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ArticleSouth African Police Services (SAPS)
… helped to again quell the labour action. In 1922 the Rand Rebellion erupted with Witwatersrand gold-miners …
ArticleThe 1992 Whites only referendum ‘For’ or ‘Against’ a negotiated constitution
… for a “Yes” vote. Companies such as Anglo-American, Barlow Rand, BP, Caltex, First National Bank, Murray & Roberts, …
Black Concentration Camps during the Anglo-Boer War 2, 1900-1902
… recorded for the month. 4 May, The first gold mine on the Rand re-opens, after all mines have been closed in October …
ArticleSharpeville Massacre, 21 March 1960
… nine policemen were shot. Unlike elsewhere on the East Rand where police used baton when charging at resisters, the …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1950-1959
… A boycott of Bantu Education takes place on the East Rand and spreads across the Transvaal. This began a series of … Klerksdorp, Pretoria, Johannesburg and…
ArticleThe Natal Workers Theatre Movement Timeline
… workers from the Rely Precision Foundry on the East Rand are dismissed, and the union’s lawyer requests the …
ArticleAfrica: Colonialism, Arts, Protest & Independence
… Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Cairo, is established. Herero revolt in Namibia against German colonial rule is brutally … to three other European venues Aba Women's…
ArticleOrganization of African Unity Timeline 1884-2000
… Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Cairo, is established. Herero revolt in Namibia against German colonial rule is brutally … to three other European venues. Aba Women's…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1980-1989
… sentenced to ten years in prison for High Treason in the Rand Supreme Court for membership and furthering the aims of … Johanna Lourens, to four years for…
ArticleThe Impact of Colonialism
… type of resistance in exploitation colonies was the slave revolt. The most dramatically successful was the Haitian Slave Revolt, on the Caribbean island of…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Contextual Overview
… Britannica, T. Editors of Encyclopaedia. "First Jewish Revolt." Encyclopedia Britannica, February 4, 2020. https://www.britannica.com/event/First-Jewish…
ArticleA decade by decade events account of the women’s struggle in South Africa
… demonstrations by rural women during the Natal Women's Revolt. Lillian Ngoyi is banned and confined to Orlando … Dorothy Nyembe is arrested for leading the…
ArticleThe Land Act, Traditional Authorities and the Native Affairs Department (NAD) 1913-1953
… Cape. It is these developments that led to the Pondoland Revolt in 1960. Conclusion The role of chiefs in the …
Poqo political trials and the execution of its operatives in the 1960s
… against apartheid until the outbreak of the Soweto Revolt in 1976. And while this repressive environment …
ArticleBlack Concentration Camps during the Second Anglo-Boer War, 1900-1902
… recorded for the month. 4 May, The first gold mine on the Rand re-opens, after all mines have been closed in October …
Artist groups and educational facilities (1960-1980)
… In Phoko, Katlehong, Gauteng. This centre provided East Rand artists provided artists with the facilities and …
ArticleThe South African Communist Party and Mozambique
… the need to host speeches in March 1982 to commemorate the Rand Revolt. [25] The presence of the SACP in Mozambique was a …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1920s
… 1922 White miners embark on what has become known as The Rand Rebellion. The first significant action by women in the … embark on a strike and it becomes…
ArticleSouth Africa’s 2019 General Election - Post Analysis
… on the campaign trail, appearing in Alberton on the East Rand to rally voters to his party, while former leader Helen … Julius Malema, leader of the EFF,…
Re-emergence of resistance, 1980-89
… in office. The youth were the driving force behind the revolt. They forced principals to work with the SRCs and …
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 1: The Industrial Revolution in Britain and Southern Africa from 1860
… in order to keep workers cheap and pliable. At first the "Rand" became covered by small claims just like at Kimberley, … but other Europeans with access to…
ArticleThe turbulent 1950s - Women as defiant activists
… women also attended. The crowd, most of whom came from the Rand towns, was orderly and dignified throughout the … would come from all parts of the country,…
ArticleLand Restitution in South Africa since 1994
… been settled for a record amount a little over a billion rand, the biggest land claim in the history of South Africa. …
ArticleCosatu timeline
… special national congress in Boksburg, a city on the East Rand of Gauteng Province, where the union took the decision …
ArticleA timeline of Zuma-Gupta issues from Nenegate to the firing of Pravin Gordhan
… Des van Rooyen. A former mayor on Johannesburg’s West Rand, Van Rooyen arrives at the National Treasury with two … job for just four days as Zuma’s…
ArticlePan Africanist Congress timeline 1959-2011
… to head the Commission of Inquiry into the 1962 Paarl Revolt begins collecting evidence through hearings. 12 … Justice H. Snyman submits his final report on…
ArticleLiberal Party of South Africa (LPSA)
… their personal freedom was restricted. On 13 May 1965, the Rand Daily Mail reported that leaflets were secretly …
ArticleAnglo-Zulu Wars 1879-1896
… and again Zibhebhus services were called upon. The revolt was spectacularly successful for a short period, as …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1600s
… A lack of unity among the Khoi-Khoi group undermines the revolt. Consequently, the Peninsular Khoi-Khoi loose more …
ArticleTimeline of the Labour and Trade Union Movement in South Africa 1881 - 1919
… cost of living, boycott concession stores on the East Rand in February 1918. Police break up the boycott by …