South African history timeline

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

1859After protracted negotiations between the Natal Government and the British Secretary of State for the Colonies, the ...

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 ...

1940 Dr. A.B. Xuma is elected President-General of the African National Congress (ANC). Walter Sisulu joins the Afri...

A decade by decade events account of the women's struggle in South Africa. 1905 Charlotte Maxeke, formerly a Kim...

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

1905 Charlotte Maxeke, formerly a Kimberley schoolteacher, becomes the first South African Black woman to receive a B...

The events at Lonmin Mine in Marikana in the North West Province were a tragic stain on the history of post Apartheid So...

1990 Nelson Mandela is released from prison. 27 townships declared unrest areas in terms of the Public Safety Act No...

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

1976 According to the government-appointed Cillie Commission of Enquiry 575 people died. Police action resulted in 451...

2010 19 January: (Congress of South African Trade Unions) COSATU affiliate The Food and Allied Workers' Union (FAWU) ...

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

2013 9 and 10 November 2013, South Africa’s first registration weekend for the 2014 National and Provincial electi...

1856-1910 Masters and Servants Acts of 1856 These Acts, which had been passed between 1856 and 1904 in the fo...

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...

DECEMBER 2019 31 December – Wuhan, in the Hubei province of China, informs its regional World Health Organization (WH...

Pixley ka Isaka Seme Life Timeline 1881 1 October, Pixley ka Isaka Seme is born in Natal. 1906 Seme presents h...

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...

1775 Apprenticeship laws are promulgated at the Cape. 1800 A massive drought begins in Southern Africa resulting i...

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

1948 26 May, DF Malan's National Party government follows up its election victory with the introduction of new ap...

Historical Context to Chief Luthuli Chronology While Chief Luthuli himself preferred another spelling and signed his ...

 

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...

1602 Chamber Representatives of the Netherlands Parliament grant a founding charter to the Dutch East India Company to...

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

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. ...

1799-1802 Khoi-San rise up in an unsuccessful but protracted rebellion in the eastern districts of the Cape in what be...

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...