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Chapter 12. The General Strike Of 1931 - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… unemployment followed. As there was no social insurance of any kind in the country, the unemployed workers suffered great distress. For the hundreds of…
Conference: One Hundred Years of the ANC - Debating Liberation Histories and Democracy Today
… One Hundred Years of the ANC: Debating Liberation Histories and Democracy Today 20-23 September 2011 The 100th anniversary of the African National Congress…
PlaceCape Point and the Lighthouse, at the Southern Point of the Cape Peninsula
… Cape Point is a promontory at the South East corner of the Cape Peninsula , which is a mountainous and scenic … about thirty kilometres at the extreme South…
Indian passive resistance in South Africa: 1946 - 1948 by E. S. Reddy
… Nelson Mandela inaugurated a year-long observance of the 1946 Indian passive resistance in South Africa. … Government announced its decision to introduce the…
Message by Albert Luthuli on the eve of Multi-Racial Conference, 1 November 1957
… on December 3-5, 1957. Very little, if anything at all of what is new, can be said about it now. But the need to … achieve this "underlining" that I have…
Address on the Occasion of the State Banquet, Tripoli, Libya, 12 June 2002
… Gentlemen: Thank you, dear Brother Leader and the people of the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriaya for … your fraternal greetings from the…
Address at the Opening of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2003 February 8, 2003
… Director of Ceremonies, President of the ICC, Mr Malcolm Gray, Dr Ali Bacher, Executive Director of the ICC, Mr Malcolm Speed, CEO of the ICC, Minister of ……
Document 29 - Resolution on the need for the resumption of multi-party negotiations
… submissions to the Constitutional Assembly come at the end of the process of public participation in drawing up our new Constitution. … constituency in the…
EventB.J. Vorster, Minister of Justice, announces extensive security measures following the Sharpeville Massacre
… On 15 February 1962, B.J. Vorster, Minister of Justice announced extensive measures to "ensure the safety of the state to the absolute maximum" in view of…
EventZulu King Cetshwayo address his warriors at the great military kraal of Nodwengu
… On the afternoon of 17 January 1879 the Zulu king Cetshwayo addressed 20 000 of his warriors at the great military kraal of Nodwengu: "I am sending you out…
Delegates in attendance at the SANNC Founding Conference in 1912
… became chief Chaplain Thomas Levi Mvabaza - delivered one of the speeches on the programme) Meshack Pelem – Vice … Zini - Migrant Worker who represented the…
EventResearchers proclaim they found a type of SIVcpz that is almost identical to HIV
… On 4 February 1999 a group of researchers from the University of Alabama proclaimed that they had found a type of Simian Immunodeficiency Viruses (SIVcpz)…
EventJack Penn, sculptor and one of the world’s best plastic surgeon is born
… Parktown High School and studied at the University of the Witwatersrand (WITS). After marrying Diana Malkin in … wife to the United Kingdom (UK), where he…
EventAnglo-Boer War 2: Lord Methuen, British general, destroys the village of Schweizer-Reneke
… as Egypt, and Bechuanaland (Botswana). At the outbreak of war in South Africa, he was given command of the British 1st Division. In December 1899 he…
Address by Nelson Mandela at the Funeral of Adelaide Tambo, 10 February 2007
… this morning we come to pay our last respects to a member of our generation of freedom fighters and patriots. Over these last few years … we have with…
EventA resolution against the use of Afrikaans is taken during SASM conference in Roodepoort
… Roodepoort. During the conference Aubrey Mokoena, a member of the Black People's Convention (BPC) and the Black Parents … about Black Consciousness, in which…
Democracy - The only solution by Nelson Mandela, President of the ANC 1 July 1992
… Unemployment is running as high as 40 per cent! Millions of Rands of taxpayers' money, supposedly earmarked for black … by government officials with impunity…
EventTito Mboweni, former Governor of the SA Reserve Bank, is born in Tzaneen
… his high school studies, he registered for a Bachelor of Commerce Degree at the University of the North (now University of Limpopo). However, he went into…
EventNicolaas Jacobus Smit, Vice-President of the ZAR, is born in Graaff-Reinet.
… Nicolaas Jacobus Smit, was the eldest child of Nicolaas Jacobus Smit, (descendent of Jan Smit and Adriana Tol) and Elizabeth Magdalena van der Merwe, …
EventLady Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales, is killed in a car accident in Paris
… On the 31 August 1997 Princess of Wales, Lady Diana Spencer, the former wife of Prince Charles, was killed with her companion Dodi Fayed … by the SABC. The…
EventPresident Paul Kruger authorises the construction of the railway line to Delagoa bay
… The discovery of various rich mineral resources in Southern Africa saw the construction of various railway lines. Of note was the construction of the Delagoa…
EventKing Moshoeshoe II, the paramount chief of Lesotho, is killed in an accident
… King Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho died in a car accident shortly after he reclaimed … on a mountain road on the way to Maseru, the capital city of Lesotho. After…
EventDeputy Minister of Bantu Education,Treurnicht is warned about deteriorating conditions in Soweto
… Rene de Villiers, member of parliament for Parktown, drew the attention of deputy minister of Bantu education, Dr Andries P. Treurnicht, to the fact … Muller…
Event20 000 Women march to the Union Buildings in protest of pass laws
… In one of the largest demonstrations staged in this country's history, 20 000 women of all races marched to Pretoria's Union Buildings on 9 August 1956, to…
Archive“In my stride”: a life-history of Alie Fataar, teacher by Yunus Omar
… “In my stride”: a life-history of Alie Fataar, teacher by Yunus Omar …
‘Umuntu, Ngumuntu, Ngabantu’: The story of the African choir by Jane Collins
… ‘Umuntu, Ngumuntu, Ngabantu’: The story of the African choir by Jane Collins …
Message by Albert Luthuli to people of Western Areas, 7 February 1955, Johannesburg
… Message by Albert Luthuli to people of Western Areas, 7 February 1955, Johannesburg …
ArchiveSouth Africa: Structures of Dominion and Democracy by Thapelo Mokoatsi, 5 August 2015
… South Africa: Structures of Dominion and Democracy by Thapelo Mokoatsi, 5 August 2015 …
O.R. Tambo the Liberator: Learning from the Exemplary Life of an Icon
… O.R. Tambo the Liberator: Learning from the Exemplary Life of an Icon …
ArchivePress statement by New Unity Movement on the death of Samora Machel
… African People's Democratic Union of Southern Africa (Natal) … Press statement by New Unity Movement on the death of Samora Machel …