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Document 11 - Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union of Africa, Annual Conference Agenda, St Phillips School, Chapel Street. District 6, Cape Town, 18 January 1923
… also to be considered. 2. International Labour Conference under the League of Nations. 3. Compensation to the …
EventPansy Tlakula, Chairperson of the Independent Electoral Commission, announces her resignation
… the 2014 national and provincial elections, Tlakula came under attack from political parties with many of them calling …
Event90-Days Act comences
… on the expiration of such, the person could be re-arrested under the same law for another 90 days, a process this new …
EventMandela smuggled out the country and appears in Addis Ababa
… by Haile Selassie , and classified as a journalist, under the name David Motsamayi, which allowed him to travel …
EventGerman torpedoes sink the SS Mendoza close to Durban
… sailed without an armoured escort from Mombasa to Durban under Captain B.T. Batho. On board the ship were 153 crew …
EventSouth African Communist Party leader Abram Fischer is sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of communism
… government for his release. Fischer was then placed under house arrest at his brother's home in Bloemfontein in …
EventGambia is admitted to the United Nations
… Elections have since returned the country to democracy under the leadership of the President, Alhagie Dr Yahya A JJ …
EventThe UN orders Libya to hand over two suspects linked to the Lockerbie bombing
… the suspects to be tried in neutral territory though still under Scottish law. By April 1999, the suspects were taken …
EventThe company, IBM, re-forms in South Africa
… would supply coke syrup to its new South African owners under an exclusive licensing agreement. IBM responded to …
EventWolraad Woltemade drowns at sea after saving 14 people from a sinking ship
… grabbed hold of the animal and pulled both horse and rider under the waves. Woltemade immediately became a hero. The …
EventLord Charles Henry Somerset, governor of the Cape Colony, is born in Badminton, England
… 1826, was born in Badminton England on 12 December 1767. Under his term as governor, Somerset played an important role …
EventThe Directors of the Dutch East India Company propose Hout Bay to Jan van Riebeeck as a possible area to settle some Dutch families
… the more arid Table Bay side of the mountain were already under pressure, and the company was in dire need of wood for …
EventThe first family at the Cape moves into the fort
… school teachers, hospital visitors and in similar duties under the supervision of the church. Further reading: 6 …
EventPresident Robert Mugabe defends land reform programme
… independence after the overthrow of white majority rule, under the then Prime Minister Ian Smith. The outright …
EventReported arrest of London bomb mastermind, Rashid Aswat
… Aswat had fled to South Africa and that he had been kept under surveillance here. The FBI wanted to question him about …
EventThe National Party (Transvaal) is founded
… of political turmoil, South Africa became a democracy under the elected African National Congress (ANC). The NP …
EventAnglo-Boer War 2: The British evacuate Rustenburg to occupy Commando Nek and Silkaatsnek
… War, set-piece battles had become futile, and the Boers, under leaders like General De la Rey, had realized that war …
EventThe Johannesburg Stock Exchange is established
… closed by the Treasury Companies and the companies listed under it were transferred to the JSE. In 1947 the Stock …
PlaceNgcobo
… the All Saints mission station was founded on the site under the leadership of the Rev Gordon. In 1876 Walter …
EventSir Bartle Frere, the new British High Commissioner delivers an ultimatum to Cetshwayo the Zulu king to disband his army’
… block in the attempt to bring all of Southern Africa under British control. He was thus determined to break …
PlaceRaadsaal, 95 St George’s Street, Bloemfontein
… and 1891 respectively. It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 6 April 1936. …
PlaceTree Garden, President Brand Street, Bloemfontein
… were planted. This garden was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 27 December 1985. …
ArchiveCongress Resister 1983 - 1989
… and sought to mobilise the Transvaal Indian community under the dual banner of the TIC and the UDF. This was done …
EventThe full citizenship of Coloured people is called for
… been dependent on the attitude of government at the time. Under the government of the Union, Coloureds had similar …
ArticleDrafting of the Final Constitution
… powers during the transition and won this agreement. Under the previous system, the president would have been able … to as “winner take all” in the national…
ArticleKey sites
… at times reaching up to 60 000. Nevertheless, it came under increasing pressure from the municipality, which under the pretext of health and safety measures…
Chapter 2 - Jewish Trade Unions in Cape Town 1903-1907: A Socio-Historical Study
… natives of Latvia and Poland. Only thirteen per cent were under 21 years of age at the time of their arrival; 32 per … was primarily because of the appalling…
Chapter II - More of the same
… would happen, as I had been the first person to be placed under house arrest. Several other people were waiting almost … seemed strange in view of the state…
PlaceMobeni
… and West of Merebank. The district Mobeni falls under the jurisdiction of the eThekwini Metropolitan …
PlaceSoebatsfontein, Northern Cape
… is a campsite available here (without ablution facilities) under some trees. Nearby are the spring and some old gardens. …