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ArticleColonial history of Nelspruit
… farming and tourism alike. With the establishment of the Union of South Africa in 1910, Nelspruit passed from colonial township into the …
Nelspruit the Segregated city
… Black settlement proceeded apace, especially after Union in 1910. A Native Recruiting Organisation, established in 1912, … to the mines and sugar plantations…
BiographyDr Mamphela Aletta Ramphele
… Students Association (SASO), a breakaway from the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) that operated on …
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 …
BiographyJames Edward April
… South Africa. Chris Hani and the Zimbabwe African Peoples Union (ZAPU) group were going to the south.In 1968 he …
BiographyEs’kia Mphahlele
… employed to sow dissent amongst artists in the Soviet Union and other east European countries. Its activities on …
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
BiographyDorothy Adams
… in her own decision to join African Peoples' Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA): Some of the teachers felt …
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 …