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EventA Pilot Cellular phone project is launched
… time, the technology to do so was nonexistent. On April 3, 1973, Motorola employee Dr. Martin Cooper placed a call to a …
“White ladies [do not] push heavy skips”: Examining NUDW and CCAWUSA organising of occupational categories in the retail and distributive trade in the late 1960s and 1970s by Bridget Kenny
… This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference Paper … proposal for the CCAWUSA and Independent Socialists Panel 1973…
A tribute to Indres Naidoo by Glen Moss
… African Communist Party. Robben Island prisoner, 1963-1973. Member of Parliament, 1994-1999. Author: Island In … and house arrested after his release from…
Indian Community in Lenasia
… ruling out patrons from Soweto and Kliptown. On 29 May 1973, the Council approved a recommendation from the … five cops, who were to begin their duties on 1…
Press Conference by O. R. Tambo, Introducing Alexandre Moumbaris, Stephen Lee and Timothy Jenkin who Escaped from Prison in South Africa, Lusaka, 2 January 1980
… at the Botswana/South Africa border... He was sentenced in 1973 to 12 years' imprisonment. His wife was in prison for …
PlaceOns Huisie, Bloubergstrand, Cape Town
… a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 31 August 1973.Ons Huisie, which directly translates to “Our Small …
PlaceVenda
… on a fraction of the usable land in the Republic. In 1973 Venda was granted Self-government and in 1979 it was …
EventSteven Biko is arrested.
… the resistance against and liberation from apartheid. In 1973 he was banned by apartheid government. Under the ban, he …
EventWiehahn Commission Report tabled in parliament
… was set up by the government after the Durban strikes of 1973 and the Soweto uprisings of 1976 to look at industrial …
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1970 - 1978 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… has concurred to form this off-campus regional body. In 1973, the UDW Islamic Association and the Natal University … The educational policy of the Institute…
PlaceMeadowlands or Ndofaya, in Soweto
… popularity, both within and outside South Africa . In 1973, the administration of the Area transitioned to the … popularity, both within and outside South…
ArticleThe National Council of Trade Unions (NACTU)
… 2007. “A Racially Divided Class: Strikes in South Africa, 1973-2004” in S van der Velden, et al (eds), Strikes Around …
PlaceMarket Square, Port Elizabeth
… and the entire structure was named a National Monument in 1973. The Prester John Memorial is also located on the square …
EventSouth African poet, writer and political activist, Mafika Pascal Gwala is born in Durban.
… a high school teacher, and a guest University lecturer. In 1973, he contributed to several literary journals, including …
BiographyThabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki
… Buthelezi and the ANC. Mbeki was deployed to Botswana in 1973 to facilitate the development of an internal …
PlaceEldorado Park, a Township of Johannesburg/Soweto
… in the Province of Gauteng , near Johannesburg . Since 1973 there has been extensive expansion of the Area, due to … in the Province of Gauteng, near…
PlaceCape Agulhas, Western Cape
… Hope. The lighthouse was declared a National Monument in 1973 and is open to the public! The lighthouse at Cape …
EventThe Black People’s Convention (BPC) holds its first National Congress
… faced severe repression from the apartheid state. During 1973, all office-bearers except one were served with banning …
EventArthur Robert Ashe Jr, prominent African American tennis player and vocal protester of apartheid, dies
… apartheid, was approved a visa to visit South Africa in 1973. This was after a number of refusals. He became the …
EventJean van der Poel dies in Cape Town.
… 7 volumes (Cambridge [Eng.]: At the University Press, 1966-1973). Jean van der Poel, The Jameson Raid (Cape Town : New …
Reclaiming Radical Traditions of Workers' Education by Linda Cooper and Sheri Hamilton
… This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference South … to workers’ education. The period following the 1973 strikes and…
Speaking for ourselves: FOSATU Worker News by Victor Gwande and Nicole Ulrich
… This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference This …
EventKen Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian author and environmental activist, is executed
… Civil War and wrote a novel based on his experiences. In 1973, after having served as the Regional Commissioner for …
Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism - Bibliography
… Wopko. Sing for our Execution . Johannesburg, Ravan, 1973. Marks, Shula. Natal, the Zulu Royal Family and the …
EventC. Lindenberg Letty, botanical artist, is born
… in the new national monetary coin series in 1961. In 1973 Letty illustrated and published Bothalia. She also …
“Dockers and solidarity activism: from the Durban Strikes to choke points in today’s global economy” by Peter Cole
… This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference The … for the enormous strike wave that began in January 1973 and which…
“Human beings with Souls”: Reconsidering The Durban Strikes Pamphlet by Alex Lichtenstein
… This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference Abstract: … day, the only book-length study of the mass strikes of 1973…
ArchiveRemembering to think critically: Rick Turner 40 years on by Anthony Egan, 8 January 2018
… post. For the rest of his life until his banning in 1973 (and – truth be told – afterwards) Turner became a … at the then University of Natal until his…
Funeral of Sean MacBride: Oliver Tambo, 05 May 1988
… in the struggle for independence of his own people. From 1973 to 1976, as United Nations Commissioner, he …
PlaceSt Cyprian’s School, Gorge Road, Oranjezicht
… National Monument under old NMC legislation on 14 December 1973. A Private or Independent school for girls, in Grades …