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EventEleven people are killed at Donnybrook, Kwazulu
… violent clashes between IFP and ANC supporters that began before the 1990s. It is unclear whether these killings were … and a baby in an overnight attack in…
Chapter 9 - Division weakens the movement
… of the ANC, declared the conference closed before it completed its business. Afterwards, continues …
ArchivePostscript Ante by Howard Barrell
… inside South Africa since July 1988 - for some 18 months before the ban on the ANC had been lifted. Before his disappearance from the ranks of ANC exiles in …
PlacePaul Kruger’s House, 60 Church Street West, Pretoria
… on the house, which was handed over to its owner on or before 14 August 1884. Electric lighting and a telephone were installed before 1899. Kruger occupied…
Women at the start of the 20th century
It is only over the last three or four decades that women's role in the history of South Africa has, belatedly, been given some recognition. Previously the…
ArticleThe Land Act, Traditional Authorities and the Native Affairs Department (NAD) 1913-1953
Traditional authorities were indispensable in the application of the provisions in the 1913 Natives Land Act in areas of rural South Africa designated as …
ArticleNelspruit Timeline 1815-1996
… Hotel opens in Nelspruit. Longmere dam is completed. 1940 Nelspruit gets its first municipal swimming pool. 12 …
Letter to Americans by Albert Luthuli, distributed by the American Committee on Africa with the "Appeal for Action", 4 November 1962, New York
… Dear friend: Just before I went to Oslo last December to receive the Nobel … Africa on an international scale - pressure for change before it is too late,…
EventThe fall of the fortress town of Tobruk
… as the tactical superior strategies employed by Rommel. Before the fall of Tobruk, Klopper had allowed the defences … the streets of Tobruk, Klopper ordered…
EventJoseph Engenas Lekganyane, founder of the Dove branch of the ZCC, is born
… the founder of the original Zion Christian Church before it was split into two branches. Barnabas chose and … brothers, elders and his advocate as his…
Grade 11 - Topic 4 Timeline
… were going to attack Israel. So Israel attacked first before the Arab States could attack. Israel attacked Syria, …
ArticleContemporary issues: Women’s struggle, 1900-1994
… are participating in higher education in South Africa than before. Among the health challenges that women in South …
ArticleMatabele Wars 1836-1896
… did settle with a Ndebele group in this area for a period before being defeated by the Voortrekkers in 1836, at which …
June 17
… and casualties were even higher than the day before. The violent reaction of the police only made the …
ArticleResponses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: The Formation of the International Socialist League (ISL)
… development of socialist labour politics in South Africa. Before the war, the Labour Party under Colonel Cresswell was …
ArticleHow Lenin and Stalin are remembered today?
… cannot outweigh his despotic behaviour. Stalin Shortly before his death, Lenin called for Stalin's removal from …
Indian Community in Lenasia
… nature of the structure, it was used for some 40 years before a more permanent brick construction was erected, on … development The houses in Ext One were…
ArticleBlack Consciousness and student revolt in the Cape
… students burnt schools, libraries and a magistrate’s court. This was followed by huge strike on 15 -16 September …
ArticleTransformation in Southern Africa Timeline 1700-1800
… 1825 A Portuguese delegation visits Shaka Zulu’s court to discuss his interest in the ivory trade. 1825 …
ArticleTransvaal Indian Youth Congress (TIYC)
… and camped on municipal land designated for whites only to court arrest. As a consequence, some of TIYC leaders like …
The curious case of the missing ANC members – and the crisis plan to win them back by Ranjeni Munusamy (Daily Maverick),14 October 2015, South Africa
… omissions. The first is the abnormal spike in the figures before the 2012 Mangaung conference, in all provinces except … ANC not to be compromised by leaders…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1903 - 1923 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… member of the Cape Provincial Council, until his death in 1940. The African Political Organisation [APO] was … 1920, M A Gamiet, President of the Association…
ArticleKingdoms of Southern Africa: Mapungubwe
… overview of the settlements in the Limpopo Valley before Mapungubwe, and a brief concluding overview of Great … of a much larger political scale than had…
The Atlantic slave trade
… colonised by the Portuguese. The Abolition project, Africa Before Transatlantic Slavery visit abolition.e2bn.org Case … feeling it produced, having never…
EventSouth Sudan votes in Referendum on Independence
… having parent’s native to the South Sudanese region on or before January 1, 1956, traceable ancestry in the South Sudanese indigenous population on or before…
B.J. Vorster - Select Speeches
… speeches to the press. He does, however, make some notes before delivering a speech, even on the spot shortly before an appearance. There is a great…
EventMoroccan explorer, Ibn Battuta is born
… East and North and West Africa. It would be 24 years before his return to Morocco and 29 years before he completed his travels. Sadly, Battuta did not …
Chapter 9 - Negotiating the transition
… also proposed the establishment of a constitutional court, one of the important functions of which would be to … insisted that the final constitution be…
Chapter 6
… acute than ever. When the Land and Trust Bill had been put before ParliaÂment in 1936 the Prime Minister, General … recruiting for the Chamber of Mines, in…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Socialism, Culture and Networks. Convenor: Omar Badsha
Culture/Creativity/Communism: cultural expression and South Africa’s communist movement by Judy Seidman This paper opens up the question about the role…