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EventThe Rembrandt Tobacco Corporation was founded in South Africa
… The Rembrandt Group was built up into a multibillion rand group that was at one point second only in size to Anglo …
PlaceBoksburg, the Witwatersrand
… founded in 1887 as the Administrative Centre of the East Rand. It is the second oldest Town on the Witwatersrand. …
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1980 - 1989 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… every month at the various clinics. It costs the IMA about Rand 40 000 per month to maintain these clinics. Publications … 1990 191 100-52% 1991 206 85 -45%…
EventDelagoa Bay railway line is officially opened
… Cape. Subsequent to discovery of the main gold reef on the Rand in 1886 the matter gained even greater urgency. After …
'The People Accept the Challenge of the Nationalists' Statement issued by the National Executive of the A.N.C., April 6, 1963
… of illegality under which it is produced. THE SPIRIT OF REVOLT. The mass political action will demand that we arouse and raise to new heights the spirit of…
ArticleThe History of Education: 1658 to present
… breakaway led by Steve Biko in 1970. 1968 18 October, Rand Afrikaner University (RAU) is established by an act of … 123 persons have been banned as a result…
Nelson Mandela Timeline 1920-1929
… the CPSA, ANC and ICU, is held in Cape Town and across the Rand in protest against the passing of the Riotous Assemblies …
Chris Hani Memorial Lecture by Pallo Jordan, 15th April 2003, South Africa
… in South Africa. I think we are all familiar with the 1922 Rand Revolt, when militant, highly unionised White miners here on the Rand precipitated a general…
Document 87 - “Lessons of the All-Bantu Convention”, The Spark, 2, 2, February 1936
… to warn its readers against the dangerous agitators on the Rand and Jabavu can reiterate his fear of the Bantu becoming … He will take the land, he will take…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - Bound to strike back by Emilia Potenza
… about a whole range of different issues. The 1922 Rand Revolt After the protest by white miners in 1913, the Chamber … for eight weeks and was followed by…
PlaceFordsburg and the Oriental Plaza, Johannesburg
… were housed there. It was also the site of the 1922 Red Revolt, when armed white miners went on strike against lower …
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - New Factories, New Workers
… working class is more numerous and better organised on the Rand than here else in Africa. More and more workers are … it was adopted by other large employers…
Archive2015 - President Zuma, Response to the State of the Nation Address, 19 February 2015
… for funding to the value of more than forty three million rand. Five areas were identified for the pilot roll-out … and infrastructure worth roughly five…
PlaceDiepsloot, Johannesburg
… in 1994, by what was at the time known as: 'the Rand Provincial Administration'; for people who had initially … in 1994, by what was at the time known as: …
EventAnti-apartheid activist Sister Bernard Ncube dies
… on Arts and Culture and was elected mayor of the West Rand municipality in 2002. She continued to be active in …
EventCarl Niehaus is sentenced to 15 years in prison for high treason for being a member of ANC underground
… North West Province, and completed his higher education at Rand Afrikaans University (RAU). A student of theology, …
EventBoeremag bomb blasts rock Soweto and Bronkhorstspruit
… in Gauteng. News of the bomb blasts initially caused the Rand to drop 21 cents to the US dollar, but it recovered …
EventArrival of Chinese labourers in South Africa
… A labour shortage at the gold mines on the Rand resulted in the importation of Chinese labour in 1904. …
EventRichard Horatio Edgar Wallace, South African author and newspaper editor, is born in Greenwich, England.
… London and left to become the editor for the Johannesburg Rand Daily Mail. In 1902 he returned to work in London where …
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1950 - 1959 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… disputes to save individual and community thousands of Rand in legal costs; * issuing certificates of halal food, … Head of Department and a Junior Lecturer…
The Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… The Transvaal African Teachers Association's (TATA) Rand branch launches a teachers' salary campaign. Hilda … Act. African miners strike from the east to the…
ArticleState of Emergency - 1985
… affected by the government-endorsed censorship was The Rand Daily Mail of Johannesburg, which was forced to shut … 63 of 1971. In a blow to anti-apartheid…
Chapter 1. The South African Trade Union Movement- Historical Background - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… discovery of diamonds around Kimberley and of gold on the Rand, in the second half of the last century, led to a sudden … company thugs. In the miners' and…
ArticleThe Nelson Mandela Presidency - 1994 to 1999
… targets, and monetary policies aimed at stabilizing the rand through market interest rates. The Gear policy aimed at …
Freedom In Our Life Time - Bibliography
… Philip. "The PoUtics of Black Squatter Movements on the Rand, 1944-1952." Radical History Review 46/7 (1990): 89-116. … 1975); 37-46. Callinicos, Luli. A…
Statement of Acceptance of the Ho Chi Minh Award Bestowed on the ANC by the World Peace Council by O. R. Tambo, Luanda, 15 December 1986
… minority domination in our country. Our people are in revolt, making it impossible for the apartheid regime to rule …
Statement by Oliver Tambo of acceptance of the Ho Chi Minh award bestowed on the African National Congress by the World Peace Council, 15 December 1986, Luanda
… minority domination in our country. Our people are in revolt, making it impossible for the apartheid regime to rule …
Hlaudi manifesto gives Jimi Matthews and his SABC comrades no option but to vote #Hlexit by Ra'eesa Pather (Mail & Guardian), 27 June 2016
… has thus far remained uncharacteristically silent on the revolt mounting in his newsroom – perhaps a sign itself that …
PlaceSoweto, Johannesburg
… students killed when police opened fire, sparking wider revolt and global condemnation of apartheid . What did …
ArticleGrade 7 - Term 2: The Transatlantic slave trade
… before any attack could take place. Nat Turner’s revolt 1831 A poster depicting what happened during the Nat Turner Revolt in 1831. Image source Nathanial …