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BiographyGana Makabeni
… A member of the ANC national executive committee in the 1940s, Makabeni served as acting ANC treasurer-general in …
BiographyNtlabati Jojo
… of his status as headman in the late 1920s though by the 1940s, he was considered to be effectively the chief of a few …
BiographyThomas Mbeki
… a leader when he became an alcoholic. He died in the early 1940s. …
BiographyPhillip Qipu Vundla
… finding work in Johannesburg as a mine clerk. In the mid-1940s he was an organiser for the African Mineworkers' Union …
BiographyH. A. Naidoo
… made important gains under his leadership in the early 1940s. Naidoo represented a generation of young Indians …
The Sudanese government signs a temporary cease-fire with Sudan’s main rebel group, the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army (SPLA
… government signs a temporary cease-fire with Sudan’s main rebel group, the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army (SPLA …
South African Parliament passes a bill establishing the Transitional Executive Council, whose main purpose is to ensure free an
… establishing the Transitional Executive Council, whose main purpose is to ensure free an …
EventMinister of Defence, P.W. Botha, reports to the Senate on the Arms Industry and defines the main aims of South Africa’s defence policy.
… reports to the Senate on the Arms Industry and defines the main aims of South Africa's defence policy. The paranoia that … reports to the Senate on the Arms…
Hettie Du Preez
… the leader of the Garment Workers Union (GWU) in the 1940s and 1950s. In 1947, she worked on launching a …
BiographyJacob Dumdum Nyaose
… union through a number of successful strikes. During the 1940s he served with Gana Makabeni as an official of the …
BiographyNelson “Nana” Mahomo
… clergyman, he attended Kroonstad High School in the late 1940s. Sympathetic to the Africanist group within the …
BiographyJames “Sofasonke” Mpanza
… born in 1889. Mpanza was founder and leader from the mid-1940s of the Sofasonke Party of Orlando township, …
BiographyKesval “Kay” Moonsamy
… was active in the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) from the mid-1940s onward. In the early 1950s he served as treasurer of …
BiographyPeter Moonsammy
… involved in resistance politics dating back to the 1940s in the Young Communist League, the Communist Party of … of many of the major anti apartheid…
BiographyBlanche la Guma
… Sophia Herman, was active in the food committees of the 1940s. Blanche said of her mother: She would organise the … political interests with Blanche’s…
BiographyLeslie Massina
… when cross-examined by lawers for the strikers.In the mid-1940s,after taking a job in a laundry where working …
BiographyBonakele Milner Ntsangani
… joined the African National Congress (ANC) in the mid-1940s and joined the South African Communist Party at an …
BiographyFrank Wiles
… Newlands in Cape Town, before moving to Kysna.In the late 1940s regularly contributed to SASA exhibitions. He died in …
BiographyOscar Mpetha
… road worker, and later as a factory worker. In the late 1940s he helped to organise the African Food and Canning …
A meeting between the End Conscription Campaign (ECC) and the SADF takes place, with a main objective to discuss alternative na
… Campaign (ECC) and the SADF takes place, with a main objective to discuss alternative na …
A meeting between the End Conscription Campaign (ECC) and the SADF takes place, with a main objective to discuss alternative na
… Campaign (ECC) and the SADF takes place, with a main objective to discuss alternative na …
The Sudanese government suspends peace talks with the country’s main rebel group, the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army, or SPL
… government suspends peace talks with the country’s main rebel group, the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army, or …
The Ground-nut Advisory Committee, consisting of ten representatives of the main role-players in the industry, is established.
… Committee, consisting of ten representatives of the main role-players in the industry, is established. …
BiographyGubuzela Ngubane
… between the Ntanzi and Bomvu communities developed in the 1940s, allegedly because Nembe Ntanzi, the hereditary leader …
BiographyAnna Johanna Dorothea De Villiers
… since 1951. For some time she has been a member of the main board of the Afrikaanse Taalbond. Five times she was … was briefly engaged to the poet I. D. du…
BiographyThembekile Enoch kaTshunungwa
… the Tembu royal house. He studied at Lovedale in the mid-1940s, then worked as a teacher until 1949. In the early …
BiographyNathaniel Impey Honono
… to the government's African education policies. In the 1940s Honono was a member of the Transkei Organised Bodies, …
BiographyDorothy Joan Wright
… member and showed on its exhibitions in Cape Town in the 1940s. Wright was influenced strongly in the direction of …
Twenty Burundian parties sign an agreement in SA on sharing power, but eleven parties, including the main Tutsi party Uprona, f
… in SA on sharing power, but eleven parties, including the main Tutsi party Uprona, f …
A borehole on the Rand-Victoria mine near Germiston strikes the Main Reef of the Witwatersrand Gold Fields at 731 meters.
… on the Rand-Victoria mine near Germiston strikes the Main Reef of the Witwatersrand Gold Fields at 731 meters. …