The Natal Indian Congress is founded

After a combined British and allied assault on the Pedi stronghold, Sekhukhune surrendered and was imprisoned. His defeat ended a major centre of African resistance to settler and imperial expansion.

Sekhukhune was killed by supporters of his rival Mampuru after his release from prison. His death occurred amid colonial intervention and internal conflict created by the struggle over Pedi...

Cetshwayo died after returning to a fragmented Zululand. His final years were shaped by British intervention and civil war following the destruction of Zulu sovereignty.

Railway officials removed Mohandas Gandhi from a first-class compartment at Pietermaritzburg after a white passenger objected to his presence. The incident became part of his developing opposition...

The Cape Parliament enacted the Glen Grey Act, limiting African landholding and using taxation to push African men into wage labour. The law foreshadowed later national segregation.

War began between the British Empire and the Boer republics. African communities were drawn into the conflict as combatants, labourers and victims, while British concentration camps imprisoned Black...

Britain and the Boer republics ended the war without granting political rights to the Black majority. The settlement laid foundations for white reconciliation and the segregated Union of South Africa.

The newspaper Indian Opinion began publication in Durban and became an important platform against discriminatory laws and for political organization among Indian South Africans.

Following a plague outbreak, authorities forcibly evacuated the racially mixed settlement and burned it. The removals strengthened municipal segregation and displaced African and Indian residents.

Bhambatha kaMancinza led armed resistance to the Natal poll tax and colonial rule. His fighters attacked a police column near Mpanza, intensifying the rebellion.