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… virtually destroyed the historic Wanderers Cricket Club in Johannesburg, reducing to ash irreplaceable items like … spread. SA Eagle, insurer of the clubhouse, approached the Johannesburg City Council after it paid R30 million to … Gule to the council's public safety committee, admitted Johannesburg's response times lagged behind those of the rest …

… Women (FEDSAW or FSAW) was launched on 17 April 1954 in Johannesburg as the first attempt to establish a broad-based … march and the marchers were mainly African women form the Johannesburg region. The Minister of Native Affairs, Dr. …

… Transvaal Anti-SAIC Committee (TASC) at a conference in Johannesburg on 23 January 1983, but this part of his speech … meeting was held by the committee at the end of July in Johannesburg, and was also attended by Albertina Sisulu , …

… The University College in Johannesburg attained full University status under the name the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg. The origin of Wits lies in the South African … was established in Kimberley in 1896 and transferred to Johannesburg as the Transvaal Technical Institute in 1904. …

… Outbreak of bubonic plague in the Indian settlement of Johannesburg. Kasturba meets with Indian women about disease … prevention and treatment. The “coolie” settlement in Johannesburg is destroyed because of the disease, by the … 11, More than 3000 Indians gather at Empire Theater in Johannesburg. They demand the withdrawal of the Asiatic Bill …

… The inauguration of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (Wits) was celebrated a few months after the University College, Johannesburg was granted full university status on 1 March … at Milner Park on a site donated to the University by the Johannesburg municipality. Reference: Wallis, F. (2000). …

… Dunlop Play Ndlovu, Sipho Qabula, Alfred Timeline 1979 In Johannesburg, the Junction Avenue Theatre Company responds to … 1984 January, the actors of the Dunlop Play perform in Johannesburg. In August the Dunlop strike takes place during …

… African settlement in a Kilpspruit sewage farm, near Johannesburg (Swanson, 1977: 388). 1913 The Natives Land Act … was submitted to create three African settlements around Johannesburg (Alexandra Township, Eastern Native Township, … of the Western Areas and to other areas adjoining Johannesburg, as was to be determined by the …

…      1930 Africans are moved out of the south of Fietas , Johannesburg (between 17th and 24th Streets) to Orlando (the … (CPSA). The CPSA holds a pass-burning demonstration in Johannesburg. However, this is not supported by the … 19 June, Sol Plaatje dies of pneumonia while on a trip to Johannesburg. July, Professor D.D.T Jabavu publishes a …

… school at the age of 15 and shortly afterwards goes to Johannesburg where he attended various educational … in Cape rural areas. A Defense Committee is formed in Johannesburg by the ANC, CPSA, APO and various African … dissolution of the League. Walter Sisulu returns to Johannesburg after undergoing traditional Xhosa initiation …

… 1972 by Peter Randall, Danie van Zyl, and Beyers Naudé in Johannesburg, Federated Union of Black Artists (FUBA), Johannesburg in 1978 by Benjy Francis, Sipho Sepamla, and … established in 1977 in Cape Town, the Open School based in Johannesburg and Afrapix, a documentary photographic agency, …

… the campaign. ANC, TIC and NIC call for Full Franchise Johannesburg, Sunday: At a joint meeting of the … discuss cooperation Mr. M.D. Naidoo, on his return from Johannesburg, where he attended, on behalf of the Natal … the joint auspices of the three national organisations in Johannesburg and Durban is the first step in translating into …

… Rural Transformations in Industrialising South Africa . Johannesburg, Ravan, 1996. Koch, Eddie. Without Visible Means of Substance: Slumyard Culture in Johannesburg, 1918-1940”. In Belinda Bozzoli (ed.), Town and Countryside in the Transvaal . Johannesburg, Ravan, 1983. Legum, Colin. African Contemporary …

… to take up a post as a teacher at Dadoo ’s school in Johannesburg. Joshi, a militant Indian nationalist has a … of the Smuts-Gandhi Settlement of 1914. Dadoo leaves Johannesburg for Durban and from here he travels by boat to … Indian Congress holds its seventh annual Conference  in Johannesburg to discuss implications of the Cape Town …

… for the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg at the Sandton Convention Centre. The summit … The summit is held every 10 years, so the one held in Johannesburg was a review and a follow up the resolutions … 1992. At the end of the summit, delegates adopted of the Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development and a …

