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BiographyChristiaan Rudolf De Wet
… Government troops were swiftly mustered to suppress the revolt. It took Botha one month. At Allemanskraal, De Wet's …
BiographySolomon Kalushi Mahlangu
… Mahlangu was refused leave to appeal his sentence by the Rand Supreme Court, and on 24 July 1978 he was refused again … to death by hanging on 2 March 1978…
BiographyAli Bacher
… a poorly funded, largely amateur pastime to a multimillion rand business in which its leading practioners had the …
BiographyGeneral Jan Christiaan Smuts
… his power base. Due to his severe handling of the Rand Rebellion in 1922; the Bulhoek Massacre and action …
BiographyMohamed Farouk Asvat
… extensively reviewed in South Africa and abroad by The Rand Daily Mail, The Star, Sowetan, The Sunday Times, New … to TS Eliot and an eye for the modern…
BiographyProfessor Fatima Meer
… son Rashid was detained in the wake of the 1976 student revolt. Nine days later, Meer was also detained along with …
BiographyPatric Tariq Mellet
… children’s Project’. As an apprentice, earning ten rand per 60 hour week, Tariq joined the J&GWU a former … turned up. The father had been giving Tariq’s…
BiographyArchibald Jacob Gumede
… of evidence by Isaak de Vries a senior lecturer at the Rand Afrikaans University and a key expert witness for the …
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1920 - 1929
… with a crisis when striking White miners mount an armed revolt against the Government and mining houses proposed … in jobs traditionally done by Whites…
ArticleBiko’s imprisonment, death and the aftermath
… In the wake of the urban revolt of 1976 and with prospects of a national revolution … of a hunger strike. Kruger took one of these papers, the Rand Daily…
EventLabour pioneer Samuel Long is arrested
… was arrested after the defeat of Fordsburg during the Rand Revolt. Long was arrested for the murder of Alwyn Petrus …
ArticleRight to Organise Timeline 1500-1994
… their white counterparts. This led to the outbreak of the Rand Revolt of 1922. 1924-1939 This period is marked by the … by increased resistance in other…
BiographyHemant Kumar Waghmarae
… full executive of AZAPO appeared on the front page of the Rand Daily Mail. That afternoon, the Star carried the news …
BiographyShanthivathie (Shanthie) Naidoo
… person so confined. In the 16 March 1971 issue of the Rand Daily Mail, Anthony Holiday wrote: ‘So it is back to …
BiographyDr. Abu Baker Asvat
… the campaign was successful in convincing the West Rand Development Board to suspend the evictions indefinitely. … efforts brought him into direct conflict…
ArticleThe fight against colonialism and imperialism in Africa
… chiefs organised rebellions against colonial authorities. Revolt: To rise against the government with the aim of … were all crushed. In East Africa there was…
EventSmuts becomes Prime Minister
… to quell revolts in 1921 (Bulhoek massacre), 1922 (Rand Revolt) and May 1922 (Bondelswarts/Bondelzwarts rebellion) …
BiographyHendrik Frensch Verwoerd
… 9 April 1961 Verwoerd escaped assassination when, at the Rand Easter Show, he was shot twice in the face by David …
ArticleThe following is a list of 43 names of those killed in the stampede at a soccer match at Ellis Park stadium
… Sphiwa Esrome Mpungose, 13, from Burgersdale, West Rand Ivan Jeffrey Bezuidenhout, 39, from Potchefstroom … East Veleta Eunice Mouton, 26, from Windmill Park…
ArticleA history of Soweto
… other towns in South Africa to make a quick buck on the Rand. Moreover, gold mining was labour intensive and, as a … conscious republic. The discovery of…
EventThe South African Air Force is established
… African Air Force was in 1922, when it helped to crush the Rand Revolt , an armed uprising by white mineworkers. The SAAF …
Armed struggle & the advancement of the student and labour movements, 1967-1976
… Sabotage. This photograph was part of a sequence shot by a Rand Daily Mail photographer, two of which were published in … a series of labour strikes erupted,…
Document 5 - “Trade Union Notes”, The Bolshevik, March 1920 (Extract)
… supported the natives, the proletarian character of the revolt would have been beyond dispute. As it is their action … a decent and comfortable existence…
BiographyHerbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo
… into South Africa, which in his words encompassed the “revolt against civilization and social order” (Dhlomo, 1929). … as The Black Bulls, which collectively…
BiographyEla Gandhi
… you don't have that pride to say I have earned my ten rand today. Anything that you get for free like that, it is …
ArticleStates of Emergency in South Africa: the 1960s and 1980s
… periods when the government faced unprecedented internal revolt – both in 1960 and in the 1980s – an Emergency was … the first time, the government was faced…
BiographyShirish Nanabhai
… employed as a “duster boy” by a silk merchant on the East Rand. While his duties at this establishment were merely to …
BiographyArchbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu
… 1985 Picture: REUTERS Image source In Duduza on the East Rand in 1985, Tutu, with the assistance of Bishops Simeon … A few days later, at a huge funeral in…
ArticleSoweto Students’ Representative Council (SSRC)
… police fired on and came to be known as the famous Soweto Revolt of June 16. The SSRC had mobilised students to protest …
BiographyChristopher “Dali” Daluxolo Mpofu
Christopher Daluxolo Mpofu (popularly known as Dali Mpofu) is a South African advocate, legal expert, and former African National Congress (ANC) stalwart…