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EventDate set for start of Passive Resistance Campaign
… governments repressive against anti-Indian legislation. A 'Council of Action' for the campaign was set up with Dr. Yusuf …
EventA.G. Visser, SA physician and poet, dies in Heidelberg, Transvaal
… and Theatre Association as well as a member of the city council. Visser is considered quite important in the …
EventArchbishop Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
… first Black Secretary General of the South African Council of Churches, first Black Archbishop of the Anglican …
EventLeaders of six homelands reject new constitution
… African Catholic Bishop Conference, the South African Council of Churches and Black business leaders, of whom some …
EventA resolution against the use of Afrikaans is taken during SASM conference in Roodepoort
… boycotting classes. The minutes of the General Students' Council read: The recent strikes by schools against the use …
EventThe “Sharpeville Six” narrowly escape executions
… were protesting against rent increases by the town council. The rent boycott was also a general protest against …
EventA military coup deposes the Lesotho Government
… to King Moshoeshoe II , who would rule through a military council chaired by Lekhanya. South Africa denied playing any …
EventHansi Pauline Pollak, welfare worker and social activist, is born
… served as director of welfare services for the World Council of Churches from 1953 to 1954. She was also involved … Human Sciences Research Council, (2000), …
EventPrime Minister B.J. Vorster predicts South Africa will become leading state in the Southern Africa
… of agreement on the Southern African Regional Tourism Council. South Africa continued to have good relations with …
EventFirst United Nations General Assembly opens
… sessions at the call of the United Nations Security Council or at the concurrence of the majority of UN members …
ArticleAzanian Students Organisation (AZASO)
… socialism in a future South Africa. At its annual General Council conference held at Wilgespruit in 1981, the issues of …
ArticleRuth First timeline 1925-2012
… at the Social Welfare Division of the Johannesburg City Council but does not work there long. She then gets a job at …
ArticleHeritage day, Braai Day or Shaka Day: Whose Heritage is it Anyway?
… the idea in 2007 as trivializing, the National Heritage Council endorsed it in 2008. Tutu was quoted as saying in an …
ArticleThe Daily Dispatch
… doctorates and addressed the United Nations Security Council. Due to its use to pressure the national government …
PlacePaarden Eiland
… District (PECID) was approved by the Cape Town City Council in May 2005 following an application by property … it became generally known. Working closely…
The Industrial Workers of Africa, 1917-1921 by Bikisha Media Collective
… labour force) succeeds in forcing the Randlords to the negotiating table (but not before imperial dragoons gun down …
Address delivered by Nelson Mandela, Deputy President of the African National Congress to the graduation ceremony at MEDUNSA 23 March 1991
… transition. We do this because the present government is a negotiating party. It cannot simultaneously act as 'referee'. …
PlacePiketberg
… when the farm: ' Grotefontein' was given to the Church Council. The old Town, now a series of beautifully restored … farm of “Grootfontein” was donated to…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1950-1959
… Cachalia were appointed joint secretaries of the Planning Council. The response was significant in Durban and the … injury to 108. The strike also protests…
ArticleTimeline of the Group Areas Act and Selected Related Pieces Legislation
… The Locations Act was passed by the Port Elizabeth City Council. It created an African neighbourhood called 'New … the Land Tenure Advisory Board heard…
72. The Defiance Campaign, 1953
… by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai A joint planning council of the African National Congress and the South … oppressive measure; and (c) established a…
72. The Defiance Campaign, 1952
… A joint planning council of the African National Congress and the South … oppressive measure; and (c) established a Joint Planning Council to co-ordinate the…
Chapter 1. The South African Trade Union Movement- Historical Background - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… strike, and in 1925 the South African Trades and Labour Council was formed. The Council, which went out of existence in 1953, had no colour … trends towards…
PlaceSutelong a township in the West of Mortele, Pretoria
… law and represent their respective tribes/communities in council. Moretele is the Setswana name for a river that runs …
EventCI and SACC offices are raided
… of the Christian Institute (CI) and the South African Council of Churches (SACC), two religious formations …
EventFormer ANC President, Oliver 'OR' Tambo, is born
… of a democratically elected Student's Representative Council (SRC). Subsequently, he was deregistered from the …
ArticleUniversity of Pretoria 2015-2016 Student Protests Timeline
… - University of Pretoria (UP) Student Representative Council (SRC) attempts to hold mass meeting in the … a student representative on the Standing Committee…
The Military Defeat of the South Africans in Angola by Horace Campbell (Monthly Review), Africa, Angola
… This historic agreement came not because of the tenacious negotiating of U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African … but the Magnus Malan faction within…
EventTwo prisoners sentenced to death for sodomy
… sodomy’ according to trial records from the Cape Council of Justice in August 1735. Jacobsz was a sailor from …
Message by Oliver Tambo to the Prime Minister of Lesotho, Dr. Leabua Jonathan, 13 December 1982
… an urgent meeting of the United Nations Security Council to consider this latest act of aggression by the …