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ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement Timeline 1903-2009
… UCM decides to leave the priesthood. July, Saso’s first General Students’ Council is convened, where the organisation … African Students’ Organisation (Saso)…
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
… Workers Industrial Union (CWIU) and the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU). The formation of the Federation … were based on a series of issues:…
Indian South Africans timeline 1940-1949
… Indian Congress (TIC) leadership and the Indian Agent-General, Sir Benegal Rama Rau, to unite the Indian political … of property by Indians in Durban is…
Article1946 African Mineworkers Strike
… Obviously expecting that this would do little to allay the general discontent among the African miners, Smuts issued a … this meeting of African miners…
ArticleChieftaincy and Kingship in South Africa
… colonial bureaucracy. The colonial office of the Governor-General granted the title of ‘Supreme Chief of Indigenous … office-holder, and the Shepstone System…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… growing unemployment among both black and white, the general social disintegration and spiralling crime. However: … include the restructuring of the state…
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions Timeline 1919-1997
… the Native Labour (Settlement of Disputes) Act. Becky Lan, General Secretary of the Food and Canning workers union is … Ray Alexander is ordered to resign…
ArticleFirst Anglo Boer War
… forces suffered heavy losses and had to retreat. Major-General Sir George Pomeroy Colley had to wait for more … 554 men, where the Boers had an outpost. On…
ArticleThe South African Communist Party and Mozambique
… us. That is how President Oliver Tambo , and the secretary-general of the SACP, Moses Mabhida , came to have homes in … Yusuf Dadoo , who was the chairman of…
EventPaarl Riots report submitted
… determined effort to destabilise South Africa and spark a general uprising. The rioters attacked a police station, … created a retroactive 90 day detention…
EventBattle of Delville Wood starts
… On 15 July 1916, the S.A. Infantry Brigade under Major-General H.T. Lukin was ordered to clear the wood at … who died in the Battle and was unveiled by the…
EventThe Vereeniging peace conference begins
… to discuss their independent status. They elected General C.F Beyers as chairman. The discussions were recorded … moved to the Krugersdorp Hospital for…
EventThe South African War: The lifting of the siege of Mafeking
… to put the town of Mafikeng under siege. Eloff instructed General Piet Cronje to lead approximately 5000 Afrikaner … Barolong huts and the defences that the…
EventVoortrekkers are defeated during the Battle of Boomplaats
… (near Bloemfontein) by the British under Cape Governor-General Harry Smith. The defeat forced the Voortrekkers to … about this declaration and they called on…
Cable to the United Nations Opposing Incorporation of South-West Africa, by Dr. A.B. Xuma, January 1946
… incorporation South West Africa into Union" The Chairman General Assembly United Nations Organisation West Minister … discriminations at home. (Sgd) - A.B…
Draft Report of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, submitted to the Annual Conference, December 15-17, 1950
… Communism Act purports to be directed against Communism in general and the Communist Party of South Africa in … ensued resulting in the death of two Africans…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… 4 Both delegations expressed serious concern about the general level of violence, intimidation and unrest in the … and Messrs Van der Merwe, Swanepoel, Louw…
ArticleThe Crackdown on the Black Consciousness Movement in 1973
… affected the lives of the restricted, but also the general course of resistance to apartheid. The proliferation … heading the organisation and Drake Koka as…
ArticleWorld War I and the South African Native Labour Contingent
… for the major offensives planned for that year. General Haig, commander of the British forces in France … in the South West African campaign as drivers and…
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Chapter 4 - Some Reflections on Early African and South African History by Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi
… view that Africa did not have a history was based on the general conviction in the West that Africa is and has always … a major dilemma for historians and…
ArticleEskom Energy Crisis: Will there be a “just transition” to renewable energy? by Kyla Jade Mc Nulty
… we were told the problem would be resolved. Numsa deputy general secretary Karl Cloete wrote in a 2018 Op-Ed: Numsa … paycheques were bouncing” On 20 March,…
Why protect rights of gays and lesbians?
… dealt with the offence of sodomy in the common-law (that general body of law that isn't contained in statutes but is … of support had been undertaken. J and…
ArticleSouth African Police Services (SAPS)
… commander-in-chief of the British forces, ordered Major General Baden-Powell develop a scheme for a Constabulary … during times of peace, especially in Black…
ArticleMaps of Africa through the centuries
… have been replaced by a long, narrow one (Marawi) in the general area where future explorers will find Lake Nyasa, … only the most recent geographical…
ArticleThe 1992 Whites only referendum ‘For’ or ‘Against’ a negotiated constitution
… the impression that the party stood a chance of winning a general election. In February 1992 a third by-election was … “The message to Mr De Klerk is to…
Discovery of the Gold in 1884
… However, these were minor reefs, and today it is the general consensus that credit for the discovery of the main … gold excavated at deep levels economically…
Colonial history of Polokwane
… married Stephanus Schoeman, who became Acting Commandant General of the Zoutpansberg in 1855. He renamed the area … had to decide where to establish a new…
Balfour Declaration 1926
… Title of His Majesty the King 3 (b.) Position of Governors-General 3 (c.) Operation of Dominion Legislation 4 (d.) … 6 (b.) Representation at International…
PlaceCape Winelands Airport, Fisantekraal
… African Airforce airfield now operating privately as a general flying airfield and is the preferred base for … them in the future. For now, we are operating…
Chief Albert Luthuli Centenary Lecture by President Jacob Zuma, 7 September 2012, Kimberley, Northern Cape
… of this distinguished South African and ANC President-General, who was the first African to be awarded the … conference. Later that year, he was elected…