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Chapter 4 - The Township Uprising, September-November 1984
… October 22 a successful stayaway was organised in the East Rand township of KwaThema. The climax of this mounting revolt was reached on November 5 and 6,…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 4 - The Township Uprising, September-November 1984 by Noor Nieftagodien
… October 22 a successful stayaway was organised in the East Rand township of KwaThema. The climax of this mounting revolt was reached on November 5 and 6,…
Professor Terence Ranger: An Obituary by Trevor Grundy
… 1968 - soon after the publication of his greatest work "Revolt in Southern Rhodesia 1896-7" (Heinemann, London, 1967) … It was there that Ranger started work…
ArticleNon-European Unity Movement (NEUM)
… plans being implemented in Pondoland. When news came of a 'revolt' in the Witsieshoek Reserve (inside the Orange Free … followed by disturbances in Natal and…
EventThree AWB members shot and killed during the invasion of Bophuthatswana
… Shortly after the incident and in a climate of widespread revolt, Chief Lucas Mangope was removed from power and a …
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 2 Contextual Overview
… type of resistance in exploitation colonies was the slave revolt. The most dramatically successful was the Haitian Slave Revolt, on the Caribbean island of…
ArticleSouth African Film
… of people to make a feature, and usually millions of Rand – although low budget features are possible, like South … Cape - particularly Cape Town - accounts…
EventNathaniel Nakasa, South African journalist and writer, dies in exile
… Sophiatown in the 1950s. While Nakasa worked for the Rand Daily Mail, he is often associated with legends like Can … Modisane. Nakasa was also the first…
EventFourteen are killed in Phola Park violence
… Phola Park, East Rand: As township warfare spreads, a woman grieves over her … Park residents located in the Thokoza Township on the East Rand, near…
EventP. W. Botha refutes possibility of Black majority rule
… At the height of mass revolt in the country and world condemnation, President P.W. …
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Where Working people Lived
… it was related to the labour needs of the employers on the Rand. Housing in Towns Housing before industrial times In … the early years, water had to be…
ArticleThe South African Strategic Defence Procurement Package known as “The Arms Deal”
… announced the arms deal enquiry into the multi-billion Rand arms deal which took place in 1999, and names three …
ArticleAmersfoort Legacy - History of education in South Africa
… period is, of course, the beginning of the great youth revolt. Frustrated by the inferior education they receive, … approaches to schooling in an attempt to…
PlaceGallery 101
… to the Head Office of the Progressive Federal Party in the Rand Centre in the Johannesburg CBD. In the late 1960s the … until its closure in 1977. The…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline 1850-1889
… store in the small mining town of Klerksdorp, on the West Rand. The young man is part of a growing number of young men …
Chapter 5 - Who would deliver us from oppression? Gumede and African politics in South Africa,1921-1927
… political discriminatory practices. On his arrival on the Rand, Gumede observed a discernible swing towards a more … Transvaal branch of the SANNC,…
State of the Nation Address by His Excellency Jacob G Zuma on the occasion of the Joint Sitting of Parliament, Cape Town, 12 February 2015
… mainly at the youth, is progressing very well. Two billion rand has been claimed to date by some twenty nine thousand … will honour its commitment to give…
Archive2015 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 12 February 2015
… mainly at the youth, is progressing very well. Two billion rand has been claimed to date by some twenty nine thousand … will honour its commitment to give…
ArticleThe African Mine workers strike of 1946
… owners’ witnesses, and the national labour advisor for Rand Mines, JW Lawrance, argued for the continuation of the … at Crown mines, then within 10 days at…
Article1946 African Mineworkers Strike
… before them the workers' demands for a ten shillings (one Rand) a day wage and other improvements. Failing agreement, … decision until the morning of Monday,…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1940-1949
… 13 June, African miners strike from the East to the West Rand, police open fire, kill and injure hundreds of workers. … Mineworkers Union launches the…
PlaceBenoni, Ekurhuleni Municipality
… Benoni is situated on the East Rand , in the South African Province of Gauteng. The Area … around them. This is also for the other Towns in the East Rand…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Themes to Think About
… changed for the millions of people who came to live on the Rand between 1886 and 1940. It was a dramatic change, for in only sixty years the Rand witnessed…
PlaceNZASM Station, George Norton Street, Krugersdorp
… in 1895 on two other important station buildings of the Rand Tram, Krugersdorp and Jeppe. The former was destined to … being the terminus of two railway…
EventFighting breaks out on the Johannesburg market square
… 1913, the miners at the New Kleinfontein mine on the East Rand went on strike. Mine management ignored this small … back while selling Strike Heralds to the…
ArchiveWorkers should control Metal Pension Fund - says MAWU
… Union is pushing for worker control of the multi-million Rand metal industries' pension fund. …
ArchiveMystery fire destroys union offices
… FOSATU unions on the East Rand are undaunted by the mysterious fires which destroyed …
ArchiveMandelas full reply to President Bothas off
… offer of freedom made in Parliament. Published in the Rand Daily Mail, Monday, February 11, 1985. …
ArchiveDoes Luthuli deserve the Nobel Prize?
… Extract from the Rand Daily Mail, Monday, October 30, 1961. The article …
ArchiveThe church and the race problem
… Pamplet containing a series of articles published in the Rand Daily Mail, Johannesburg, based on interviews with …