South African history timeline

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

Modern Humans evolve in Africa, including South Africa and the first African people begin to settle in South Africa. Hun...

The Portuguese begin mapping and exploring the South African coastline and basic trading takes place between the Khoikho...

1700 The first "placaat" (ordinance or statute) restricting the importation of Asian slaves is promulgated. Dlamini ...

January 1976, a group of people with Mosima Sexwale are taken by two cars a Fiat and a Soviet-origin vehicle to Dar es S...

14 October 1639:  Simon van der Stel is born to parents Adrian van der Stel and Maria Leviens aboard le Cappel on r...

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

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

1976 16 June, Extra police patrols are deployed. 24 June, The Principal's office in Hlangisi Primary (Nyanga) was bu...

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...

1906 11 September, A mass meeting of Indians took place at the Empire Theatre in Johannesburg in connection with ...

1994 27 April,South Africa's interim constitution which was adopted in November 1993 came into effect on 27th April 1...

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...

1997 September, The statue of Steve Biko is defaced twice within a space of three weeks after it was unveiled by Presi...

The student movement Rhodes Must Fall (#RhodesMustFall, #RMF) garnered much media attention in March of 2015, after Chum...

The University of Pretoria (UP) opened in 1908 as a new department of the Transvaal University College (T.U.C). In 1930 ...

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

22 June 1946 —The Government of India requested that the question of the treatment of Indians in the Union of South Afri...

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...

AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS TIMELINE — 2011 – 2020 2011 8 January 2011 African National Congress (ANC) Presi...

During this period the ANC consolidated its hold on power but also faced both internal and external challenges. Signific...

 

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2000 January, The partnership is formalized by South African National Aids Council (SANAC) to review its two years of...

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

The National Party was elected in 1948 on the policy of Apartheid ('separateness'). This 'separateness' put South Africa...

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 ...