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EventFreak storms create havoc in the Eastern Cape and President Mandela narrowly escaped injury
… enjoying a rare visit to the mountains. Within seconds a 10-year-old girl was dead and three other children seriously …
EventNavanethem (Navi) Pillay is born
… station as a banned person. In 1971, she represented 10 members of the Unity Movement who were charged under the …
PlaceCuylerville
… the first of the settler ships to anchor in Algoa Bay on 10 April 1820. William Low, one of Bailie's servants, did not …
EventRichard Horatio Edgar Wallace, South African author and newspaper editor, is born in Greenwich, England.
… is famously known as a co-creator of King Kong (2005). On 10 February 1932 he died of pneumonia while he was working on …
PlaceThe Fountain and Garden of Remembrance, Chatswood-Sydney. Willoughby Park Centre
The Willoughby Memorial Fountain...was, on March 10th, 1901, unveiled by the Hon. John See, M.L.A., State Minister for Defence. The Fountain was erected by…
PlaceXamdeboo was called Aberdeen, Eastern Cape
… permission for the establishment of a new congregation on 10 September 1855. The Farm 'Brakkefontein' had been bought …
Document 2 - Against the C.A.D. for Full Democratic Rights [1943]
… had not been so weak-kneed and compromising. (v) In 1939, the widespread and insistent protests and the mighty …
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
… provincial campaign for universal adult suffrage. On June 26, 1950, the Africans' first national protest strike was … at any time. The regular army of 20…
My Spirit Is Not Banned - PART 1 by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… to, not like now. It was about the beginning of the war, 1939 or thereabouts when I got to Port Elizabeth, and then I … so long, just as you are sitting here…
Biography of Bessie Emery by Elizabeth Venditti
… It is known that Head began the correspondence “on 10 October 1960 to introduce herself and seek support.” … [xxxii] Everyday Matters, page 106 ↵ [xxxiii]…
Women in the apartheid society by Fatima Meer
… had only seven rugby fields and one cricket ground; 26,020 white pupils had 84 rugby fields, 35 hockey fields and … 1970 and 1977; economists estimate that…
PlaceKings Park Stadium, Durban
The Stadium is a Home for Sharks Rugby team. It is also open for external hire through the Stadium's manager. 10am till 4pm, Monday to Friday 10am till 12:30…
ArticlePlacing the film “Inxeba – The Wound” in Historical Review
… that it was against traditional African culture.” [10] They wanted the film to go further than homosexual and … ↵ [10] Aramide A. Tinubu, “Interview:…
ArticleWomen in African Literature: Writing and Representation
… reading his book ,Things Fall Apart, at the tender age of 10, made her realize that people who look like her could … and experiences of a Zimbabwean girl…
ArchiveThe end of an era - A tribute to Cde Govan Mbeki, by Jacob Zuma, 8 September 2001, Port Elizabeth
… a book of essays, titled, Transkei in the Making, in 1939. Journalism and theoretical writing became one of his …
PlaceCato Manor, Durban
… particularly during World War II which broke out in 1939. During the war years there was a huge influx of people …
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1700 - 1799 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… spread of Islam at the Cape of Good Hope. Dr A J Boeseken 10 in a list extracted from transactions pertaining to slaves … 4 0,32 Indo-China 1 0,08 Japan 1 0…
EventNelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first democratic President
… democratic President at the Union Buildings in Pretoria on 10 May 1994.. He replaced the outgoing National Party leader …
Death of a lion of the law, Arthur Chaskalson by Rebecca Davis, 3 December 2012
… During Apartheid, a black man employed continuously for 10 years at the same urban location could claim that place as … contracts for employment, so the…
ArticleKing Kong the Musical 1959 -1961
… people had to be turned away as the show was sold out by 10 February. By early April, 37 performances had been made to …
ArticleThe Drafting and Acceptance of the Constitution
… Assembly and in the Senate. It was signed into law on 10 December 1996. The objective in this process was to ensure …
ArticleThe People’s Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN)
… Africa and Angola, which took place in 1981. An estimated 10,000 guerrillas lost their lives and SWAPO was reduced to …
ArticleHerero Revolt 1904-1907
… had claimed between 65,000-80,000 Herero lives and around 10,000 Nama lives, almost completely annihilating both …
ArticleLand, Labour and Apartheid
… and Land Act increased the amount of land to just over 10% of South Africa. Labour During the same period the …
ArticleNobel Prizes and South African Laureates
… this work. It highlights our best and brightest. What do 10 December 1961 , 1984 and 1993 have in common? 1961 - …
ArticleDecember 16, the reflection of a changing South African heritage
… the Ncome River in KwaZulu Natal. On that day an estimated 10 000-20 000 Zulu warriors led by Dingane's generals Dambuza …
Document 22 - CODESA I - Declaration of Intent
… It is alarming to see a rollover of R14,5 billion, over 10% of last years planned expenditure of R141 Billion … gross fixed investment. He states this has…
The defiance campaign by M. P. Naicker
… INTRODUCTION This year, June 26, will mark the twentieth anniversary of the beginning of … by over 15,000; the meeting in Cape Town was attended by 10,000 as…
ArticleGrade 11 Topic 3 – Source-Based Questions
… and dwellings of Jews took place in the early hours of 10 November 1938, and was hailed in the Nazi press as a … to the source, triggered the attack of…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Essay Questions
… organisation that would unify various African groups. [10] On 8 January 1912, first African nationalist movement … Historical Review 46, no. 1 (2014): 22-47…