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59. The South African Federation challenges Congress over the settlement
… the absorption of the four self-governing Colonies in the Union of South Africa, our representations in respect of the … we were assured that with 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…
EventFormer South African Prime Minister Strijdom dies
… march by twenty thousand women on August 9th, 1956 to the Union Buildings in Pretoria to protest against the proposed …
EventVan Wyk de Vries Commission submits its report to Parliament
… engaged in political activities, undesirable. The National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) was the main target …
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 …
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 …
EventGandhi supports APO's Day of Mourning
… of Indians, Coloureds and Africans in the upcoming Union of South Africa. …
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 …
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…
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 …
Political Overview by the Gauteng ANC Chairperson, Paul Mashatile, at the Provincial General Council, 8 June 2012, St George`s Hotel, Tshwane
… was the hundred and second year since the formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910. Uppermost in the minds of those who conceptualised and formed the…
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…
ArticleThe Angolan Civil War (1975-2002): A Brief History
… supported by other African countries, Cuba and the Soviet Union. The National Liberation Front of Angola (FNLA), … The Ovimbundu people formed the base of…
Growth of African Nationalism and Defiance
… right to vote was entrenched in the constitution of the Union. The NP required two thirds majority of a joint sitting … National Council of Women and the…