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BiographyMiriam Makeba
… 1980s. During these years she performed mostly in trade union halls, cultural institutions and on other small stages. …
Professor Sir Raymond Hoffenberg
… as an ex-serviceman. He actively supported the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) and was Chair of the …
BiographyJonathan Clegg
… in 1985. Clegg used to translate texts into Zulu for the union movement in the days of apartheid. Mchunu decided to go …
BiographyEs’kia Mphahlele
… employed to sow dissent amongst artists in the Soviet Union and other east European countries. Its activities on …
BiographyJames Edward April
… South Africa. Chris Hani and the Zimbabwe African Peoples Union (ZAPU) group were going to the south.In 1968 he …
BiographyDawood Seedat
… business class’ and founded the Indian Shop Assistant’s Union in 1942. He worked full-time for the Guardian newspaper … Memorial Committee, founder of the…
Women at the start of the 20th century
… in which we celebrated the massive Women's March to the Union Buildings in Pretoria 50 years ago. Women throughout … government was set up in 1901 and called…
ArticleArts and Crafts and reconstruction by Jillian Carman
… of the Johannesburg Art Gallery collection in November 1910, Florence spent more time in Britain than South Africa. … of the Second South African War and the…
ArticleDecember 16 and the Construction of Afrikaner Nationalism
… camps. They were forced to accept defeat in 1902. Union, 1910 After the war, Afrikaners were divided between … conflict: parliamentary politics. Political…
ArchiveWomen and the Satyagraha Campaign
… women join Gandhi's passive resistance campaign Before union, at the turn of the century, conditions for Indian … Conditions did not improve for Indians…
ArticleTimeline of Land Dispossession and Segregation in South Africa 1900-1947
… in the process of being entrenched. The formation of the Union of South Africa accelerated the process of further … African provinces that were to be…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1930-1939
… of hostility between the European inhabitants of the Union on the one hand and any other section of the inhabitants of the Union on the other hand’ (Dugard…
Durban Mayors and other city officials
… (1905 - 09 ) Waiter Greenacre (1909 - 10 ) FC Hollander (1910 - 13) W Holmes (1913 - 15) JH Nicolson (1915 - 18) T …
Document 51 - W. P. van Schoor, “The Origin and Development of Segregation in South Africa A. J. Abrahamse Memorial Lecture, Cathedral Hall, Cape Town, 5 October 1950
… of the North was fundamentally a British policy. The Union of 1910 amounted to a fusion of British as developed in the … of notorious 1936 Bills. [....] The…
PlacePaardekraal Monument, Market Street, Krugersdorp
… Colony, being given limited home rule in 1906. In 1910 it formed the Transvaal Province, one of the four provinces of the newly constituted state, the Union…
ArticleGandhi and the Passive Resistance Campaign 1907-1914
… had spread to the four colonies that would become the Union of South Africa in 1910, and whites in all of these colonies perceived them as a … were deported…
BiographyMoosa “Mosie” Moolla
… in 1965 was sent for a year to Odessa in the then-Soviet Union for military training. His was the second unit to be …
BiographyMichael Guthrie Scott
… traveled around the country and began to see firsthand the Union Government’s attempts to entrench racial separation and … the midst of chaos, many turned to…
PlacePretoria Boys High School
… incomplete escape tunnel . Charles Hope who supported the union with England. He later served as a Scottish … before the Solomonites moved to their own house…
PlaceUniversity of Pretoria
… semblance of a University, to open its doors in 1908. In 1910 the Union of South Africa was declared and in 1914, the First … as a men’s residence for…
ArticlePassive Resistance Campaign Timeline
… – December: Gandhi was arrested for the second time. 1910 4 January, A petition was sent t the legislative … or Hindu) rites, and facilitates the entry into…
ArticleDr G M 'Monty' Naicker - Timeline
… MILESTONES 1910 - Birth of Mohambry (Monty) Naicker to Papiah … action. 1941-45 - He drew close to the Indian trade union movement and identified himself…
EventThomas Thornton becomes the first passenger on an aeroplane in South Africa
… On 19 March 1910, Thomas Thornton became the first person to fly on an … 1909,over the Nahoon Racecourse. At the end of February 1910, Kimmerling made three…
A new class struggle
… Indian population of Natal had increased considerably; by 1910 it was estimated to be about 130,000. The Indian is a … (This factor ultimately materialized…
BiographyAli Bacher
… racial compartments. A non-racial South African Cricket Union was established with great fanfare in 1976, but the …
BiographyArthur Albert Hugh Adams
… Training College where he became head of the National Union of South African Students. Soon, Adams became actively …
BiographyRuth First
… internationalist perspective. She travelled to China, the Union Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR) and countries in …
Opening address by Albert Luthuli to the Twenty-second Biennial Conference of the South African Indian Congress, 19 October 1956, Gandhi Hall, Johannesburg
… matters arising out of the tyrannical white rule in the Union of South Africa will come for consideration at this … scale at the formation of the Union of…
Bibliographical note and further reading
… is dealt with partly in E. Bradlow's 'Immigration into the Union, 1910-48: policies and attitudes' (Ph.D., U.C.T., 1978). The … Immigrants in the British…
BiographyDorothy Adams
… in her own decision to join African Peoples' Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA): Some of the teachers felt …