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EventJan van Riebeeck’s statue, presented by Cecil John Rhodes, is unveiled in Cape Town
… On 18 May 1899, a statue of the first European to settle at the … celebrations. References: This day in History: 18 May [online] Available at: news24.com …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: Pre-1500
Modern Humans evolve in Africa, including South Africa and the first African people begin to settle in South Africa. Hundreds of years later the first…
ArticleSharpeville Timeline
… and distributed to the members of the organization. 18 March 1960 – the PAC calls on Black South Africans to …
The diary of Maria Tholo - August 11 - 15 by Carol Hermer
… up for lost time. By midnight of that second day, August 12, 29 blacks had been shot dead, 100 injured and more than … him that they were disgusted by what…
ArticleGrade 7 - Term 2: The Transatlantic slave trade
… best estimates by historians suggest that approximately 12 million Africans were forcibly transported from their … slaves transported by European traders, to…
EventThato Madonsela, the South African rapper is born
… name L-Tido was born in Alexandra, Gauteng on 30 January 1982. He is one of the few independent hip hop artists in …
EventArmscor’s Chairman announces the production of a record breaking South African artillery system
… On 28 March 1982, the Chairman of Armscor announced that South Africa had …
EventThe South African security police bombed two houses in Manzini, Swaziland
… Angola; Ruth First who died in a parcel bomb attack in 1982; Moses Mabhida who died in 1986 in Maputo, Mozambique …
EventApartheid policemen apply for amnesty at TRC
… Coetzee outlined a plot to bomb ANC offices in London in 1982 with the knowledge of Minister of Law and Order, Louis …
EventHansi Pauline Pollak, welfare worker and social activist, is born
… of her community welfare work. Pollak died in Cape Town in 1982. …
EventUniversity of Pretoria's 100th anniversary
… of instruction on 13 September 1932. During the period of 1982 to 2008, the university transformed into a bilingual, …
The historical significance of COSATU’s Workers’ Charter Campaign
… of the Freedom Charter on the agenda. NUM was founded in 1982 and claims to be the first union to have adopted the … who create it. Proposals on the…
ArticleXenophobic violence in democratic South Africa
… to a local sports field called Hexvallei Sportklub on 18 November 2009 as numbers increased. Shelter and … violence in Durban, April 14, 2015 Source On 12…
ArticleNelspruit Timeline 1815-1996
… The line to Sabie is completed, and reaches Graskop on 18 May 1914. 1914 Outbreak of WWI. 1916 Barclays Bank opens … 1940 Nelspruit gets its first municipal…
EventNkosi Sikelel’iAfrica composer, Enoch Sontonga dies
… but it was finally established that the exact date was 18 April 1905. Seven years after his death the African … to Sontonga on the first post-apartheid…
EventZimbabwe's interior minister Joshua Nkomo is dismissed
… the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU). Between 1982 and 1985 the military brutally crushed armed resistance …
Introduction
… partly elective in 1974, and almost fully elective in 1982. Since its establishment the cleavage within the Indian … of the South African Indian Council,…
The Mountain Committee
… were convicted and sentenced to terms ranging from 18 months with 6 strokes to 21 months. Subsequently, at an …
ArticleCongress of the People and the Freedom Charter
… The strike resulted in police violence, and the death of 18 people. On 20 June 1950 the CPSA was forced to dissolve, …
EventSA cartoonist, Daniel Cornelis Boonzaaier is born
… [online]. Available at www.arcyart.com [Accessed: 18 October 2011] South African History Online(2011). ‘Daniel … Available at www.sahistory.org.za[Accessed:…
Chapter 3: The Role of the Police and the Government in Vigilante Activities
… ". 67 However, the SAP promptly detained a further 18 UDF and COSATU members two days before peace talks were … Week , 29 May 1994, p. 10. SADF unto it,…
ArchiveThe trial of SASO/BPC detainees
… The trial of 12 SASO and BPC leaders detained since September 1974. The charge sheet consisted of 81 pages. The 12 are accused of participating in terrorist…
ArchiveBiography of Florence Mkhize by Rachel Manak
… Joseph through the Federation of South African Women. [12] Mkhize used the sewing factory where she worked as a … in 1959 as a member of the South African…
ArticleHerero Revolt 1904-1907
… victims had no time to prepare or protect themselves. On 12 January several hundred mounted Herero invaded Okahandja. … and thirst as they fled through the…
ArticleThe Nelson Mandela Presidency - 1994 to 1999
… gross domestic savings of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of 12.5 per cent in the year 2000, relaxation of exchange …
ArticleSan hunter-gatherer society in the Later Stone Age
Lived off the environment The earliest hunter-gatherers in southern Africa were the San people. They mostly survived by hunting Gemsbok and other antelope…
Contact, conflict and dispossession on the Cape eastern or northern frontiers in the nineteenth century
The situation in the Eastern Cape in the early late 18th and early 19th century (approximately1780 - 1850) was as follows: There were three groups of people: …
PlaceTime Ball Tower, Table Bay Harbour, Cape Town
… a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 27 August 1982. The time ball is an obsolete time signalling device. It …
EventDiplomatic office of the ANC in Stockholm is bombed
… government the ANC office in London was bombed March 1982 and in September 1986 the ANC office in Stockholm in …
EventSADF mounts raids on ANC targets in neighbouring states
… actions against ANC bases in Mozambique (1981), Lesotho (1982 & 1986) and Swaziland (1986). Following the banning of …