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ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… Luli Callinicos in her book, A Place in the City: The Rand on the Eve of Apartheid, describes how Afrikaans women … women also attended. The crowd, most of…
Another Victory for Trade Unionism: The 1918 Cape Town Musicians’ Strike
… such as the Engineers' Strike, the Mines Strike, on the Rand and elsewhere. By the term "black" we refer to … 8 November 1918. South African Review, 15…
Chapter 4 - Another Victory for Trade Unionism: The 1918 Cape Town Musicians’ Strike
… such as the Engineers' Strike, the Mines Strike, on the Rand and elsewhere. By the term "black" we refer to … 8 November 1918. South African Review, 15…
Colonial history of Rustenburg
… of maize crops, and many young Africans migrated to the Rand to work on gold mines, which paid far better wages than … notably at one in Cape Town in 1907…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1970 - 1979
… suffering people of South Africa set off by the heroic revolt in Soweto , may be regarded as one of the greatest …
ArticleSouth African Police Services (SAPS)
… helped to again quell the labour action. In 1922 the Rand Rebellion erupted with Witwatersrand gold-miners …
ArticleThe 1992 Whites only referendum ‘For’ or ‘Against’ a negotiated constitution
… for a “Yes” vote. Companies such as Anglo-American, Barlow Rand, BP, Caltex, First National Bank, Murray & Roberts, …
Black Concentration Camps during the Anglo-Boer War 2, 1900-1902
… recorded for the month. 4 May, The first gold mine on the Rand re-opens, after all mines have been closed in October …
ArticleSharpeville Massacre, 21 March 1960
… nine policemen were shot. Unlike elsewhere on the East Rand where police used baton when charging at resisters, the …
”Policy of the Congress Youth League.” Article by A. M. Lembede, in May 1946
… etc. All over the world nationalism is rising in revolt against foreign domination, conquest and oppression in …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1950-1959
… A boycott of Bantu Education takes place on the East Rand and spreads across the Transvaal. This began a series of … Klerksdorp, Pretoria, Johannesburg and…
Archive2013 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 14 February 2013
… from 2009, government will have spent about 860 billion rand on infrastructure. Various projects are being … Cape and in the Free State. We established an…
No Arms for South Africa: Albert Luthuli, 8 May 1963
… solution. The police vote of 1962 soared to 40 million rand ($56 million); the prisons vote to 10.5 million rand ($14.7 million); the defence vote - greater…
The ANC Gauteng condemns violent protests and ongoing disruption of schools in Gauteng Province!, 7 September 2011
… September 2011 Johannesburg, Ekurhuleni, Tshwane and West Rand. The dates of the Regional Conferences are follows: Ekurhuleni: 16 - 18 September 2011 West…
How Zuma, the smiling spy, controls South Africa by Joe Brock and Ed Cropley (World News), 04 May 2016, Johannesburg
… from inside and outside the ANC to resign over millions of rand of improper state spending on his private home in … van Rooyen as finance minister, a…
Chapter 2 - The Soweto Uprising of June 1976: A Turning Points Event
… off days of riots and hundreds of deaths. The Soweto revolt had begun. The police on duty had no special training … the authority of the Bantu Affairs…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 2 - The Soweto Uprising of June 1976: A Turning Points Event by Phil Bonner
… off days of riots and hundreds of deaths. The Soweto revolt had begun. The police on duty had no special training … the authority of the Bantu Affairs…
ArticleAfrica: Colonialism, Arts, Protest & Independence
… Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Cairo, is established. Herero revolt in Namibia against German colonial rule is brutally … to three other European venues Aba Women's…
ArticleOrganization of African Unity Timeline 1884-2000
… Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Cairo, is established. Herero revolt in Namibia against German colonial rule is brutally … to three other European venues. Aba Women's…
PlaceKatlehong
… (KAC) developed as a project under the government’s East Rand Administration Board (ERAB) the same year that the …
PlaceSprings
… The Town of Springs, East of Johannesburg, is on the East Rand, or what is now known as the Metropolitan area of …
ArticleAfrican National Congress 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…
ArticleThe Impact of Colonialism
… type of resistance in exploitation colonies was the slave revolt. The most dramatically successful was the Haitian Slave Revolt, on the Caribbean island of…
ArchiveMandela, From a Freedom Fighter to an Icon of Reconciliation
… the South African Government was unable to suppress the revolt in the black townships as the black people had lost …
Worker Culture: It’s Emergence, Gains and the Implications of Decline by Frank Meintjies
… that workers from Rely Precision Foundry on the East Rand, together with Junctioon Avenue took three months in …
ArticleA decade by decade events account of the women’s struggle in South Africa
… demonstrations by rural women during the Natal Women's Revolt. Lillian Ngoyi is banned and confined to Orlando … Dorothy Nyembe is arrested for leading the…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - The World The Workers Made
… as well as the rapid development of industries on the Rand during World War I. Soon after the women, came children … pattern began to develop amongst the new…
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Chapter 3 - The Socio-economic Impact of the Mineral Revolution on South African Society by Drusela Numvuzo Yekela
… Robinson, a mining speculator, to travel straight to the Rand where he bought Langlaagte Farm. Robinson headed the … to diamond mining, but it was through…
ArticleThe Natal Workers Theatre Movement Timeline
… workers from the Rely Precision Foundry on the East Rand are dismissed, and the union’s lawyer requests the …
ArticleThe Land Act, Traditional Authorities and the Native Affairs Department (NAD) 1913-1953
… Cape. It is these developments that led to the Pondoland Revolt in 1960. Conclusion The role of chiefs in the …