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ArticleMoses Kotane Timeline
… of Life” (roll of ANC membership). Moses joins the Bakers Union that was set up by the Communist Party of South Africa … first Kotane refuses, saying he is…
Chapter 5 - The Indian Tobacco Workers Strike of 1920: A Socio-Historical Investigation by Evangelos A. Mantzaris
… in these two cities. In Cape Town the Tobacco Workers' Union under the guidance of the General Workers' Union and the leadership of Erasmus, Levinson and…
The Afrikaner Bond
… came into conflict with Paul Kruger, who was opposed to a union of the four states. The Cape Bond was, largely due to … the notion of the ‘final goal’ of a…
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 1 (1923-2001)
… of electricity production. The Transvaal Power Act (1910) effectively put electricity under state authority and … This kind of state intervention was allowed…
ArticleThe Western Cape Farm Workers Strike 2012-2013
… 3% of farm workers in the Western Cape belonged to a trade union. The low representation of farm workers in unions … to unions other than COSATU, such as the…
13 notable women in Cape Town’s history, 6 August 2015
… of the 9 August 1956 march of some 20 000 women on the Union Buildings in Pretoria to petition against the country’s … politically until close to her death…
PlaceFree State Province
… Northeast. It was originally a Boer State and then (from 1910) one of the traditional Provinces of South Africa; it … Free State was changed to the Orange…
ArticleNUSAS Wages Commission Timeline 1971-1973
… Board's meeting. July, A proposal is made at a National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) conference that wages … in Bolton Hall, Hemson tables the…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 1 Contextual Overview
… changed industrial and agricultural face of the Soviet Union. This came to be known as the Great Turn as Russia … theorised that the minority working class…
EventFlorence Nightingale, British nurse in the Crimean War, is born
… A statistician and epidemiologist, she died on 13 August 1910. Today, International Nurses Day is celebrated around …
PlaceThe Fourth Raadsaal, Bloemfontein
… Aliwal Street, was erected to House the Upper House. After 1910 the Raadsaal became the Headquarters of the Provincial …
PlaceGraafwater
… and Lamberts Bay and was built as a railway junction in 1910, for the transportation of agricultural products from … and Lamberts Bay and was built as a…
PlaceWeenan
… of the human spirit is evident, in how Weenen evolved! By 1910, it fell under the Governance of a Local board. Progress …
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1920-1929
… of Asiatics to trade and acquire fixed property in the Union. 12 May, the Asiatic Inquiry Commission, appointed in … of Asiatics to trade and acquire fixed…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Red Lives. Convenor: Arianna Lissoni
… banned. He also toured (illegally), China, the Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe in 1951. Seedat married Fatima … is provided. The history of South Africa…
ArticleContinued resistance and internal criticism 1920s and 1930s
… at this time. In 1919 the Industrial Commercial Workers Union (ICU), founded by Clemens Kadalie , with support from … president of the ANC, and spent some…
ArticleMarxism-Leninism
… of communism that was implemented in Russia and the Soviet Union after the 1917 Revolution is therefore known as … by those states that were taken over by…
Grade 12 - Topic 4 - The end of the Cold War and a new global world order 1989 to present
… grade 12 material. The collapse of communism in the Soviet Union was another major cause of the end of apartheid. Under … the US and Western powers on the…
BiographyAdrian Leftwich
… state. Leftwich spent two years as President of National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) at the University of …
ArticleHistory of Africa Day - 25 May
… of the National Liberation Front of Algeria and the Union of Cameroonian Peoples. It is worth noting that there … Ghana and by African people in Britain,…
ArticleInternational Rugby World Cup Timeline 1983-2011
… 1992. On 23 March 1992, the South African Rugby Football Union was formally established with the merging of the non-racial South African Rugby Union and the…
Women’s Resistance Against the Pass Laws
… two white races, the British and the Boers, had signed the 1910 Act of Union. In other words, the formation of the ANC was a direct … Prime Minister of the…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Glossary
… A map representing the ‘new’ Union of South Africa of 1956 (The British Cape Colony and … Orange Free State). Image Source: https://alchetron.com/Union-of…
The historical significance of COSATU’s Workers’ Charter Campaign
… regime they eventually left and by 1954 formed the Trade Union Council of South Africa (TUCSA) -- a majority white “sweetheart union” that closely aligned…
KwaMsiza - A Ndebele village: References/Bibliography
… Publications No 1 . Department of Native Affairs, Union of South Africa. Pretoria: Government Printer. 1944. … Publications No 18. Department of Native…
BiographyWilfrid Edward Cooper
… the assistance of the University of Cape Town National Union of South Africa Students (NUSAS) executive members and …
PlaceTsolo, Eastern Cape
… (prior to 1910) St Augustine's was established in 1865 by the Reverend …
The small matter of a horse: The life of 'Nongoloza' Mathebula, 1867-1948 by Charles van Onselen, 04 January 2012 (libcom.org)
… which took control of the Transvaal until the formation of Union in 1910, seriously addressed the full range of these problems.47 … court's sentence was made…
African People’s Organisation (APO)
… and 1904 The resistance of the APO to the formation of Union of South Africa Although the Imperial Britain had … colonies and its neighbours with a coastline…
Discovery of the Gold in 1884
… indentured labourers. Following their repatriation in 1910, they were replaced on the mines by the introduction of …