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EventSchalk Burger wins two International Awards
… Newcomer honours from the International Rugby Union at a ceremony held in London. Burger became the first …
Letter from Neville Curtis, NUSAS, to Dear Sir
… Government and various developments regarding the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS). These include the …
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Source-based Questions
… Israel defeated the Israeli states. SOURCE 2D The Soviet Union had also suffered a setback from the defeat of her … The United States used her influence to…
PlaceKoedoespoort Aerodrome, Pretoria
… On 17 March 1920 it was the first landing place in the Union of South Africa for the aircraft Voortrekker , whose …
EventKenyan political activist Jomo Kenyatta released from jail
… political activist and President of Kenya Afican National Union, Jomo Kenyatta was released from jail after serving 9 …
EventFrancis William Reitz, South African lawyer and politician, is born
… He became the first president of the Senate of the Union of South Africa. He was very popular and loved for his …
ArchiveBlack consciousness and white liberals in South Africa: paradoxical anti-apartheid politics
… Liberation and the World Council of Churches; The National Union of South African Students and the South African …
EventSouth African black activist and poet Benjamin Moloise is hanged for allegedly killing a police officer
… the claim that Moloise was involved. The US and the Soviet Union warned the apartheid government against the execution, …
EventRobert Mugabe returns to Rhodesia after being in exile for five years
… gather support for his party the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) in Mozambique and had managed …
EventTripartite Alliance plans mass action
… Communist Party (SACP) and Congress of South African Trade Union (COSATU), outlined a mass action plan for August. The …
EventPAC attends Patriotic Front Conference
… movements including Congress of South African Trade Union (COSATU) in a Patriotic Front Conference held in …
EventPres Mandela’s testimony in SARFU affairs set aside
… of the Browde Commission into South African Rugby Football Union (SARFU) Affairs aside, Justice William de Villiers said … of South Africa and Others v South…
EventThe inauguration of the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) is celebrated
… 1922. Prince Arthur of Connaught, governor-general of the Union of South Africa, became the University's first …
EventDe La Rey is persuaded not to speak to the Burghers
… a Van Rensburg prophecy by leading a rebellion against the Union of South Africa, which was formed after the defeat of …
EventPolitical activist and trade unionist James La Guma is born
… joined the Communist Party in 1925 and visited the Soviet Union (USSR) more than once. La Guma was an ardent Africanist …
All Gwede’s horses and all Gwede’s men… can’t put Cosatu together again by Stephen Grootes (The Daily Maverick), 11 November 2014
… of Cosatu’s now biggest affiliate once more, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM). He is the central point in the …
EventFour black newspapers are banned by the SA government
… and vice-president of the Black journalists' trade union Media Workers of South Africa with three-year banning …
ArchiveThe National situation, an address delivered at the Edendale Conference of the All African Convention
… on 5 December 1956 where 156 people were arrested in a Union-wide police swoop. The second, was the arrest of more …
EventGovernment bans 20 Black leaders
… Black Community Programme (BCP), the Black Allied Workers' Union (BAWU) and the Black Workers' Project. Members of the …
ArticleNamibian Timeline
… governor. Regional and Local Councils are set up as well. 1910 There is widespread famine and drought, 'ondjala … and the Cape-based International and…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the 5th National Congress of COSATU 7 September 1994
… for COSATU in particular, and indeed for the entire trade union movement of our country. I however wish to say that, … our horizons. It will always be…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1960s
… PAC sympathising students form the African Students' Union of South Africa (ASUSA), and those loyal to the … against racial discrimination and segregation in…
67. The Xuma-Naicker-Dadoo Pact, 1947
… of all discriminatory and oppressive legislation from the Union's statute-book. This joint meeting is therefore of the … launched and that every effort be…
PlaceSimon's Town, Cape Peninsula
… Cape . Work on the Simon’s Town Dockyard was completed in 1910. The Naval Base was handed over to the South African …
PlaceBarberton, Mpumalanga
… 1866 Died: 24 Aug 1896 Metcalf, Alfred Thomas Died: 29 Oct 1910 Milligan, Mary Died: 16 Nov 1918 Died aged 26 years and …
Document 105 - John Gomas, “Cape Town: Liberation League Activities”, South African Worker, 17 April 1937
… Party, Socialist Party, S.A. Railway and Harbour Workers Union and S.A. Garment Workers Union. Coloured, Native, Indian, Malay and European leaders … the aim…
EventThe University of Port Elizabeth is founded
… University (NMMU). Opened on 1 January 2005, this union of three unique institutions came about as a result of …
EventSisulu is served with two notifications
… and from attending any gathering at any place within the Union of South Africa or the area South West Africa, for a …
EventInternational Labour Organisation and UN meet over apartheid in SA
… aspirations of the people, the Second International Trade Union Conference for Action against Apartheid, Palais des …
EventBeyers Naude refuses to testify before the Schlebusch Commission
… the University Christian Movement (UCM), the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) and the Institute of …