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ArticleA History of the Springbok Legion
… white South African men who volunteered to serve in the Union Defence Force (UDF) during the Second World War.” (Neil … of the South Africa Tank Corps of…
PlaceUniversity of KwaZulu Natal (UKZN)
… Founded in 1910 as: 'The Natal University College', in Pietermaritzburg … Founded in 1910 as; 'The Natal University College', in Pietermaritzburg. …
ArticleFootball in South Africa Timeline 1862-2012
… Africa for a third time (first in 1897, and then in 1903). 1910 The South African Football Association joins FIFA, the … since its formation. May, South…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1930-1939
… Indian Congress , the Native Voters Association, the Bantu Union and religious and welfare societies from all over … and all the women wanted us'. Rev. James…
ArticleAzanian People’s Organization (AZAPO)
… AZAPO realized the importance of support from the trade union movement. As early as the 1970s a trade union aligned to the BCM was established by the Black…
Devout domesticity? A century of African women's Christianity in South Africa by Deborah Gaitskell
… 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…
ArticleGrade 12 - The impact of the Cold War in forming the world as it was in the 1960s
… the capitalist United States and the communist Soviet Union, and their respective allies. From the end of World War …
The significance of the Bulhoek massacre today by Sam Matiase, 11 May 2015, South Africa
… Matshaka’s brothers and others as his followers. In August 1910, John Msikinya and others were sentenced to three months … formation in 1912 was a direct…
ArticleOvercoming Adversity from All Angles: The Struggle of the Domestic Worker during Apartheid by Bennett Gwynn
… was difficult for them to converge and discuss forming a union and fighting for their worker’s rights. One of the main … more progress for unionisation was…
ArticleThe National Coat of Arms
… one that has served South Africa since 17 September 1910. The change reflects Government's aim to highlight the …
Memorial lecture on the 26th Anniversary of the Lowveld Massacre presented by Comrade Jackson Mthembu ANC National Spokesperson, 15 March 2012
… both the British and the Boers agreed that a Legislative Union of South Africa be formed, the white delegates … former colonies would not be changed with the…
ArticleBlack People’s Convention (BPC)
… vocal in their opposition to apartheid. The National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) was at the forefront … and students. In 1977 a group of…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the Occasion of the Honoris Causa Degree Ceremony, at the Salón de Diputados, Old Congress, Santiago, Chile, 7 June 2005
… even held honorary positions in each other's armies. In 1910 for example, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany turned up at … and in our regional bodies such as the…
ArticleCommunism in Russia 1900 to 1940
… various forms of communism in the context of the Soviet Union. The 1905 Revolution can be regarded as the prelude …
ArticleAfrican National Congress (ANC)
… international pressure and the collapse of the Soviet Union, the apartheid government was forced to enter into …
NANNA’S LIFE STORY
… political support Marital Struggle Being banned Back to union Politics in the 1980s Detention Without Trial From … the conditions were very, very bad because…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… Charter from the Standpoint of Africans within the Union of South Africa' and 'Bill of Rights,' adopted by the … way of directing the attention of our…
Chapter Two - The year with the ICU: 1921 - 1926
… In June 1919 a branch of the Industrial Workers Union of Africa was formed in Cape Town under the leadership … black (unskilled) workers increased from 1:7…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1950-1959
… former secretary of the Indian High Commissioner in the Union, visit Basutoland. They have discussions there with … headmen about the inauguration of the…
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1940-1949
… Sir Benegal Rama Rau, declares its support for the Union Government war effort, but demands that there should be … conference is the formation of the African…
South African Prime Ministers from the National Party
… be head of state. The position of Governor-General of the Union of South Africa was accordingly abolished. When the …
ABBREVIATIONS USED
… MC – Management Committee (SAC TU) MWU - Metal Workers Union NCC - National Consultative Committee (Congress … Committee (SACTU) NSIEU - Natal Sugar…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - New Workers, New Unions
… As act workers they were not allowed to strike or join a union. Their bargaining power was therefore low-and so were their wages. The Furniture Workers’…
Chapter 18. Disrupting the Trade Unions
… a furious campaign Cultural Societies against the trade union movement. This campaign started in the form of a … campaign on a nation-wide scale against the…
Margaret Thatcher's role in SA's transformation by FW de Klerk, 5 December 2016
… ‘a fit of absent-mindedness’. Its solution was to create a union or federations along the lines of the recently … in September 1909 as the South Africa Act…
ArchiveAppendix 1: Time Line of South African history by Denis Goldberg
… equal electoral rights between white and black. On 31 May 1910 the Union of South Africa was formed by combining the Cape … established. This marked the…
Say It out Loud - The 1921 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 29th March, 1921
… the Coloured races immediately after the consummation of Union, I once more drew attention to the ill-treatment of the … attention to the position of the…
ArchivePetrus Mashishi
… Mashishi, President of the South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) from its founding in 1987 until 2009, was both … and in more recent times the…
PlaceZululand District Municipality
… in 1994, the province of Natal, which had existed between 1910 and 1994, was renamed KwaZulu-Natal . Just north of the …
ArticleBattle of Cuito Cuanavale 1988
… and the Angolan army (FAPLA) aided by Cuba, the Soviet Union and to a lesser extent East Germany. The stakes were … by all Angolans. Civil war broke out…