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Message by Albert Luthuli to people of Western Areas, 7 February 1955, Johannesburg
[Protest meetings were held in South Africa in February 1955 denouncing the government`s use of force to remove African people from the Western Areas. Chief…
EventSouth Africa concludes an agreement with the Marconi Company for a high
During the South African War in 1899, Marconi wireless equipment was tested in South Africa, with mixed results. Land-based military radio proved problematic,…
EventThree cases of Buboinic plague are reported in Cape Town
Three cases of Bubonic plague were reported in Cape Town, South Africa. The first cases of Bubonic plague in Cape Town emerged on 1 February 1901. The disease…
EventThe ‘Hospital and Lunatic Asylum’, the first civilian hospital in Cape Town, is opened
In the early 1800s, there was only one hospital for army men in the Cape, as well as a naval hospital in Simonstown. So, in order to set up the first civilian…
ArticleThe Ndebele in history
… were awarded land in the Nqutu region of KwaZulu-Natal. The term is therefore consistent with the idea of …
ArticleWorld War I Timeline 1916
18 February The German colony of Cameroon falls to French and British forces after 17 months of fighting. 21 February–19 December The Battle of Verdun…
SAHO Timeline and Milestones
… July 2003 at the Local History Museum, Durban. Aug 2003 Natal Organisation of Women photographic exhibition by Omar … (exhibition &web gallery) A…
INDIAN SLAVES IN SOUTH AFRICA: A little-known aspect of Indian-South African relations by E. S. Reddy
… before labourers were sent into semi-slave conditions in Natal as indentured labour from 1860 to 1911. That has left a …
Speech by Deputy Minister Gwendoline Mahlangu-Nkabinde, South African Deputy Minister of Economic Development at a Business Conference held in conjunction with the Wuhan Government, Wuhan, China 11 August 2010
… IDZ in Gauteng and Richards Bay IDZ in KwaZulu-Natal. The IDZs also comprise Industries and Service Areas …
Speech on the Occasion of Installation as the Chancellor of the University of Fort Hare and on being Awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws by O. R. Tambo, 19 October 1991
… the OFS and the two British colonies of the Cape and Natal, symbolising the union between Afrikaner and Briton, at …
A Tale of Political Conspiracy and Incomprehensible Judicial Imaginings by Thabo Mbeki, 15 February 2016
… September 2008, Justice Chris Nicholson, Judge in the then Natal Provincial Division of the High Court of South Africa, …
A tribute to Sam Ramsamy and others who fought apartheid sport by E.S. Reddy
… Sewsunker "Papwa" Sewgolum, an Indian golf caddie, won the Natal Open Golf Championship (after winning the Dutch Open in …
The Role Of The Indian People In The South African Revolution: An Interview In 1968
… functioning of the SAIC and its constituent bodies, the Natal Indian Congress and the Transvaal Indian Congress, …
Memorandum To The United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid, April 1964
… of this century the great Mahatma Gandhi who founded the Natal Indian Congress, the principal unit of my organization, …
Document 109 - G. H. Gool and J. A. La Guma, “Appeal of the National Liberation League for a National Convention of the Subject Peoples of South Africa”, The Liberator, September 1937
… dragged from home and kin to transform the virgin soil of Natal into flowering plantations of profit for the …
VI - The Inquest
… Marthinus Prins, assisted by Professor I. Gordon of the Natal University Medical School, and Professor J. Oliver o f …
Covert operations
… (Orange Free State), Umlazi, Inanda and Lamontville (Natal), Leandra, Moutse and Ekangala (Eastern Transvaal) and … an impi of lnkatha supporters marched…
Chapter 7 - SANSCO:The Ideology and Politics of Non-Racialism, the Freedom Charter and National Liberation
… of the manufacturer's products. At the University of Natal (Pietermaritzburg) black students went on a canteen … services (SAIRR, 1980: 52, 293, 549-53). The…
Chapter 9 - People’s Education and People’s Power: Mobilisation and Collective Action
… , June 1984). Also during 1984, at the University of Natal Medical School the focus of student action was … university autonomy. Thus, during a joint…
PlaceAngra das Voltas, Luderitz Bay- Namibia
Former name of Luderitz Bay. Portuguese for 'bay of tacks', this name was given in 1488 by the Portuguese mariner Bartholomeu Dias because contrary winds…
EventFormer ANC President, Oliver ‘OR’ Tambo, is born
On 27 October 1917, Oliver Tambo, who would become African National Congress (ANC) President, was born at Bizana, Transkei (now known as Eastern Cape). During…
EventSA and British governments clash over interpretation of the Simonstown Agreement
On 5 March 1960, the South African and British governments were in open conflict over the interpretation of the Simonstown Agreement. The South African…
ArchiveRecollections of the Resurrection of Women’s Day, 40 Years Ago by Julie Wells
… Meer offered me the use of her office at the University of Natal (Howard College). That placed me in the Sociology …
Chapter 7 - 1957-58: The Movement in a Crucial Phase
… a showdown they will get it." [32] Moreover, commented the Natal Daily News : "Mr Schoeman did not say so in Parliament … regional in character - first on…
EventWW2: A German bomb fired off Algeria’s coast sinks British transport ship (HMT Rohna) carrying US soldiers.
Built in 1926, the aging steam ship was pressed into service as a troop transport by the Royal Navy and had already carried thousands allied of troops to…
EventThe South African security police bombed two houses in Manzini, Swaziland
In response to attacks on the Sasol oil refinery in Secunda, the South African security police bombed two houses in Manzini, Swaziland. The attacks claimed the…
PlaceQuadrant House, 114-115 Victoria Embankment, Durban
In 1929, H Live commissioned architect Ritchie McKinlay to design a building which, according to local tradition, would serve as a naval college. McKinlay is…
ArticleThe Berlin Conference
The Berlin Conference can be best understood as the formalisation of the Scramble for Africa. This British coined the term sometime in 1884, and it has since…
ArchiveOne hundred years of an air force inspired by General Smuts, by John Kane-Berman (PoliticsWeb), 18 July 2018
Last week fighter aircraft flying in formation to look like the figure "100" swooped down The Mall and over Buckingham Palace to mark the centenary of the…
Lecture by the President of the ANC, President Jacob Zuma, on the occasion of celebrating the life and times of the tenth President of the ANC President Nelson Mandela, 10 July 2012, Limpopo
… ANC had also joined forces with the Congress of Democrats, Natal Indian Congress and the Coloured People`s Congress. … Inkatha Freedom party in what is now…