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EventAnglo American announces switching of main listing to London
… Ernest Oppenheimer to exploit the gold fields of the East Rand, announced that it intended to transfer its main listing …
EventBotha found Guilty
… during the apartheid era. Botha was fined ten thousand rand and given a one year prison sentence, suspended for five …
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew
… The Citizen, 3, 3, 4 March 1958 Document 44 - "The Revolt of the Women", The Soyan, December 1959 Document 45 - … 1, October 1959 [....] Document 68 - Ben…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1980-1989
… sentenced to ten years in prison for High Treason in the Rand Supreme Court for membership and furthering the aims of … Johanna Lourens, to four years for…
PlaceVlakfontein Monument, Roodepoort
… was due to to follow in due course. During 1963 the West Rand Historical Society, relocated the Vlakfontein Monument …
Speech by Oliver Tambo at the funeral of Joe Gqabi, Harare, 9 August 1981
… suffering most, to the things that were unknown. Peasants` Revolt Joe Gqabi took himself to the life of the peasants. In … to the bantustan system resulted…
PlaceMelville Koppies Nature Reserve, Judith Road, Johannesburg
… did make a lot of money from gold discoveries on the east rand. They also bought the farm Braamfontein. Melville … did make a lot of money from gold…
ArticlePopular resistance and police brutality in democratic South Africa
… such as the Sharpeville massacre , Vaal and the East Rand in 1985 and Soweto uprising of 1976 . The apartheid era …
ArticleThe Daily Dispatch
… Together with the Rand Daily Mail, the Daily Dispatch was one of the loudest … Together with the Rand Daily Mail, the Daily Dispatch was one of the loudest …
PlaceTsolo, Eastern Cape
… the Transkei and Basutoland had united in common revolt. Under the pretence of joining the British in a police …
PlaceEmoyeni, Parktown, Johannesburg
… the Honorable Henry Hull to host lavish parties for the Rand Lords of the day, Emoyeni has recreated the grandeur of …
EventSouth African Prime Minister, John Vorster resigns
… about the use of funds to fund government propaganda. The Rand Daily Mail and Sunday Express were the first to notice …
EventMigrant workers ransack Phola Park
… Party (IFP) ransacked the Phola Park squatter camp of East Rand leaving scores of people dead or injured. The attack …
EventStompie Seipei’s murderer goes to jail
… The Rand Supreme Court sentences Jerry Richardson to death for …
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the National Day of Safety and Security Vosloorus, 15 October 1994
… Day of Safety and Security. The people of the East Rand, and in particular Katlehong, Thokoza and Vosloorus, … sometimes been divided within themselves. Here…
ArticleLesotho Timeline
… once again becomes a British protectorate after a revolt against the Cape Colony. The country comes under the …
ArticleTransformation in Southern Africa Timeline 1700-1800
… done with Zwide of the Ndwandwe Mzilikazi of the Ndebele revolt against Shaka and flee to the Transvaal Highveld with …
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.3 No.3 Sep-Oct 1980
… by Eddie Nhlane, STAFFRIDER REVIEWS Exhibition: East Rand Black Artists by Andy Mason. STAFFRIDER PROFILE …
EventPresident F.W. de Klerk announces withdrawal of Internal Stability Units (ISU)
… of the Internal Stability Units (ISU) from the East Rand townships of Kathlehong and Thokoza. They were replaced …
Event7 People are killed during a SATS strike
… of non-striking workers at Germiston Station, East Rand. The non-strikers were armed with pangas, knives and …
EventBattle of Vaalkrans begins
… by the discovery of diamonds in Kimberley and gold on the Rand. Also, South Africa was a British colony at the time, …
PlaceFirst Raadsaal
Click on image to enlarge The oldest remaining building in Bloemfontein, the First Raadsaal is part of the National Museum. The modest building of dung floors…
Countdown to the elections July 1993 – April 1994
… be possible. The epicentre of this thrust was in the East Rand sub-region accounting for 90% of all deaths in the PWV. … of vigilante activity in and around…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1910s
… South Africa for London. August, World War I begins. Revolt by anti-war Afrikaner nationalists. John Tengo Jabavu … Leader: Clements Kadalie. ANC organises a…
ArticleYouth and the National Liberation Struggle
… are joined by workers in protest. June 1976 © Rand Daily Mail This feature will trace the history of the … landscape. Witchcraft accusations were rife…
PlaceSudan
… there. This aroused Muslim opposition and led to the revolt of the Mahdī , who captured Khartoum in 1885 and …
PlaceEgypt
… with European and Ottoman rule led to a nationalist revolt in 1879. The British military occupied Egypt in 1882 …
PlaceKempton Park, town in Gauteng
… Kempton Park is a large town situated on the East Rand of Gauteng. Home to numerous shopping malls, Emperor’s …
EventStompie Seipei's murderer goes to jail
… The Rand Supreme Court sentences Jerry Richardson to death for …
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - New Workers, New Unions
… (For example, in 1926 white women were starting on two-rand a week, which was the same wage as black men in the … to justify the miserable wages paid mine…