Southern Africa

Landing page contentThis topic provides a brief introductory overview of the settlements in the Limpopo Valley before Ma...

The period 1860-1923 is characterised firstly by the introduction of indentured Indian labourers into Natal and of the "...

Devadas Paul David was a member of the Natal Indian Congress, the United Democratic Front and the African National Congr...

The Mfecane - known as the Difaqane or Lifaqane in Sesotho - was a period of profound political, social, and demographic...

The Fossil Hominid Sites of Sterkfontein, Swartkrans, Kromdraai, and EnvironsThe Sterkfontein Valley landscape is in bot...

The Natal Indian Association (NIA) was formed when the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) and the Colonial Born and Settlers In...

The Yusuf Dadoo timeline includes the history of one the leading members of the South African communist movement. Starti...

Indian South Africans Timeline: 1960-1969 1960 19 February, Dr Monty Naicker called for strength in resistance, ci...

1930 The Durban Municipality was a major employer of Indian labour, employing an average of 2 000 workers through the...

European missionaries to southern Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries played a strangely ambiguous role...

1920 February, The Asiatic Inquiry Commission, headed by Sir Johannes Lange, is appointed to inquire into laws concer...

1910 Public Servants Superannuating Act and Teachers Pensions Act. Discrimination against Indians – Indians were excl...

This is a collection of timelines of Indians in South Africa  from 1654 until 2008.

Indian South Africans Timeline: 2000 2008 16 November, Billy Nair is given a given a state funeral in Durban, a testam...

Indian South Africans Timeline: 1990-1999 1990 23 July, Billy Nair was detained following police allegations of an uMk...

Indian South Africans Timeline: 1980-1989 1980 Kay Moonsamy was sent to India to replace Mosie Moolla, as the African ...

Indian South Africans Timeline: 1970-1979 1970 HA Naidoo passes away while still in exile. 17 February, African Peopl...

Indian South Africans Timeline: 1940-1949 1940 January, A meeting is held between the Nationalist Bloc, Transvaal ...

1910 February 26, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi supports the African Peoples’ Organisation (APO) resolution to...

1902 At the cessation of hostilities, Sir Alfred Milner, the former British High Commissioner and Governor of the Ca...

This Order is to be awarded to South African citizens who have excelled in the fields of arts, culture, literature, musi...

Indian South Africans Timeline: 1950-1959 1950 A.K.M. Docrat, a popular activist, was named under the Suppression of C...