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EventThree people are murdered at Eikenhof
… seventeen years in jail. During a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) hearing Pan African Congress (PAC) activist, …
EventStompie Seipei’s murderer goes to jail
… Mandela accepted, before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, some responsibility for the death of Seipei. …
EventBlast opposite the Athlone Magistrate’s Court and police complex kills two people
… of death. In her testimony at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), Coline's sister, Selina Williams, was … Truth and Reconciliation Commission…
EventAlleged Mk members are killed
… It emerged later during the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) hearings that their killing was a well …
EventApartheid police officers admit to the killing of Biko before the TRC
… Nieuwoudt who appeared before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) admitted their role in the 1977 killing of …
EventThe Vereeniging peace conference begins
… 1902. The delegates at conference appointed five members commission consisting of Gens, Louis Botha, C.R de Wet, J.H. …
Document 114 - (National Liberation League?), How To Work Among Urban Africans
… with the demands which they put forward: more land, higher wages, better education facilities, abolition of Pass Laws, … Common grievances of African workers…
ArchiveZondeni Veronica Sobukwe interviewed by Ntsikelelo Sandi,King Williams Town,12 May 1997
… Sandi will lead you with questions on behalf of the Commission. ADV SANDI: Thank you Mr Chairman. Let me first … You have made a request, Mrs Sobukwe, to…
Early Beginnings
… had not yet been finally disposed of though the Negro Commission (in which the matter was discussed at some length … of colour. The amendment, which I…
A Message from Albert Luthuli to every Voter from the African National Congress, 1 April 1958
… their families broken up. While prices have gone up, our wages have been pegged down and our poverty has become …
Document 105 - John Gomas, “Cape Town: Liberation League Activities”, South African Worker, 17 April 1937
… "stop orders" for the deduction of rent from their wages. The Anti-Mixed Marriages Bill is to prevent Indian and …
Notes for address by President Nelson Mandela at a breakfast of the Raadzaal Rotary Club 17 September 1994
… they have this right they will be able to improve their wages and conditions a great deal. The land workers will no …
Document 48 - “The Anti-C.A.D. and the Trade Unions”, The Torch, 1 April 1958
… Act, which extend inferiority and segregation in work and wages; by the Suppression of Communism Act, which is used to …
ArchiveA Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai
… whole Coolies petition the Durban Corporation for better wages 2. Moothen pleads for his wife to be returned 3. Charge …
32. An unjust and uncalled-for Immigration Bill, 1894
… to live on the interest on his capital. The total of the wages for 10 years would amount to £87. If the indentured …
ArticleSudan’s Revolution
In December 2018, protesters took to the streets in response to austerity measures[i] imposed by then Sudanese president Omar al Bashir. Bashir had…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Essay Questions and Answers
… forced into the mining industry and were given minimum wages. [7] Ultimately, the Native Land Act impoverished …
PlaceAG Bain Monument, Grahamstown
… It was erected in 1964 by the Historical Monuments Commission in honour of Andrew Geddes Bain, (1797-1864) …
Placem'Bashe Lighthouse
… It was back in 1890's that the Cape Colonial Lighthouse Commission, originally recommended putting up a few beacons …
EventSteven Biko is arrested.
… applied for amnesty from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission but the application was denied. Biko was buried on …
EventSA artist Ernest Methuen Mancoba is born
… for himself. He loved sculpture and completed various commission works for different churches. Mancoba's works can …
EventThe British successfully thwart the Zulu attack at Rorke’s Drift
… A bronze plaque was erected by the Historical Monuments Commission in 1954 in honour of the fallen heroes of Rorke's …
EventThe Native Land Act is passed
… initially allocated to Blacks, with a provision that a commission was to investigate the matter further for a more …
Bishop Tutu’s 1999 interview on NewsHour
… Archbishop Tutu to lead the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, investigating atrocities committed on all sides during the apartheid years. A report on the…
PlaceMendi Memorial, Eastern Cape
… experience of the sea… In 2006 the Commonwealth War Graves Commission launched an education resource called "Let us die …
ArchiveCHAPTER 4 - A turn to masses by Howard Barrell
… to a second stage: the appointment in January 1979 of a commission to review ANC strategy, tactics and operational structures. This commission reported in…
Chapter One - From Abbotsdale to Kimberley
… motives of employers and the demands by workers for higher wages and better conditions. By the end of the war Gomas was … workers on the Witwatersrand were…
Background to the Freedom Charter 1955
… African racial policy was an international issue and a UN Commission was established to investigate the situation. …
ArchiveWhere did all the masks go? by Dewald van Rensburg (22 May 2020)
… the use of masks double or even triple. The Competition Commission has received 1 354 complaints related to price … surgical masks between 46% and 261%. The…
BiographyThabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki
… Bam, who became the chair of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC). The council, nicknamed the ‘kitchen …