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ArticleFederation of South African Trade Unions (FOSATU)
The Federation of South African Trade Unions (FOSATU) was the first South African trade union federation that organised mostly Black employees that aimed to be…
National Orders Recipients
South Africa has taken many strides away from its past of exclusion and discrimination on the basis of sex, colour and creed. The country has been steadily…
Address on the Occasion of the State Banquet, Tripoli, Libya, 12 June 2002
Brother Leader, Colonel Qaddafi, Your Excellencies, Brothers and Sisters, Ladies and Gentlemen: Thank you, dear Brother Leader and the people of the Great…
ArticleShip list of Indian Indentured Labourers
Approximately 152,184 indentured Indians arrived under the scheme of indenture making a total of 384 trips. The first ship the Truro arrived on 16 November…
ArchiveStudent walkouts have changed history before. In South Africa, one helped end apartheid by DeNeen L. Brown (The Washington Post), 14 March 2018
Hector Pieterson, a 12-year-old South African boy, was one of the first students to die. On June 16, 1976, more than 10,000 black high school students in…
First National Consultative Conference - Morogoro, 26 April 1969
The first National Consultative Conference of the ANC was held at Morogoro, Tanzania, from 25 April to 1 May 1969. The conference has become known as the …
ArticleGrade 4 - Term 4: Communication through time
Communication through time, topic focuses on how communication has changed over time and how many forms of communication have stayed the same. We first learn…
ArticleFederation of Transvaal Women (FEDTRAW)
The Federation of Transvaal Women (FEDTRAW) was formed on the 8th of December 1984, bringing together close to 200 women from all over the Transvaal (now known…
ArticleThe Order of Mapungubwe
This Order is to be awarded to South African citizens who have excelled in the fields of arts, culture, literature, music, journalism and sport. Organisation …
ArticleRichard David Turner Timeline 1941 - 1978
1941 Born in Cape Town of British parents c. 1947-58 At school in Cape Town 1953 Father dies 1958 Matriculates from St George’s grammar school …
ArticleAnti-Indian Legislation
Towards the end of the nineteenth century, Harry Escombe became one of the most prominent White politicians in the Colony of Natal. Initially he pursued a…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 4: World War I (1914 - 1918)
This major event came to be known as the Great War which was the first war to be fought along modern industrial lines and it lasted from 1914 to 1918. It was…
Nelson Mandela Timeline 1800-2014
The Nelson Mandela timeline tracks the history of the first democratically elected president of South Africa through his childhood in rural Transkei, the…
OSEO report on Allan Boesak
Office of Serious Economic Offences Report The Scandinavian donors got the Johannesburg legal firm, Bell, Dewar & Hall, to investigate. The ANC could not…
ArticleEnuga Sreenivasulu Reddy Timeline 1924 - 2020
1924 E.S. Reddy is born in a small village of Pallapalli in India to E.V. Narasa Reddy, a Gandhian who went to prison in the individual satyagraha in 1941,…
Address at the official opening of the ASB Congress on 28 June 1971 in the Aula, Pretoria
On this occasion the Prime Minister made good use of the opportunity of talking to Afrikaans students. At the time there were disturbances among students,…
Statement at the Freedom Rally Organised by the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement by O. R. Tambo, Dublin, 26 January 1979
Dear Friends and Comrades, We bring you greetings on behalf of the African National Congress, the cadres of Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear of the Nation), inside…
Chapter 24. Sack All Non-Europeans
In May 1948, when the Nationalist Government came to power, the union was engaged in a struggle with the clothing manufacturers. The agreement for the industry…
ArticleZulu Family History
Zulu Kings 1781 to 1816 Senzangakhona 1816 to 1828 Shaka 1828 to 1840 Dingane 1840 to 1872 Mpande 1872 to 1879 Cetswayo 1879 to 1916…
78. The Natal Indian Congress calls for a national convention
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai In his address as acting president of the Natal…
ArticleSouth African Council of Churches (SACC)
Brief political context on the formation and history of the SACC ...read on 5 July 1995 statement to a workshop on The role of the Church and the 'Healing of…
The Order of the Southern Cross
Singular and exceptional achievement Neck badge This medal is awarded to citizens who have displayed singular and exceptional achievement in South Africa…
ArticleSocio-economics in Sophiatown
The economic activity of children African children living in Sophiatown were particularly vulnerable to the harshness of urban life. Schooling was not…
ArticleThe Aftermath of the war
The Second Anglo-Boer War resulted in heavy loss of life for both the Boers and the British. The Boers had lost the war and peace negotiations begun in March…
ArticleThe Freedom Charter Campaign
The adoption of the Freedom Charter by the Congress of the People was widely recognised both in South Africa and internationally as an event of major political…
ArticleBlack Sash
The Women's Defence of the Constitution LeagueIn 1955 a small group of white middle-class women who were predominantly English-speaking formed an organization…
EventJudge Essa Moosa passes away
Essa Moosa was born in District Six, Cape Town on 8 February 1936.[i] He was a judge in the Supreme Court of South Africa. Moosa was a former human rights…
ArticleTimeline: Father Trevor Huddleston
1913 15 June, Trevor Huddleston is born in Chaucer Road, Bedford, England. Huddleston is christened at St Paul’s Church in Bedford. 1921-1937 …
ArticleResponses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: The Formation of the International Socialist League (ISL)
The out break of the First World War had profound consequences for the development of socialist labour politics in South Africa. Before the war, the Labour…
The French Revolution Activity
Working from sources: Activity 1: The Old Order The three men in the picture stand for the three Estates of the Old Order. Look at the picture, then…