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EventSandra Reynolds, a South African tennis champion is born
… Sandra Reynolds was born on 4 March 1934 in Bloemfontein, Free State.[i] Reynolds was … of South African tennis.[ii] She claimed the South African women’s…
ArticleDr. Abu Baker Asvat timeline 1943 - 2012
… allows for interracial cricket competitions. June, Asvat’s clinic catches on fire during the Soweto Uprising. People … partnership that lasted until the end…
STRIKES AND INDUSTRIAL ACTIONS
… that they would return to work and submit to the company's conditions. The strikers refused and were immediately … 21 1,096 39 4,618 22(57%) 1955 102 20 384…
ArticleCape Town Timeline 1300-1997
… do Cabo (the Table Cape) on account of its shape. 1510 1 March, On his way back to Portugal the Viceroy of Portuguese … Cape we saw in the whole…
Say It out Loud by Mohamed Adhikari
… PART I: PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESSES TO THE AFRICAN PEOPLE'S ORGANISATION The 1906 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 2nd … April, 1919 The 1921 Presidential Address…
Armed struggle & the advancement of the student and labour movements, 1967-1976
… Party (NP) government. The African National Congress’s aim was to train cadres in newly independent African states … outside Lusaka. These recruits included…
ArticleBloemfontein Timeline 1824-2010
… appointed to set up a British residency in the area. 26 March, Warden's troops, known as the Cape Riflemen, arrive in Bloemfontein. … elected as the first…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement Timeline 1903-2009
… in the adoption of the Freedom Charter at Kliptown. 1957 6 March, Ghana (formerly the Gold Coast) achieves independence … interrogate Steve Biko in…
EventThe Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) is founded
… In an attempt to organise a broad-based and inter-racial women's organisation, the Federation of South African Women (FSAW … and customs that denied women…
Article1946 Indian Passive Resistance Timeline
… inaugurated on this day. January 1924 The Union Government’s Minister of the Interior, Patrick Duncan , introduces the … greatest evils the local authority…
Chapter 7 - 1957-58: The Movement in a Crucial Phase
… government: fare increases, the introduction of passes for women, and the imposition of "Bantu Authorities" in the … on the workers. "It would seem," stated…
ArticleUnited Democratic Front timeline 1983-1990
… other bodies to unite and collectively oppose the state’s constitutional reforms. 24 January, 25 selected activists … Durban December, formation of the…
ArticleWomen in African Literature: Writing and Representation
… Olive Schreiner Image source: (Cronwright-Schreiner, S.C. 1924. The Life of Olive Schreiner. London: Fisher Unwin) … of the 20th century, Schreiner was born…
The Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… of the system of local government in the Transkei. March, Dr Yusuf Dadoo forms the Nationalist Bloc in the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC). "The NEUP's first…
Article1960 - 1994: Armed Struggle and Popular Resistance
… character. Relative to the earlier period's infiltration of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) guerrillas into the … to agree to a mutual non-interference pact, at…
Document 50 - Socialist League of Africa , “South Africa: Ten Years of the Stay-at-Home”, International Socialism, 5, Summer 1961
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - … as the bus boycotts. The first took place in Evaton in 1956. The people…
ArchiveThe 1957 Alexandra Bus Boycott and its unsung heroes by Roseinnes Phahle, June 2019
… United States they returned to South Africa with the MDC’s ideas and recruited Mokonyane and others. Members of both … Matthews had been a member of the…
Delegations and dialogue between ANC and internal non government groups
… intelligentsia began to question the National Party’s vision of what South African society should be. Fundamental … talks with the ANC. COSATU sent another…
ArticleMass Democratic movements, 1976-1983
… November 1977, Dr Mamphele Ramphele stands over Steve Biko's open casket in his home before the funeral, attended by … came from the Black Sash , an…
ArticlePaper abstracts and biographies of speakers
… and for access to land and public services in South Africa’s past and present. She is a history student and teacher and … I Live Where I Like, a graphic…
ArchiveThe women's suffrage movement: The politics of gender race and class by Cheryl Walker
… From the book: Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945 edited by Cheryl … VOTES FOR WOMEN AND THE SOUTH AFRICAN 'BUT' Women's suffrage was a minor but…
My Spirit Is Not Banned - Introduction by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… woman who was a trade unionist, political activist and a women's leader both in the Eastern Cape and in national campaigns. … fair to say that the mass…
Introduction - My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… woman who was a trade unionist, political activist and a women's leader both in the Eastern Cape and in national campaigns. … fair to say that the mass…
ArticleIndian Passive Resistance in South Africa: 1946 - 1948
… and shanties amid substantial homes. The Union Government’s Minister of the Interior, Patrick Duncan, introduced the … Committee , which held its inaugural…
Biography of Lindiwe Mabuza by Kayla Johansen
… in multiple collections meant to empower South African women writers such as Malibongwe and One Never Knows. … their situation was to seek an education. [3]…
ArticleKasturba Gandhi timeline 1869 - 1944
… back to South Africa alone to be there for Chamberlain’s visit, following the conclusion of the Anglo-Boer war. … 4, Publication of the first issue of Indian…
BiographyJosiah Tshangana Gumede
… faith. There is very little known information about Josiah’s mother and his early childhood. Josiah had a younger … Christian first names, while Josiah was…
Chapter 8 - The politics of Congress in the late 1950s
… Congress in the late 1950s Writing in Liberation (June 1956), Nelson Mandela stated that the Freedom Charter was … possible alternative: an undertaking to…
ArchiveYou Have Touched the Women
… A2 silkscreen black on white; photo graphic of 1956 Women's March; text: You have touched the women You have struck a … You Have Touched the Women …
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1900 - 1909
… the Indian Opinion . The newspaper becomes Gandhi's, the Transvaal Indian Congress, Natal Indian Congress and … Gazette. This Ordinance requires every…