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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…
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…
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 ;…
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…
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 1920-1929
… mineworkers on the Witwatersrand. March, General Jan Smuts forms a government with a narrow parliamentary … were chafing under these irritating laws”¦” …
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…
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…
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…
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…
ArchiveSouth Africa in World War One, 31 October 2018
… they had wanted. Both Botha and his right-hand man, Jan Smuts, had participated in Imperial Defence Conferences even … Journal , 1,1969, pp. 47–48). Many…
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 …