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The First South African side to play in the sub-continent: Boer Prisoners of War in 1901 (Part 1 of 2) by Arunabha Sengupta (Cricket Country), 12 October 2015
… cricketer. The young man attended the Grey College in Bloemfontein and excelled at rugby, cricket, represented Bloemfontein in hockey, played first league…
ArticleTimeline of the Labour and Trade Union Movement in South Africa 1881 - 1919
… after organising a strike among washerwomen and others in Bloemfontein. Clements Kadalie begins liaising with Selby …
ArticleCouncil of Non-European trade unions (CNETU)
… 15, 000 members, Cape Town 10 unions with 10,000 members, Bloemfontein 10 unions with 5,000 members and finally …
Statement by Oliver Tambo on ANC`s seventieth anniversary: Appeal to the world, 02 December 1981
… of the African peoples of southern Africa assembled at Bloemfontein. From all parts of South Africa, from the …
Constitution of the AAC, December 1937
… members. 12. Venue: The venue of the Convention shall be Bloemfontein unless the Executive Committee or the Convention …
PlaceBethlehem, Free State
… was appointed , in 1864 Bethlehem is 250 km North-East of Bloemfontein and 260 km South of Johannesburg , established … on the N5 road to the Free State…
Document 87 - “Lessons of the All-Bantu Convention”, The Spark, 2, 2, February 1936
… was held on 16th-18th December at the Batho Location, Bloemfontein, was such a farce, with features so disgraceful … to the delegates, we must note that the…
The Afrikaner Bond
… the Orange Free State, and at the inaugural meeting of the Bloemfontein branch on 11 May 1881, held at Grey College in Bloemfontein, Chief Justice FW Reitz…
Chapter 7 - Gumede keeps the bright fire burning, 1928-29
… At the beginning of April 1928 Gumede travelled to Bloemfontein to attend the annual conference of the Upper … grown tired of calls for tolerance, Deane, the…
72. The Defiance Campaign, 1953
… Congress at the meeting of its executive committee held at Bloemfontein on the 27th April 1952, and the South African … Vereeniging, Bethal. (d) Natal:…
Address by Selby Msimang, President, Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union of South Africa, July 23, 1921
… of the I.C.W.U. When they had first assembled together at Bloemfontein last year, few had guessed the full importance … association with each other, and so…
72. The Defiance Campaign, 1952
… Congress at the meeting of its executive committee held at Bloemfontein on the 27th April 1952, and the South African … Vereeniging, Bethal. (d)Natal: Durban…
Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis - Acknowledgement
… my way from members of the Koranna and Griqua community in Bloemfontein in whose midst the book was first conceived; and …
Document 36 - Letter from E. R. Roux to the Executive Bureau, Communist Party of South Africa, 18 November 1930
… Day, particularly in large centres like Johannesburg, Bloemfontein, Pretoria, Durban and Cape Town. With regard to …
Why General Smuts won on 4 September 1939
… at first opposed for the Frankfort nomination in 1936 by a Bloemfontein advocate, H.J. Edeling, but the latter withdrew. … referred to as "oorstappers", such…
ArticleA decade by decade events account of the women’s struggle in South Africa
… (August). August 6 , A Women's movement is launched in Bloemfontein.Hundreds of women gather in Bloemfontein for a conference to launch a new national …
From retirement to parliament
… The Annual Conference of the African National Congress at Bloemfontein unanimously adopted their findings, on the 16th … of the Atlantic Charter Committee…
The first Bram Fischer Memorial lecture, delivered by President Nelson R. Mandela Market Theatre, Johannesburg, 9 June 1995
… was compelled for financial reasons to live away from Bloemfontein on a farm. His mother sold flowers at the … he came to believe in segregation. He was…
State policies and social protest, 1924-1939
… to send representatives to a convention to be held in Bloemfontein in December 1935. It was the biggest conference …
ArticleDefiance Campaign timeline 1948-1952
… (SAIC) are to place a blueprint for action before the Bloemfontein conference of the African National Congress …
ArticleThe Union of South Africa 1910
… African Native National Congress on 8 January, 1912, in Bloemfontein, renamed the African National Congress in 1923. …
A celebration of 70 years of ‘African Claims’ - ANC by Zizi Kodwa, 11 May 2015, South Africa
… the African Claims document adopted by the ANC in Bloemfontein in 1943. This document was championed by the ANC … the Annual conference of the African…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - The Segregation Fallacy
… Union towns, and one finds them in considerable numbers in Bloemfontein, Kimberley, De Aar and as far afield as East … the housing question is satisfactorily…
Draft Report of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, submitted to the Annual Conference, December 15-17, 1950
… Conference of the AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS, held in Bloemfontein last year adopted a Programme of Action to be … centres:— Johannesburg and the…
The Struggle against our Weaknesses by A. B. Xuma, 1956
… into two and the Orange Free State could only claim Bloemfontein for the Congress. Now you can see why my heart …
Document 64 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa to the International Secretariat of the International Communist League (B-L), 1 July 1936
… discussion. At the time of writing there is being held in Bloemfontein an All African Convention to which all political …
Document 43 - Letter from T. W. Thibedi fo Leon Trotsky, 10 August 1932
… Pretoria, Potchefstroom, Evaton Vereeniging, Paardekop Bloemfontein, and at Ndabeni Location (Cape Town). We formed …
EventHistory of December 16
… 1935, the All-African Convention (AAC) was held in Bloemfontein to protest against the racial policies of Prime …
Hundred years of resistance, E.S. Reddy, 29 January 2012
… progress of plans for the conference, which was held in Bloemfontein from 8 to 11 January 1912. The conference …
ArticleArts and Crafts and reconstruction by Jillian Carman
… South African War when the Poultneys, then living in Bloemfontein, sided with the Boers. There was a temporary … following year. In May 1908, Bam convened a…