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… Hansi Pauline Pollak, sociologist, welfare worker and activist, is born in Johannesburg. In 1980 the …

… English social worker and reformer Emily Hobhouse sets sail for South …

… Charlotte Makgomo Maxeke, teacher, social worker, politician and founder of the Bantu Women’s League of South Africa, is …

… Charlotte Makgomo Maxeke, teacher, social worker, politician and founder of the Bantu Women’s League of South Africa, dies …

… 1909, was raised in a rural village, Nkoful, in the then Gold Coast, Nzema region. After attending a Catholic mission school in Half Assini, Nkrumah went on to train and work as a teacher at the Government Training School … attendees from Liberia, Nyasaland,Togoland, Nigeria, the Gold Coast and notably including Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya and …

… Gold Coast League Assembly adopts Kwame Nkrumah’s resolution …

… Kwame Nkrumah wins the first parliamentary election on the Gold Coast (Ghana). …

… NUM e phatlalatsa tsekisano le Gold Fields SA (artilce written in Sotho language) …

… It is widely accepted that the gold reef on the Witwatersrand was discovered by George … him. Both men had their own version of how they found the gold reef, but only Harrison’s version of events was … he was never recognized as the co-founder of the reef and died impoverished. …

… Skotnes 1946 he studied at the Technikon Witwatersrand and from 1947 to 1950 he studied at the University of the … Exhibition (prize for catalogue). 1965: Transvaal Academy (gold medal). 1968: SA Breweries Art Prize (gold medal). 1971: Ciba-Geigy Mural Competition, Hyde Park, …

… be saved after successful negotiations between Harmony Gold and …

… Sierra Leone, Gambia and Gold Coast are taken over by British government to form …

… Kwame Nkrumah, premier and later president of Ghana, is born in Nkroful, British colony of the Gold Coast (later Ghana). …

… Kwame Nkrumah, first prime minister and later president of Ghana, becomes the Leader of Government Business in the Gold Coast A …

… Sierra Leone, Gambia and Gold Coast are taken over by British government to form …

… The merger between Ashanti Goldfields and SA’s Anglo-Gold, approved by the Ghanaian government on …

… grew up in Mamelodi, Tswane.  His mother was a domestic worker and his father was an employee at a construction company.  …

… very important day dedicated to the workers of our country and the world. While South African workers first celebrated … 1886. This recognition followed the resolute, relentless and militant stance of the working class led firstly by the … in 1959, that: "SACTU is the spear, ANC the shield… No worker is a good member of Congress unless he is also a Trade …

… Heritage Day, the grave of Enoch Sontonga who composed and wrote the first verse and chorus of Nkosi, Sekelel' iAfrika, was declared a … Nelson Mandela awarded the Order of Meritorious Service (Gold) posthumously to Sontonga for his service to South … President Nelson Mandela awards the Gold Order of Meritorious Service posthumously to Enoch …

… the fifth of seven children of a Bechuuanaland-born mine worker. She worked as a domestic servant almost 15 years and then as a teacher but became militant as a result of her experiences of oppression and exploitation in South Africa. As a budding activist she …

… Minister Glover, Premiers of the Eastern Cape and Northern Transvaal; Craig Andrew; Distinguished guests; Ladies and Gentlemen; Recipients of the Gold Award. Tonight's Annual Gold Award ceremony is unlike any previous one. It is the … Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Annual Gold Award ceremony of the President’t award Pretoria, 25 …

… Church, community and worker organisations call for a national day of peaceful …

… Anglo-Boer War 2: English social worker and reformer Emily Hobhouse is placed under arrest …

… Fabian Defu Ribeiro, medical doctor and community worker who fought for equality for all races, is born in …

… Matodzi Liphosa, community worker and director of several companies is born in Sibasa, …

… Ntuzuma Thami Zondi, ANC member, and ANC Civic worker, Mr Nene, are killed in hit squad action in Ntuzuma, …

… Gunn (Anton de Waal), composer of Afrikaans songs, co-worker of Danie Bosman and Nico Carstens, is born. …

… Me Epainette Mbeki, businesswomen and community worker in Idutywa, Eastern Cape, receives the Order of the …

… Her family was very nationalistic, with both her father and grandfather fighting in the Anglo Boer War . In addition … her mother was held in a concentration camp during the war and her father joined the Afrikaner Rebellion in 1914. … white workers were in the process of forming the Garment Worker’s Union (GWU) with the help of Emil Solomon Sachs . …

… September was born 26 June 1959 in the Western Cape and grew up on the West Coast where her mother would send her … September began her political activism in the trade union and labour movement. She worked as factory worker in Salt River with little interest in politics or …