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The ANC Women’s League in the Struggle for Women’s Rights in South Africa by Meghan Knapp
… and a year later the Bantu Women’s league was created. In 1944, women were granted membership for the ANC. The ANCWL … of discrimination at this time …
ArticleA history of Soweto
… The squatter movements in Orlando grew in size between 1944 and 1946. Some of the squatters came from the Old … later, the party resorted to land invasion…
Timeline: All-Africa Convention (AAC)
… continued in 1941 should be recovered and improved upon. 1944 7 July, The All African Convention (AAC) meets in … writes to Molteno stating that a decision…
The Afrikaanse Handelsinsituut
… interests were another source of conflict, and at the 1944 congress some commercial sectors were accused of making … exorbitant profits at the expense of the…
ArticleDr G M 'Monty' Naicker - Timeline
… the bona fides of this Agreement. Birth of son Kreesan. 1944 - The Anti-Segregation Council was formed with Dr …
ArticleSita’s story
… my father would sit with them. The Ashram was very busy in 1944. All the Congress leaders would visit him, as they were … Do not forget Gujerati. In India,…
ArticleRobert Mangaliso Sobukwe Timeline 1924 - 1978
… is admitted to a hospital suffering from tuberculosis. 1944 2 April, The African National Congress Youth League …
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1940-1949
… in 1943, and the ANC Youth League was formed in 1944.There was a marked growth in militant campaigns against … the convening of a national anti pass…
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU)
… popularly known as the Trade and Labour Council. In 1944 SATLC adopted the Workers Charter. This Charter was …
ArticleWomen and the struggle against Apartheid
… Albertina Sisulu married ANC leader Walter Sisulu in 1944 soon after moving to Johannesburg and becoming …
ArticleThe African Mine workers strike of 1946
… for the miners. In its final report, published on 24 March 1944, the commission agreed with the Chamber of Mines that a … of ore increased by 75% in the…
ArticleDr Alfred Bitini Xuma Timeline 1893-1998
… Xuma is elected for a second term as president of the ANC. 1944 21 February: The leaders of the newly formed ANC Youth … the ANC with a ₤200 grant to…
ArticleLetters: Albertina Sisulu
… as an inspiration to us all. At her marriage to Walter in 1944, Albertina was warned in a speech by Anton Lembede, an …
ArticleIndian Passive Resistance in South Africa: 1946 - 1948
… a fervent plea for the Bill to be rejected. On 18 April 1944 Smuts met a NIC delegation led by A.I. Kajee, P.R. … to the Prime Minister, General Smuts, on 29…
A Chronological look (1943 to 1986) at the Life and Times of Mr George Ponnen
… war years. I was Chairman of the Durban D.C. from 1940 to 1944 and Party full time Organiser for the same period, was a … of overalls etc., were laid down in…
Article1946 African Mineworkers Strike
… report of the Lansdowne Commission which appeared in April 1944 was a shameful document. It accepted the basic premise … two other officials of the Union…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 2: The Nuclear Age and the Cold War
… were building thousands of tanks, ships and planes. In 1944, a huge Allied army crossed from Britain to liberate … significant military power anywhere in the…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1940-1949
… ANC Women’s League; and the ANC Youth League was formed in 1944. During this period, passive resistance campaigns such … conference also adopts Africans’…
ArticleA Culture of Survival
… through these informal activities. 1917 1927 1937 1944 Average monthly wage R7,50 R8,00 R8,50 R15,50 Poverty …
ArticleFatima Meer Timeline 1928-2010
… Forum a Trotskyite group which was affiliated to the NEUM. 1944 Raised £1 000 for the famine relief in Bengal 1946 Her …
ArticleFietas: Pageview timeline 1880-1988
… Up to this point the area had become known as Fietas. 1944 August, The Johannesburg City Council buys land in the …
ArticleWalter Sisulu Timeline 1912-2003
… to women members and the women’s section is formed. 1944 15 July, Walter and Albertina Sisulu were married on 15 July 1944 in a civil ceremony at Cofimvaba…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1940s
… It also presents the African Claims in South Africa. 1944 Mosaka appears in the Johannesburg Magistrate Court … that a decision to boycott the election was…
ArticleA Spiral of Trials by Norman Levy
… protest at the epic open-air meetings I attended between 1944 and 1946 at the Johannesburg Market Square and these … impressive presentations, the Commission…
Fortieth Anniversary of the 1946 Mine Strike
… techniques. And yet the union grew. But slowly. By 1944 it could count its members in thousands, perhaps as much … the campaign for a minimum wage still…
ArticleHow Unique was Slavery at the Cape?
… by G.V. Marais and J. Hoge, Volume 3 (Cape Town, 1921-1944), pg .183. ↵ [vii] Worden, Nigel. ‘Slavery at the Cape’ …
ArticleChief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli timeline 1800 - 1967
… Missionary Conference in Tambaram, Madras, India. 1944 April, The African National Congress Youth League is …
ArticlePopular struggles in the early years of Apartheid, 1948-1960
… squatter movements that spread around the Witwatersrand in 1944 and 1945 and the African Mineworkers strike of 1946 were …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1940-1949
… conference also adopts Africans’ Claims in South Africa’. 1944 January, Moses Kotane and Dr. Yusuf Dadoo are the main …
ArticleUrban Removals - the Destruction of Sophiatown
… Mpanza’s Sofasonke Party adopted radical measures. In 1944 Mpanza led disgruntled back yard residents to an open …