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EventMarthinus van Schalkwyk is born
… with other parties and later dissolving the alliance. Under his leadership, the party support continued to decline. …
EventMovie director Henry Cornelius dies
… Crichton saw the film to its completion. Cornelius studied under Max Reinhardt and worked with Rene Clair and Alexander …
EventTony Leon is born
… 1999. These parties agreed to contest 2000 local elections under the banner of the Democratic Alliance. D A is the …
EventSA artist Sydney Khumalo is born
… at Polly Street Art Centre in 1952 and worked there under Cecil Skotnes and later Edoardo Villa. He was an art …
EventPik Botha is born
… Botha served in the Government of National Unity (GNU) under President Nelson Mandela as Minister of Energy and …
EventEnoch Mgijima dies
… His followers, believing Enoch's claim that they were under the special protection of God, had defied orders by the …
EventApartheid leader P. W. Botha Resigns
… came to call South Africa a praetorian state because under his leadership the Security Council and the military …
EventDutch Reformed Church in Africa talks with the ANC
… Church (DRC) decided to start its own mission work under Black South Africans at its first synod held in 1824. …
EventJan de la Fontaine becomes Governor at the Cape
… 1730. His service is described as "quietly efficient". Under his rule the area up to the Little Karoo valley was …
EventAmina Lawal is freed
… Muslim states, which were given self-autonomous status under Nigeria's federal system. Click here to read more about …
EventMgqwetho,the first poem of Nontisi is published
… Imbongikazi yakwaCizama) was published in Umteteli under her clan name, Cizama. She is the sole significant …
EventThe first Boer Trek to Angola that started in 1874 reaches Lake Ngami (Thirstland Trek) in 1875
… desert. The first Thirstland Trek, which started in 1874 under the leadership of Gert Alberts, reached Lake Ngami on …
Event18,000 people have been detained since the declaration of the State of Emergency in March
… the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) and other organisations under the Unlawful Organisations Act. These organisations …
EventA proposed amendment to the Population Registration Act is made
… Under a proposed amendment to the Population Registration Act …
EventThe last conventional battle of the South African War ends
… the entire Transvaal south of the Delagoa Bay railway was under British control. …
EventFrance’s war in Morocco ends with Treaty of Tangier.
… In August 1844 French forces under General Thomas Bugeaud defeated the Moroccan army in …
PlaceBloemfontein Technical College, Douglas Street, Bloemfontein
… was founded here. It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 29 June 1984. …
Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945 edited by Cherryl Walker
… CONTENTS Women under indentured labour in colonial Natal, 1860-1911 by Jo …
PlaceLesotho
… farmers , some of whom were granted land for settlement under baSotho customary law, infiltrated the country. In 1836 … for thousands of Basotho workers in…
PlacePhilip Irrigation Tunnel and Missionary Station, Hankey
… all members of his congregation set to work day and night under the guidance of this man, who was at one and the same … One can only imagine what it must…
Document 7 - ‘White South Africa.’ Two Voices.” The International, 27 January 1922
… is eliminated or not. He will do it because he is a worker under capitalism, and good luck to him! The white workers are under a very real and proper fear of…
Baleka Mbete: In The Centre Of The Maelstrom by Greg Nicolson (Daily Maverick), 17 February 2015, South Africa
… a rise in opposition rhetoric, and a president and ANC under fire have all coalesced in the National Assembly. … for another four, briefly served as Deputy…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1940-1949
… 7 July, General elections are held with the United Party, under General Jan Smuts winning a majority of seats in Parliament. The National Party , under D.F…
ArticleWomen’s resistance in the 1960s - Sharpeville and its aftermath
… conference in 1969. These black students were studying under very difficult circumstances in university campuses and … the 1960s many Indian families had…
Anti-Indian Legislation 1800s - 1959
… compensation if moved and are allowed to erect buildings under strict regulations. The Immorality Ordinance, Law 46 of … at all times and produced on request…
ArticleTimeline 20 years of Democracy 1994 to 2014
… de Klerk (NP) were sworn in as Executive Deputy Presidents under a provision in the Constitution entitling every party … is established by the new South…
Theft at Luthuli House, 12 October 2003
… computer equipment was removed. 3. The matter is currently under investigation by South African Police Service (SAPS). …
EventTunisia: The self-emulation of Tarek el-Tayeb Mohamed Bouazizi sparks the Jasmin Revolution
… his frustration with the lack of opportunity in the state under then-President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali’s 23-year …
ArchiveThe end conscription campaign 1983-1988: a study of white extra-parliamentary opposition to apartheid
… the ECC; the campaign takes off; a changing campaign under the state of emergency; the end of the campaign; …
PlaceHoly Cross Mission & Hospital, Eastern Cape
… to pregnant and breastfeeding women as well as children under the age of six years old. Other citizens are charged …