… Sebata Legae, South African artist, was born in Vrededorp, Johannesburg. He studied at the Polly Street Art Center and … abroad. Sources: Sack, S. (1988). The Neglected Tradition, Johannesburg: Johannesburg Art Gallery, p. 108. …

… in Gauteng, but it is not the Capital of the Province. ( Johannesburg has this title!) The coat of arms was granted on … than just the art of business and money-making! The Johannesburg Metro and the City of Pretoria - the two major … choice for many who readily make the daily commute to Johannesburg. The Vaal River , which separates Gauteng from …

… and exhibited in SA, England and France, was born in Johannesburg. Born in 1902 in Johannesburg, South Africa, Maud Sumner lived in South … London, England, and Paris France.  She died in 1985 in Johannesburg. Sumner completed a Masters in Literature at …

… and the head of the Printmaking Department in 1988 at the Johannesburg Art Foundation, was born in Johannesburg. During his schooling years he would spend any … with Mabaso he founded Skuzo, a printmaking studio in Johannesburg in 1983 and the Hammanskraal Art Project, north …

… and author of Afrikaans teenage fiction. He was born in Johannesburg in 1953. He obtained a BA Communications degree … from the Rand Afrikaans University (now University of Johannesburg) in 1970 and went on to obtain an MA in English. … debut novel. Hough was found dead in his flat in Melville, Johannesburg on 17 August 2004. His last novel, titled Breek, …

… Many historians have argued that as a result of this, the Johannesburg Municipality was able to raise money from both … developments, the first mass housing scheme for Blacks in Johannesburg was undertaken. This marked the birth of Orlando East, south of Johannesburg. In early 1933 the first group of families were …

… Red, black and white poster. Johannesburg Democratic Action Committee, recruitment poster. … Newspaper images of sky scrapers and post office tower in Johannesburg. …

… regime know that the government mandated destruction of Johannesburg’s cultural hub of Sophiatown would spawn a … tries to propagate the values and objectives of early Johannesburg Township Jazz. Mtutuzeli Dudu Pukwana was born … their performance at the 1963 National Jazz Festival in Johannesburg, the group’s popularity skyrocketed--quickly …

… of Springs, Krugersdorp, and Norwood and Braamfontein in Johannesburg, the Minister of the Interior, Dr D.F. Malan , … of the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) is held in Johannesburg in order to formulate opposition to the … African Indian Congress (SAIC) convenes a conference in Johannesburg. The Conference adopts a resolution in which it …

… helped organise a modest May Day protest at Town Hall in Johannesburg. At the protest, which was organised to … founded, a large crowd assembled outside the Rand Club in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) in protest. [3] The club had been established just one year after Johannesburg was formed and was designed to lavishly …

… Ezrom Kgobonyane Sebata Legae is born in Vrededorp, Johannesburg. 1930 J.T. Gumede is voted out of office as … Pixley Seme . The formation of the Independent ANC Fietas, Johannesburg: 'Africans' are moved out of the south of Fietas … of Springs, Krugersdorp, and Norwood and Braamfontein in Johannesburg, the Minister of the Interior, Dr D.F. Malan , …

… in the development of a pro-Congress radical politics in Johannesburg. For the young white left, mainly linked to the … in a Rocky Street house in Doornfontein, just East of Johannesburg’s city centre. Indres’ banning and house arrest … the ‘new radicalism’ evolving amongst the group of young Johannesburg-based white activists who were leading Nusas at …

… Secretariat of the International left Opposition to Johannesburg comrades, 23 October 1932 Document 47 - … of the meeting of the Workers' Party of South Africa, Johannesburg Branch, held at 90 President Street, Johannesburg, 25 March (1936) at 8.30 p.m. Document 62 - …

… Andrew Dunbar was general-secretary of the IWW in Johannesburg, established in June 1910. A hefty Scots … in 1909. This cost him his job, and he went to work on the Johannesburg tramways. These were the IWW’s stronghold, with … was part of an ISL team running study groups in downtown Johannesburg amongst African workers, advocating civil …

… Am I an African? The political memoirs of H. M. Husner, Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University. Beinart, William and … History of Indian South Africans, Cape Town and Johannesburg: David Philip and Stanford: Hoover. Bonnier, … Centuries. Hirson, Baruch (1995), Revolutions in My Life, Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University. Hofmeyr, Willie …