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The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - The Disfranchisement of the Cape Native
… thus made Britons of all civilised black men under the Union Jack on a uniform equality of citizenship with all … become manifest from the spirit that…
ArticleOrganisations involved in Youth and the National Liberation Struggle
… African Students Association (ASA) African Student Union of South Africa (ASUSA) Durban Students Union Cape Peninsula Student Union Society of Young Africa …
PlaceDwarsvlei Farm, Karoo
… used for this purpose, because the house was completed in 1910, the year of the Union of South Africa . In 1944, on Henry Nours’s death, …
ArticleThe Natal Workers Theatre Movement Timeline
… Acronyms BAWU, Black and Allied Workers Union COSAS , Congress of South African Students COSATU , … African Trade Unions CWIU, Chemical Workers Industrial…
EventThe first flight in Kimberley takes off
… a Gnome rotary engine (50hp) and flew it successfully in 1910. On 18 June 1911 Weston flew the first flight in …
EventThe University of the Orange Free State is founded in Bloemfontein
… 1907, the college had 29 students and ten lecturers and in 1910 the college was declared an official educational …
EventHalley’s Comet reaches the closest point to earth
… pertaining to astronomy from this period. On 20 May 1910, the comet passed its closest point to earth, when it …
EventSir Ronald Ross, discoverer of the malaria mosquito is born
… Sir Ross authored a book, The prevention of Malaria, in 1910. While Sir Ross is known for his work on malaria, he is …
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1900-1909
… Indian Committee, comprising of the Natal Indian Patriotic Union and the Natal Indian Congress (NIC), is established. At … incorporation of the four self…
ArticleNational symbols such as the Coat of Arms and the National Anthem
… replaced the old coat old arms which had been used since 1910. This new coat of arms represents the change in South …
ArticleKenyan Timeline
… colonial administration moves from Mombasa to Nairobi. 1910 Nairobi becomes the official capital of Kenya. 1914 … source 1940 The KCA is banned. 1942 The…
ArticleThe British Anti-Apartheid Movement
… – such as governments, political parties, trade unions and union federations or the United Nations, but also masses of … South African War), Britain granted…
Say It out Loud by Mohamed Adhikari
… 1909 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 13th April 1909 The 1910 Presidential Address, Port Elizabeth, Cape The 1912 …
EventFirst aeroplane flight in Kimberley breaks the non-stop flight record
… engine (50hp) and flew it successfully (in France) in 1910. On 16 June 1911 John Weston made the first flight in …
EventUniversity of Pretoria is established
… 1930, having been a university college since 17 May 1910. Afrikaans became the official language of instruction …
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions Timeline 1919-1997
… 1919 Formation of the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union of Africa (ICU). 1924 Introduction of Industrial … (Transvaal) (CNETU). Formation of the…
Cecil John Rhodes, warts and all by Tim Crowe (Politics Web), 22 December 2015
… of the Afrikaners (leading to the creation of the Union of South Africa), and laid the political/legal … - "Dean” of the Harlem Renaissance. Jan H. Hofmeyr …
Article1973 Durban Strikes – TUCSA – Harriet Bolton
… the strikes. Only Harriet’s furniture and textile union, as well as the tin workers union to a lesser degree, offered any assistance to workers … These…
ArticleAbstracts presented for the 1973 Durban Strikes Conference
… Fruits of the 1973 Durban Strikes: A Powerful Black Trade Union Movement. Are they still on track or are they off the … by Eddie Cottle The British…
Dr William Fehr (1892-1968), collector of art as history
… historical and Á¦sthetic worth and helped make this union available to all at a time when such broad social … sister and brother enjoyed further study before…
The Rise of Women’s Trade Unionism in South Africa by Peter LaNasa
… the name of Mary Fitzgerald set the tone for women’s trade union activism in the years that would follow. Known as the … 15) Ma Baard, another woman that…
ArticleA Spiral of Trials by Norman Levy
… the indictment of the leaders of the African Mineworkers Union and members of the CPSA, and continued into the fifties … committed itself entirely to the…
BiographyMadi Gray
… At the time, Gray was a member of NUSAS, the National Union of South African Students . Their demand was that …
BiographyProfessor Fatima Meer
… that organised the famous Anti-Pass March on the Union Buildings in Pretoria in 1956. In 1956, Meer started to …
BiographyDenis Theodore Goldberg
… President of South Africa in 2010. UNISON, the UK trade union has made him an honorary life member along with Nelson …
David Pratt
… The occasion was the celebration of 50 years of the Union of South Africa After his speech, Verwoerd inspected …
BiographyPaul Weinberg
… of South 1986-1993 Vice President of the Southern African Union of Journalists (SAUJ) (representing freelancers) …
Chapter 1 - The Promise of the Impossible Revolution: The Cape Town Industrial Socialist League, 1918 - 1921
… members who thought that direct involvement with the trade union movement in the Cape, and the organising of strikes and … "The Origins of the South African…
Why protect worker’s rights?
… Every worker has the right to form and join a trade union; to participate in the activities and programmes of a trade union; and to strike. Every employer…
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU)
… and non-racial industrial unions merged to form one trade union called South African Trades and Labour Council (SATLC), … and ideological affiliations…