1900s

On Thursday evening, 13 January 1949, violence erupted in the Indian business area in Durban. On the first day there was...

At the annual conference of the African National Congress (ANC) held in Durban on 16 December 1959, the President Genera...

Due to the fact that Black People were detained in separate camps, the issue of Black Concentration Camps is dealt ...

1869 April, Kasturba Kapadia is born in Porbandar, in present-day Gujarat. 1876 Kasturba Kapadia and Mohandas Kara...

The 1940s were characterised by changes that had a profound effect on the political landscape in South Africa. There was...

1910 First general election that followed the establishment of the Union of South Africa. Only White males had the rig...

January 1992: The IFP publishes its constitutional principles. 08 January 1992: The ANC gives it annual statement. ...

21 August 1989: OUA publishes the publishes the Harare Declaration. January 1991: Nelson Mandela calls for an all-par...

Explore some of the key moments and events that have helped shape the course of South African Communist Party. Follow th...

1 January Battle of Artois and Champagne in France begins. 31 January 1915 The German Army makes use of poison gas...

16 December 1959 - At the annual African National Congress (ANC) conference, Chief Albert Luthuli&nb...

1912 18 May, Walter Ulyate Max Sisulu is born in Engcobo District in the Transkei, in the same year, the ANC was forme...

9 July, The Executive of the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) meets in Durban and appoints S.R. Naidoo as the SAIC's...

The first treason trial in South African history post apartheid regime is under way amid high security at the Pretoria H...

1980 is declared the Year of the Charter, marking the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the Freedom charter in 1955. ...

The telling of the history of South African Intelligence Agencies is somewhat hamstrung by the fact that people from the...

1950 - 1960 In Fietas, Johannesburg, the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) initiates and implements the 'Decade of D...

1900 7 May, Paul Kruger addresses the volksraad for the last time before being forced to travel on the Delagoa line to...

The ANC in the 1920s was largely weakened and suffered from both organisation incapacity and financial constraints. Duri...

1960 1 January, Minister of Bantu Education assumes control of University College of Fort Hare.African students are pr...

July, Industrial and Commercial Workers Union of South Africa (ICU) is established as national Black trade union in Bloe...

1910 Anti-Indian Legislation: The Public Servants Superannuating Act and Teachers Pensions Act. This furthers discri...

Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1960 - 1969 1960 March 16, The Boycott Movement, in London, is renamed the Anti-Apartheid Mo...

Timeline 1958 The photographer, Peter Magubane, is the first black South African to win the Press Photo of th...

Acronyms BAWU, Black and Allied Workers Union COSAS, Congress of South African Students COSATU, Congress of South...

1960 Mar- Norman Phillips of the Toronto Star was detained 3 and '/2 days for trying to cable a story about a police ...

1868 Enoch Mgijima is born at Bulhoek, Eastern Cape, the son of Jonas Mayekiso Mgijima. 1907 19 April, Enoch Mgiji...

By the 1900s African people had been dispossessed of their land and colonial rule was still in the process of being entr...

The outbreak of the First World War was precipitated by the assassination of the Austro-Hungarian Crown Prince Franz Fer...

18 February The German colony of Cameroon falls to French and British forces after 17 months of fighting. 21 Februar...

1885The Asiatic Bazaar Law was passed in the Transvaal, which authorized the creation of separate districts for Indians....

1961 FNLA and MPLA begin a guerrilla campaign to overthrow Portuguese colonial rule. 25 April 1974 Portuguese col...

1950 In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Mandela trained at the Donaldson Orlando Community Centre. He excelled at box...

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

Indian South Africans timeline 1900-1909 1900 The East London Mayor's Minute for 1899-1900 states that 1,000 refug...

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

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...