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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 …
EventThe Minister of Manpower Utilisation, Fanie Botha reveals government plan on increasingly militant Black trade unions.
… (FOSATU) in 1979, which brought another dimension to the union movement. FOSATU was the predecessor to the Congress of …
EventKenyan Politician, Tom Mboya dies
… and key figure in the formation of Kenya African National Union (KANU), Thomas Joseph Odhiambo Mboya was born on 15 …
EventCommodore Dieter Gerhardt and his wife are sentenced to life imprisonment
… guilty of high treason on charges of spying for the Soviet Union. On 26 January, 1983, the South African government …
EventThe MK and ZIPRA formally announce that they had formed a military alliance
… Army (ZIPRA), military wing of Zimbabwean African People’s Union (ZAPU) formally announced that they had formed a …
King Kong a venture in the theatre
… Africa. Many hundreds of white people and Africans in the Union’s four largest cities worked selflessly together to …
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…
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…
56. The Cape Town Agreement is welcomed
… and after the necessary communications the Indian and Union Governments agreed to hold a round-table conference but … land to restrictive conditions'. We…
EventEthiopia requests OAU to stop Somali intervention in the Ogaden Province
… of African Unity (OAU), predecessor of the African Union to stop Somali intervention in the Ogaden Province, …
EventSAFCA distances itself from boycott of South African goods
… are today one of ten organisations in various parts of the Union representing those who have no association to join." …
EventGovernor-General Sir Patrick Duncan dies
… Governor-general of the Union of South Africa, Sir Patrick Duncan, died in Pretoria …
EventJohannesburg municipal workers strike
… created additional difficulties within the field of trade union organisations. Migrant workers were not allowed to join …
EventTrade Unionists convicted of kidnapping and assault
… Mufamadi and Mayekiso, Secretary-General of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, said they would appeal …
EventANC agrees to facilitate SA rugby’s return to international games
… Craven, ANC representatives and members of the SA Rugby Union was held in Zimbabwe. Seven years later, in 1995, South …
Event17 anti-apartheid organisations are restricted in terms of Section 6 of the Public Safety Act
… African Trade Unions (COSATU), the National Education Union of South Africa (NEUSA) and the National Education …
EventBus drivers strike because of lack of protection
… who were members of the Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU), a COSATU affiliate, went on strike because of …
EventMining agreement on wages and working conditions is signed
… The Chamber of Mines and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) signed an agreement on wages and …
EventWorld Cancer Day is instituted as an annual world-wide cancer awareness campaign
… World Cancer Day was founded by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) to raise … UICC, World Cancer Day , from Union for International Cancer…
EventLillian Ngoyi, well-known anti-Apartheid activist, dies
… 1956, Ngoyi led a march against pass laws for women to the Union Buildings and personally knocked on Prime Minister J.G …
Early Beginnings
… all sections of whites, even the white workers. Our trade union work, important as it is, is only a part of our activities. Our slogan on the trade union…
Freedom movement in South Africa: Its International impact by E.S Reddy
… the Southern Rhodesia Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union, formed around the same time, was inspired by the … liberation movement, had its origins…
Chapter 4 - The Township Uprising, September-November 1984
… Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU), the most important black union movement to emerge in the 1950s. One measure of the … secretly for fear of being victimised…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 4 - The Township Uprising, September-November 1984 by Noor Nieftagodien
… Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU), the most important black union movement to emerge in the 1950s. One measure of the … secretly for fear of being victimised…
WE HAVE THE KEY TO FREEDOM NOT THE OPPRESSOR, December 16, 1957
… to be a nightmare and an inferno. For the non-whites the Union has become a police state where he is made "prisoner in … as known in the civilised world,…
Circular Letter To Organisations Concerning The Arrest Of J. N. Singh Under The Immigration Act, November 9, 1946
… hardships and degradation is in store for them. In the Union Parliament - with the honourable exception of the three … BE THAT THE TIME WILL COME WHEN THE…
Circular Letter To Trade Unions, Progressive Organisations, Democrats And Anti-Fascists by Yusuf Dadoo, June 10, 1946
… hardships and degradation is in store for them. In the Union Parliament - with the honourable exception of the three … BE THAT THE TIME WILL COME WHEN THE…
EventDaniel Toroitich arap Moi arap Moi wins the first multi
… In 1960 he helped found the Kenya African Democratic Union (KADU), a moderate political party supported by several … was defeated by the more radical Kenya…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the AU-African Diaspora Ministerial Conference Gallagher Estate, Friday 16 November 2007
… that both our individual countries as well as the African Union have to look into seriously. Chairperson, There is an … For instance, the development…