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BiographyDikobe Ben Martins
… art classes at Bill Ainsley’s Studio and at the Federated Union of Black Artists (FUBA) with Johnny Rieberio, Fikile …
BiographyKrotoa (Eva)
… dowry. The keeper of Wagenaer’s diary noted that this union was “The first marriage contracted here according to … the Dutch authorities. Her marriage was…
BiographySipho Gumede
… of the World’ music festival in Finland and the Soviet Union. In the same year, 1987, Sipho performed at the famous …
BiographyFrantz Fanon
… with leukaemia. In 1961 he went to the then Soviet Union for treatment and was informed that the best care …
BiographyJohannes (Joe) Modise
… of arms. Modise's training took him to the former Soviet Union, the former Czechoslovakia, Cuba and Vietnam. In 1964 …
BiographyJoe Slovo
… movement, residence, conscience and religion; full trade union rights for all workers including the right to strike; …
BiographyPhilemon Pearce Nokwe
… They visited Britain, the Netherlands, Israel, the Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China and other socialist …
EventThe Nationalist Party wins election with a reduced majority in the National Assembly
… election since South Africa since the establishment of the Union of South Africa in 1910. …
BiographyAhmed Timol
… same year, the SRC managed to affiliate to the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS). Timol’s cousin, … time studies and became an active member…
PlaceDurban Main Post Office
… building. It served as the town hall until the time of the Union in 1910, and is situated opposite the current city hall. …
BiographyWolfie Kodesh
… Six. After the outbreak of World War II, Kodesh joined the Union Defence Force and was deployed in Ethiopia, Libya and …
BiographyJohn Jack Curtis
… In 1972, his son, Neville, the President of the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS), an anti-apartheid …
BiographyAmbrose Mzimkhulu Makiwane
… Fort Hare. He became the secretary of the Laundry Workers Union as well as a member of the ANC in Soweto.He also took … of the ANCYL branch, Secretary of…
BiographyHarold Wolpe
… Council and a leading activist in the National Union of South African Students . In his autobiography, …
PlaceHouse of Parliament, Cape Town
… part of a compromise agreed upon at the formation of the Union of South Africa , in 1910. According to this compromise Cape Town would be the …
Zulu Community
… ruthlessly suppressed. Zulu Communities in Durban after 1910 The establishment of the Union of South Africa in 1910 removed the colonies from direct Imperial…
Dunbar, Thibedi, Sigamoney: Three figures in the IWW in South Africa by Red Jack (libcom.org), 08 January 2012
… of the IWW in Johannesburg, established in June 1910. A hefty Scots immigrant who arrived in 1906, he worked … in September the next year. The ISL campaigned…
The Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… to the site Timeline pre 1900 1902-1910 1910-1924 1924-1939 1939-1948 1948-1960 1960-1994 1939-1948:- … Registration Act No 26 is passed…
EventSA trade unionist Raymond Budd dies
… joined the Cape Town branch of the Almagated Engineering Union (AEU), holding all branch offices except that of … hospital. Budd was born in the Cape in…
EventPrime Minister Louis Botha resigns because of conflict with Hertzog
… General Louis Botha, premier of the Union of South Africa since 31 May 1910, resigned from his post following an anti-British speech …
EventThe battle of Donkerhoek (Diamond Hill) marks the continuation of the South African War
… in 1902, paving the way for the establishment of the Union of South Africa in 1910. …
EventSir Thomas Cullinan (74), founder of the Premier Mine where the Cullinan diamond was discovered in 1907, dies.
… member of the Transvaal Legislative Assembly and the first Union Parliament of 1910. The Cullinan rough was presented to King Edward on his …
BiographyJohannes Henricus Brand
… tried in 1884-5 to interest the Cape Colony in a customs union, but the Cape refused. But this changed after gold was … become a land owner in his own right…
PlaceTransvaal Province
… Africa, located North of the Vaal River, that existed from 1910 to 1994. It's now part of the Provinces of: ' Gauteng ; … became the Transvaal Colony under…
ArticleNational Party (NP)
… A history of the National Party Founding and ideology (1910-1914) In 1910 the Union of South Africa was established, and the previously …
BiographySolomzi Ashby Peter Mda
… he was also a member of the Catholic African Teachers Union (CATU), which deemed teaching as a vocation, and was …
BiographyHenry Selby Msimang
… , founder of the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union (ICU), about the organisation of African workers. …
Yunus Ismail Mahomed
… which Mohamed helped establish in 1985 to channel European Union support to victims of apartheid and which grew as a …
BiographyBuzwe Stanley Mabizela
… there. Mabizela then went military training in the Soviet Union before returning to work for the ANC in Southern …
BiographyWalter Ernest Stanford
… until 1919. Stanford was knighted in 1919 and retired as a Union Senator ten years later in 1929. Stanford fell ill and … Affairs, Under-Secretary of Native…