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ArticleThe Women’s struggle Timeline 1905-2006
… campaigning against the pass book laws to supporting trade union movements and exploring the concept of African unity. …
ArticleBloemfontein Timeline 1824-2010
… case. 1920 A 'national' Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU) is established at a conference in Bloemfontein. … The ICU was originally established as…
ArticleThe formation of SASO and the Black People’s Convention
… make progress through the multiracial and liberal National Union of South African Students (NUSAS). In particular, NUSAS … In 1969, African students launched…
ArticleGrade 12 - Forms of civil society protest emerged from the 1960s to 1970s
… politics was dominated by the rivalry between the Soviet Union (Russia) and the United States of America. This rivalry …
The adoption of the Freedom Charter
… affluent and more likely to be drawn from a legal, trade union or non-professional background than the politicians of …
ArticleOrganisation of African Unity (OAU)
… nevertheless underestimated the support for a continental union which would require the surrendering of sovereignty to … unattainable. The divisions rendered…
The Freedom struggle in Rustenburg
… saw the emergence of trade unions like the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), the union federation Cosatu, the Black Consciousness grouping … presence in…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1960 - 1969
… Organisation (SWAPO) and South West Africa National Union (SWANU). The South African United Front advances the … between the South African Communist Party…
ArticleThe History of May Day in South Africa
… socialist leader Tom Mann , who came to South Africa in 1910. Mann, like Kier Hardie before him, criticized the South …
"Racial Crisis in South Africa" . Address to meeting of Pakistan Institute of International Affairs, March 2, 1961
… whole system of apartheid and racial discrimination in the Union of South Africa. A year has passed but there has been … arms. Therefore, gradually the whole…
Nelson Mandela Timeline 1920-1929
… Organiser for the SANNC. His duties include touring the Union in search of financial assistance. July, John Dube … and Daniel Colrane, representing the…
ArticleGrey Street Complex timeline 1800-1999
… his family. 1908 The Native Beer Act (No. 23) is passed. 1910 1 August, The Durban Corporation opens the Indian Market … Five Pillars and Pakistan News,…
ArchiveThe end of an era - A tribute to Cde Govan Mbeki, by Jacob Zuma, 8 September 2001, Port Elizabeth
… with the history of this country. He was born in 1910, the year of the Union of South Africa. In addition, Oom Gov passes on just as …
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Pretoria East
… to unification of the synods failed after unification in 1910, but in 1962 these attempts were eventually successful …
PlacePeelton
… (prior to 1910) Umxelo was established in 1839 by the Reverend Richard …
PlaceThe Old Presidency Museum, Bloemfontein
… Officers; and later by Sir Hammilton J Goold-Adams (1901-1910) who was the Lieutenant-Governor of the Orange River …
ArticleJune 16 Soweto Youth Uprising timeline: 1976-1986
… in May in support of the Food and Cannings Workers Union was the first consumer boycott since the late fifties. … of the Group Areas Act. The South African…
PlacePietermaritzburg Botanical Gardens
… thrives in this City. During the early period (1874-1910), the lower part of the Garden was laid out in a …
PlaceUniversity of Pretoria Museums
… buildings on the Hatfield Campus the Old Arts Building (1910) and the Old Merensky Building (1937). These university … buildings on the Hatfield Campus the…
PlaceBethal
… which has been beautifully restored to its original, 1910 state and has been declared a national monument. The …
ArticleLiberation Struggle in South Africa
… the twentieth century this shifts between the new state (Union of South Africa), the imperial interests (for example, …
Artist groups and educational facilities (1960-1980)
… on Google maps: no current location FUBA (Federated Union of Black Artists Arts Centre) The Federated Union of Black Artists Arts Centre was established in…
ArchiveThe women's suffrage movement: The politics of gender race and class by Cheryl Walker
… body, the Women's Enfranchisement Association of the Union (WEAU), it was the culmination of many years of uphill … 253). HISTORY OF THE SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT…
Article1946 Indian Passive Resistance Timeline
… (SAIC) is inaugurated on this day. January 1924 The Union Government’s Minister of the Interior, Patrick Duncan , … by Indians in European areas between 1940…
ArticleA History of the South African Film Industry timeline 1895-2003
… theatre to be established in South Africa on 29 July 1909. 1910 On 11 December 1910 the first "Electric Theatre" for "Coloured People Only" … extensively all…
ArticleSPEAK Magazine (1982 - 1994)
… expected to wait on the men rather than participate in the union meetings. In 1983 at a Federation of South African … interviewed the Commercial Catering and…
ArticleAfrican Achievements and Potential
… of African Unity (OAU), which is now known as the African Union (AU). This day serves as a reminder of the commitment … any other sector. This explains why…
ArticleNational Newspapers and News Sites
… National Newspapers and News Sites: Independent Online - Union of several South African newspapers such as Cape Argus, …
Armed struggle & the advancement of the student and labour movements, 1967-1976
… Detachment (comprising ANC and Zimbabwe African People’s Union/ZAPU) guerrillas, proved to be the leading unit to … Lesotho, Swaziland, Zambia, Botswana, the…
Document 7 - The Freedom Charter
… of these 42 733 'employed' women were domestic servants (Union of South Africa, Sixth Census 1936: IX, xiii, xviii). … for example, there is reference to a…