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EventEvelyn Dalberg, SA opera singer, is born in Germany
… College of Music in 1967, and sang mezzo-soprano roles for PACT (Performing Arts Council of Transvaal). Dalberg also …
PlaceKamieskroon
… kloof, the Town occupied.) The Church Council decided, in 1924, to rebuild it at Kamieskroon. Kamies might derive from …
ArchiveInterview with Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe
… in Kimberley, South Africa, with Robert Sobukwe (1924 to 1978), who was elected Founding President of the Pan …
ArchiveInterview with Potlako Kitchener Leballo
… Oral interview, conducted in Nairoi, with P. K. Leballo (1924-1986) a leader in the Africanist movement and later in …
ArticleThe history of labour movements in Namibia
… the workers knew very little about trade union work. In 1924, the South African administrator stated that there were …
ArticleStalinism and how Stalin used his power to change Marxism-Leninism
… of the Bolshevik Party in 1918. When Lenin died in January 1924, there were two leaders jockeying for the leadership of …
EventGeorge Walker, co-discoverer with George Harrison of the gold reef of the Witwatersrand, dies in poverty in Krugersdorp.
… was supported by evidence. Walker died on 18 September 1924 in Krugersdorp. With his claims disputed, he was never …
Say It out Loud - The 1935 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 2nd January, 1935
… review must begin somewhere, perhaps the period beginning 1924, and ending 1934, might be regarded as one forming a completed stage in our history. It was in…
The Broederbond by Norman Levy
… (son of General J.B.M. Hertzog, prime minister from 1924 to 1939) was a self -professed Nazi supporter who … weakest. The party’s first foray into government…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Foreword
… Indians and Africans, symbolised in the Dadoo-Naicker-Xuma Pact, and the start of sanctions against South Africa. India … in 1946, and to his signing of the…
A Political Reflection By John Fikile Block
… Dube from 1912-1917, Sefako Makgatho from 1917-1924, ZR Mahabane served his first term from1924-1927, Josiah …
EventSouth Africa closes its borders with Lesotho
… by the LLA. Lesotho refused to sign a non aggression pact with South Africa. In turn, South Africa responded by …
EventEnoch Mgijima dies
… six years' imprisonment for sedition, but was released in 1924, after which he returned to Queenstown. …
EventSA Journalist James Gray is born
… South Africa and became editor of the Pretoria News from 1924 until 1932, when he returned to England. He was awarded …
ArticleIndian South Africans
… Indians. The former came as a result of a triangular pact among three governments, which stated that the …
The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa: Chapter One - By Riashnee Pather
… and stature grew considerably in a short period and in 1924 he was appointed as one of the joint secretaries of the NIC. On the broader South African…
EventNUSAS disbands
… (NUSAS) elected to disband on this day. Founded in 1924, the aim of the organisation was to represent and …
EventFlorence Josephine Zerffi, SA still life and landscape painter, dies
… work. She married another artist, Stratford Caldecott in 1924 and had joint exhibitions with him. She lost her husband …
EventDeath in detention of Imam Haron
… Imam Haron was born on the 8th February 1924 in Claremont, Cape Town. He was influenced by the …
EventSecond biggest archaeological discovery of the century at Sterkfontein
… the find to be the most significant since the discovery in 1924 of a skull belonging to the so-called Taung child, also …
The Reunited National Party is founded by Malan and Hertzog
… (UP) in 1934. They won the general election to form the Pact Government with Hertzog continuing as Prime Minister and …
EventThe Rand Revolt breaks out
… particularly the Afrikaner. In the subsequent elections a Pact government of the Labour Party and the National Party … 2013]| Callinicos, L. (1981) Gold and…
EventDennis Brutus is born
… Dennis Vincent Brutus was born on 8 November 1924 in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe) …
ArticleUrban Removals - the Destruction of Sophiatown
… and the South African National Party (SANP) formed the Pact Government that ousted General Smuts’ South African … Party (SAP). One of the key pieces of…
ArchiveSouth African trade unionism in an era of racial exclusion
… the currency of the Industrial Conciliation Act from 1924 to 1979, and of state labour policy of direct relevance …
Chapter 12
… ventures: The National Anti-Pass Committee, and The Unity Pact of the Three Doctors. National Ant-Pass Campaign The … in the interests of the ruling-class…
PlaceCradle of Humankind, near Johannesburg
… and John T. Robinson. The find helped corroborate the 1924 discovery of the juvenile Australopithecus africanus …
PlaceDarlington Dam- Lake Mentz
… Mentz Construction Commenced in 1918, and was completed in 1924. As had been envisaged from the start, the capacity of … Servitude Area will have been…
ArticleWomen, employment and the changing economic scene, 1920s
… to change. The war and the protectionist policy of the Pact government under JBM Hertzog (who wanted to help the …
PlacePaardekraal Monument, Market Street, Krugersdorp
… ensure that they will always , at this space, remember the pact that they made to recover the Republic, from the …