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Trans-African auto expedition between Brussels and Cape Town starts.
Gert Petrus Swart, South African sculptor, is born in Durban.
The South African Coloured Persons’ Council Bill comes into force.
The All African People’s Conference is held in Accra, Ghana.
Elna Reinach, South African tennis player, is born in Pretoria.
Last National Conference of the African National Congress before ban.
For Freedom and Equality: “Celebrating Women in South African History”
The South African Students Organisation: in detention for their country
This SASO memorandum contains the names and brief profiles of eight Black leaders banned for a five year period.
Onderhandeling en demokrasie in Suid-Afrika (Article written in Afrikaans)
… Institute for a Democratic Alternative for South Africa …
ICFTU Conference for African trade unionists: international solidarity or paternalism?
UNITA fights on - without South African help or CIA money
The South African rugby team beats Scotland in Edinburgh 12-5.
Holland sells trading posts on African Gold Coast to Britain.
Apollo 14 takes the South African flag to the moon.
Britain’s King Charles II grants charter to Royal African Colony.
The South African rugby team beats England 3-0 at Twickenham, England.
BiographyPeter Rudolf Gisela Horn
… in 1954. He then immigrated with his parents to South Africa. After his study at the University of the … University of the Witwatersrand, the University of…
BiographyMagwaza Alfred Maphalala
… Trade Unions (COSATU) in 1985. In 1986 he left South Africa to join his wife Nombuso, who had left in 1985 to work … disbanded in the early 1990s. Maphalala…
HARWU: The Aborted Attempt to Build a National South African Catering Union (1984 – 1990) by Allan Horwitz, June 2018
… union, the Commercial and Catering Workers Union of South Africa (CCAWUSA), while understandable at the time, was in … for catering (hospitality) workers in…
BiographyThomas Benjamin Davis
… War (1899””1902) his ship called at East London, South Africa where he obtained employment in the stevedoring … War Fund to assist soldiers who had served…
EventAfrican bus boycott lasting ten weeks is initiated in Johannesburg and Pretoria.
When the Public Utility Transport Corporation (PUTCO) increased the bus fare in 1957, it was met with resistance from the public. More than 80 percent of the…
Dorothy Alexander
… became involved in the Teacher’s League (TLSA) of South Africa. In January 1960, she moved to the Garden Village … on to join the African People’s Democratic…
BiographyPeter McKenzie Brown
… writer Peter Abrahams to return home. Back in South Africa, he studied African languages (Brown became fluent in … against Apartheid: A History of the…
BiographySuliman (Solly) Mahomed Nathie
… for leading an illegal procession. He later left South Africa and moved to India. He returned from India in 1976 and …
BiographyNehemiah Tile
… Leader of the first major secessionist church in South Africa, Tile was born in Tembuland in the Transkei and … Leader of the first major secessionist church…
BiographyJames Gavin Younge
… He has participated in numerous group exhibitions in South Africa and abroad; he has received numerous Awards and has …
BiographyJudge Erns Jansen
… government and Governor-General of the Union of South Africa. While he was born into the Afrikaner aristocracy, he … the "independent" homeland of…
BiographySydney Sekwati Choma
… Socialist Republics (USSR) from 1976 and was sent to South Africa to do underground work in 1977. Sydney was arrested, …
Document 18 - Letter from S. P. Bunting to the South African Federation of NativeTrade Unions, 20 September 1930
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One …
Opening address by Albert Luthuli to the Twenty-second Biennial Conference of the South African Indian Congress, 19 October 1956, Gandhi Hall, Johannesburg
… this policy which is seriously threatening peace in South Africa, by undermining confidence in the Government of the … out of the tyrannical white rule in…