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EventHumphrey Ndlovu, veteran IFP leader dies
… Freedom Party (IFP), in 1976. He was the Party’s West Rand Regional Chairperson from 1991 to 2000. Ndlovu was very …
EventWalter Sisulu evades security police and goes underground
… sentence. On the following day it was published in the Rand Daily Mail (a newspaper banned in March 1985) that he …
Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945 edited by Cherryl Walker
… prostitution and the migration of Basotho women to the Rand, 1920-1945' by P. L. Bonner Devout domesticity? A …
Article1910-1924: African nationalism and working-class and popular protests
… In 1928 the CPSA called for Black majority rule. The Rand Rebellion 1922 During the post WW1 period the Chamber of … Witwatersrand areas reacted strongly and…
ArticleAfrican nationalism and working-class & popular protests, 1910-1924
… In 1928 the CPSA called for Black majority rule. The Rand Rebellion 1922 During the post WW1 period the Chamber of … Witwatersrand areas reacted strongly and…
EventANC's Nelson Mandela in a historic political rally
… country, with specific reference to KwaZulu-Natal and the Rand where things were getting out of hand. On the very same …
EventPatricia de Lille testifies at Schabir Shaik’s trial
… possible irregularities in South Africa's multi-billion rand arms acquisition process. Her testimony relates to count …
PlaceGermiston
… In 1921, the world's largest gold refinery known as the ' Rand Refinery ' was established here. After that, Germiston … Metropolitan Municipality which…
Archive2017 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 9 February 2017
… strategy. This has ensured that the two billion rand MeerKAT telescope is constructed with seventy five … has started with the planning phase of the 4.5…
Re-Emergence of Congress Activity 1980s
… by police in a township near Springs on the East Rand. Later in the same month, a Pretoria court sentenced … responsibility for the blast. The offices of the…
America, Spanish conquest
… to live in reservations. Resistance Case Study 4 A slave revolt in Haiti: A distinct type of resistance in exploitation colonies was the slave revolt. The…
EventBishop Ambrose Reeves returns to South Africa
… to England. His deportation was strongly denounced by the Rand Daily Mail, while Black rallies were called to protest …
EventSA Prime Minister H. F. Verwoerd stabbed to death
… becoming Prime Minister was on the 9 April 1961, at the Rand Easter Show, where he was shot twice in the face. …
EventNelson Mandela delivers a speech marking his first 100 days in office
… in different parts of South Africa, especially, the East Rand and KwaZulu-Natal. More so, the Truth and Reconciliation …
EventWiseman Khuzwayo, reporter for the Durban Daily News hands himself over to the police
… The journalists arrested included; Mike Ndlazi of the Rand Daily Mail and Barry Levy reporter of the Sunday …
EventNP Secretary-General Stoffel Van der Merwe resigns
… of Education and professor of political science at the Rand Afrikaans University, Stoffel van der Merwe (52), who …
EventStephen Gray, SA writer and academic, is born
… a M. Fine Arts from the University of Iowa and from Rand Afrikaans University he received a D.Litt and D.Phil in …
EventA commemorative exhibition of the work of painter and cartoonist John Amshewitz opens in the City Hall in Johannesburg
… A great cartoonist and illustrator, he found work at the Rand Daily Mail and The Sunday Times. During his career, he …
National OR Tambo Memorial Lecture series inaugural address by his excellency Dr Jacob G Zuma, President of the Republic of South Africa, OR Tambo International Airport, 24 October 2011
… Department of Arts and Culture, has allocated 24.8 million rand for the establishment of an interpretative centre at the … depicting the life and times of O…
The Road to Durban: Workers’ struggles, student movements, and the resurgence of resistance politics in Namibia and South Africa by Heike Becker
… to the contract labour system broadened into a generalised revolt against the South African regime. A close look at the …
EventCourt go-ahead for United Democratic Front meetings
… a meeting to launch the ‘Unban the ANC’ campaign at the Rand Supreme court in Johannesburg.The court order was …
EventANC revolutionary propaganda leaflets exploded in Cape Town, Johannesburg, and Durban
… In Johannesburg, pamphlets were discovered outside the Rand Daily Mail building. During an interview with Cape Times … The Cape Times, (14 August, 1970), …
EventDesmond Tutu is appointed TRC chairperson
… became successful as disinvestments took place and the rand plunged. At the end of apartheid, Tutu was appointed …
EventFive power stations are blown up as tensions rise during WWII
… pro-Axis power saboteurs in an attempt to destabilise the Rand gold mines. During the Second World War supporters of …
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 3 Source-based Questions
Based on the 2012 Grade 10 NSC Exemplar Paper: Grade 10 Past Exam Paper Grade 10 Source Addendum Grade 10 Past Exam Memo Level 1 & 2…
EventMac Maharaj is born
… of the crime he was accused of having committed, First Rand, a division of First National Bank, gave him a golden …
EventHolomisa on corruption
… head of Sun International, had donated two million rand to the African National Congress (ANC) before the 1994 …
EventBrett Kebble, SA millionaire and director of mining companies, linked to several cases of alleged fraud, is born
… was born on 19 February 1964 in Springs, on the East Rand. In the 1990’s Kebble got into mining and was soon …
EventBarry Hough, SA literary critic and successful author of mainly teenage books is found dead
… in 1953. He obtained a BA Communications degree from the Rand Afrikaans University (now University of Johannesburg) in …
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Introduction
… just over a century after the discovery of gold on the Rand, the nature of South Africa’s future is in the balance. … working class was created: from deep…