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1918: Broederbond
Description: Bottom: the founding fathers of the Broederbond.
Credit: © Afrikaner Broederbond Archives Collection / Die Erfenisstiging Argief, Pretoria
Archive: Die Erfenisstiging Argief,Pretoria
Type: Photograph -
1918: Unisa begins operations
Description: Unisa's first rented premises, Vermeulen Street (now Madiba Street), Pretoria.
Credit: © University of South Africa
Archive: UNISA Archive
Type: Photograph -
1919: First Pretoria graduation
Description: As Chancellor, Field-Marshal H.R.H. Duke of Connaught and Strathearn would have awarded the honorary degrees at this first Pretoria graduation.
Credit: © University of South Africa
Archive: UNISA Archive
Type: Photograph -
1920-21: New constituent colleges
Description: Aerial view of the University of the Witwatersrand (previously the School of Mines and Technology) in 1922.
Credit: © Wits Central Archives
Archive: Wits Central Archives
Type: Photograph -
1920: Peace and the League of Nations
Description: Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs Paul Hymans addresses the First Assembly of the League of Nations as its founding President, Geneva, 1920.
Credit: © United Nations Archive, Geneva
Archive: United Nations Archive,Geneva
Type: Photograph -
1922: The Rand Rebellion
Description: Strikers gather during the Rand Rebellion, Market Square, Johannesburg, 1922.
Credit: © Museum Africa
Archive: Museum Africa
Type: Photograph -
1923: First Fort Hare degree
Description: Z.K. Matthews (left) pictured with Edwin Ncwana on the occasion of their graduation, 1923.
Credit: © University of South Africa
Archive: UNISA Archive
Type: Photograph -
1924: A welfare state for whites
Description: Boer general Barry Hertzog will serve as Prime Minister of the Union from 1924 to 1939.
Credit: © National Archives and Record Services of South Africa
Archive: South Africa
Type: Photograph -
1925: Proof of other galaxies
Description: Edwin Hubble looks through the historic Schmidt telescope, Palomar Observatory, California, USA, 1949.
Credit: © Boyer / Roger Viollet / Getty Images
Archive: Getty Images
Type: Photograph -
1927: First BA for a black woman
Description: Gertrude Nontwana Ntlabati, 1928.
Credit: © Howard Pim Africana Library / Africa Media Online
Archive: African Media Online
Type: Photograph -
1929: The Great Depression
Description: Jobless and homeless men queue for a free dinner, Municipal Lodging House, New York, 1932.
Credit: © New York Daily News / AP Photo / PictureNet
Archive: PictureNet
Type: Photograph -
1930: Pretoria separates
Description: Plans for the University of Pretoria campus, 1930.
Credit: © University of Pretoria Archive
Archive: University of Pretoria Archive
Type: Map -
1930: Suffrage for white women
Description: The Women's Enfranchisement Association of the Union, representing a white, English-speaking elite, campaign for the right of women to vote, circa 1910.
Credit: © Museum Africa
Archive: Museum Africa
Type: Photograph -
1933: Depression hits state subsidies
Description: The Depression has a profound impact on those South Africans who are already on the economic margins, southern Bechuanaland, South Africa, 1930s.
Credit: © Jack Benton / Getty Images
Archive: Getty Images
Type: Photograph -
1935: Ethiopia invaded
Description: After a 1934 border clash at Welwel, Italy invades Abyssinia (now Ethiopia) in 1935.
Credit: © Hulton-Deutsch Collection / Corbis
Archive: Corbis via Greatstock
Type: Photograph -
1936: ANC founder receives honorary degree
Description: Reverend John Langalibalele Dube was the first President of the South African Native National Congress (later the African National Congress).
Credit: © University of South Africa
Archive: UNISA Archive
Type: Photograph -
1936: Dawn of the computer era
Description: The first demonstration of Turing's Automatic Computing Engine, London, 1950. This early computer is modelled on Touring's 1936 theoretical work.
Credit: © Science Museum / SSPL / Getty Images
Archive: Getty Images
Type: Photograph -
1937: Own syllabi for Fort Hare
Description: A view of Christian Union Hall, University College of Fort Hare, circa 1930.
Credit: © W.E.B. Du Bois Papers / Special Collections and University Archives / University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Archive: University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Type: Photograph -
1938: Trekking for Afrikaner nationalism
Description: A Boer family celebrates the centenary of the Great Trek, Vegkop, Orange Free State (now the Free State), 1938.
