Places and Communities

1899Herman Tobiansky purchases land from the Johannesburg Municipality to develop as a residential area.1912Sophiatown h...

1799 2 March, British government lands troops in Algoa Bay. Construction begins on the building of Fort Frederick. 1...

1825 Mzilikazi's arrival in Transvaal region. 1836 Andries Potgieter's arrives in the area north of the Vaal. 18...

1497 - 1699 1497 24 December, A flotilla of three Portuguese ships under the command of Capt Vasco da Gama saile...

1815 Louis Trichardt and Hans van Rensburg cross the Oranje/Gariep river. June 1836, Van Rensburg leaves Trichardt w...

1835 Migration of disaffected Dutch farmers from the Cape Colony 1836 Louis Trichardt and Hans van Rensburg reach ...

1884 4 July, Henry Barber and his cousin Fred discovers Barberton 1884 Small hut prison is established 1874 Th...

1850 The Nederduitsch Hervormde Church (Nederduitsch Reformed Church) establishes a congregation in Rustenburg. 16 N...

1824 The Matabele, underChief Mzilikazi, settle on Thaba Bosiu. 1833 The Baralong under Chief Moroka II settle at ...

1854 15 May, The proclamation of the settlement of Durban into a Borough. The European population stands at 1,204. 1...

1870s-1880s Discovery of a reliable water source. "To the present generation Currie's Fountain is but a name which mar...

2004 The Landless People’s Movement (LPM) organised a ‘No Land, No Vote’ campaign to coincide with the 2004 South Afr...

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

Pre-1804 Khoisan hunter gatherers are the first inhabitants of the region, before Sotho-Tswana peoples colonized the g...

Pre-1860s South Africa is still a predominantly agrarian 1860s-1880s This period marks a turning point in South Af...

Late Pleistocene (Early and Middle Stone Age)                    800...

The earliest human ancestors (Homo erectus and Homo habilis) have their origin in East Africa more than 2 million years ...

Introduction Since independence, English has been Namibia’s only official language. This was a controversial policy a...

The socio-political landscape of Apartheid South Africa was a challenging one for members of the LGBTQI+ community. Unde...

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