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Political assassinations 1974 - 1994
… consumer boycott Found dead. 14 April Koster; Western Transvaal William Oliphant Unionist (SAAWU) Found dead on a … Relative of activist. Killed. 7 June…
The adoption of the Freedom Charter
… 100 000 signatures for the Charter, most of them from the Transvaal. The Freedom Charter was endorsed by the ANC at a …
ArticleNatal Indian Congress (NIC)
… of the Indian Congresses followed by the formation of the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) and the Cape Indian Congress, … day and night. " Gandhi leads the…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1950-1959
… South Africa, the African National Congress (ANC) and the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) jointly organised a 'Defend … the government. The ANCYL threw in…
African People’s Organisation (APO)
… Progressive Party to require from its sister party in the Transvaal to campaign for the vote for Coloureds. Then, too, … as Africans, were subject to pass…
ArticleBirth of the African Mine Workers’ Union
… a very representative miners' conference was called by the Transvaal Provincial Committee of the African National … B. Marks, who soon thereafter was elected…
ArticleTimeline of Land Dispossession and Segregation in South Africa 1800-1899
… in the newly established mines in Kimberley and the Transvaal. 1803 February, The British returns the Cape Colony … the Boers, and the British in the…
South African Student Organisation Leaders
… 1970 - 1971 Perry Motlhabane Eastern Cape Leader J Moshidi Transvaal and Orange Free State Mncedisi Jedawa Natal Boyce …
Why General Smuts won on 4 September 1939
… in the Union) on the Cape (20), Orange Free State (10) and Transvaal platteland (2) the average poll was over 90 per … urban constituencies: seventeen in the…
ArticleDecember 16 and the Construction of Afrikaner Nationalism
… in various directions: north towards what would become the Transvaal, (today Gauteng and Limpopo province); north-east … Blood River, the Boers established…
Labour and Mining Revolution 1886-1940s
… in 1867 and of gold in the Afrikaner “Boer” controlled Transvaal Republic transformed the agricultural-based economy …
ArticleBlack Women’s Federation
… In 1975, the women in Natal made contact with the Transvaal women and a delegation travelled to Soweto, where a …
ArticlePass laws in South Africa 1800-1994
… Passes in the Zuid Afrikaansce Republiek Pass laws in the Transvaal, or South African Republic, were intended to force … the area north of the Vaal River,…
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1940-1949
… the president of the Non-European United Front (NEUF). The Transvaal African Teachers Association's (TATA) Rand branch … a teachers’ salary campaign. The…
Bibliography: Missionary settlement in southern Africa
… and Religious Research. BECKER, CJ. 1878. Guide to the Transvaal. Dublin: J Dollard, Printer. BERGLUND, Axel-Ivar. … Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries…
ArticleAfrikaans community, 1883-1899
… West in 1868 and then alluvial gold in the Eastern Transvaal in the early 1870s, followed by gold on the …
ArticleMetal and Allied Workers Union
… and benefits should follow. In 1975, it expanded to the Transvaal. However, it remained weak country wide throughout …
ArticleMohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) - Timeline: 1890-1899
… shiver in the waiting room all night.” When he reached the Transvaal, and began his coach journey at Paardeberg seated … 30, Gandhi telegrams the Viceroy…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline 1850-1889
… of young men and a few families that have settled in the Transvaal Republic - the majority of whom settle in … Pretoria . 1898 August 8, Indians lose a test…
Re-emergence of resistance, 1980-89
… of witchcraft killings began to sweep through the Northern Transvaal. This phenomenon took place against the backdrop of … conspiring to limit the power of…
ArticlePrehistory of the Pretoria area
… north of the Vaal, an area that became known as the Transvaal. This resulted in the signing of the Sand River … University Press. Mason, R.J. 1962. The…
ArticleSouth African Indian Congress (SAIC)
… formation of the Natal Indian Congress (NIC - 1894), the Transvaal British Indian Association (TBIA - 1903), the Cape … of the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in…
ArticleDr G M 'Monty' Naicker - Timeline
… by Indian, African and Coloured speakers. 1946 – Natal and Transvaal Indian Congresses launch passive resistance against … and suffered imprisonment. Dr…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1930-1939
… ANC by a vote of 39 to 14 and replaces J.T Gumede . The Transvaal African Congress (TAC) hosts anti-pass meetings in … Among Bantu Women and Girls ” July,…
ArticleThe Ndebele in history
… of the central highveld, an area previously known as the Transvaal but today incorporated into the Gauteng and … in 1861, and who, under the British…
Federation of South African Cultural Organisations (FOSACO)
… process of developing a new national cultural policy. The Transvaal based National interim Cultural Desk was rejected …
Karen Nieuwoudt
… a BA Degree. After my studies I was employed by the Transvaal Provincial Administration. My work pronged me on …
ArticleA decade by decade events account of the women’s struggle in South Africa
… are burnt in front of the municipal offices. October 21 , Transvaal women satyagrahis begin defiance activities by … satyagrahis, including five women who…
The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946
… ware to pass before it bore fruit", primarily because the Transvaal ANC had refused tojoin. In the north, the Indians … views of the NEUF (of which Dadoo was…
ArticleArts and Crafts and reconstruction by Jillian Carman
… implication in the Jameson Raid and expulsion from the Transvaal Republic. They were resident in Britain during the … to design a country residence for them…