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ArticleGrade 9 - Term 4: Turning points in modern South African History since 1948
… Langa and Nyanga to the police headquarters in Caledon Square. The protesters offered themselves up for arrest for … all the mission schools closed down. The…
Re-Emergence of Congress Activity 1980s
… 24 June 1982, a few days after clashes at the Regina Mundi church in Soweto, where 16 June commemoration was taking … December 1988, along with six other…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1970-1979
… from a window on the tenth floor of the John Vorster Square Police Office. The government claimed that he …
ArticleThe Angolan Civil War (1975-2002): A Brief History
… The Resource Curse Angola spans around 481,226 square miles along the southwest coast of Africa, and is …
ArticleSummary: The Kingdom of Mali and the City of Timbuktu in the 14th Century
… the Mali Empire stretched across more than 1.29 million square kilometres of West Africa, encompassing the headwaters …
ArticleBritain takes control of the Cape
… between the openings. In the middle were four wagons in a square, roofed over with planks and raw hides to serve as …
ArticleTimeline of the German and Herero, Nama War and Genocide
… kill local commissioner von Burgsdorff. They then bomb the church in Gibeon so that the Germans cannot use it as a fort …
ArticleSouth African Student Organisation (SASO)
… not open to blacks either. For Example, at a non-racial church conference, which Biko attended, white participants …
Apartheid - The early 1980s
… later. The UDF consisted of hundreds of women, student, church, trade union, cultural, sporting and other groups. …
ArticleLiberal Party of South Africa (LPSA)
… He lost his job and was prevented from preaching in his church. He was succeeded by Mike Ndlovu who was also banned. …
ArticleLearning about history through people: oral history
… The sound of the muezzin, the chiming of the bells of the church even the snoek horns was like a cacophony of sound …
ArticleTimeline of South African photographic books and exhibitions 1958 - 2003
… his book, African Image , is also published by Madison Square Press. 1968 George Hallet 's photographs of jazz … were mandated to approach Bernard Spong, the…
ArticleAfrica Timeline
… of Christianity demanded the worship of Christ in a church rather than the use of state resources to commemorate … of Ethiopian Christianity. The Ethiopian…
Afrikaner Newspapers and the newspaper industry from 1830
… Malan, who resigned from his position as a minister in the church to take up the editorship. Giliomee writes that it … newspapers on a Sunday in the Cape and…
ArticleColonial History of Port Elizabeth
… and other coloured people who were members of the Church" (Baines, 1989) . This was located at the crest of …
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1654-1899
… in Krugersdorp, and the Asiatic Bazaar in Prinsloo and Church Streets in Pretoria. In addition, locations were also …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1960-1969
… after been thrown from the seventh floor of John Vorster Square, Johannesburg Police headquarters. October, Winnie …
ArticleA timeline of Zuma-Gupta issues from Nenegate to the firing of Pravin Gordhan
… Zuma to resign. 7 April 2016 Zuma is booed at Sammy Marks Square in Pretoria as he leaves a debate of the National … was addressing hundreds of EFF…
Political assassinations 1974 - 1994
… at his Windhoek home. 4 November Phola Park Themba Myapi Church fieldworker Mutilated body found. 28 December Witbank … chest. 27 October Durban Revd…
Documentary Photography and Awakening the International Community, 1976-1994
… photograph. The caption reads, "Members of the Methodist Church on the East Rand meet to find ways of reducing the … the photograph of the mixed race meeting…
ArticleTswana
… in the early nineteenth century and most belong to a church today, pre-colonial beliefs retain strength among many …
Women at the start of the 20th century
… in the reserves, had begun to form groups to take on some church-linked social roles in the community, but they were …
ArticleAmersfoort Legacy - History of education in South Africa
… and alongside these, the institution of the Anglican Church. Yet, at the same time, during this period there is …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1980s
… imprisonment for defying his banning order and attending a church synod meeting. He is released on 18 December 1980 … Gereformerde Kerk (NGK) together with…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1980-1989
… clashes occur near the Regina Mundi Roman Catholic Church in Soweto. 30 June, Zwelakhe Sisulu, President of the … has been found hanged in his cell at John…
ArticleSouth Africa needs a national holiday on 16 November to acknowledge its indentured
SOUTH AFRICA NEEDS A NATIONAL HOLIDAY ON 16 NOVEMBER TO ACKNOWLEDGE ITS INDENTURED LABOUR HERITAGEBy Brij Maharajhttps://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista…
ArticleRivonia Trial 1963 - 1964
… addresses a crowd outside South Africa House in Trafalgar Square, London. This address occurred soon after the Rivonia …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1950-1959
… Speech Convention', attracting 10 000 people to Market Square. The meeting proposed a one-day stay-away on May Day …
The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946
… in a mass meeting of over 15,000 people, held in Red Square, Durban. After the meeting a procession followed Dr. …
ArticleThe Crackdown on the Black Consciousness Movement in 1973
… with the most prominent branch in Soweto. Relations with church organisations were central to the development of Black …