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ArticleAnti-Indian Legislation
… meetings were held and various telegrams were sent to the Colonial Secretary to prevent the lading of any more free …
EventFormer NP member Roelf Meyer is born
… Meyer with the Ministry of Constitutional Development, a post he previous held under the apartheid regime. In 1997, …
EventZANU-PF wins the first free elections in Zimbabwe
… fifteen-year conflict. Nkomo was offered the ceremonial post of president, but declined. PF-ZAPU under Nkomo retained …
EventWinnie Mandela is elected ANCWL president
… she resigned from all ANC leadership posts, including her post as Member of Parliament. She was re-elected in 1997. … SAHO, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela , from…
EventBartolomeu Dias reaches present Mossel Bay
… a crossbow was fired killing one of the Khoi. The Post Office Tree, where seafarers from centuries ago posted …
EventActress and teacher Wilhelmina Freund is born
… South Africa with the requisite qualifications for such a post, while also teaching at the Good Hope Seminary, St …
EventNkomo, leader of ZAPU forms a coalition government with Robert Mugabe
… Nkomo rejected the offer and instead, accepted the post of Minister of Home Affairs. Two years later, Nkomo was … Boddy-Evans, A. ‘This Day in African…
Nelson Mandela Timeline 1800-2014
… The Nelson Mandela timeline tracks the history of the first democratically elected president of …
Second World War and its impact, 1939-1948
… 12 lesson, 1924-1948: South Africa's Foreign Relations. Post-war problems The war had a huge social and economic … People believed that it was incapable of…
PlaceHermanus
… was located next to his House on the present site of; the Post Office and the Service Station in the Main Road. … "This gives visitors a peep into the…
PlaceGeorge Division
… been covered by extensive indigenous forests, but during colonial times these were heavily depleted through …
EventJohn Fairbairn (70), journalist and outspoken critic, dies in Cape Town
… Fairbairn’s efforts paid off when in April 1829 the Cape Colonial government gave an undertaking to guarantee the …
PlaceQueen’s Tavern, 16 Stamford Hill Road, Durban
… 1894, this is one of Durban’s few remaining links with its Colonial past. It is the oldest licenced premises in the …
Speech at the Meeting of Representatives of the Parties and Movements Participating in the Celebration of the 70th Anniversary of the "Great October Socialist Revolution" by O. R. Tambo, Moscow, November 4-5, 1987
… base and spearhead in the struggle against imperialist, colonial and racist domination, against imperialist reaction … now embraces one-third of the world's…
EventSir John Robinson forms Natal's first ministry as Prime Minister
… Robinson as Prime Minister, Minister of Education, and Colonial Secretary. Robinson, who is regarded as a loyal … federation conference in 1876. He also…
ArticleStudent Protests at Tshwane University of Technology - Timeline
… of institutions through re-structuring and mergers in Post-Apartheid South Africa, historically White and Non-White … of Technology (TUT). The institution…
PlaceRiemvasmaak
… and eco-tourism opportunities. The community has a rich history of forced removal and successful land restitution and … 57km from Kakamas and 170km from the…
ArticleEarly hominid discoveries in South Africa and East Africa
… Fossil evidence in East Africa has also cast light on our history as human beings. Before we look at the Hominid … different ways of finding out what…
PlaceSimon's Town Museum
… moved to "The Residency" in 1982. The building has a long history, having been used as a hospital, post office, school, customs house, police station, gaol…
BiographyCharles W H Kohler
… the wine industry facing the most serious crisis in its history, Kohler came forward with his life-saving proposal. …
EventNP Secretary-General Stoffel Van der Merwe resigns
… appointment of National Party (NP) secretary-general, a post which he held for only thirteen months, resigned citing …
EventFormer Student Representative Council (SRC) Vice-President shot by Police
… times while attempting to escape from his captors. A post mortem showed he had been shot eight times, at least six …
ArchiveChapter 3 University by Denis Goldberg
… at home as I did. Dad would give the university three post-dated cheques to cover the small outstanding amount and … from Namibia I met Hermann ja Toivo, as…
Address by President Jacob Zuma to the Indian community Mount Edgecombe, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, 18 April 2014
… of us to understand the social basis that informs all our post-apartheid policy formulations and perspectives. When we … are informed by our correct…
PlaceKwazulu Natal Province
… of influence since the establishment of the first trading post in Port Natal in 1824 but the early English traders and … harvest and the hum of tractors lies…
Buy the Insurrection Ensemble's music
… Tina Schouw and Malika Ndlovu. Produced by South Africa History Online (SAHO) Centre for Humanities Research and …
ArticleSouth African Council of Churches (SACC)
… Brief political context on the formation and history of the SACC ... read on 5 July 1995 statement to a …
Provincial government and symbols
… national symbols. Activity Get map picture from hands on history ‘map.htm’ 1. Fill in the …
Delegations and dialogue between ANC and internal non government groups
… led a Progressive Federal Party delegation to Lusaka. The history of the PFP, in its various incarnations and … change, the creation of national unity, and…
ArticleThe influence of apartheid
… Ndebele teachers were prohibited from teaching the history of their people and that Northern Ndebele leaders had been incarcerated on flimsy pretexts. As…