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ArticleWomen and Children in White Concentration Camps during the Anglo-Boer War, 1900-1902
… camps and the deaths reported for June are 777. 15 July, Dr K. Franks, the camp doctor at the Mafeking concentration … criticised Emily Hobhouse in the…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Youth League (ANCYL)
… B Masekela, Ida Mtwa, Lillian Ngoyi, James Njongweni, William Nkomo and Dan Tloome. The aim of the Youth League …
A chronology of meetings between South Africans and the ANC in exile 1983-2000 by Michael Savage
… 1986 Delegation from the SA Council of Churches (led by Dr Manas Buthelezi) and the Lutheran Church (led by Dean … concerns about the Southern Africa region,…
ArticlePretoria Timeline 1800-2009
… is established. Zoo and Museum built in Boom Street. Dr JWB Gunning becomes the first director of both the zoo and … March 1961 because the State could not…
PlaceAdams Mission, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… but rebuilt in 1839. Named after the American missionary, Dr. Newton Adams (1796-1841) who arrived in Natal in 1835 and …
EventThe UN decides not to support the request of the Union of South Africa concerning the treatment of Indians in SA
… a multi-racial delegation from South Africa, led by Dr. A.B. Xuma, president-general of the African National …
EventDate set for start of Passive Resistance Campaign
… A 'Council of Action' for the campaign was set up with Dr. Yusuf Dadoo as chairman. India declared its support for …
EventUDF members challenge the government to arrest them on charges of high treason
… charged and put in jail." He is joined in this campaign by Dr. Farook Meer, Professor Jerry Coovadia, Advocate Zai …
EventSusanna Kok, SA medical missionary whose work led to the effective diagnosis and treatment of leprosy, dies
… SAHO Biographies on Science and Medicine References: Dr. Susanna Kok [online] Available at: whoswhosa.co.za …
EventSir Benjamin D’Urban, for whom the city Durban was named, assumes office as Governor of the Cape of Good Hope
… committee by the missionary and philanthropist, Dr John Phillip. D'Urban remained governor until the arrival …
EventAn application to the Pretoria Supreme Court, to declare the Freedom of Choice to Terminate Pregnancy Law unconstitutional, fails.
… The court action was opposed by the minister of health, Dr Nkosazana Zuma, together with the Reproductive Rights …
Presidential Address to the Eleventh Annual Conference of the Natal Indian Congress, Durban, November 21, 1958
… Had the Indian people parliamentary franchise, would Dr Donges have dared to place in the Statute Book a measure … for the Indian community. It is the first…
The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa: Chapter Three - By Riashnee Pather
… Indian Congress (TIC) then under the new leadership of Dr. Dadoo expressed their willingness to participate in the … as well as to any form of discrimination…
ArticleLegacy: A Timeline of HIV/AIDS by Carlos Motta
… specific to homosexual populations. 1983 French virologist Dr. Barré-Sinoussi isolates a retrovirus that kills T cells … Health and Human Services (HSS)…
ArticleThe caring nature of Nontsikelelo Albertina Sisulu
… nurse saw Nontsikelelo Albertina working in Soweto beside Dr Abu Baker Asvat , in a small clinic in which any person …
ArticleMoses Kotane Timeline
… their first child named Joseph, after Joseph Stalin. 1943 Dr Alfred Bathini Xuma invites Kotane to serve on the …
ArticleFederation of South African Women (FEDSAW)
… the Johannesburg region. The Minister of Native Affairs, Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd , under whose jurisdiction the pass laws …
ArticleUnited Democratic Front (UDF)
… to fight the introduction of the Tricameral Parliament. Dr Alan Boesak, Archie Gumede and Mrs Naicker at the launch. …
PlaceSt Stephen’s Church, Dutch Reformed Church, Riebeeck Square, Cape Town
… ineffective as a theatre and fell into disuse, and in 1838 Dr Adamson, of the Presbyterian Church, resolved to use it as … the four-year period of Indenture…
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1950-1959
… by the Department of the Native Affairs under the minister Dr H. F. Verwoerd and was in fact penned by Dr Verwoerd. The primary aim of this educational…
PlaceJohannesburg Civic Theatre
… at Joburg Theatre has hosted many hit shows, including William Kentridge’s acclaimed interpretation of Mozart’s THE …
EventAfrican Mineworkers’ strike starts
… connection with the strike. They included three Indians, Dr Yusuf Dadoo, J.N. Singh and M.J. Vania. Police also …
EventThe “Ossewabrandwag” is founded
… of blood ties. Laas was succeeded in December 1940 by Dr J.F.J. (Hans) van Rensburg. Besides the OB and associated …
EventApartheid police officers admit to the killing of Biko before the TRC
… murdered in police custody continued to abound. In 1985 Dr. Benjamin Tucker who examined Biko before his death lost …
Labour Struggles in South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - 1921 by Evangelos A. Mantzaris
… of the working class against exploitation and poverty. Dr. Evangelos Mantzaris was born in Lemnos, Greece in 1953. …
PlaceMpumalanga
… keep it a secret, but then a similar discovery was made by William Trafford. This led to the world’s biggest gold rush …
PlaceDimbaza, Eastern Cape
… Town in the former Ciskei, about 11km North-West of King William’s Town (on the road to Alice) and Fort Beaufort! … Town in the former Ciskei, about 11km…
EventMike Gatting's rebel cricket tour is curtailed
… cricket tour by Mike Gatting's England team, culminated in Dr Ali Bacher's statement on February 13, 1990. In the …
Die Eerste Vryswartes Van Stellenbosch - 1679-1720 by Prof. J.L. Hattingh, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, 1981
… were made to Louis of Bengal in previous writings. Dr. Boeseken, in her book "Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape … the first to make mistakes or be…
ArchiveSteve Mokone: the striker who broke the apartheid barrier
… was inevitably political, something made clear to him by William Nkono, a senior figure in the African National Congress, who was a friend of the family. "Dr…