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EventBram Fischer is released from prison on health grounds
… a close ally of the African National Congress (ANC) in the 1940s. … L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political…
The National Arts Festival
… Gaol on Somerset Street. Upon its inception, there were 64 main events on the programme, ranging from theatre … craftwork and craft artists. The NAF is…
BiographyDr. Mantombazana ‘Manto’ Tshabalala-Msimang
… drug Virodene on HIV-positive soldiers in Tanzania. The main active ingredient of the drug was a lethal industrial …
EventGana Makabeni dies
… Committee of the African National Congress (ANC) in the 1940s, died in the Western Native Township, Johannesburg. He …
References and links: Local History
… ShowMe, (2014), “A Journey through Pretoria’s Main Attractions” from ShowMe, 12 December [online], … //showme.co.za/pretoria/tourism/a-journey-through…
EventMakhwenkwe Harrison Butshingi, trade unionist and community leader, dies
… in 1925 to become an insurance company agent. During the 1940s and into the 1950s, he became involved in the Transvaal …
ArticleA History of the Springbok Legion
… and Jack Hodgson wearing Springbok Legion badges in the 1940s. Although the SL projected itself as a non racial … privileges for white people. As a result…
Enuga S Reddy: Notes on meeting with Dr. Cassim Jadwat -1997
… the Natal Indian Congress for twenty years (from 1920s to 1940s), was his uncle. Young people in 1930s were fighting … one or two years. [He went to Cape…
EventSA poet Sydney Vernon Peterson dies
… the prominent South African poets and educationist of the 1940s, died in Germiston. His poetry was translated into …
ArticleWomen and the struggle against Apartheid
… such process was on 23 September 1913 (see our Women's Chronology) when women in the Free State, organized by …
The Founder: An Ambiguous Figure by Chris Saunders
… At the meeting itself, he was the keynote speaker and the main driving force behind the creation of the South African … – is now remembered chiefly for the…
Growth of African Nationalism and Defiance
… The 1940s saw a growth of African nationalism that positioned … also set up the first crèche in Langa township. The mid 1940s were also a period of food…
EventAcademic and ANC politician Z.K. Matthews dies
… members of the African National Congress in the late 1940s and 1950s, Zachariah Keodirelang Matthews exercised a …
EventActivist and Journalist, Robert Resha dies in exile
… non-sexist, just and democratic South Africa. In the 1940s he was jailed for participating in the Defiance …
EventA UN report estimates the number of people who have HIV/AIDS in Africa at 50,000
… that HIV/AIDS might have been introduced to humans in the 1940s or early 1950s. Today Africa has millions of people …
BiographyDr Alfred Bitini Xuma
… would become a steady source of funds for Congress in the 1940s. Xuma and his colleagues agreed that African … him to address trade union conferences…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism commissioned by The Department of Education
… Chapter 3 - Afrikaner Nationalism in the 1930s and 1940s by Albert Grundlingh Bibliography Glossary …
BiographyWilfrid Edward Cooper
… cause, drew many people to watch him in action. Yet the main bases of his successes was less spectacular: the …
BiographyJulius Sello Malema
… at the age of nine, where, according to Malema, their main task was to remove National Party posters placed outside …
EventFirst Women Anti-Pass Campaign starts
… National Congress as its Women's League structure in the 1940s. …
Women at the start of the 20th century
… Women's Council (AWC), which was established in the mid-1940s. The AWC became active in issues relating to squatter … as early as the 1930s Afrikaans women…
ArticleThe Land Act, Traditional Authorities and the Native Affairs Department (NAD) 1913-1953
… the “Scheduled Native Areas” was recognized as one of the main causes of poverty among “Native” populations in the … had hitherto given chiefs immense…
EventWomen lead Food Raid
… In the 1940s, as a result of the Second World War, the economy was …
EventWomen lead Food Raid
… In the 1940s, as a result of the Second World War , the economy was …
BiographyPatric Tariq Mellet
… of a former husband she had divorced at the end of the 1940s who was the father of her other children – de Goede. …
EventSACTU launches a national potato boycott.
… of a dossier of trials of cases of beatings in the late 1940s, including one case in which a worker had been beaten …
ArticleThe development of Music in South Africa timeline 1600-2004
… considerable popularity, particularly in the 1930s and 1940s: star groups such as The Jazz Maniacs, The Merry … first African recording to sell more than 100…
EventSA cartoonist, Daniel Cornelis Boonzaaier is born
… Die Burger, in 1915 he became its cartoonist until the 1940s. Boonzaaier died in Cape Town in 1950. In 1973, his …
EventThe first OK Bazaars opens on the corner of Eloff and President Street in Johannesburg
… willing to negotiate with the Shopworkers' Union in the 1940s, and OK Bazaars employees were seen to be relatively …
EventKenya is granted independence
… The campaign for independence in Kenya dates back to the 1940s before Kenyatta became the leader of the Kenya African …