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Maruping Sebastian Bonokwane, trade unionist and MEC for Economic Affairs and Tourism in the Northern Cape Provincial governmen
Prof. Geof Cronjé, promoter of stage productions in SA and chairman of various councils and committees, is born.
PlaceRiemvasmaak
… has a rich history of forced removal and successful land restitution and marks the first time that land was restored to a community, after apartheid ended . …
BiographyPule Mabe
Puleng Peter Mabe (Pule Mabe) was born on 19 March 1980 in Namakgale, Phalaborwa, Northern Transvaal (now known as Limpopo Province). He was raised by a single…
BiographyJon Lynton David Hrusa
Jon Lynton David Hrusa was born in Cape Town on October 24 1965. He matriculated from St Stithians College in the mid-1980’s and went on to study at Wits…
BiographyBoy Mvemve
Boy Adolphus Mvemve died a very violent death in exile in Zambia in 1974. He was 43 years of age at the time, operating under the nom de guerre John Dube (or…
E. R. Roux, The New Slogan and the Revolutionary Movement among White Workers in South Africa, presented at the Sixth
Programme of the Nafional Liberation League ofS.A. as Revised and Adopfed af Firsf Congress, Cope Town, March 1937
Press statement of ANC Deputy President, Nelson Mandela, on the Operation Vulindlela and the Indemnification of ANC members
PlaceNamaqua National Park
… Park begins. In 2002 was the official proclamation of the land that now formed the Namaqua National Park. In 2002 the … in Africa begins in the Namaqua…
PlacePiet Retief now officially known as eMkhondo
… MacCorkindale then managed to acquire a very large area of land which stretched from the region of Carolina through the … Bonnie Brook and Londina'. After…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1910s
… J.B.M. Hertzog leaves Botha's cabinet. 1913 The Native Land Act formally divides land between black and white people.African women resist the … to rescind…
ArchiveMulticoloured painting of soldiers and flags: no.17: Chile
Painting of soldiers in blue uniforms, waving flags, top half of flag red, bottom half blue, large yellow star in centre. '17 FNL Segrar' in bottom left hand…
EventThe railway line between Durban and Pietermaritzburg is completed
The construction of the railway line linking Durban and Pietermaritzburg was completed in 1880, the twentieth anniversary of railways in South Africa. The line…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1910-1919
… early years. Events include the fight against the 1913 Land Act, the formation of the Bantu Women’s League and the … be sent to Cape Town to lobby for the…
EventThe Rand Revolt strikers’ stronghold at Fordsburg Square falls to the government
The Rand Rebellion of 1922 was an armed uprising, also referred to as the Rand Revolt or Red Revolt, which occurred during a period of economic depression…
Anti-Indian Legislation 1800s - 1959
… Indian labourers were also entitled to a gift of crown land and full citizenship rights. 1872 Law 12/1872 - makes … Indian labourers were also entitled to a…
ArchiveMemorandum to the Government of Swaziland on the agreement between Swaziland and the Pretoria regime on Ka-Ngwane and Ngwavuma
ANC National Executive Committee memorandum to the Swaziland government on the agreement between Swaziland and the Pretoria regime on Ka-Ngwane and Ngwavuma…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Forward to Socialism/Socialist Futures (Panel 2) - Convenor: Janet Cherry
… The solidarity economy approach in resolving the land question by Mazibuko Jara For land and agrarian reform to be decisively addressed … fundamentally from…
3. The Communist Party of South Africa and the Communist International
… it meant promoting black majority rule and the return of land to indigenous people as a stage on the way to socialist …
ArticleA Luta Continua Dialogues, Episode 2: Policing and Resistance
… Activist, U.S. Napoleon Webster - Former Marikana Miner & Land and Housing Activist, South Africa Thami Nkosi - Counter …
Address by Oliver Tambo to the joint session of Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago, Port-of-Spain, 2 July 1987
… is described as the Parliament of South Africa. In the land of their own birth, no African has ever been a member of … people we have been conquered and…
Conquest: 1600s-1800s
… that we had been appropriating more and more of their land which had been theirs all these centuries... They asked … but you come right into the interior and…
ArticleThe history of Migrant Labour in South Africa
… areas as a result of soil erosion, population growth and land occupation by whites [5] . Things became more difficult … men were forced to migrate while in…
Joint Statement by Chief Albert Lutuli, Dr. G.M. Naicker and Peter Brown appealing to the British People to Boycott South Africa, 5 December 1959
… any job for which they are fitted, their right to hold land in freehold; their school education is now to be of a …
ArticleThe Group Areas Act of 1950
… to the phenomenon of overcrowding and squatting on empty land by those seeking employment. In many cases, the scramble … Act of 1894 restricted the ability…
ArticleResponses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: The African Peoples Organisation and the Teachers League of South Africa
Like their African counterparts, the organisations of the coloured elite came out strongly in support of the British war effort. They shared the same illusions…
EventThe South African Industrial Federation riot in the Rand Gold mining district
Members of the South African Industrial Federation (SAIF), a miners union for people socially constructed as 'white', ran riot in the Rand Gold mining district…
EventYitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat, shake hands after concluding the Declaration of Principles for Peace between Palestinian Arabs and Israelis
The Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin, and Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, shook hands on the White House lawn after concluding the Declaration of…
PlacePomeroy- Solomon Linda
… the Gordon Memorial Mission. He brought a piece of land and recruited a number of kraal heads from the community of uMsinga to work this land, with the aim…