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”The African Mine Workers’ Strike-A National Struggle.”flyer issued by the ANC Youth League, August 1946
… The African Mine Workers have risen in revolt against the most brutal, callous and inhuman …
EventThe First Anglo-Boer War: Boers defeat the British at the Battle of Majuba
… independence of Afrikaners in the Transvaal. An Afrikaner revolt in December 1880, led by Paul Kruger , prompted the …
EventHaitian leader General Raoul Cedras resigns in favour of exiled President Jean
… was of a particularly cruel nature, leading to the slave revolt of 1791, also known as the Haitian Revolution. Haiti …
A call to the people of South Africa: Oliver Tambo, 02 May 1987
… contribution to the successes scored in the current revolt; in defiance of State terror they have launched SAYCO, … to ensure that the month of June…
ArticleEastern Cape Wars of Dispossession 1779-1878
… under Gen T P Vandeleur to crush the Graaff-Reinet revolt. No sooner was this done (April 1799) than some … under Hermanus Matroos and Willem Uithaalder. The…
ArchiveANC for peace
… Notice of East Rand Peace Summit. Green, yellow, black and white poster. 2 - …
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 11 February 1977, Volume 105
… the transcript of evidence from Samuel Moss from the West Rand Bantu Administration Board, to the Commission of Inquiry …
COSATU calendar
… painting about the first shop stewards council on the East Rand in 1981, showing the struggle against the bulldosing of …
ArticlePartial State of Emergency, July 1985
… of the state were becoming clear, with the collapse of the rand and business leaders holding talks with the African …
ArticleSouth African Defence Force (SADF)
… was used to crush rebellions and strikes (e.g. the 1922 Rand Rebellion ), during states of emergency (such as after …
ArchiveInkathagate : Wits students demand facts!
… with black lettering. Brown and white images of twenty rand notes, dripping red at bottom. Notice of meeting at …
ArchiveDistribution of United Democratic Front media
… Democratic Front media to different organisations around Rand East regarding the United Democratic Front media and how …
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 24 September 1976, Volume 14
… Kenneth Rees and Mat Manyana, both reporters from The Rand Daily Mail newspaper, to the Commission of Inquiry into …
EventSoweto students march against government’s language policy
… schools. The uprising then escalated into a nation-wide revolt, revitalising the struggle for liberation in South …
Archive=Commission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 21 February 1977, Volume 111
… statement issued by the Chairman of the Commission to the Rand Daily Mail, to the Commission of Inquiry into the riots …
Address by President Mandela on receiving the freedom of Boksburg Boksburg, 26 June 1997
… gone from a mining camp to become a key part of the East Rand industrial heartland of our economy. It is a city which … to help councils meet this need, with…
ArticleIndustrial and Commercial Union Timeline 1919-1989
… and this indicates that in its eighteen months on the Rand it has made little progress in winning them over. The … of the Industrial and Commercial Union …
Last of The Gandhians in South Africa
… Act to impose on me." He was sentenced to a fine of 100 Rand or three months in prison, and warned that if he failed … the term, declining the alternative of…
ArchiveSouth African Labour Bulletin Volume 7 Number 8 July 1982
… The focus of this issue is Worker Struggles on the East Rand. …
ArchivePresidential Address to the Black Sash National Conference held at Durban, 1986
… Goniwe, violence, Prisons and Defence Acts, Closure of Rand Daily Mail, dismantling Apartheid, ID Documents, civil …
The Black Face of Apartheid
… high school youth organisations became the nurseries for revolt. The government reacted by systematically depriving …
Local Government
… three months later it recommended the establishment of a Rand Water Board. This was constituted on 7 May 1903 with the … River Barrage was opened, that for…
BiographyJosiah Tshangana Gumede
… also spent a short period working on the gold mines on the Rand, and the Gumede family’s financial prospects appeared to …
BiographyDr. Frene Noshir Ginwala
… that developed in Johannesburg. The gold fields of the Rand were only one part of the mineral revolution in South …
BiographyMichael Guthrie Scott
… were locked into small prison like compounds. When the Rand Daily Mail published his exposé, there was an immediate …
ArchiveMinutes of a Meeting between the Minister of Bantu Administration and Development, Mr. M. C. Botha, officials of the Department of Bantu Administration and Development .... held in the Bantu Administration Building, Pretoria on 19 June 1976
… officials of the Department of Bantu Education, West Rand Bantu Affairs Administration Board and Representatives …
PlaceOld Crown Mines Headquarters, 5 Press Lane, Selby, Johannesburg
… brick chimney. In 1978 the property was taken over by Rand Mines (Pty) Ltd. It was declared a National Monument …
EventPolitical Activist, Barbara Hogan, is sentenced for High Treason
… Barbara Hogan is sentenced in the Rand Supreme Court to an effective ten years in prison for …
EventThe lengthy trial of Gandar and Pogrund ends
… trial of Laurence Gandar and Benjamin Pogrund, of the Rand Daily Mail, on charges under the Prisons Act, ends with …
ArchiveMinutes of the National Conference of the Black Sash held in Port Elizabeth
… Pass Laws, Influx Control, boycotts, unrest, closure of Rand Daily Mail, prisons, pensions, marriage laws, U.I.F., …