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… the fastest growing labour federations in the world. At its launch it represented less than half a million members.  … Trade union federation, COSATU, celebrates its 26th anniversary …

… consciousness a day later in hospital. How he survived, he too still wonders to this day. Sisulu reckons that one reason … an era when the apartheid government had 'intensified its repression of the liberation movement' by resorting to … Born in 1931, Boy Adolphus Mvemve joined the ANC in the early 1950s. He also became a member of the ANC Youth League, …

… it’s functioning as the SACP, operating underground, after its dissolution in …

… The Afrikaner Broederbond (AB) reverses its 1972 decision to expel HNP (Herstigte Nasionale Party) members from its ranks. …

… The General Assembly, at its sixteenth Special Session, adopts by consensus the "Declaration on Apartheid and its Destruct …

… America. The ICU created widespread disillusionment after its collapse, but it also popularised a new, particular form … Africa (CPSA) in the Orange Free State due in part to its limited strength there relating to a largely rural … a greater degree of influence in the late 1920s and early 1930s, the party fell victim to sectarianism and …

… from Europe, Asia, the Americas, and Africa, and its impact on indigenous people (under construction) …

… from Europe, Asia, the Americas, and Africa, and its impact on indigenous people (under construction) …

… Op-Ed: Goodbye Collins, you’re gone too soon by Stephen Grootes (Daily Maverick), 16 March 2015, …

… Johannesburg has served a variety of unique purposes since its creation in 1893. [1] In an ironic way, it echoed its inhabitants during apartheid. Just as they were dragged … by the abhorrent policies of their government, the prison too evolved to accommodate these new political prisoners. …

… FREEDOM MOVEMENT IN SOUTH AFRICA: ITS INTERNATIONAL IMPACT [1] All national movements for … – despite the pseudo-religious justifications given by its proponents – is contrary to all ethical values.  It seeks … the founder of FRELIMO of Mozambique, received his early political training and experience during his student …

… van die Groot Begeer. Ernst van Heerden and ID du Plessis, too, turned to Balkema. In 1958 he published the first … of new appointments. Another was to drastically improve its editing and printing by importing expertise and qualified … principal ones at least should be mentioned: R Lewcock's Early Nineteenth Century Architecture in South Africa , …

… studies at the University of the Witwatersrand in the early 1950s, but they were jettisoned for political activism … He sat through the entire trial and was only acquitted in early 1961. During the Treason Trial the Pan Africanist … in late 1961 to avoid another trial, and became part of its executive committee in exile.’ Later he became a press …

… save Christiaan before the rescue craft arrived, which was too small to take all of them on board. The child was the … such as Spoornet in various aspects of security. In the early 1990s, Mr van Staden started a company providing …

… processes leading to the " Declaration on Apartheid and its Destructive Consequences in Southern Africa " can be … of African Unity, which had accepted that one of its responsibilities, was decolonisation, the end of … of the OAU was to isolate South Africa and put pressure on its government to open negotiations with liberation movement …

… The Daily Express newspapers, allocated costs to each of its newspapers accordingly. However, it discovered that it … to address the issues of Black people at the time. Its demise was caused partly by its strategy to increase sales. By the time it closed the … SAAN announces its decision to close the Rand Daily Mail …

… the National Party (NP)’s first federal congress since its withdrawal from the Government of National Unity, its poli …

… Representative Council (CRC) adjourns without passing its budget and urges the government to meet its dema …

… The ANC holds its forty-ninth National Conference in Bloemfontein. Its strategy and tactics document “From Resistance to Recons …

… The Anti-Apartheid Movement in London ends its seventeen-year boycott of Barclays Bank for its South African ties. …

… Uncle: The United States and Southern Africa in the Early Cold War by Thomas Borstelmann …

… The Spanish Civil War begins in the early morning hours with a revolt at Melilla in Spanish …

… Johan Frederik van Oordt (D’Arbez), early Afrikaans author of historical stories, is born in Cape …

… Senator F.S. Malan (69), editor of the early Afrikaans publications Die Afrikaanse Patriot and Ons …

… Frederick Timpson l’Ons (85), SA painter of early life in the Eastern Province, dies in Grahamstown. …

… cricket player Aubrey Faulkner, great all-rounder in the early 20th century, is born …

… Benin (formerly Dahomey) proclaims its independence from France. …

… France again introduces slave trade in its colonies. …

… Togo holds its first multiparty election for parliament. …

… British Airways prohibits smoking on all its flights. …