Credit: © Museum Africa
Archive: Museum Africa
Type: Photograph -
1939-1945: German Troops Marching
Description: German troops march into Prague during the 1939 invasion of Czechoslovakia.
Credit: © Three Lions / Getty Images
Archive: Getty Images
Type: Photograph -
1941-46: Black mineworkers unionise
Description: Police address workers during the 1946 strike, City Deep, Johannesburg.
Credit: © Times Media Collection / Museum Africa
Archive: Museum Africa
Type: Photograph -
1945: MPhil for ANC Youth League founder
Description: Anton Lembede, date unknown.
Credit: Unknown
Archive: Unknown
Type: Photograph -
1945: United Nations born
Description: The United Nations Charter is adopted unanimously, San Francisco, USA, 26 June 1945.
Credit: © AP Photo / PictureNet
Archive: PictureNet
Type: Photograph -
1946-47: First correspondence programme
Description: Handpainted advert for the first correspondence courses of the Division of External Studies, date unknown.
Credit: © University of South Africa
Archive: UNISA Archive
Type: Document -
1947: India becomes independent
Description: Newly independent India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru attends the Constituent Assembly, New Delhi, 1947.
Credit: © Hulton-Deutsch Collection / Corbis
Archive: Corbis via Greatstock
Type: Photograph -
1918: Broederbond
Description: Bottom: the founding fathers of the Broederbond.
Credit: © Afrikaner Broederbond Archives Collection / Die Erfenisstiging Argief, Pretoria
Archive: Die Erfenisstiging Argief,Pretoria
Type: Photograph -
1918: Unisa begins operations
Description: Unisa's first rented premises, Vermeulen Street (now Madiba Street), Pretoria.
Credit: © University of South Africa
Archive: UNISA Archive
Type: Photograph -
1919: First Pretoria graduation
Description: As Chancellor, Field-Marshal H.R.H. Duke of Connaught and Strathearn would have awarded the honorary degrees at this first Pretoria graduation.
Credit: © University of South Africa
Archive: UNISA Archive
Type: Photograph -
1920-21: New constituent colleges
Description: Aerial view of the University of the Witwatersrand (previously the School of Mines and Technology) in 1922.
Credit: © Wits Central Archives
Archive: Wits Central Archives
Type: Photograph -
1920: Peace and the League of Nations
Description: Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs Paul Hymans addresses the First Assembly of the League of Nations as its founding President, Geneva, 1920.
Credit: © United Nations Archive, Geneva
Archive: United Nations Archive,Geneva
Type: Photograph -
1922: The Rand Rebellion
Description: Strikers gather during the Rand Rebellion, Market Square, Johannesburg, 1922.
Credit: © Museum Africa
Archive: Museum Africa
Type: Photograph -
1923: First Fort Hare degree
Description: Z.K. Matthews (left) pictured with Edwin Ncwana on the occasion of their graduation, 1923.
Credit: © University of South Africa
Archive: UNISA Archive
Type: Photograph -
1924: A welfare state for whites
Description: Boer general Barry Hertzog will serve as Prime Minister of the Union from 1924 to 1939.
Credit: © National Archives and Record Services of South Africa
Archive: South Africa
Type: Photograph -
1925: Proof of other galaxies
Description: Edwin Hubble looks through the historic Schmidt telescope, Palomar Observatory, California, USA, 1949.
Credit: © Boyer / Roger Viollet / Getty Images
Archive: Getty Images
Type: Photograph -
1927: First BA for a black woman
Description: Gertrude Nontwana Ntlabati, 1928.
Credit: © Howard Pim Africana Library / Africa Media Online
Archive: African Media Online
Type: Photograph -
1929: The Great Depression
Description: Jobless and homeless men queue for a free dinner, Municipal Lodging House, New York, 1932.
Credit: © New York Daily News / AP Photo / PictureNet
Archive: PictureNet
Type: Photograph -
1930: Pretoria separates
Description: Plans for the University of Pretoria campus, 1930.
Credit: © University of Pretoria Archive
Archive: University of Pretoria Archive
Type: Map -
1930: Suffrage for white women
Description: The Women's Enfranchisement Association of the Union, representing a white, English-speaking elite, campaign for the right of women to vote, circa 1910.
