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EventSouth Africa's TRC begins its formal hearings into Human Rights Violations
… On 15 April 1996, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), under Chairman Archbishop Desmond Tutu, … violations of human rights during the apartheid…
ArticleDemocratic Alliance (DA)
… trade union rights for Black people and fought for better wages and working conditions. In 1974, six more PP members …
ArticleUniversity of Pretoria 2015-2016 Student Protests Timeline
… we are launching an investigation with the Competition Commission, as well as the office of the Public Protector in … London hundreds of South Africans…
EventBotha found Guilty
… in public before the country's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), the body responsible for investigating … given any such order in his written…
Event19 die at Shell House massacre
… marchers were planning to attack the building. The Nugent Commission of Inquiry on what actually caused the shooting rejected this explanation. The…
ArchiveMarikana: The blame game - A special report by Niren Tolsi and Paul Botes
… be releasing the report by retired judge Ian Farlam’s commission of inquiry into the deaths during the strike — 44 … at the time, of any responsibility for…
EventDr. Rhoodie is arrested
… South Africa shortly after testifying before the Judicial Commission of Inquiry under the chairmanship of Mr Justice Roelof Erasmus. The commission was…
Eye of the Needle - Notes by Richard Turner
… pronounced bans against eight persons associated with NUSAS, the national organization of mainly white … was Richard Turner himself, who was a member of the…
Message to the People of South Africa by O. R. Tambo, August 1976
… or by withholding any portion of their meagre weekly wages on the grounds of absence during the days of the …
Chapter 3 - The Cigarette-Makers Strikes and the First Workers Co-operative Society in South Africa, Cape Town 1906 - 1907
… unions offered workers new ways to challenge the meagre wages, the appalling working conditions and overwork. The … machines and equipment they had to spend…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1990-1999
… parties; and established a National Peace Committee and a Commission of Inquiry Regarding the Prevention of Public … the first time in his life. May, The…
2012 ANC National Policy Conference: Statement on the update of Conference Proceedings,28 June 2012
… that plenary will continue till late tonight. After each commission`s report is adopted by plenary, a briefing will be … like to place on record that final…
EventAn ANC car bomb directed at the headquarters of the Wits Command, Johannesburg, kills one person and injures 68
… [Accessed 23 July 2010] Truth and Reconciliation Commission Amnesty Application AC/2001/003 [online] Available … [Accessed 23 July 2010] Truth and…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1930-1939
… the black elite in particular. The government sets up a Commission of Inquiry into African education. The Commission points to problems with the system, but…
Colonial history of Rustenburg
… of 16 members. Paul Kruger was appointed as a member of a commission to draft new laws in November, and a general … to the Rand to work on gold mines, which…
General Act of the Berlin Conference on West Africa, 26 February 1885
… OF SURVEILLANCE VESTED IN THE INTERNATIONAL NAVIGATION COMMISSION OF THE CONGO Article 8 In all parts of the … sovereignty or Protectorate, the International…
Black Concentration Camps during the Anglo-Boer War 2, 1900-1902
… made aware by Emily Hobhouse of the fact that the Ladies Commission (Fawcett Commission) ignored the plight of Blacks in the concentration …
Political changes from 1750 to 1820
… had no money or land and most continued as to work for low wages as unskilled workers. Therefore they continued to be … in 1867, men would rather work on the…
"What I would do if I were Prime Minister" by Albert Luthuli, 5 February 1962, Chicago
… tenant gives service to the master for nine months with no wages, this being in lieu of the plot of land, and limited … It is not legally obligatory for…
Chapter 25. A Reichstag Fire Trial Replete With A Van Der Lubbe
… acting under the Commissions Act of 1947, appointed a commission with the following terms of reference: "To enquire … trial, the Nationalist Government had…
Chapter 3 - Gumede’s role in NNC and SANNC Politics, 1909 – 1919 ‘We pray that the people be allowed to live in peace in their own land’.
… to people to wait for two years until the Beaumont Commission had made its report about the state of the … to delay the journey, pending the report of the…
PlaceAlbertynhof, Kimberley
… in 1933. He was from 1928 to 1932 a member of the Carnegie Commission of Inquiry into the poor white 'problem. The … of whites, held by his action. As…
EventNotorious role of Ferdi Barnard is disclosed
… After the Goldstone Commission's first disclosure of the complicity of elements … Barnard by the Directorate: Covert Collection (DCC). The commission seized…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the workshop for Human Rights Education Durban, 21 September 1994
… Mr. Chairman, Members of the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights, Judges of the Supreme … taken this initiative in collaboration with the African…
The South African Congress of Trade Unions
… after that they had a strike because they wanted more wages and because their hours were so ridiculous. They used … got their union, and the management had…
EventSA Special Forces accused of train violence
… as a sergeant in 5RR, made a victim statement to the Commission in which he claimed he was abducted from … the SADF. A special investigation unit of the…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the summit on rural Safety and Security Midrand, 10 October 1998
… threatens to bring reduced growth or production, loss of wages and profits and in time unemployment. It brings the … must therefore concentrate on strategies…
EventA car bomb explodes in Durban, killing five and injuring 27 people
… application for amnesty from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) by Rayman Lalla, a member of the African … given. References: AC/2001/175: Truth…
EventFormer Vaal policeman Gerhardus Peens admits his role in the Boipatong Massacre
… The Amnesty Committee of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission later could not find evidence that the police were … During his testimony before the Truth…
EventAppearance of former ministers before the TRC
… apartheid era appeared before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). The four were former Minister of Law and … subpoenaed, but his lawyers submitted…