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EventAn application to the Pretoria Supreme Court, to declare the Freedom of Choice to Terminate Pregnancy Law unconstitutional, fails.
… anti-abortion groups were responding to an act passed on 11 December 1996. The Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act, …
EventMahatma Gandhi is arrested for refusing to carry Apartheid pass
… At a mass protest meeting held in Johannesburg on 11 September 1906, Gandhi adopted his approach to non-violent …
EventThe first cable connection between SA and Europe is launched
On 31 July 1879, the first cable connection between South Africa and Europe, via Aden, was launched. It was laid by the British electrical engineer Charles…
EventBeginning of the Anglo-Zulu War, 10 January 1879
… of a threat to peace and prosperity in South Africa. On 11 December 1878, under the flimsy pretext of a few minor …
EventSouth African Indian Congress opposes "Ghetto Act"
… called on the prime minister, General J.C. Smuts , on 11 February and urged him to postpone the legislation, …
ArticleThe International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF)
… 258 years. Rivonia, the IDAF’s second major challenge On 11 July 1963, seven men were arrested at Liliesleaf Farm in … of Solidarity with South African…
Nelson Mandela Timeline 1920-1929
… arrives from Moscow ordering dissolution of the League. 14 June, National elections take place. Nationalists gain …
University of York Student Submissions 2015
… across the media and popular culture in the wake of the 9/11 attacks affected the Western attitudes towards Muslims. …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1866-1909
… Zeerust in the District of Rustenberg the second son of 11 children, to Samuel Segogwane and Siporah Mmadira Kotane, …
English Settlement in South Africa
… and Major General James Craig sailed into False Bay on 11 June 1775, the British produced papers claiming that they …
ArchiveBiography of Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin by Victoria Sedeno
… of great uncertainty and fear in Sikhakhane-Rankin. [11] Sikhakhane-Rankin’s interrogators were … that brought her any joy while she was in…
ArchiveAn Analysis of the Imprisonment and Detainment Treatment of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela by Monica McCausland
… served on top of the prisoners’ sanitary buckets. [11] These first days in the Pretoria prison were full of … people in jail if she did not accept…
ArchiveEleanor Kasrils: From Detainment to National Liberation by Nathan Greenhaw
… making them feel “more powerless” as time progressed. [11] Furthermore, most women also suffered from “dizziness, … , who successfully escaped Pretoria…
Indian Slaves in South Africa: Notes for monograph, 26 June 1995
… 20 1.54 Indonesia 189 14.58 Africa* 397 30.63 Other … African Biography. Pretoria:…
77. The South African Indian Council: an assessment from within, 1978
… of twenty members. This was given statutory standing in 1968; it was then re-named the South African Indian Council … a new body with twenty-five members…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1930s
… of attempts to reduce the South African Indian population. 14 August, The Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) holds a mass … Parliament Bill. The Bill was passed…
‘African Gandhi’: The South African War and the Limits of Imperial Identity by Goolam Vahed
… [10] , 700 to 1,000 at the Kimberley diamond fields [11] , and around 2,000 in Cape Town. [12] The attitude of the … feelings existing in the minds of…
PlaceHanover Park, Cape Town
… of Hanover Park was incorporated into Cape Town on August 14, 1958. It had a population of 305, in 2011. By 2022 it … The Village of Hanover Park was…
PlaceDiamond Hill Battle, Garden of Remembrance
… tps://magaliesmeander.co.za/news/the-battle-of-diamond-hill-11-12-june-1900/ …
PlaceTown Hall, 25 Market Street, Uitenhage
… competition. The Cornerstone was laid by Edward Dobson on 11 April 1881 and the building was officially opened on 7 …
EventProf. Hudson Ntsanwisi, former Chief Minister of Gazankulu, dies in Johannesburg
… was born in Shiluvane Mission Station in Tzaneen on 11 July 1920. He was the eldest of three children of Mlungisi …
EventPolice arrest members of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) High Command at Lilliesleaf Farm
South African police raided the African National Congress (ANC) underground headquarters, the Liliesleaf Farm in Rivonia, just outside Johannesburg. Apparently…
EventAlan Paton is born
… On 11 January, 1903 Alan Steward Paton, author of Cry, the …
Event523 people die in the Black concentration camps of the Second Anglo Boer War
… On 11 October 1899 war was officially declared between Britain …
EventThe Vereeniging peace conference begins
… Anglo-Boer War (South African War), which had started on 11 October 1899, there were attempts to reach peace. On 15 … Cape Town: NASOU.P 396| Potgieter, D.J…
EventThe second Anglo-Boer war, also known as the South African war, breaks out
… issued an ultimatum to Britain and two days later, on 11 October war was officially declared between Britain and …
EventSir John Frederick William Herschel dies
… On 11 May 1871 astronomer, Sir John Frederick William Herschel, …
EventMore than 400 miners killed in what was the worst mining disaster in South Africa
… were lowered, no signs of life were detected. After 11 days the rescue was called off. The majority of the miners … The 435 SA miners who didn't make it ,…
EventJazz Musician, Basil 'Manenberg' Coetzee, dies
… (also known as Dollar Brand) died during the night of 11 March 1998 after a long struggle with cancer. …
‘Something like an archive - Exploring memory through zine-making’ is a one day public workshop at Iyatsiba Lab facilitated by visual artist and educator, Scott Eric Williams.
… It is aimed at anyone from 14 to 30 years old who would like to explore the media of …