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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 …
BiographyPatrick Vuyo Matshikiza
… them have since died. He was also a resident pianist for Union Artists’ productions at Dorkay House – notably with Ben …
BiographyReverend Beyers Naudé
… Institute, the University Christian Movement, the National Union of South African students and the Institute of Race …
BiographyGordon Sprigg
… of the four colonies that would later make up the Union of South Africa , but when Henry Bartle Frere was made … Sprigg was a supporter of federation rather…
BiographyRonald (Ronnie) Kasrils
… graduating from the Odessa Military College in the Soviet Union at the end of 1964. He then went on to complete a …
BiographyMichael Kitso Dingake
… at St Ansgars Institution, Roodepoort, in the then Union of South Africa from 1942 to 1943, and Pax College, in …
BiographyDr Gangathura Mohambry (Monty) Naicker
… in 1941 when he became involved in the Indian trade union movement and associated himself with several strikes …
BiographyBheki Cele
… instrumental in the founding of the National Education Union of South Africa (NEUSA), which sought to reform the … a predecessor to the South African…
State policies and social protest, 1924-1939
… formed a pact to win the general elections held in the Union of South Africa in 1924. Their main opposition was the … this was done through the ANC , the…
ArticlePass laws in South Africa 1800-1994
… the workers’ families from visiting them. Passes in the Union Louis Botha was appointed as the first Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa. On 31 May…
Polokwane the Segregated city
… Contents The Segregated City, 1910-1948 The Apartheid City A decade of Turbulence, 1976-86 … the apartheid era Homeland politics The Segregated City, 1910…
ArticleTimeline of the Bulhoek Massacre
… the Lord in accordance with established traditions. 1910 April, Halley’s Comet appears in the sky. Mgijima … the largest force of police and soldiers since…
BiographyKasturba Gandhi
… to London to plead the Indian cause in the upcoming Union of South Africa. The Indian community feared that … in the Boer provinces could become laws…
BiographyMotlotlehi – His Majesty King Constantine Bereng Seeiso Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho
… of African Unity (OAU – now known as the African Union - AU) and the United Nations Security Council on …
BiographyIrene Menell (nee Manderstam)
… public. She was also a founder trustee of the Federated Union of Black Artists (FUBA) , and a trustee of the Afrika …
BiographyPremanathan “Prema” Naidoo
Premanathan "Prema" Naidoo, the youngest son of Ama and Thambi Naidoo, was born in Doornfontein, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) in 1945. He…
BiographyRajes Pillay
… Pahad and Aziz Pahad . In Britain, she joined the National Union of Students, where she was active in raising money for …
PlaceColigny, North West Province
… the parliament of the old Transvaal Republic , before the Union of South Africa was formed in 1910, General Koos de la Rey , representing Lichtenburg , ……
PlacePretoria, now known as Tshwane
… in 1860; administrative capital of South Africa in 1910; and a City in 1931. During the South African War … Mall in Pretoria was built around the same time…
BiographyRonnie Govender (Sathiseelan Gurulingam Govender)
… and Ismail Meer , and others backed an initiative by the Union Artists who were based in Johannesburg at Dorkay House, …
BiographyNorman Levy
… he was part of an ANC team that travelled to the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) to meet with …
BiographyJabulani “Mzala” Nxumalo
… in politics and other specialised subjects in the Soviet Union and German Democratic Republic. In all the training …
List of Laws on Land Dispossession and Segregation
… in the Afrikaner republics and with the creation of the Union in 1910 and later under the Group Areas Act and other … British imperialism and the Union of…
Biography of Eli Weinberg by Karen Folz
… political environment as his catalyst for joining a trade union at sixteen years old and for identifying with communism … (1980). Jews and Zionism: The South…
EventThe National Party (Transvaal) is founded
… The Union of South Africa was established in 1910. Although South …
BiographySindiso Mfenyana
… can do for the ANC. We want you to study in the Soviet Union. Your mission will be to find out how the Soviets are … first to Nigeria , then London, and…
BiographyAubrey Mokoena
… Episcopal Church, where his wife joined the Mother’s Union. Aubrey Mokoena grew up between this environment and …
PlaceZonnebloem College, Cape Town
… Eighth and Ninth Frontier Wars . With the advent of the Union of South Africa in 1910 – where the racially motivated Afrikaner republics lost …
ArticlePort Elizabeth the Segregated city
… Contents 1910-1950 Apartheid ideology and implementation from 1950 Conclusion 1910-1950 By 1950, the population of New Brighton had grown …