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ArticleWomen, employment and the changing economic scene, 1920s
… canteens and assaulted the male customers. In Durban on 17 June 1929 chaos erupted with 2 000 whites clashing with 6 000 Africans on 17 June 1929. More than…
The Legal Veneer
… on 2 July 1982, but has a long ancestry stretching back to 1950. Included amongst its progenitors are a whole succession … under security legislation has…
EventOlive Shisana was born on this day
… town of Pietersburg, South Africa, on the 27th of November 1950. [1] She holds a BA degree which she obtained from the …
PlaceWits Art Museum
… the Nelson Mandela Bridge . Its’ collections begun in the 1950’s and was known as the first collecting institution that …
SASPU National, 1980 - 1987
SASPU National was one of two publications produced by the South African Students Press Union (SASPU), the other being SASPU Focus. A non-profit newspaper,…
Document 67 - Letter from the African Metal Trades Union, Johannesburg, to the Workers’ Party of South Africa, 21 February 1937
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 67 - Letter from the African …
EventPAC’s leader, Potlako Leballo confirms that Poqo is the organisation’s military wing
… 7 April 1960), but the CPSA was banned earlier in 1950 under the Suppression of Communism Act, and re-launched …
Bibliography: Missionary settlement in southern Africa
… and SHEPHERD, RHW. 1954. South African Missions, 1800-1950. London: Thomas Nelson and Sons. DELAGORGUE, Adulphe. …
PlaceKwaMashu
The development of KwaMashu Township, in the KwaZulu-Natal province and located some 19km north of Durban, resulted from the mass resettlement of the slum…
Message by Oliver Tambo on South Africa`s year of the women, a call to the peoples of the world, 01 November 1983
… founding of the South African Women`s Federation on April 17, 1954. We have thus dedicated the coming year as …
PlaceVan Riebeeck’s Hedge, Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, Cape Town.
… declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 17 April 1936, while the remains of the latter, in Klaassen …
EventGerman torpedoes sink the SS Mendoza close to Durban
… Allen Tony, (2008), SS Mendoza (+1942), from Wreck Site, 17 April 2008, [online], Available at www.wrecksite.eu, …
EventAbdul Samad Minty, anti apartheid activist, is born
… at www.iaea.org [Accessed 21 Sep 2011] Mamoepa, R. (17 September 2006). ‘Ambassador Abdul Samad Minty to Chair …
EventLord Charles Henry Somerset, governor of the Cape Colony, is born in Badminton, England
… in Table Bay on board the Nautilus and the Chapman on 17 March 1820. These became known as the '1820 British …
EventThe Directors of the Dutch East India Company propose Hout Bay to Jan van Riebeeck as a possible area to settle some Dutch families
Hout Bay is a sheltered cove along South Africa's Cape Peninsula. Before European settlement, the area was populated by Khoisan hunter-gathers who lived…
EventMarcus Garvey, Jamaican-born Black nationalist who advocated the departure of African-Americans back to Africa, is born.
… and the Rastafari Movement. He was born in Jamaica on 17 August 1887, and as a young man developed a love for …
An extract of the speech delivered by Albertina Sisulu on the first anniversary of the UDF
… happy to be one of those in the UDF, because in all these 17 years I’ve been banned it has been my wish that one day, I …
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 1 (1923-2001)
… and from any political interest within the state”. [17] Van Der Bijl had managed to create a zone of breathing … p.12 and Freund, Twentieth Century South…
ArticleBloemfontein Timeline 1824-2010
… the convention is opened by the Mayor of Bloemfontein. 1950 18 March, The University of the Free State is founded. …
Background to the Freedom Charter 1955
… including Oliver Tambo , Sisulu’s successor. The period 1950 -1952 began with a commitment to militant African …
Article“Bantu Education or the Street” by Norman Levy
… of the “Bantu” social structure to “native education”.17 Verwoerd was immersed in this rhetoric and drew on it when … been so fraught with gravity): “The…
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1910-1919
… that Phoenix debt was incurred during struggle. March 17, Told The Star representative that Indians had come to … wrote to Gandhi, supporting passive…
PlaceAlgiers, Capital of Algeria
Presumed to be named after the Harbour City, on the West side of the Bay of Algiers, Capital City of Algeria. Algiers is the urban area of Ganyesa, which is a…
EventThe Defiance Campaign against apartheid laws begins
Following the adoption of a Programme of Action in the 1949 annual congress, the ANC began the 1950s with mass action campaigns marked by boycotts, strikes and…
Document 45 - Letter from the International Secretariat of the International Left Opposition to Cape Town comrades, 23 October 1932
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 45 - Letter from the …
Document 37 - Letter from S. P. Bunting to E. R. Roux, 29 November 1930
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 37 - Letter from S. P. Bunting … Radical Tradition a Documentary History…
The Indians of Natal: Resistance to Apartheid, 1971-1985 by Davinder S. Dhillon
ABSTRACT OF THESES This thesis highlights the ebbs and flows of the Indian minority's struggles against the systematic and unjust segregation of mankind…
EventWalter Sisulu arrested under the Suppression of Communism Act
… A national work stoppage was organised for 26 June 1950 to protest against the newly-implemented apartheid laws. …
EventAfrican National Congress Youth League is founded
The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) is the youth wing of the African National Congress. It was formed in 1944 by members of the ANC who believed…
EventEban Abba, Israeli statesman is born in Cape Town
… simultaneously as ambassador to the United States from 1950 until his election to the Knesset (Israeli parliament) …