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ArticleWomen’s Workplace Oppression in 1970s South Africa by Cait Chapman
… them with some restrictions and mandate they register the union with the state (South Africa History Online). … multi-racial unions. The Garment Workers…
BiographyStephen Bantu Biko
… was created as a Black alternative to the liberal National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) . It is necessary to … Council (SRC), which was a member…
Some of Gandhi’s Early Views on Africans Were Racist. But That Was Before He Became Mahatma by E.S Reddy (The Wire), 18 October 2016
… that perhaps the world has not yet seen.” In October 1910 he said: “The whites… have occupied the country forcibly … One will reap as one sows.” (Indian…
PlaceNairobi National Museum, East Africa
… The history of the institution dates back in 1910 when a Museum was established in Nairobi by the then … The history of the institution dates back in 1910…
EventLord Baden-Powell’s sister, Agnes, establishes the Girl Guides Movement
… called 'How Girls can help build up the Empire". On 31 May 1910, the Girl Guides were formed with Agnes Baden-Powell as …
ArticleDurban Timeline 1497-1990
… Upon his return, on 24 August, Farewell hoisted the Union Jack and formally took possession of the land in the … Building was completed of Durban’s first…
ArticleResponses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: The Afrikaner Response and the 1914 Rebellion
… support for the defence of the British Empire. The Union government was asked to send an army to conquer … fled to German South West Africa. The…
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’.
… for investigation and analysis. GUMEDE AND THE COMING OF UNION Gumede's political consciousness had reached new … tribes took up most of his time and energy…
EventGerman Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, famous German commander of German forces in North Africa, dies on this day
… joined the 124th Infantry Regiment as an officer cadet in 1910, and two years later was commissioned a 2d lieutenant. …
EventArrival of Chinese labourers in South Africa
… thus arrived at the Witwatersrand. Between 1904 and 1910 there were almost 64,000 Chinese working on the … Thompson.L.M, (1960), The Unification of South…
EventFirst celebration of International Women’s Day
… of protest and political activism. In the years before 1910, from the turn of the 20th century, women in …
PlaceWaverly Road Memorial, Durban South
… The South African War Memorial was unveiled on May 24, 1910, at 360 University Avenue, in memory of those who lost … South African War Memorial was unveiled…
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BiographyB J Vorster [John Vorster]
… He was involved in a clash with the Eastern Province Rugby Union, which he perceived as biased against those opposed to … written promoting the cause of…
BiographyAlbertina Nontsikelelo Sisulu
… 000 women gathered from all over the country to march to Union Buildings demanding to see Prime Minister Stijdom to … struck a rock, You will be crushed!),…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1920s
… July, Industrial and Commercial Workers Union of South Africa (ICU) is established as national Black trade union in Bloemfontein. 11 September, Gerrit…
BiographyNthato Harrison Motlana
… with NEC, which to a large extent represents trade union power, was seen as a form of black empowerment that …
BiographyHarry Heinz Schwarz
… Third Reich. He enlisted at Military Headquarters of the Union Grounds in Johannesburg, Having attended boarding …
Sadecque Variava
… SRC had close links with the liberally-inclined National Union of South African Students (NUSAS). In September Variava …
The International Socialist League (ISL)
… Socialist League and Clothing Workers Industrial Union Image source Notwithstanding the fact that the … the Industrial Workers of Africa (IWA) - the first…
ArticleMarikana Massacre - 16 August 2012
… strike action undertaken by unionised workers without the union-leadership's authorisation, support, or approval. On 9 … large group of the striking miners…
PlaceCape Town, Western Province
… view of Cape Town! Between 1814 and the formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910 , the Cape was constitutionally a separate colony of … cosmopolitan…
ArticleFootball in South Africa
On 15 May 2004 in Zurich, Switzerland, Joseph (Sepp) Blatter, president of FIFA, world soccer's governing body, made an historic announcement: South Africa…
ArticleThe spread of these ideas to Europe and Australia
… parents 'to breed the blackness out of them'. Between 1910 and 1970 up to 100,000 Aboriginal children were taken …
BiographyTheophilus Shepstone
… (one of whom was Rider Haggard) and a discretely cased Union Jack. British traders enthusiastically welcomed them … the South African Republic to the Crown,…
BiographySir. Theophilus Shepstone
… (one of whom was Rider Haggard) and a discretely cased Union Jack. British traders enthusiastically welcomed them … the South African Republic to the Crown,…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… Strijdom 28 May 1957 The Honourable the Prime Minister, Union of South Africa, House of Assembly CAPE TOWN Honourable … it my duty as leader of the African…
Imvaba Arts Association
… of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA). The … 1988, the first exhibition of Imvaba was held at…
Article1946 Mine Workers Strike timeline 1867-1987
… 214 1941 African workers formed the African Mine Workers Union 1943 In order to stave off the growing unrest among the … Nine men were killed, and seventy…
ArticleThe Azania Liberation Support Committee and its publications
… articles on South Africa’s growing independent trade union movement. By working with different and mutually … (COSATU) as they believed in the need for a…
EventW. E. B. Du Bois (95), writer, scholar, intellectual, Pan
… civil rights organization in the United States, and from 1910 to 1934 served it as director of publicity and research, …