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ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1960-1969
… is estimated that more than 40% of the labour force on the Rand stay at home. 31 May, South African becomes a republic …
Dumile Feni biography by Sophia Reuss
… by the University of Fort Hare, which travelled to Rand Afrikaans University, Pretoria Museum, University of …
South African Youth Revolutionary Council (SAYRCO)
… Alexandra, north of Johannesburg, and Tembisa on the East Rand, where the unrest had spread. The number of students …
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions Timeline 1919-1997
… from Klerksdorp, Pretoria, Johannesburg, the East and West Rand, representing 60 000 workers in total. 1958 South …
Chapter 8 - The politics of Congress in the late 1950s
… will give the country a progressive government." ( Rand Daily Mail , April 21, 1958.) The National Executive … demand of unity has been put forward by the…
2012 ANC National Policy Conference: Closing Address by President Jacob Zuma, Gallagher Estates, 29 June 2012
… debt repayment through dividend payments ? is 78 billion rand. This is equivalent to 3.3% of the value of South … owed by black shareholders) is estimated at…
Statement at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Struggle of Women in South Africa and Namibia, 11 August 1981
… in racist South Africa's economy had swelled to 21 billion rand. Its total foreign trade in the same year, excluding … gold and military technology, amounted…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1950s
… Klerksdorp, Pretoria, Johannesburg and the East and West Rand. December, The South African Coloured People’s … general election since 1948. May, The…
Document 39 - “Walter Sisulu, “Boycott as a Political Weapon”, Liberation, 23, February 1957
… their knees. No less remarkable is the bus boycott on the Rand and Pretoria at the time of writing this article. The …
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Chapter 2 - Explaining the Miracle by Max du Preez
… institutions followed suit. This led to a falling of the rand and a flight of capital from the country. In 1986 the …
ArchiveBiography of Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin by Victoria Sedeno
… first black woman to be employed as a journalist on the Rand Daily Mail. There she wrote articles about the effects … Sikhakhane-Rankin and fellow detainee…
ArchiveJock Strachan: Artist, guerilla, fighter pilot, bomb maker, fisherman, humourist, writer, hero
… Benjamin Pogrund, dedicated to his colleagues on the Rand Daily Mail, and not least its noble and illustrious …
Chapter VII - Democracy?
… passes for women, in Pretoria and on the East and the West Rand and collecting pledges of opposition against the Group … for I could no longer go to Pretoria…
The Polly Street Era
… The accessi b ility of the centre to artists all over the Rand, and the subsequent exhibitions of the students' work at … was curbed by the policy of…
ANC NGC – The Good, The Bad And The Ugly by Marius Strydom (News24 Voices), 12 October 2015
… on our tourism industry , exactly at a time when the weak rand should be supporting it. At the same time, there is wide …
Esau Mokhethi reburial speech by AZAPO President Cde. Koti Dikobo
… and Cde. Tiyane Lybon Mabasa. The mayor of the West Rand District, Councillor Paul Nawa Cde. Mudini Maivha of the …
ArticleFanakalo: the language of mining culture
… by which the existing Natal pidgin was transferred to the Rand mines is somewhat obscure in the literature, but the …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1930-1939
… June, Trade Unionist Clements Kadalie is banned from the Rand. A Non-European Convention is held in Kimberley to …
ArticleAfrican National Congress 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 …
The Rise of Women’s Trade Unionism in South Africa by Peter LaNasa
… she also was influential in a miners’ strike on the Rand in 1913. (Walker, 1982 59) These actions by Fitzgerald, …
Say It out Loud - The 1921 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 29th March, 1921
… the mine owners for exploiting Coloured labour on the Rand. Today it is not the capitalist, not the mine owner, but … the Coloured man to rise in the…
ArchiveA despot’s time to face democracy by Niren Tolsi
Contempt. This is what former president Jacob Zuma apparently felt for democratic South Africa’s foundational document, the Constitution, and the vision and…
Message to the People of South Africa by O. R. Tambo, 26 June 1974
… function is to serve as a shock-absorber of mass African revolt against the regime, with inevitable internecine …
Biography of Michael Scott from an email contribution by Lorna Richmond, 25 November 2015
… situation might not have arisen which led to the Mau Mau revolt. The Bureau, which existed until the late 1970's, …
PlaceRepublic of Congo
… band. 1964 saw Kabila instrumental in fomenting a revolt in the Ruzizi region. The famous Cuban revolutionary …
The National Question in Post 1994 South Africa. A discussion paper in preparation for the ANC`s 50th National Conference by Z. Pallo Jordan
… the Communist Party at the head of a successful peasant`s revolt. Yet the "un-finished character" of Indian … and Zeerust. The exception to this pattern was…
ArchiveLong live Ruth First by Gavin Williams, 17 August 2019
… to these tendencies. The conclusion to Govan Mbeki’s Revolt in Pondoland (1964), which was likely penned by Ruth, …
Document 50 - Socialist League of Africa , “South Africa: Ten Years of the Stay-at-Home”, International Socialism, 5, Summer 1961
… the response was poor. Leading Congress officials in many Rand towns openly broke the call, and the workers were left … were repatriated later that year. 2…
Chapter 1 - The Victory of the Nationalist Party in 1948
… period. On May Day in 1950, 80% of the workforce on the Rand struck, demanding higher wages, the vote, and a halt to … was called for June 26. Though less…
The Industrial Workers of Africa, 1917-1921 by Bikisha Media Collective
… workers in downtown Johannesburg outside the Randlord's "Rand Club"). A second general strike in 1914 is suppressed …