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From the 1973 Durban strikes to the Marikana massacre and De Doorns conflict: How trade unions acquired their power and what has gone wrong with employment relations in South Africa subsequently by Johann Maree
… years ago during January and February 1973 mass strikes by African workers in Durban broke out in protest against low … The Durban strikes constituted a…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the Occasion of the Women’s Day Celebrations, Atlantic Park Stadium, Witbank, Mpumalanga, 9 August 2004
… anniversary of the formation of the Federation of South African Women and the adoption of the Women's Charter. We … inherited from our past heroines, and…
Statement by Mfanafuthi Makatini in the Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly, 27 November 1981
… On behalf of the African National Congress, its National Executive Committee … on` majority rule guaranteeing the birthright of the South African people as a…
ArticleThe Johanna
… the first British East Indiaman to shipwreck on the South African coast. On 8 June 1682, she met her fate after eight … under the National Monuments Council…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline 1850-1889
… is valid. 1899 October 11, The outbreak of the South African War , the Second Anglo-Boer War, forces the majority …
ArticleA tribute to a great struggle stalwart Paul David by Siva Naidoo
… for four years and was elected as a delegate to the South African Council of Sport. In later years, Paul was elected … and convened the National Sports…
The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa: Chapter Three - By Riashnee Pather
… Natal Provincial Council. The franchise was given to South African Indian Males over the age of 21 who had to be … members, in the process changing its name…
EventNiger's Independence Day
… at the 1885 Berlin Conference, the French West African colony was controlled strictly as an outpost for the … French government in July 1960 to dissolve the…
Letter to Ayatollah Khomeini by O. R. Tambo, Iran, 13 February 1979
… (2) Teheran Islamic Republic of Iran On behalf of the African National Congress and the oppressed masses of South … Iranian Revolution. (signed) Oliver…
A Walk in the Night
… Lydia Williams (1820 – 1910) and world-renowned South African artist, Lionel Davis, whose wok was recently exhibited at the South African National Gallery…
PlaceSeal Point Lighthouse, Cape St. Francis
… above the sea, regarded as the highest light on the South African coast, Commissioned on 11 May 1950 The Cape Seal … meters above sea level is the highest…
Cable to the United Nations Opposing Incorporation of South-West Africa, by Dr. A. B. Xuma, January 1946
… 17'/2 per cent for 8,000,000 Africans. Only 40 per cent African Children accommodated in mission schools. 95 per cent … at home. (Sgd) - A.B. Xuma President …
EventSS Mendi sinks in the English Channel on the way to France
… Africans, including 607 black troops serving in the South African Native Labour Contingent, died when the steamship … Havre in France, carrying the Fifth…
EventKenneth David Kaunda wins Zambian elections
… resulted in cooperation between the Rhodesian and South African security forces in arresting cadres retuning from … bestow on its citizens of foreign…
EventThe Rivonia Trialists are charged with sabotage and attempting to violently overthrow the state
… sabotage and attempting to violently overthrow the South African government. This after a raid by security police at … 1963, the police arrested many…
EventGeraldine Fraser is born
… the Western Cape (UWC), she left South Africa to join the African National Congress (ANC) in exile, where she worked … USSR and Cuba. She also became a…
EventANC receives letter of gratitude from the British Prime Minister, Herold Macmillan
… 0n 10 February 1960, the African National Congress (ANC) received a letter from the … from Groote Schuur, official residence of the South African Prime…
EventThe Korean War ends
… in Korea. Sources differ slightly on the number of South African casualties, but it can be assumed that thirty-four … pilots were taken POW. Click here to…
EventANC adopts the Programme of Action
… The adoption of a Programme of Action by the African National Congress (ANC) at the December conference … the 1946 Passive resistance campaign mounted by the…
EventSA Corps of Military Police is reorganised
… published. This proclamation changed the name of the South African Corps of Military Police (established on 1 November … to that of its original formation,…
EventHerman Charles Bosman guilty of murder
… When South African author Herman Charles Bosman visited his parents in … the short story. He was the first serio-humorist in South African English literature…
EventUDF leaders are charged with treason
… refuge in the British consulate in Durban after the South African Government was hot on their heels for organising a … very well that in terms of…
EventLeaders of six homelands reject new constitution
… support from different groups, including the South African Catholic Bishop Conference, the South African Council of Churches and Black business leaders, of ……
EventCar bomb explodes outside Air Force headquarters
… On the afternoon of 20 May 1983, two African National Congress (ANC) cadres, Freddie Shangwe and … in close vicinity of the building which housed the South…
EventPresident F. W. de Klerk rings in cabinet changes
… De Klerk indicated that he considered appointing an African Minister, but had decided that such an appointment … in the light of the forthcoming elections…
EventMembers of the ANC and SACP are detained due to Operation Vula
… forces detained approximately forty members of the African National Congress (ANC) and South African Communist Party (SACP). Among those arrested were …
EventNelson Mandela is free
… of Paarl and was driven the 60 kms to Cape Town by African National Congress'(ANC) Rose Sonto along a route … organisations (e.g. ANC, SACP, PAC) by then…
EventMazizi Maqekeza, ANC member, is shot dead whilst in hospital in Maseru, Lesotho
… many South Africans who fled across the border to join the African National Congress (ANC) in their armed struggle against the South African state. On 25…
EventSevered human leg drops off SAA plane
… A human leg was dropped from a South African Airways (SAA) aircraft as it was preparing to land at … had flown from Johannesburg, via Dakar, Senegal. South…
EventApartheid policemen apply for amnesty at TRC
… against liberation organisations, in particular the African National Congress (ANC). During their application … United Kingdom government for allowing the…