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Chapter 26. Further Attacks-Passport Case - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… provision. The agreement was a matter solely for the union and the employers, but Schoeman had hoped that the … closed shop would break the union's-power…
PlaceLanga Township, Cape Town
… The former structures were shabby, with unpaved roads and no electricity supply. The Township was completed and officially opened in 1927. Langa is located…
XI - The Verdict
… six to eight hours after the infliction of the injury, and we accept that the latest that the head injury could have … that neither doctors nor police could…
PlaceInanda, Phoenix
… as a residence/base of operations of Mahatma Gandhi, and as birthplace of the syncretic Nazareth Baptist Church. … HIV rates this leads to not many reaching…
PlaceRepublic of Griqualand West or the Digger's Republic
… contested by the Boer republics of the; Orange Free State and the Transvaal ,. As well as various other groups like the KhoiKhoi , Koranas under Andries…
PlaceBattle of Muizenburg Monument, Muizenburg
… Given the turmoil in Europe and the importance of the Cape sea-route to India the British … Elphinstone to secure the Cape as a refreshment station and as…
Appeal For United Front, July 1948
… for full democratic rights, was made by Dr. Yusuf Dadoo and Dr. G. M. Naicker, respectively Presidents of the Transvaal Indian Congress and the Natal Indian…
EventB.J Vorster steps down as Prime Minster
… the Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk (Dutch Reformed Church) and of the Broederbond, an Afrikaner secret society. In 1961, … Vorster was appointed as Minister…
EventThe First Gay Pride March is Held in South Africa
… On 13 October 1990, South Africa’s first Lesbian and Gay Pride march was held in Johannesburg . It was the first Pride March on the African continent and…
PlaceGanesha Temple, Mt Edgecombe
… to be the oldest surviving ‘solid’ temple in Africa and one of the finest examples of temple architecture in … Temple ', was built in 1898 by indentured…
PlaceRoyal baFokeng Stadium
… Africa. This stadium hosts a number of Football, Rugby and Athletics Events, and is the Home Ground of the Platinum Stars Football Club. … from 38 000 to 42…
PlaceRiverside
… trader who settled in Griqualand East in the 1860s and made his home at Riverside. A notorious miser whose mode … a vast fortune through a string of trading…
EventThe First Anglo-Boer War: Boers defeat the British at the Battle of Majuba
… The poverty and vulnerability of the South African Republic (Transvaal) … Anglo-Boer War (1880-1881). There were 4 decisive battles and several sieges during…
EventMahatma Gandhi leaves the Tolstoy Farm 1913
… Mahatma Gandhi , a champion of passive resistance and non-violent campaigns left the Tolstoy Farm in Transvaal … people, he left behind only his friend…
EventThe Pretoria Supreme Court orders for an inquiry into the doctors' treatment of Steve Biko at the time of his death
… Pretoria Supreme Court ordered the South African Medical and Dental Council (SAMDC) to hold an inquiry into the … by Port Elizabeth security police on 18…
ArchiveGroup Areas Development Act, Act No 69 of 1955
… The Act was to provide for the control of the disposal and for the acquisition of immovable property in group areas and other areas defined under the Group…
30. Potchefstroom traders: we please the poorest class of customers
… History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai The agitation by anti-Asiatic vigilante … an emphatic contradiction. Some of us…
Document 98 - “The All African Convention”, Umlilo Mollo /The Flame, 1, 2, October 1936
… Convention held its conference of the Transvaal section, and once again as in the July and December conferences the fatal weakness of the convention ……
Document 3 - Resolution on ‘the South African question’ adopted by the Executive Committee of the Communist International following the sixth Comintern congress
… the 1998 budget. Both in discussion in Parliament and at NEDLAC, it has been clear that the Department of … to subject its macro-economic parameters to…
PlaceSchweizer-Reneke
… by right of conquest, Schweizer-Reneke, is where we ended and the third Boer War, another South African war, will start … steeped in bloody relations between…
PlaceCalitzdorp, Route 62
… Klein Karoo in the Western Cape Province of South Africa and lies on South Africa's, Route 62 . The Farm, on which Calitzdorp stands, was granted to JJ and…
PlaceGordonia Division
… Magisterial district and division in the North-West in the Cape Province. Named … Prime Minister of the Cape Colony four times between 1878 and 1902. It was…
EventThe first Boeing 707 jet aircraft arrives in South Africa
… used to transport cargo or passengers, as more reliable and efficient aircraft's such as the latest Airbus and Boeing variants have replaced it in that role…
EventThe Bethal Treason Trial resumes
… Congress (PAC) members, which began in December 1977 and had already taken over 100 court sessions, resumed in Bethal (also known as State v Mothopeng and…
EventNomsa Mapongwana is assassinated
… dead at night in her home in Lingelethu West. Mapongwana and her husband woke up to the sound of shots being fired from the front and rear windows of their…
EventElectricity cut off in Tumahole township
… provide municipalities facing a consumer electricity and rent boycott, with financial support to service arrears … The cut-off included other services such…
EventSADF mounts raids on ANC targets in neighbouring states
… carry out raids on alleged ANC targets in Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Several people are left dead or injured. The … the ANC's operational headquarters in…
EventPope John Paul II appoints 31 cardinals, three from Africa
… Cardinal Anthony Olubunmi Okogie, Ghananian Peter Turkson, and the Sudanese Gabriel Zubeir Wako. However, the … of Wako had serious political implications…
EventA plan designed to fight Italian forces, Operation ‘Agreement’ is executed in Libya
… Operation 'Agreement', raid by British, Rhodesian and New Zealand troops on Tobruk, Barce, and Benghazi was planned to destroy installations, shipping and…
Arise! Vukani!
… anti-imperialism, anti-ethnicity, anti-collaboration and anti-sexism. It was an initiative by working, unemployed and student youth residing in Soweto,…