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ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement of Azania (BCMA)
… such as Biko. It is significant that following the Soweto Revolt of 1976, contestation for both membership and …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1970-1979
… of the protest action takes place in the East and West Rand as well as in the Alexandra townships and the rest of …
Women’s Resistance Against the Pass Laws
… were prepared well in advance by the women from the West Rand and the East Rand. Unlike the Prime Minister, the councillors agreed to … related by Govan…
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1960-1969
… racial segregation policies. February/March, The Pondoland Revolt , an uprising against the imposition of Bantustans and … is estimated that more than 40% of…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 3 Essay Questions
… and unwise foreign policies. People were starting to revolt against the idea of “divine rule” and started to …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1960s
… Attempted assassination of Prime Minister Verwoerd at the Rand Easter Show in Johannesburg results in serious wounds in … there was high African absenteeism…
Afrikaner Newspapers and the newspaper industry from 1830
… printing of the telephone directory, and a multimillion rand contract from the Information Department to produce a … According to Hachten and Giffard: ‘An…
ArticleA History of South African Literature, timeline 1824-2005
… which Bantu Steve Biko was a leading figure, and the youth revolt of 1976. Literature became a vehicle to promote the …
ArticleThe Ndebele in history
… was aggravated after June 1976 when a national student revolt made international headlines and heralded the …
ArticleWomen’s resistance in the 1960s - Sharpeville and its aftermath
… demonstrations among rural women during the Natal Women's Revolt. By September 1961 the FSAW had made enough ground to …
10 YEARS PROJECT
… of Government Commissions. Recently, as a result of the Rand and Pretoria Bus Boycott, the extreme poverty of …
ArticleThabo Mbeki (1942 - ) Timeline
… Thabo Mbeki is awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Rand Afrikaans University. 11 October, Thabo Mbeki gives a …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1960-1969
… is estimated that more than 40% of the labour force on the Rand stay at home. 31 May, South African becomes a republic …
Dumile Feni biography by Sophia Reuss
… by the University of Fort Hare, which travelled to Rand Afrikaans University, Pretoria Museum, University of …
South African Youth Revolutionary Council (SAYRCO)
… Alexandra, north of Johannesburg, and Tembisa on the East Rand, where the unrest had spread. The number of students …
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions Timeline 1919-1997
… from Klerksdorp, Pretoria, Johannesburg, the East and West Rand, representing 60 000 workers in total. 1958 South …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1950s
… Klerksdorp, Pretoria, Johannesburg and the East and West Rand. December, The South African Coloured People’s … general election since 1948. May, The…
ArticleFanakalo: the language of mining culture
… by which the existing Natal pidgin was transferred to the Rand mines is somewhat obscure in the literature, but the …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1930-1939
… June, Trade Unionist Clements Kadalie is banned from the Rand. A Non-European Convention is held in Kimberley to …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1920-1929
… the CPSA, ANC and ICU, is held in Cape Town and across the Rand in protest against the passing of the Riotous Assemblies …
The Rise of Women’s Trade Unionism in South Africa by Peter LaNasa
… she also was influential in a miners’ strike on the Rand in 1913. (Walker, 1982 59) These actions by Fitzgerald, …
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 1 Contextual Overview
… under capitalism would drive the proletariat to revolt against the capitalist system in a quest for political …
ArticleAlbertina Sisulu Timeline 1918 - 2011
… of Johannesburg. 1975 Albertina's son Zwelakhe joined Rand Daily Mail as cadet. 1976 13 June, Albertina's daughter …
ArticleAhmed Mohamed Kathrada Timeline: 1929 - 2017
… detention law, at Marshall Square, Modderbee Prison (East Rand) and then transferred to the Fort in Johannesburg. At …
ArticleDr Alfred Bitini Xuma Timeline 1893-1998
… Xuma makes a statement, published in the Bantu World and Rand Daily Mail, calling for the government to hold …
Rustenburg the Segregated city
… Corporation employed local BaTswana to work on the Rand mines. By 1937, the corporation signed three-year leases …
ArticleDavid Goldblatt Timeline
… of that trade. Miners would come all the way from the East Rand to buy his rugs, imported from Ireland. He took a very … were a few press photographers on…
General South African History Timeline: 1970s
… by the government for a change in the par value of the Rand representing a 4.202 percent devaluation in relation to … in comparison with the current market…
ArticleBureau of State Security (BOSS)
… Citizen newspaper as a counter against the views of the Rand Daily Mail newspaper. By 1977 the performance of the …
ArticleLife Timeline of Jacob Zuma
… immediate aftermath of this action has the South African Rand dropping to less than R15 to the US dollar. It is felt …