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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…
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…
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 Natal Workers Theatre Movement Timeline
… workers from the Rely Precision Foundry on the East Rand are dismissed, and the union’s lawyer requests 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 …
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…
Artist groups and educational facilities (1960-1980)
… In Phoko, Katlehong, Gauteng. This centre provided East Rand artists provided artists with the facilities and …
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…
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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,…
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 …