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ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1960-1969
… Trial. December, South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) delegates to the International Labour Organisation … Act. Vuyisile Mini , Wilson Khayinga and…
ArticleLife Timeline of Jacob Zuma
… Zuma joins the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) and becomes actively involved in its activities. 1962 …
Re-emergence of resistance, 1980-89
By the early 1980s, the Congress movement was becoming established as the most effective force in the fight against apartheid throughout the country. With the…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1950 - 1959
… of the non-racial South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) is held in Johannesburg. April, The Sub-Committees of … , is passed. The South African…
Delegations and dialogue between ANC and internal non government groups
… with Oliver Tambo, John Nkadimeng (General Secretary of SACTU), Kay Moonsamy , Thabo Mbeki, Chris Hani and Mac …
ArticleSouth Africa in the 1970s
… of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) in the early 1960s the African National Congress …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1980-1989
… independent. The South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) declared 1980 as the year of the worker. February, …
ArticleA decade by decade events account of the women’s struggle in South Africa
… committee of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) Hilda Bernstein helps establishes the South African …
ArticleWomen’s Workplace Oppression in 1970s South Africa by Cait Chapman
… Position of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU)." United Nations Centre against Apartheid, Notes and …
ArticleThe 2nd Johannesburg Biennale
Bookmarked by Dan Cameron in Art Forum as “what may turn out to be the most important exhibition of the 1990s”, the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, which opened on…
ArticleTransvaal Indian Youth Congress (TIYC)
The Transvaal Indian Youth Congress (TIYC) was formed in Transvaal (now Gauteng) as the youth wing of the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) in 1945. Its…
ArticleTransition to Armed Struggle by Norman Levy
… a Trade Unionist and General Secretary of the former SACTU in exile, were also present as well as Bob Hepple, now … It was tacitly accepted by the officials…
ArticleLesotho Timeline
Pre-1804 Khoisan hunter gatherers are the first inhabitants of the region, before Sotho-Tswana peoples colonized the general region between the third and…
ArticleCosatu timeline
2010 19 January: (Congress of South African Trade Unions) COSATU affiliate The Food and Allied Workers' Union (FAWU) entered their third week of striking…
ArticleThe International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF)
… belonged to the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU), arrived in London in 1966 and became the general …
ArticleList of people banned under Apartheid
… 30/4/197530/4/1980 Bulwer.Former National President of SACTU. Detained in 1963 and sentenced to 9 months … Union in Cape Town and Western Cape, and chairman…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1980s
… of the adoption of the Freedom charter in 1955. 1980 SACTU declares the year as the year of the Worker 1980 … Africa. 1986 March, COSATU held discussions…
ArticleThe banning of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) and student politics in the 1980s
In September and October 1977, the apartheid government stiffened its resolve to end the nationwide student unrest that broke out in Soweto in June 1976…
ArticleNegotiations and the transition
The increasing social unrest in South Africa that swept through the country in the 1980s, and the changing geopolitical circumstances on the international…
Liberation organisations
UDF The United Democratic Front (UDF) was a non-racial alliance of about 400 national, regional and local organisations. It was launched in Cape Town in 1983,…
ArticleSouth African General Elections 2019 - List of Political Parties
The IEC announced that a record 48 political parties have successfully registered to contest the 2019 general elections. Most have been formed recently,…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1990s
1990 Nelson Mandela is released from prison. 27 townships declared unrest areas in terms of the Public Safety Act No 3 of 1953. Gazankulu: Immorality and…
The people armed, 1984-1990
Introduction 1985, Desmond Tutu, armed only with the bible under his arm, confronts the SA forces during their attempts to break up a demonstration…
Article1960 - 1994: Armed Struggle and Popular Resistance
1984-1990:- The people armedIntroductionNumerous factors characterised the intensification of the freedom struggle against the National Party government in the…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in exile
… Vernon Nkadimeng, the son of the secretary general of SACTU, the outlawed South African union federation. The … for a long time. Piper, a member of the ANC’s…
Into the Fifties: Defiance by Norman Levy
… emergence of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU), to some extent a non-racial labour federation created …
ArticleA Charge of Treason by Norman Levy
… raids from the COD, the Coloured and Indian Congresses and SACTU, warning that this was the forerunner of more fascist …
ArticleA history of the South African Constitution 1910-1996
The New Constitution was negotiated between May 1994 and October 1996 in the country's first democratically elected convention, the Constitutional Assembly…
ArticleThe History of Education: 1658 to present
± 1000 BCE (Pre-colonial) Late Stone Age people (San/Tsam//Xam) teach their children how to hunt and gather food, skin animals, prepare and cook food and…
ArticleJohannesburg the Segregated city
Contents Town & regional planning in Johannesburg Residential development in Johannesburg <a data-cke-saved-href="#Black residential development in…