Credit: © Museum Africa
Archive: Museum Africa
Type: Photograph -
1933: Depression hits state subsidies
Description: The Depression has a profound impact on those South Africans who are already on the economic margins, southern Bechuanaland, South Africa, 1930s.
Credit: © Jack Benton / Getty Images
Archive: Getty Images
Type: Photograph -
1935: Ethiopia invaded
Description: After a 1934 border clash at Welwel, Italy invades Abyssinia (now Ethiopia) in 1935.
Credit: © Hulton-Deutsch Collection / Corbis
Archive: Corbis via Greatstock
Type: Photograph -
1936: ANC founder receives honorary degree
Description: Reverend John Langalibalele Dube was the first President of the South African Native National Congress (later the African National Congress).
Credit: © University of South Africa
Archive: UNISA Archive
Type: Photograph -
1936: Dawn of the computer era
Description: The first demonstration of Turing's Automatic Computing Engine, London, 1950. This early computer is modelled on Touring's 1936 theoretical work.
Credit: © Science Museum / SSPL / Getty Images
Archive: Getty Images
Type: Photograph -
1937: Own syllabi for Fort Hare
Description: A view of Christian Union Hall, University College of Fort Hare, circa 1930.
Credit: © W.E.B. Du Bois Papers / Special Collections and University Archives / University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Archive: University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Type: Photograph -
1938: Trekking for Afrikaner nationalism
Description: A Boer family celebrates the centenary of the Great Trek, Vegkop, Orange Free State (now the Free State), 1938.
Credit: © Museum Africa
Archive: Museum Africa
Type: Photograph -
1939-1945: German Troops Marching
Description: German troops march into Prague during the 1939 invasion of Czechoslovakia.
Credit: © Three Lions / Getty Images
Archive: Getty Images
Type: Photograph -
1941-46: Black mineworkers unionise
Description: Police address workers during the 1946 strike, City Deep, Johannesburg.
Credit: © Times Media Collection / Museum Africa
Archive: Museum Africa
Type: Photograph -
1945: MPhil for ANC Youth League founder
Description: Anton Lembede, date unknown.
Credit: Unknown
Archive: Unknown
Type: Photograph -
1945: United Nations born
Description: The United Nations Charter is adopted unanimously, San Francisco, USA, 26 June 1945.
Credit: © AP Photo / PictureNet
Archive: PictureNet
Type: Photograph -
1946-47: First correspondence programme
Description: Handpainted advert for the first correspondence courses of the Division of External Studies, date unknown.
Credit: © University of South Africa
Archive: UNISA Archive
Type: Document -
1947: India becomes independent
Description: Newly independent India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru attends the Constituent Assembly, New Delhi, 1947.
Credit: © Hulton-Deutsch Collection / Corbis
Archive: Corbis via Greatstock
Type: Photograph -
1918: Broederbond
Description: Bottom: the founding fathers of the Broederbond.
Credit: © Afrikaner Broederbond Archives Collection / Die Erfenisstiging Argief, Pretoria
Archive: Die Erfenisstiging Argief,Pretoria
Type: Photograph -
1918: Unisa begins operations
Description: Unisa's first rented premises, Vermeulen Street (now Madiba Street), Pretoria.
Credit: © University of South Africa
Archive: UNISA Archive
Type: Photograph -
1919: First Pretoria graduation
Description: As Chancellor, Field-Marshal H.R.H. Duke of Connaught and Strathearn would have awarded the honorary degrees at this first Pretoria graduation.
Credit: © University of South Africa
Archive: UNISA Archive
Type: Photograph -
1920-21: New constituent colleges
Description: Aerial view of the University of the Witwatersrand (previously the School of Mines and Technology) in 1922.
Credit: © Wits Central Archives
Archive: Wits Central Archives
Type: Photograph -
1920: Peace and the League of Nations
Description: Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs Paul Hymans addresses the First Assembly of the League of Nations as its founding President, Geneva, 1920.
Credit: © United Nations Archive, Geneva
Archive: United Nations Archive,Geneva
Type: Photograph -
1922: The Rand Rebellion
Description: Strikers gather during the Rand Rebellion, Market Square, Johannesburg, 1922.
