EventThe force of the Union of South Africa enters Windhoek, capital of South West Africa.
… officers and African soldiers. The German forces were under the command of Paul Von Lettour Vorbeck which included … colony now known as Namibia. This lead…
Opening Address to the Conference on "Whites in A Changing South Africa", Convened by the Five Freedoms Forum and the ANC by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 1 July 1989
… schools and hospitals; Peace, so that we can produce and construct towards a new day; Peace, so that our children can …
The flight of the Gwala-Gwala bird: Essays by Ari Sitas, review essay by Linda Cooper
… attitudes of racism, homophobia or xenophobia, and construct an alternative hegemony in post-apartheid South …
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the National Council of Provinces, Limpopo, 4 November 2005
… straddles all three spheres of our co-operative governance construct-the national, provincial and local. This places the …
PlaceBoshof House, Boshof Avenue, Newlands
… features were added. It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 15 March 1985.The gateway to … restoration in 1940, it was declared a…
EventSouth African Aerial Transports services are inaugurated
… the SA-based South African Aerial Transports Ltd company, under the name of the latter. The headquarters of the service … to start the first official…
EventOmar Bongo, former president of Gabon is born
… longest serving non-monarch rulers in the world. In 1990, under intense pressure from its citizens, Gabon introduced a multiparty system; Ondimba had led the…
PlaceGriqualand East
… the following year to the Griqua , a Khoikhoi group who, under the leadership of Adam Kok , were in the process of … the specific stipulation that it should…
34. Further immigration restrictions, 1903
… test, that the number that has entered the Colony under the test is very insignificant, and does not justify a … and they would, therefore, still be…
EventAhmad Mahir Pasha, the Egyptian Prime Minister, is assassinated
… after World War I and the Egyptian Revolution of 1919 under the leadership of Sa'd Zaghlul. Just under forty years later, yet another Egyptian Prime Minister…
EventThe Battle of Blood River
… The Battle of Blood River was between the Voortrekkers under the leadership of Andries Pretorius and the Zulu's under the leadership of Dingane the Zulu King…
EventAbortion legislation is passed
… twelve weeks of pregnancy. It also provides for abortion under specified circumstances within the thirteenth week through to the twentieth week, and under…
EventWorkers embark on strike action
… Sixty-one Xhosa-speaking workers, under the leadership of their Headman known as One O'clock, … living conditions in compounds and the harsh conditions under…
EventGeneral Sir Redvers Henry Buller’s troops relieve British forces at Ladysmith
… near Durban, KwaZulu Natal. The British forces had been under siege by the Boers since 2 November 1899. They were … out in October 1899. Ladysmith was not…
EventTranskei Constitution Act No 48 commences
… to the Transkei. In December 1962 this committee, under chairmanship of Chief Kaiser Matanzima, was granted … traditional leaders and 45 elected members,…
The African Resistance Movement (ARM): An Organisational History
… Furthermore, the government issued banning orders under the Suppression of Communism Act, severely restricting … including Monty Berman and Lang. While the…
ArticleMohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) - Timeline: 1890-1899
… Pretoria, Gandhi read about 80 books on religion. He came under the influence of Christianity but refused to embrace … residents to a sense of the oppression…
Zulu Community
… settlement was founded by merchants from the Cape Colony under the leadership of Henry Francis Fynn. Fynn reached a … colonies, Boer republics and…
ArticleBritain takes control of the Cape
… after the abolition of slavery in 1838. In South Africa under Dutch settlement, there was a shortage of labour, … of the slaves were harsh, as they worked…
ArticleWomen in the Cities and the Resistance Movement
PlaceSeychelles
… of 3500, by the time Seychelles was ceded to Britain under ' The Treaty of Paris ', in 1814. During this period … the terrible repercussions of the French…