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ArticleBlack Consciousness and 16 June – The birth of a new generation
… by the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) in the Soweto revolt is demonstrated by the students' demand for an … Mpho Mashinini, who was sixteen at the time…
June 17
… events. Schools, trains, buses, delivery vehicles, West Rand Administrative Buildings (WRAB) buildings, cars of … numbers of municipal halls, beerhalls,…
Discovery of the Gold in 1884
… nine farms, located in what is now regarded as the central Rand, were proclaimed public diggings. However Randjeslaagte, … to service the Struben's…
ArticleThe South African Communist Party and May Day – Some Key Moments
… the CPSA was founded, a large crowd assembled outside the Rand Club in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) in … industry – those protesting contrasted the…
ArticleSlave Resistance
… swelled to 300 mutinous slaves and servants. News of the revolt soon reached the Governor of the Cape, who ordered … a slave named Galant who was aged 25 at…
ArticleSilverton Siege
… a generation of MK recruits thrown up by the Soweto Revolt of 1976. …
In Conclusion: The Decline and Fall of the Tricameral Parliament
… the security forces, which were unable to suppress the revolt. After the African National Congress (ANC) made a call …
ArticleThe Information Scandal
… established by government to act as a counter voice of the Rand Daily Mail , an English newspaper influential in the … 's protest. The Muldergate scandal…
Article”People’s Power!”, 1986
… in 1986 for the UDF was managing to prolong the people's revolt. In 1976 - 1977, the uprising had not managed to … early 1986 on the power of the people and…
ArticlePopular struggles in the early years of Apartheid, 1948-1960
… bus boycotts broke out during the 1950s. In the East Rand Brakpan, Germiston and Katlehong were also affected by … explained by the presence of top ANC…
List of deaths in detention
… 40 35 60 30 30 Security HQ, Durban Modderbee Prison, East Rand Kei Road Jail, East London Caledon Sq., Cape Town Held:Modderbee Prison Died: Far East Rand…
ArticleJune 16 Soweto Youth Uprising timeline: 1976-1986
… in the townships. Within four months of the Soweto revolt 160 African communities all over the country were … 123 persons have been banned as a result of the…
ArticleNelspruit Timeline 1815-1996
… of Bantu Administration. TMGE (Pilgrims) is taken over by Rand Mines. Rand Mines and Thomas Barlow & Sons merge to become Barlow Rand. 1972 Van Riebeeckpark…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 4: Turning points in modern South African History since 1948
… nine policemen were shot. Unlike elsewhere on the East Rand where police used baton when charging at resisters, the … on demonstrating students. This…
Fortieth Anniversary of the 1946 Mine Strike
… the Union demanded a minimum wage of ten shillings (one rand) per day, and sweeping improvements in conditions … truth - of the miners' strike. Monday:…
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU)
… remained stagnant at 15 000 between 1956 and 1961. The Rand committee was affected by the treason trial arrests. The … managed to establish and resuscitate…
ArticleThe 1913 Mineworkers’ Strike
… troops of the British garrison and deployed them to the Rand. Meanwhile the strike committee called for a meeting in … next day, Saturday 5 July, clashes…
Activity: Kingdoms of southern Africa: Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Great Zimbabwe
… Activities http://www.quia.com/rr/37182.html?AP_rand=1276239910 http://mrkash.com/activities/mali.html …
ArticlePublic Protest in Democratic South Africa
… as “service delivery”, “rebellion of the poor”, “municipal revolt” or “ring of fire”. Most of the recorded protest had …
ArticleWestern Cape Youth Uprising timeline 1976
… action as the previous day. It appears that the Cape Town revolt has passed the point were intimidation can force youth …
Political assassinations 1974 - 1994
… Son of SACTU General Secretary Car bomb. June East Rand Alex Pilane Student activist (COSAS) Abducted and beaten … Freedom Charter Committee Found mutilated…
Johannesburg Timeline 1800-1991
… 14 September, The first large mining company on the Rand, the Witwatersrand Gold Mining Company Limited, better … is formed, and the first telephones are…
Grade 8 - Topic 2 - The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
… [Accessed: 18 February 2015]. Rand Refinery, (2013), “Discovery of Gold in South Africa” from Rand Refinery [online] Available at http://www.randrefinery.com…
ArticleThe Bambatha Rebellion begins
… by other chiefs and hundreds of young warriors. As the revolt gained momentum, the government stepped up its …
ArticleThe missionaries
… scheme and Bantu Authorities. All of this led to the Pondo revolt from 1960 to 1963. …
ArticleThe World and South Africa when Nelson Mandela was born
… shortage of bread, but soon developed into a full-scale revolt of workers, soldiers and peasants against conditions …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1940-1949
… Mineworkers Union launches the biggest strike since the Rand Revolt of 1922. More than 60 000 African mineworkers take …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1910-1919
… Africa, as part of the empire, also enters to the war. A revolt is staged by anti-war Afrikaner nationalists, as many … and Isaiah Bud-M’belle of the SANNC,…
ArticleNon-European Unity Movement (NEUM)
… plans being implemented in Pondoland. When news came of a 'revolt' in the Witsieshoek Reserve (inside the Orange Free … followed by disturbances in Natal and…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 2 Contextual Overview
… type of resistance in exploitation colonies was the slave revolt. The most dramatically successful was the Haitian Slave Revolt, on the Caribbean island of…