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ArticleUnited Women’s Organisation (UWO)
The United Women’s Organisation (UWO) was launched in April 1981 with 400 delegates from the Western Cape attending. Some of the women who pioneered the…
ArticleNo Land, No House, No Vote Timeline
2004 The Landless People’s Movement (LPM) organised a ‘No Land, No Vote’ campaign to coincide with the 2004 South African General Elections.[1] The campaign…
ArticleNew identities and the construction of heritage
… (UDHR) was adopted by the United Nations Organisation (UNO) in 1948. It is the basis for human rights protection and … world. In the same year that the UDHR…
Internal Security Amendment Act No 79
This Act removed the requirement that internment be linked with states of emergency. It amended five other Security Acts and embodied the 1967 Suppression of…
Article1967 Terrorism Act, No. 83 of 1967
The 1967 Terrorism Act was one the most important pieces of legislation passed by the South African apartheid regime. Though the Act’s stated purpose was to…
"No Compromise", Umsebenzi, 29 February 1936
ArticleSouth Africa and the United Nations, 1946-1990
… South Africa's racial policy and the UNO South Africa and apartheid was placed on the agenda of … Assembly. The control of South West Africa/Namibia and the…
Parliamentary Internal Security Commission Act No 67
ANC Leaders have no Programme of Struggle, Umsebenzi, 7 April 1934
The Trade Union Question (No division On this question) (1934)
Statement at a special meeting of the UN special committee against apartheid
Article1946 Indian Passive Resistance Timeline
… of the Ghetto Bill before the United Nations Organisation (UNO). 3 February 1946 The NIC convenes a mass meeting in … in South Africa before the United…
"Remarks of Comrade Dubois"21, Internal Bulletin of the International Communist League (B-L), no. 2, May 1935
ArticleIndian Passive Resistance in South Africa: 1946 - 1948
… raise the issue before the United Nations Organisation (UNO). A NIC mass meeting in Durban on 3 February 1946 … in South Africa before the United Nations…
Statement on the departure for New York to attend the special commemorative meeting of the UN General Assembly
ArticleSouth Africa’s Foreign Relations during Apartheid, 1948
The position of South Africa in international affairs remained important throughout apartheid. The South African government needed to rely on the external…
ArticleDefiance Campaign timeline 1948-1952
… the United States and at the United Nations Organisation (UNO). June 26 , The Defiance Campaign begins. It becomes the …
'Presidential Address' by the Rev. J. A. Calata, ANC (Cape), July 1948
Ladies and Gentlemen, I welcome you all to this thirty-sixth annual session of the Provincial conference of the African National Congress (Cape). I know what…
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 4: A Heritage trail through the provinces of South Africa
… to all human beings. The United Nations Organisation (UNO) is a global organisation that each country in the world …
ArticleNUSAS Wages Commission Timeline 1971-1973
1971 11 March, A resolution is passed at a student body meeting for the establishment of a student Wages Commission. David Hemson, Halton Cheadle, David…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1950-1959
… during a session of the United Nation Organisations (UNO). February: The ANC National Executive appoints its …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1950s
… during the session of the United Nation Organisations (UNO). Sonia Bunting joins the Guardian Newspaper after the …
ArticleWalter Sisulu Timeline 1912-2003
1912 18 May, Walter Ulyate Max Sisulu is born in Engcobo District in the Transkei, in the same year, the ANC was formed. 1920 Walter returns from his…
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1930-1939
1930 - 1939 1930 May 4-5, Gandhi: At 12.45 a.m., arrested at Karadi, a village near Dandi where Gandhi had broken Salt law on March 5, by the British…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1960s
… of justice. The inquiry is to be held in secret. The UNO Security Council - in resolution 190 - urges the South … the international wheat agreement of 1962…
ArticleThe African Union (AU)
Context As the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), founded in 1963, was established as a loose association of African states with limited mechanisms for…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1970-1979
By the 1970s a number of leading figures in the ANC were in prison while others were in exile. Those that remained inside South Africa faced arrest, detention…
ArticleTimeline of South African Football Coaches from 1992 – 2022
Jeff Butler (1992) The Englishman was earmarked as Bafana Bafana's first coach, but a discrepancy with his coaching qualifications led him being turfed. …
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Glossary
Note: All definitions are acquired through Google’s online English Dictionary. Nationalism: Nationalism is the feeling of belonging to a nation. Nationalism…
ArticleGrade 11 - Apartheid South Africa 1940s to 1960s
The global pervasiveness of racism and segregation in the 1920s and 1930s During the 1920s and 1930s, there were discriminatory policies in different parts…