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BiographyBaldwin ‘Ben’ Sipho Ngubane
… politics and served as vice-president of the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) . It was during this …
EventThe Native Land Act is passed
… segregation into legislation for the first time since Union in 1910. The law created reserves for Blacks and prohibited the … would have been in conflict…
EventThe use of Dutch is ratified in the Cape parliament
… known as the Second Afrikaans Language Movement. When the Union of South Africa was established in 1910, Dutch became an official language alongside English…
EventPortuguese explorer Bartholomew Dias anchors at Walvis Bay
… Bay on 16 May 1488 and named it the Cape of Good Hope. In 1910, Walvis Bay became part of the newly formed Union of South Africa. Prior to that, the region…
PlaceOld Arts Building, University of Pretoria
… iconic landmark on Hatfield Campus was laid on 03 August 1910 and the building was officially opened by General Jan … a student of Sir Herbert Baker, the…
ArticleBlack South African literature
… courts as interpreters and in other jobs such as teaching. Union in 1910 persuaded many educated Blacks to unite into a single … regarded as increasingly…
BiographyRichard Granville Baloyi
… charter "from the standpoint of the Africans within the Union of South Africa" called the African Claims, and draft a …
BiographyProfessor Emeritus Phillip Tobias
… anti-apartheid politics, and was the chair of the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS). Tobias, then 19, …
BiographyAbram Ramothibi Onkgopotse Tiro
… Movement (SASM), an affiliate of the All-Africa Students’ Union (AASU). Following his expulsion from Turfloop, Tiro was …
BiographyMaggie Resha
… a leading organiser of the march of 20,000 women to the Union Buildings in Pretoria, where a petition against the …
Siphiwe Nyanda
… as a reporter on the World newspaper and joined the Union of Black Journalists. Nyanda's parents were members of …
BiographyVernon Celliers Berrange
… a Committee dealing with Industrial Legislation and Trade Union Work. He stopped taking part in the activities of the …
BiographyBob Hepple
… Workers’ Unity , and helped the black Metal Workers’ Union and other small unions survive the near-illegal …
BiographyJames Barry Munnik Hertzog
… following year he was included in the Parliament of the Union of South Africa as the Minister of Justice and Native …
BiographyMagdaline ‘Maggie’ Resha
… a leading organiser of the march of 20,000 women to the Union Buildings in Pretoria , where a petition against the …
Colonial conquest and resistance, Pre 1900
… occupation of the Cape in 1652 through the creation of the Union of South Africa and the period between the formation of the Union and the Nationalist Party…
Say It out Loud - A letter to the Coloured People of South Africa
… Adhikari Albert Lodge, Mount Street, Cape Town, 31 May 1910 The inauguration of the Union of South Africa marks an important step in the … for an exclusive…
ArticleA list of South African Shipwrecks
… to the Edinburgh Castle. When she came into service in 1910 she was the first ship of the Union-Castle Line to be fitted with Marconi wireless … as a troop…
EventGeneral C.R. de Wet was found guilty of treason for leading the Afrikaner rebellion of 1914
… a leader in the Afrikaner rebellion of 1914. From 1907 to 1910 de Wet served as minister of agriculture in the Orange … convention (1908-09) that framed the…
ArticleGrade 6 - Term 3: Democracy and the Constitution
… replaced the old coat old arms which had been used since 1910. This new coat of arms represents the change in South …
EventThe Draft South Africa Act is signed
… the colonies were represented, settled on the terms of a union rather than a federal state. White South Africans … VII on 20 September 1909 and it came into…
EventAdoption of the Orange Free State constitution
… the Orange River Colony and was later incorporated in the Union of South Africa in 1910. Its name became the Orange Free State once more and …
BiographySipho Samuel Hashe
Sipho Samuel Charles Hashe was born in Middledrift, Ngcabasa Village (Eastern Cape) in 1934. He relocated to Port Elizabeth in the 1950s. During this period…
BiographyJohn Jacques William Aitchison
… in 2011. At Natal University he joined the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS), where he was …
BiographyDorothy Cleminshaw
… Commission which was tasked with investigating National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) the University …
BiographyDr. Neville Edward Alexander
… politics and helping found the Cape Peninsula Students’ Union, which educated radical political leadership, Alexander … a Marxist and joined the German…
Bibliography: Missionary settlement in southern Africa
… HOPE. Government Gazette. Cape Town: Various issues up to 1910. GOVERNMENT OF THE UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA. 1927. Native Administration Act No 38 … Oxford…
BiographyHorst Gerhard Hermann Kleinschmidt
… Kleinschmidt served on several committees of the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) at both higher … also successfully opposed the best…
BiographyWalter Ulyate Sisulu
… renowned leader of the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union (ICU). Sisulu said later that his experience in the … and in 1953 spent five months touring…
BiographyPatrice Émery Lumumba
… [9] . When Lumumba asked for military help from the Soviet Union against the secessionist provinces of Southern Kasai …