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EventPretoria is proposed as the new capital of ZAR
… with Cape Town being the legislative capital when the Union of South Africa was established in 1910. The city remained the administrative capital when South …
BiographyDali Tambo
… headed the building of the 9 meter Mandela Statue at the Union Buildings in Pretoria as well as the Mandela Bust at …
BiographyChristiaan Neethling Barnard
… from the Oppenheimer Memorial Trust, he went to the Soviet Union to study transplant techniques of hearts and heads on …
BiographyKay Hassan
… 1990 he returned to South Africa to teach at the Federated Union of Black Artists (FUBA). He became a teacher at the …
BiographyCharlotte Maxeke
… in the formation of the Industrial and Commercial Worker’s Union (ICU) in 1920. Maxeke was also involved in multiracial …
BiographyDikobe Ben Martins
… art classes at Bill Ainsley’s Studio and at the Federated Union of Black Artists (FUBA) with Johnny Rieberio, Fikile …
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 …
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…
PlaceCape Province- 'Province of Good Hope' or previously the- Cape Colony
… colony until it became one of the four provinces of the Union of South Africa in 1910. When the Union of South Africa was formed in 1910, the original Cape…
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…
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. …
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. …
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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 …
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…
BiographyBaldwin ‘Ben’ Sipho Ngubane
… politics and served as vice-president of the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) . It was during this …
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…
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 …
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 …
BiographySolomzi Ashby Peter Mda
… he was also a member of the Catholic African Teachers Union (CATU), which deemed teaching as a vocation, and was …