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ArticleThe formation of the SANNC/ANC
… Between 1908 and 1909, constitutional discussions towards Union took place which prompted numerous meetings organized … ways of objecting to the draft South…
ArticleHistory of elections in South Africa
… Natal, Cape, Transvaal and the Orange Free State into the Union of South Africa. The Act, which served as the Union's constitution until 1961, created a…
References and links: Local History
… 2015]. ShowMe, (2008/8), “The 1956 Women’s march to the Union Buildings” from ShowMe, 12 December [online], Available … ia/tourism/tourist-attractions/the…
Why General Smuts won on 4 September 1939
… 1938 General Election was the most hotly contested since Union. Not only was the average percentage poll of 81,73 the … (one-fifth of the total number of…
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March in Pretoria
… Coloureds, Whites, and Blacks – staged a march on the Union Buildings of Pretoria to protest against the abusive … areas should be automatically made…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1950s
… former secretary of the Indian High Commissioner in the Union, visit Basutoland. They have discussions there with … headmen about the inauguration of the…
ArticleTimeline of the Marikana Massacre 2012 - 2013
… of the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU). 2012 9 August, A number of employees from … 17 August, NUM General Secretary Frans Baleni…
ArticleMoses Kotane Timeline
… of Life” (roll of ANC membership). Moses joins the Bakers Union that was set up by the Communist Party of South Africa … first Kotane refuses, saying he is…
ArticleThe Western Cape Farm Workers Strike 2012-2013
… 3% of farm workers in the Western Cape belonged to a trade union. The low representation of farm workers in unions … to unions other than COSATU, such as the…
The Afrikaner Bond
… came into conflict with Paul Kruger, who was opposed to a union of the four states. The Cape Bond was, largely due to … the notion of the ‘final goal’ of a…
ArticleNUSAS Wages Commission Timeline 1971-1973
… Board's meeting. July, A proposal is made at a National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) conference that wages … in Bolton Hall, Hemson tables the…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 1 Contextual Overview
… changed industrial and agricultural face of the Soviet Union. This came to be known as the Great Turn as Russia … theorised that the minority working class…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1920-1929
… of Asiatics to trade and acquire fixed property in the Union. 12 May, the Asiatic Inquiry Commission, appointed in … of Asiatics to trade and acquire fixed…
ArticleContinued resistance and internal criticism 1920s and 1930s
… at this time. In 1919 the Industrial Commercial Workers Union (ICU), founded by Clemens Kadalie , with support from … president of the ANC, and spent some…
ArticleMarxism-Leninism
… of communism that was implemented in Russia and the Soviet Union after the 1917 Revolution is therefore known as … by those states that were taken over by…
Grade 12 - Topic 4 - The end of the Cold War and a new global world order 1989 to present
… grade 12 material. The collapse of communism in the Soviet Union was another major cause of the end of apartheid. Under … the US and Western powers on the…
ArticleHistory of Africa Day - 25 May
… of the National Liberation Front of Algeria and the Union of Cameroonian Peoples. It is worth noting that there … Ghana and by African people in Britain,…
ArticleInternational Rugby World Cup Timeline 1983-2011
… 1992. On 23 March 1992, the South African Rugby Football Union was formally established with the merging of the non-racial South African Rugby Union and the…
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 1 (1923-2001)
… of electricity production. The Transvaal Power Act (1910) effectively put electricity under state authority and … This kind of state intervention was allowed…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Glossary
… A map representing the ‘new’ Union of South Africa of 1956 (The British Cape Colony and … Orange Free State). Image Source: https://alchetron.com/Union-of…
Women’s Resistance Against the Pass Laws
… two white races, the British and the Boers, had signed the 1910 Act of Union. In other words, the formation of the ANC was a direct … Prime Minister of the…
The historical significance of COSATU’s Workers’ Charter Campaign
… regime they eventually left and by 1954 formed the Trade Union Council of South Africa (TUCSA) -- a majority white “sweetheart union” that closely aligned…
KwaMsiza - A Ndebele village: References/Bibliography
… Publications No 1 . Department of Native Affairs, Union of South Africa. Pretoria: Government Printer. 1944. … Publications No 18. Department of Native…
African People’s Organisation (APO)
… and 1904 The resistance of the APO to the formation of Union of South Africa Although the Imperial Britain had … colonies and its neighbours with a coastline…
Liberation organisations
… to their own organisation.' Trade Unions A Trade Union or Labour Union is an organisation of workers. Trade union leadership bargains with the employer on…
Discovery of the Gold in 1884
… indentured labourers. Following their repatriation in 1910, they were replaced on the mines by the introduction of …
Marikana Commission of Inquiry
… and the trade unions operating in that sector, National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and Association of Mine workers and Construction Union (AMCU) were found,…
Marikana Commission of Inquiry
… and the trade unions operating in that sector, National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and Association of Mine workers and Construction Union (AMCU) were found,…
ArticleRichard David Turner Timeline 1941 - 1978
… of Cape Town 1963 Becomes involved in NUSAS (National Union of South African Students) 1964 First marriage, to … leaving Durban, and also from entering…
ArticleWages Commission
… workers. From 1971, this core group of Durban National Union of South African Students (NUSAS), together with … Bolton Hall, they showed little interest for…