Credit: © Museum Africa
Archive: Museum Africa
Type: Photograph -
1923: First Fort Hare degree
Description: Z.K. Matthews (left) pictured with Edwin Ncwana on the occasion of their graduation, 1923.
Credit: © University of South Africa
Archive: UNISA Archive
Type: Photograph -
1924: A welfare state for whites
Description: Boer general Barry Hertzog will serve as Prime Minister of the Union from 1924 to 1939.
Credit: © National Archives and Record Services of South Africa
Archive: South Africa
Type: Photograph -
1925: Proof of other galaxies
Description: Edwin Hubble looks through the historic Schmidt telescope, Palomar Observatory, California, USA, 1949.
Credit: © Boyer / Roger Viollet / Getty Images
Archive: Getty Images
Type: Photograph -
1927: First BA for a black woman
Description: Gertrude Nontwana Ntlabati, 1928.
Credit: © Howard Pim Africana Library / Africa Media Online
Archive: African Media Online
Type: Photograph -
1929: The Great Depression
Description: Jobless and homeless men queue for a free dinner, Municipal Lodging House, New York, 1932.
Credit: © New York Daily News / AP Photo / PictureNet
Archive: PictureNet
Type: Photograph -
1930: Pretoria separates
Description: Plans for the University of Pretoria campus, 1930.
Credit: © University of Pretoria Archive
Archive: University of Pretoria Archive
Type: Map -
1930: Suffrage for white women
Description: The Women's Enfranchisement Association of the Union, representing a white, English-speaking elite, campaign for the right of women to vote, circa 1910.
Credit: © Museum Africa
Archive: Museum Africa
Type: Photograph -
1933: Depression hits state subsidies
Description: The Depression has a profound impact on those South Africans who are already on the economic margins, southern Bechuanaland, South Africa, 1930s.
Credit: © Jack Benton / Getty Images
Archive: Getty Images
Type: Photograph -
1935: Ethiopia invaded
Description: After a 1934 border clash at Welwel, Italy invades Abyssinia (now Ethiopia) in 1935.
Credit: © Hulton-Deutsch Collection / Corbis
Archive: Corbis via Greatstock
Type: Photograph -
1936: ANC founder receives honorary degree
Description: Reverend John Langalibalele Dube was the first President of the South African Native National Congress (later the African National Congress).
Credit: © University of South Africa
Archive: UNISA Archive
Type: Photograph -
1936: Dawn of the computer era
Description: The first demonstration of Turing's Automatic Computing Engine, London, 1950. This early computer is modelled on Touring's 1936 theoretical work.
Credit: © Science Museum / SSPL / Getty Images
Archive: Getty Images
Type: Photograph -
1937: Own syllabi for Fort Hare
Description: A view of Christian Union Hall, University College of Fort Hare, circa 1930.
Credit: © W.E.B. Du Bois Papers / Special Collections and University Archives / University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Archive: University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Type: Photograph -
1938: Trekking for Afrikaner nationalism
Description: A Boer family celebrates the centenary of the Great Trek, Vegkop, Orange Free State (now the Free State), 1938.
Credit: © Museum Africa
Archive: Museum Africa
Type: Photograph -
1939-1945: German Troops Marching
Description: German troops march into Prague during the 1939 invasion of Czechoslovakia.
Credit: © Three Lions / Getty Images
Archive: Getty Images
Type: Photograph -
1941-46: Black mineworkers unionise
Description: Police address workers during the 1946 strike, City Deep, Johannesburg.
Credit: © Times Media Collection / Museum Africa
Archive: Museum Africa
Type: Photograph -
1945: MPhil for ANC Youth League founder
Description: Anton Lembede, date unknown.
Credit: Unknown
Archive: Unknown
Type: Photograph -
1945: United Nations born
Description: The United Nations Charter is adopted unanimously, San Francisco, USA, 26 June 1945.
Credit: © AP Photo / PictureNet
Archive: PictureNet
Type: Photograph -
1946-47: First correspondence programme
Description: Handpainted advert for the first correspondence courses of the Division of External Studies, date unknown.
Credit: © University of South Africa
Archive: UNISA Archive
Type: Document -
1947: India becomes independent
Description: Newly independent India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru attends the Constituent Assembly, New Delhi, 1947.
Credit: © Hulton-Deutsch Collection / Corbis
Archive: Corbis via Greatstock
Type: Photograph