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Biography of Caiphus Semenya
… (2011) Bibliography Anon, 2011. Letta Mbulu. South African History Online. Available at: … 20, 2016]. Anon, 2011. Hugh Masekela. South African History Online…
Prehistory: Pre colonial farmers in Gauteng
… Southeastern cluster. According to well-established oral history, these people were BaFokeng. Although the climate was … Johannesburg area during the last…
PlaceManenberg, Cape Flats
… the marginalized communities (Coloured, African and Indian) are located on the edges of the City. The roads, the … a Central Business District (CBD) which…
EventMalan introduces Asiatic Bill
… Bill also known as the Asiatic Bill. The Bill defined Indian people as aliens and recommended the limitation of …
Freedom In Our Life Time - Introduction
… could have access to formal schooling. The Lembede family history portrays their move to Umbumbulu as a positive search … by working as a seasonal laborer on…
South African Constitution 1996
… on 8 May 1996 was one of the turning points in the history of the struggle for democracy in this country. The …
The African Element in Gandhi by Anil Nauriya
… the transformation of Gandhi from a lawyer-servant of the Indian community to a Mahatma. But, unfortunately, there is …
EventDaryll Cullinan, SA cricket player, is born in Kimberley.
… cricket in 2002. He took up a position as a coach with the Indian Cricket League. …
EventMahatma Ghandi sends a telegram to Dr. Dadoo
… At a meeting attended by 6,000 Indians, at the Indian Sports Ground in Johannesburg under the chairmanship … References: www.south-african-hotels.com South…
EventGovernment tables the third Constitution of the Republic of South Africa before the House of Assembly
… providing for separate houses for White, Coloured and Indian groups. It excluded African people, on grounds that … South African History Online, ‘South…
Passive Resistance in South Africa by O. R. Tambo - Extract from "Southern Africa in Transition by Davis, John A. and James K. Baker"(Pall Mall Press), London, 1966
… people in South Africa have always associated the history of the United States with the great name of Abraham … Gandhi and his philosophy. As early as 1907,…
ArticleDr. Abu Baker Asvat timeline 1943 - 2012
… Vrededorp, Gauteng. 1961 Asvat graduates from Johannesburg Indian High School and moves to Pakistan to continue his … clinic. 22 August, Police arrest…
EventGriffiths Mxenge is buried
… to defend the United Democratic Front and the Natal Indian Congress in a treason trial at the Pietermaritzburg …
EventMauritius gains independence
… pot of different nationalities - descendents of Chinese, Indian, African and European immigrants and slaves all make … Mongabay, " Mauritius History ", From:…
The Heritage Museum at Villa Zain by Joline Young
… is. They say they actually feel the vibration of the rich history that fills these walls. I have given 19 years of my … Museum in Simon’s Town is a treasure…
ArticlePrehistory of the Pretoria area
… Moor Park type first developed in KwaZulu-Natal ( see pre history of Durban ). Using this pattern, Ndebele specifically … near the hill Ntsuanatsatsi in the…
Nelson Mandela The World Celebrates the Mandela’s
… mythology, my interest in that particular field has a long history my mother having fed me on it from the earliest days … and Biharas [references to the…
46. The Gandhi-Smuts compromise explained
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … of the dialogue, which featured in the Gujarati section of…
PlaceHeritage Route of King Shaka
… Mr. Anthony A Simon, a European, who had run a school for Indian children at Isipingo on the Natal South Coast, had … became our second Headmaster. This is…
Enuga S Reddy: Notes on meeting with Dr. Cassim Jadwat -1997
… Sastri College in Durban. [A.I. Kazi, leader of the Natal Indian Congress for twenty years (from 1920s to 1940s), was … Dr. Jadwat to go as representative of…
ArticleOral tradition and indigenous knowledge
… Written documents are very important sources of history. Letters, diaries, and even old shopping lists can … people thought that something could only be…
PlaceSedgefield
… rivers arise in the high reaches flowing eastwards to the Indian Ocean watering the environment and contributing … exposed as land between the Cape Fold Belt…
ArchiveAPDUSA Bulletin 3: Dont help sellouts to get R40 000 a year
… in 1981, in which the government offered the SAIC to the Indian people. The liberatory movement introduced the Dont …
Trade Union Council of South Africa (TUCSA)
… White workers and mixed unions of Coloured and Indian workers. Initially, unions represented in TUCSA were …
ArticleANC and the early development of apartheid 1948-1950s
… proposed. With the Defiance Campaign dying out, the ANC, Indian National Congress, Coloured People’s Organisation and …
ArticleWorld War I Timeline 1914
… victory for the Allied Forces. 16 October, The British Indian Expeditionary Force sails from Bombay to the Persian …
'We Go To Action': Statement on the Launching In Natal of the Defiance Campaign, August 30, 1952
… of the African National Congress and the South African Indian Congress, are going into action against discriminatory … by the African National Congress and…
ArticleThe African Mine workers strike of 1946
… According to VL Allen, the author of the three-volume The History of Black Mineworkers in South Africa, the strikes ‘ … two days. The Passive Resistance…
EventSouth African cricketer, Hashim Mahomed Amla, is born
… is a South African batsman. He is the first cricketer of Indian descent to reach the national squad. Amla began his …
Event33 American airmen arrive in Durban on a mission to launch a long-range missile
… to fire the rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida into the Indian Ocean, somewhere in the vicinity of Prince Edward …