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PlaceCross erected by Bartholomew Dias
… of the Witwatersrand, and was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 6 May 1936. The Dias Cross …
PlaceTogo
… the British and French governments placed the territories under United Nations. Ten years later British Togoland was …
EventANC President Albert Luthuli banned
… and the Minister served him with the banning notices under the 1950 Suppression of Communism Act. Click here for a …
EventKwame Nkrumah is released from jail
… process until the country achieved independence in 1957. Under his leadership, Ghana prospered. He was responsible for …
EventMoses Kotane, the South African Communist Party and African National Congress stalwart dies in Moscow
… agencies and repressive legislations. He was banned under the Suppression of Communism Act of 1951. In 1955 …
EventRSA introduces more press restriction
… the government introduced wider press restrictions under the 1986 state of emergency. The state of emergency …
EventSpringboks beat Scotland at Murrayfield
… Despite the fact that the team had won the World Cup under his training, he lost his position as coach, presumably …
EventViolence erupts in Richmond
… by the ANC for his involvement in the very violence under discussion. This was made worse by the choice of ANC …
EventDe Klerk resigns as NP leader
… of the National Party (NP) and from public life. It was under his leadership where banned liberation organisations …
EventSouth Africa mandated to govern South
… War 2. The UN advised that the territory should be put under UN trusteeship, according to the provisions of Chapter …
EventThe Second General Election is held in the Union of SA
… but many of his followers voted for the new party under General J.B.M. Hertzog. …
EventEmily Hobhouse travels to South Africa
… she was denied further access to the camps and deported under martial law. …
EventRhodes asks Charter for British South Africa Company
… law and order but the Crown reserved supreme control. Under the conditions stipulated was that no slave trade was …
EventThe use of Dutch is ratified in the Cape parliament
… alongside English. On 5 May 1925, Afrikaans was subsumed under Dutch and thus obtained official recognition. In …
EventDennis Brutus is born
… Italian and French ancestry, was classified as Coloured under apartheid laws. In the 1960’s he joined the …
EventOlive Schreiner, noted SA author, dies in Wynberg, Cape Town
… could not take credit for it since it had been published under a pseudonym due to prejudice against female authors. …
PlaceUniversity of the Free State, Main building, Bloemfontein
… and 1929 respectively. It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 7 October 1983. 1904 | Founded …
PlaceAlbany, Eastern Cape
… Howden in 1819, and to the Peerage of the United Kingdom under the same title in 1831. The Town of Cradock in the …
PlaceAliwal North, Eastern Cape
… 1847-1852. To commemorate his victory over the Sikhs under Runjet Singh, at Aliwal in India, on the 28 January …
Biography of Arthur Nortje by Kangkang Yang
… as many of his friends and colleagues still suffered under apartheid. Some of them were even imprisoned under the apartheid laws. It was clear that Nortje’s…
ArticleThe Black Sash: A History of Transformation
… time, the remaining Black Sash women were better organized under the new established aim of the organisation, in which … the Black Sash and other anti…
ArticleGrade 11 - What were the consequences when pseudo-scientific ideas of Race became integral to government policies and legislation in the 19th and 20th centuries?
… (the Nazi Party) had absolute control over Germany. Under Hitler’s Government, this is what happened: Hitler had … camps) often to be trained to perform…
ArticleThe Western Cape Farm Workers Strike 2012-2013
… Cape in November 2012, the Department of Labour was under pressure as the Department feared that the strike could … determination for farm workers was…
ArticleGreat Trek 1835-1846
… into the interior, organised in a number of trek parties under various leaders. Many of the Voortrekkers were … in Grahamstown. In June a British relief…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… account of this inadequacy of land the African people live under extremely congested conditions in rural areas and in … where working conditions are…
South African Youth Revolutionary Council (SAYRCO)
… sought political asylum in Swaziland entered the country under the pretext of attending a music concert. Bob Marley … was a publication of the Department of…
ArticleStaffrider magazine (1978-1993)
… to work increasingly individually, and as the groups came under attack from South African security police, these groups … whose work was interesting, but of…
Khoisan Identity
… their heritage from and links with Cape slavery. Later, under the apartheid government, Khoisan peoples were forced … the Khoisan affirmation of identity has…
Biography of Baleka Mbete-Kgositsile by Brianna T. Hogg
… of the Natal Youth Organisation, an umbrella organisation under the influence of the Black Consciousness Movement – had been under arrest due to suspicion of…
Report of the National Executive Committee of the PAC, Submitted to the Annual Conference, December 19-20, 1959
… the effective means of fund-raising, we have had to manage under great financial strain. Credit must go to the National … been noticeably steady in the…