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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…
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…
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…
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 …
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 …
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 80th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1992
… of the ANC was in large measure a response to the 1910 Act of Union. This act represented an illegitimate agreement at an … representatives of the white…
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…
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…
ArticleAbram Fischer Timeline 1908-1975
… concern. July, Bram attends a meeting of the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) in Durban, is … about the Red Army and social services in the…
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…
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…
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 …
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,…