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EventPolice open fire to disperse a rioting crowd in Cato Manor, Durban
… George Christopher Cato. The area has a remarkably rich history of culture and politics. In the 1950s, the area had … Boddy-Evans A. (n.d.), ‘This Day in…
PlaceRoodepoort Museum
… Museum capably covers Roodepoort’s long and diverse History, which dates back to 1884, despite having had to shut …
EventMartin Luther King is arrested for his role in a bus boycott
… http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/solidarity/mlking02.html …
EventHiroshima is targeted by a WWII atomic bomb
… 9, is to date the only attack with nuclear weapons in the history of warfare. Six days after the bombing of Nagasaki, … available at www.about.com [Accessed:…
EventUnited Nations Charter is adopted
… of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 11, p. 78. History of the United Nations. Website: wikipedia.org Charter …
EventSWAPO attacks SAP
… E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from …
EventPolicewomen are enlisted as full members of South African Police Force for the first time.
… On 1 January 1972, for the first time in the history of the South African Police (SAP), policewomen were …
EventLuthuli Combat Detachment crosses the Zambezi
… 2011] SAHO, (n.d.), ‘Umkhonto we Sizwe’ from South African History Online [online] Available at www.sahistory.org.za …
EventLast remaining SA troops have been withdrawn from Namibia
… battle at Cuito Cuanavale in 1988, a turning point in the history of southern Africa, the stalemate condition led all …
EventWinnie Madikizela-Mandela’s bodyguards arrested in connection with the death of Stompie Seipei
… On this day in history, 4 of Winnie Mandela's (now Madikizela-Mandela) …
EventAngola, Cuba and South Africa allegedly signed a cease fire treaty
… in Angola is one of the turning points in Southern African History. It led to the movement of powerful Cuban armed …
EventCape of Good Hope Royal Observatory is founded
… in the Northern Cape. References: Laney, C.D. (2011). ‘History of the South African Astronomical Observatory’ from …
EventSimon Mann pleads guilty in a Zimbabwean Court to attempting to purchase dangerous weapons
… Location: back to this day in history search archive On 28 July 2004, Simon Mann, a British …
EventAnglo American announces switching of main listing to London
… biggest Black empowerment deals in South African corporate history in 1996 through the sale of interests in Johnnic and …
EventDe Kock is convicted of six killings
… Kalley, J. A. et al (1999). Southern African Political History: A Chronology of Key Political Events from …
EventTerror strikes the Olympics Games in Atlanta
… It is said to have been the largest pipe bomb in American history- which killed 2 people and injured 111. The motive …
EventTrevor Manuel unveils GEAR
… E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from …
EventArthur Conan Doyle, medic during the Second Anglo, is born
… which no doubt serves as a valuable reference point for history researchers. … BBC, Historic Figures: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , from BBC History , [online],…
EventThe State President F.W. de Klerk issues a proclamation adopting the new national flag and National Anthem of SA
… iAfrika are songs which are both deeply rooted in the history of South Africa. Die Stem was sung on official …
EventJ.J. Hadebe replies to Thabo Mbeki’s plea
… This Day in History, African National Congress (ANC) executive member in … Africa: Jonathan Ball Publishers. pg 223|South African History Online(2011). ‘The…
EventPieter Willem Frederik Wenning, SA painter, is born in The Hague, Netherlands
… 2011. ‘Pieter Wenning - South African Artist From Art History’ [online] Available at www.the-art-world.com …
PlaceVoortrekker Girl
… Aesthetics of Gardens and Buildings; the influence of the History of the School; Maintenance and Buildings that tell …
The White man’s task by Jan Smuts, 22 May 1917
… Your words tonight carry me back to that period in our history when I was serving under you and was a … will probably remain the greatest creative epoch in…
Chapter IX - Triumph of disunity (1)
… of the Sotho nation, and it is round him that much of the history of the north from the thirties on to the sixties … While it is convenient to divide this…
The British Government, The Trade Union Congress, and Black South African Trade Unionism, 1973 to 1994 by Dan Feather
… with South Africa. Biography Dan is a Senior Lecturer in History at Liverpool John Moores University teaching in the areas of imperial, African, and…
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
… Although trade unions had a presence throughout the modern history of South Africa, Black trade unions never managed to … and Canning Workers Union, one of…
The First South African side to play in the sub-continent: Boer Prisoners of War in 1901 (Part 1 of 2) by Arunabha Sengupta (Cricket Country), 12 October 2015
… culturally insensitive wordplay —the colourfully chequered history of the country. The policy of apartheid across all … This match has gone down as an…
The Colonial Photographic Discourse and Censorship – Challenges for Resistance Photographers
… the ideological construction of apartheid through the history of photography in South Africa, the South African … Racism and segregation have been a part of…
ArticleThe Union of South Africa: Movement towards Republic
… the country for the next eighty years. South African History Year General History South African War 1899 Accession of Edward VII 1901 … existing…
ArticleChanges in modern forms of communication
… further development of wireless communication technology. History of the radio The Typewriter The first typewriter was … explains how Baird’s television…