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BiographyPercy John "Jack" Hodgson
… to organise and train the cadres of Umkhonto we Sizwe, a task that absorbed all his attention not only in South Africa …
Chapter 1. The South African Trade Union Movement- Historical Background - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… knew nothing about trade union organisation until about 1917. The double scourge of violence and hatred which has … of the Imperial troops which had been…
BiographyAli Bacher
… by the NSC. As MD of the SACU, it was Bacher's task to organise the tour. He switched the opening match, …
BiographyArthur Albert Hugh Adams
… to the universal, ‘to see the misery we make on earth. The task of the artist is to see’. Apart from his monumental work …
EventThe Bondelswarts surrender to the German forces
… govern as part of a Mandate of the League of Nations. In 1917, the colonial government imposed a dog tax on the … when the South African government, under…
ArticleJohn Langalibalele Dube Timeline 1940-1950
… the adoption of the South African Native Land Act of 1913. 1917 Dube is ousted from the presidency of the SANNC and is … course is introduced at Ohlange…
ArticleSouth African Communist Party (SACP)
… inspired by the first workers' state, which was founded in 1917 in Russia, after the Bolshevik Revolution. The founding … organised the largest strike to…
Nelson Mandela Timeline 1910-1919
… Indian passive resistance is suspended when Gen. J.C. Smuts enters into negotiations with Mahatma Gandhi. 24 … into the reserves, without disturbing white…
BiographyJames Steven Mzilikazi Khumalo
A colossal figure amongst South African choral music composers and directors, Professor James Steven* Mzilikazi Khumalo was born on 20 June 1932 on the…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1910s
… Indian passive resistance is suspended when Gen. J.C. Smuts enters into negotiations with Mahatma Gandhi. 24 … meets Prime Minister, General Louis Botha ;…
Article1910-1924: African nationalism and working-class and popular protests
… of the new Union of South Africa, with General Jan Smuts as his deputy. Their South African National Party, … African trade union, the Industrial Workers of…
ArticleAfrican nationalism and working-class & popular protests, 1910-1924
… of the new Union of South Africa, with General Jan Smuts as his deputy. Their South African National Party, … African trade union, the Industrial Workers of…
BiographyJacqueline Daane-van Rensburg
… of racial segregation was alien to them and that made the task of educating them even harder. The Rivonia trial and the …
ArticleKasturba Gandhi timeline 1869 - 1944
… the cause. April 4, Gandhi leads a deputation to General Smuts and presents him with the resolutions adopted at the … Mohandas Gandhi is taken to Pretoria to…
BiographyShirish Nanabhai
… and Mrs Pahad and delivering it to the detainees. His task was to be short lived as he was also detained a month …
ArticleA history of Soweto
… The Creation of Soweto: Orlando Under Prime Minister Jan Smuts, the South African government passed the Native Urban … Lives In a speech to the Imperial…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1920-1929
… mineworkers on the Witwatersrand. March, General Jan Smuts forms a government with a narrow parliamentary … were chafing under these irritating laws”¦” …
BiographySimon van der Stel
… the 1980s Simon van der Stel was faced with the difficult task of meeting the Company’s meat consumption requirement of …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1910-1919
… Beaumont commission as “disappointing and unsatisfactory”. 1917 The Natives Administration Bill considers additional … acknowledgement of a medal or a ribbon…
BiographyPixley ka Isaka Seme
… SANNC seemed to descend into inertia. It was only after 1917 that the SANNC once again made its presence felt. Its … studied at Oxford, made him the…
BiographyDenis Theodore Goldberg
… of all South Africans and never steered clear of taking to task those members of the ANC whom he felt were letting down …
The search for Peter Johnson’s story
… to be a considerably difficult one for the Missing Person Task Team, an organisation set up by the Truth and … into Peter Johnson and Karabo Madiba: Missing…
ArticleTimeline of the Bulhoek Massacre
… sees the event as the fulfilment of his earlier vision. 1917 13-20 April, The Israelites’ Passover ceremony is held … they leave Ntabelanga. 6 and 8 April,…
61. Segregation reduces our people to helotry
… any way the local council or the legislature. The Gandhi-Smuts settlement of 1914, which was looked upon by us then as … and again we believed and hoped for…
BiographyCecyl Esau
Cecyl Esau was born on 30 September 1955 in Worcester, Cape Province (now Western Cape Province), the youngest of four children. His father was a veteran of…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Protest and Resistence
… factories dropped by just over 13 percent between 1916 and 1917. In other words, a wage of R8 per month in 1916 could have been worth only R7 in 1917. Wages…
BiographyPieter Willem Botha
… target was J. H. Hofmeyr who was expected to succeed Jan Smuts as Premier and whose support of racial equality was … Africa. When Botha turned his…
BiographyJoyce Sikhakhane-Rankin
… . They had a secret cell structure. She was given the task to organise young people. Joyce established cells of …
BiographyPeter Hlaole Molotsi
… became the PAC's secretary for Pan African Affairs. His task was to engender studies of African political structures …
BiographyPravin Jamnadas Gordhan
… minister Trevor Manuel . He was faced with the difficult task of navigating the domestic economy out of turbulence …