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The Fruits of the 1973 Durban Strikes: A Powerful Black Trade Union Movement. Are they still on track or are they off the rails? by Johann Maree
… Black workers into a separate union that became the National Union of Textile Workers (NUTW). However, the … a hierarchy of committees from branch to…
ArticleThe banning of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) and student politics in the 1980s
… president, Sechaba Montsitsi, and leading members of the National Union South African Students (NUSAS ) were arrested … without affiliations to and distinct…
BiographyMakhanda Nxele
… society. [32] More so, it explains how he came to occupy a national role of leading amaXhosa, beyond just the amaNdlambe … 19cm. [60] The scene at…
PlaceAngola
… against the Portuguese intensified with the Angolan national revolution which started in 1961. Several factions … enslaved and sold to the Portuguese, by the…
EventKwame Nkrumah is released from jail
… government a year later on 12 February 1951, after his party, the Convention People's Party (CPP), won the 1951 elections. As leader of the new …
EventGeneral Lothar Neethling sues Vrye Weekblad and the Weekly Mail
… an unreliable witness.Subsequent to the ruling, Democratic Party (DP) leader Zach de Beer stated that: "The fact that … of the police force must encourage…
PlaceBophuthatswana, was Previously a Homeland
… Its main political parties were the Christian Democratic Party and the Progressive People's Party that was established in 1987 and later banned. Prior to ……
Chapter Six - The Fighter in Turmoil: 1946 - 1960
… arranged for Gomas to accompany Cornelia to the Christmas party of the Chemical Workers' Union in 1939. Cornelia … conditions; while at the same time…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Stanley Uys, 01 August 1983, Londo
… had a role to play in the ANC`s struggle: not until the National Party came into power in 1948 and was physically violent. The … the government had failed to…
ArchiveRemembering French Investments In Apartheid South Africa, 17 December 2013
… “At the time, we were not very many. The Communist party gave us only lip support. Apart from a few inpiduals, … contempt towards those who supported the ANC…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Randall Robinson, Executive Director, Transafrica Forum, 2 March 1983, Washington, DC
… their efforts, in spite of their aggression, the African National Congress is becoming powerful inside South Africa. … of neighbouring black states? TAMBO:…
George Bizos: Interview with Rupert Taylor and Aubrey Lekwane, 16 February 1998, Legal Resources Centre, Johannesburg
… Advice Offices were established in the 50s, the Liberal Party objected on the grounds that it would be doing the National Party’s government work too much…
ArticleUniversity of Pretoria 2015-2016 Student Protests Timeline
… of the students... that is not inclined to any political party but inclined to students’. In September 2015, student … trends on twitter as student protests…
EventMolly Blackburn, political activist and civil rights campaigner is killed in a car accident
… not very active. She then joined the Pregressive Federal Party(PFP) and became the party’s provincial councilor0f Walmer, Port Elizabeth. …
BiographyPoonoosamy Ruthnam Pather
Poonoosamy Ruthnam Pather (PR) was born in Mauritius in 1895. His grandfather settled in that country after emigrating from Tanjore in India in the 1840s. PR…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - Some Aspects of the Native Bills
… dangerous, if not immoral, to compromise on pure justice national affairs. And this just the danger into which the … with the promises made to the Imperial…
The strangulation of activity
… Suppression of Communism Act. It declared the Communist Party of South Africa to be unlawful and provided for the … of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) and…
Document 15 - E. R. Roux, Black and White Trade Unionism in South Africa, 28 July 1928
… and coloured members, but only in the Cape Province. Some national unions, such as the Typographical Union, have a few … political oppression. Up to the end…
Interview with Swami Gounden by Vino Reddy, 29 May 2002
… thing Mannie will do is recruit them into the Communist Party. He'd have formed the Eastern group of the Communist … in 1946. I joined the leather industry,…
Address of Nelson Mandela at his Investiture as Doctor of Laws Soochow University, Taiwan, 1 August 1993
… a recognition of the role of our organisation, the African National Congress and a tribute to the valiant people of … constitution. Ever since the foundation…
PlaceTokai Arboretum, Tokai Forest
… variety of Indigenous Trees grown here. It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 9 August 1985. … cuppa after your walk.) The…
A brief history on South African prisons and prisoners
… Introduction In 1948 the National government was voted into power and instituted … for white females and one for black females. Central is a ‘national’…
EventA Whites-only referendum in SWA gives a support on Black majority.
… Democratic Turnhalle Alliance, was a multi-racial moderate party that came into existence to fulfill the independence … Convention. Although led by a White,…
EventHelen Suzman is born
… She entered politics when she represented the United Party (UP) in Parliament in 1953. Six years later she founded the Progressive Party (PP) and became its…
EventChris Hani, the SACP secretary-general, is assassinated
… day twenty five years ago, the South African Communist Party (SACP) secretary-general, Chris Thembisile Hani also … linked to co-conspirator Clive Derby…
Chapter 1 - The Promise of the Impossible Revolution: The Cape Town Industrial Socialist League, 1918 - 1921
… of the most important radical groups following the Labour Party split in 1914, namely the Cape Town based Industrial … which in 1920 adopted the name of…
PlaceSouthern Suburbs of Cape Town
… the Southern Suburbs lie at the base of Table Mountain National Park which forms, a Mountainous backbone that … As a result these parts are often a good…
Chapter 2 - Industrialisation and the Revitalisation of Black Politics in the 1940s
… thinking during the 1940s, particularly in the African National Congress (ANC). Though one should be wary of … white privilege, asserts the desire of African…
Say It out Loud - The 1929 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 1st April, 1929
… leaders, should endeavour to divest themselves of that party-political prejudice which warps the intellect, and when … came from quite an unexpected source,…
PlaceBurundi
… The largest of these parties was the Union for National Progress (UPRONA), and it was led by Prince Louis … Biha [xliv] . UPRONA was founded in 1958 [xlv] …