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PlaceDwarsvlei Farm, Karoo
… in 1910, the year of the Union of South Africa . In 1944, on Henry Nours’s death, Dwarsvlei was bought by Nourbet …
Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati
… she received her Native Lower Primary Certificate. In 1944 she started her teaching career at the age of nineteen …
EventGermany invades Poland, starting World War II
… were amongst the first to enter Rome, Italy, in June 1944 as part of the offensive against Mussolini in the …
Freedom In Our Life Time - Notes
… land. When the Youth League Manifesto was written in 1944, the government was just beginning to buy up land to be … president of the Transvaal African…
ArticleSita’s story
… my father would sit with them. The Ashram was very busy in 1944. All the Congress leaders would visit him, as they were … Do not forget Gujerati. In India,…
ArticleRobert Mangaliso Sobukwe Timeline 1924 - 1978
… is admitted to a hospital suffering from tuberculosis. 1944 2 April, The African National Congress Youth League …
The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa: Bibliography
… Lux. February 1970. Volume 5. No. 1 The Leader. 1 April 1944. 12 December 1969, 30 January 1970 The Graphic. 15 July …
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Buitenkant Street, Cape Town
… Tafelberg congregation only came into being on 25 October 1944. The complex was declared a National Monument under old …
PlaceRustenburg
… in Rustenburg North in May 1941, Rustenburg East in April 1944 and Rustenburg West in November 1946. The Gereformeerde …
EventBenjamin Magson Kies, political activist & lawyer, is born
… he had an instrumental role in founding between 1943 and 1944. As a theorist he was responsible, with life-long …
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1940-1949
… in 1943, and the ANC Youth League was formed in 1944.There was a marked growth in militant campaigns against … the convening of a national anti pass…
ArticleWomen and the struggle against Apartheid
… Albertina Sisulu married ANC leader Walter Sisulu in 1944 soon after moving to Johannesburg and becoming …
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU)
… popularly known as the Trade and Labour Council. In 1944 SATLC adopted the Workers Charter. This Charter was …
PlaceNederlandse Hervormde Kerkgebou, Pretoria
… Vermooten 1930-1934: Prof. ds. C.H. Rautenbach (assistant) 1944-1945: Prof. P.S. Dreyer (assistant) 1949-1952: Prof. …
Zonal Centenary Memorial Lecture on the Life and Times of David Bopape, presented by David Makhura, ANC Gauteng Provincial Secretary, 21 June 2012, Tsakane
… took to streets singing "No Bopape, No School" in August 1944! Longest serving Transvaal ANC Provincial Secretary and … figure in the formation of the…
Document 134 - The Impending Strike of African Miners: A statement by the African Mineworkers’ Union, 7 August 1946
… by the Commission have been ignored by the employers. 1944: Until this year, the continual appeals by our Union for … met by the Government with the weapon…
Document 39 - “Walter Sisulu, “Boycott as a Political Weapon”, Liberation, 23, February 1957
… of successful boycotts: the Alexandra bus boycott of 1944; the Western Native Township Iran boycott; the Port … and protests of the people; the Squatters…
ArchiveOne hundred years of an air force inspired by General Smuts, by John Kane-Berman (PoliticsWeb), 18 July 2018
… the armies of the Western Allies in Normandy on D-Day in 1944 would probably not have been possible. That supremacy …
PlaceDie Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerkgebou in Du Toit Street, Pretoria
… Vermooten 1930-1934: Prof. ds. C.H. Rautenbach (assistant) 1944-1945: Prof. P.S. Dreyer (assistant) 1949-1952: Prof. …
Address at the Paris City Hall, 18 November 2003
… the liberation of Paris from Nazi occupation on 25 August 1944. Your worship, our country too has lived through …
ArticleThe African Mine workers strike of 1946
… for the miners. In its final report, published on 24 March 1944, the commission agreed with the Chamber of Mines that a … of ore increased by 75% in the…
ArticleDr Alfred Bitini Xuma Timeline 1893-1998
… Xuma is elected for a second term as president of the ANC. 1944 21 February: The leaders of the newly formed ANC Youth … the ANC with a ₤200 grant to…
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BiographyB J Vorster [John Vorster]
… for the first time since September 1942. By this time, in 1944, it was plain that Germany would lose the war, but some …
ArticleLetters: Albertina Sisulu
… as an inspiration to us all. At her marriage to Walter in 1944, Albertina was warned in a speech by Anton Lembede, an …
ArticleIndian Passive Resistance in South Africa: 1946 - 1948
… a fervent plea for the Bill to be rejected. On 18 April 1944 Smuts met a NIC delegation led by A.I. Kajee, P.R. … to the Prime Minister, General Smuts, on 29…
Mandela and his three wives - Evelyn, Winnie and Graca by Sapa-AFP, 6 December 2013
… in Sisulu's home in Soweto, southwest of Johannesburg, in 1944. They married months later, in the same year that …
Freedom In Our Life Time - Introduction
… Our Life Time by Anton Muziwakhe Lembede On Easter Sunday 1944 a group of young political activists gathered at the … However, the person the Youth Leaguers…
A Chronological look (1943 to 1986) at the Life and Times of Mr George Ponnen
… war years. I was Chairman of the Durban D.C. from 1940 to 1944 and Party full time Organiser for the same period, was a … of overalls etc., were laid down in…
Article1946 African Mineworkers Strike
… report of the Lansdowne Commission which appeared in April 1944 was a shameful document. It accepted the basic premise … two other officials of the Union…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 2: The Nuclear Age and the Cold War
… were building thousands of tanks, ships and planes. In 1944, a huge Allied army crossed from Britain to liberate … significant military power anywhere in the…