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Statement by Oliver Tambo on the struggle continues and grows more intense, 23 August 1984
… new constitution in a total boycott of the election by our Indian compatriots. Such a massive boycott could be a blow …
EventSharpeville Deputy Mayor killed
… the tri-cameral system of government that included White, Indian and Coloured representation but excluded African …
EventSAA Helderberg 747 crashes
… Airways Helderberg 747 jet aircraft crashed into the Indian Ocean near Mauritius, killing all 159 people on board. …
A collection of articles, speeches and letter pertaining to Dr James Sebe Moroka
… Article in the Indian Opinon by Jordaan K Ngubane on James Moroka, 28 …
Draft Report of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, submitted to the Annual Conference, December 15-17, 1950
… 1. The year 1950 was a turning point in the political history of the African people in this country. It was marked … Government is wedded. It is intended to…
Document 39 - “Walter Sisulu, “Boycott as a Political Weapon”, Liberation, 23, February 1957
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 39 … against the British Legislative Council…
ArticleRuth First timeline 1925-2012
… receiving a first in sociology, anthropology, economic history and native administration. 1947 First gets a job at … years. 1963 First’s South West Africa ,…
Remembering the enslaved in Cape Town by Sam North
… As a city, Cape Town sits on top of an uncomfortable history of colonialism, slavery, and formal racial segregation. This history has an uneasy relationship…
BiographyRobert Gabriel Mugabe
… He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and English in 1952 and in the same year, went back … Blake, R. A. (1977). A History of Rhodesia…
EventMarais Steyn dies
… appointed him as minister of community development and Indian affairs, and later tourism and Coloured affairs as …
EventSouth African Police (SAP) is founded
… the establishment of the SAP, mineworkers’ strike and Indian Passive Resistance campaign erupted on the … South African History Online , ‘South African…
EventPresident F.W. de Klerk announces the Group Areas Act will be repealed.
… were allocated to White people while Black, Coloured and Indian people were removed to areas outside the urban areas …
The CASA Conference
… into the AABN at the International Institute of Social History. The conference included the participation of the …
The National Flag
… are a synopsis of principal elements of the country's flag history. Individual colours, or colour combinations have …
Chapter III - My very ordinary life
… as a teacher. I grew to love that Mahbubia School and the Indian girls and their families. Hyderabad was the largest … Notwithstanding all this, I absorbed…
PlaceSomalia
… Mogadishu, is located just north of the Equator on the Indian Ocean. The original Inhabitants were introduced to … a population of approximately; 14 065 000…
EventThe Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act commences
… Act of 1950. The four groups were White, Coloured, Indian and Black. Using these categories, the apartheid … www.southendmuseum.co.za [Accessed: 04 July…
EventMembers of the AAM hand over a memorandum to Verwoerd's private secretary about Apartheid policies
… Dr. Yusuf Dadoo, former president of the South African Indian Congress and J. Kozonguisi of the South African United …
EventSouth African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) is formed
… African Communist Party (SACP), the ANC, South African Indian Congress (SAIC) and the South African Coloured … [Accessed on 28 March 2013]| COSATU Brief…
EventNatal Law society apologises to Gandhi
… Natal Law Society opposed his application because he was Indian. The president of the Natal Law Society, David …
EventM.K. Gandhi is forcibly removed from a whites-only train carriage
… according to race. Gandhi was practising as a young Indian lawyer in South Africa at the time, and this event …
EventSir Ronald Ross, discoverer of the malaria mosquito is born
… Hospital Medical College. In 1881 he joined the Indian medical service and visited Madras, Burma and Andaman …
EventBritain proposes the sale of arms to South Africa
… of maritime trade routes in the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Britain's proposal threatened to cause the …
PlaceMogwase, Bojanala Region
… has a predominantly Black African population, with fewer Indian, Coloured and White groups, mostly residing in Sun …
PlaceSutelong a township in the West of Mortele, Pretoria
… African people are 4,044 making up 99.85% of population. Indian or Asian are 5 people. White is 1 person. (This was …
ArticleThe Western Front
… successfully beaten back by a joint force of British and Indian armies. Battle of Neuve Chapelle, 10 – 13 March 1915: …
Conference: One Hundred Years of the ANC - Debating Liberation Histories and Democracy Today
… in 2012 is a momentous event in South African and African history. It will also be the occasion for nationwide … the present. Since 1994, public engagement…
Document 130 - Communists in Conference: The 1943/44 National Conference of the Communist Party of South Africa
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew PLANS FOR … Each delegate is, in some degree, a…
6. Tonight, have your door open
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … Pachai This deposition, taken from Goolam Khader, a free Indian…
ArticleSotho (South Sotho or Basotho)
… groups in Namibia and Zambia. While the Sotho people’s history is not directly intertwined with that of Bloemfontein, their history had an important…