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EventSolly Sachs addresses Garment Worker’s protestors
… during a protest meeting organised by the Garment Workers' Union of South Africa (GWU). He was later arrested as the …
EventDr Louis Luyt is born
… millionaire, former president of the SA Rugby Football Union and politician, was born in Britstown, Cape Province. …
EventSA’s first official commercial airline service is launched
… commercial air service in South Africa under the name of Union Airways Company (Pty). On this date the first flight …
EventNUSAS President Ian Robertson is banned
… The President of the National Union of South Africa Students (NUSAS), Ian Robertson, …
EventProposal for a new constitution
… power during the transition. The Organisation of African Union was also exerting pressure of the South African …
EventPresident Mbeki opens the second sitting of PAP
… 2004, by Article 17 of The Constitutive Act of the African Union, as one of the nine Organs provided for in the Treaty …
EventZimbabwean politician and trade unionist Morgan Tsvangirai is born
… Tsavangirai joined the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), which later became ZANU-Patriotic Front …
EventSA government threatens to pull out of the UN peace plan for Namibia
… 1915 when General Louis Botha, first Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa, ordered 40 000 South African troops …
Inqaba ya basebenzi
… a national minimum wage and exploitation of workers. Trade union action in the struggle for power by united workers is …
ArticleAngolan Civil War (1975-2002): A Timeline of Events
… support for the MPLA is also increased by the Soviet Union, Cuba and other Eastern bloc nations. 1987 …
ArticleSS Mendi
… General Louis Botha , the current Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa at that time, informed Parliament that …
Black Peoples Convention - National Leadership
… Committee (STAC) Transvaal Youth Organisation (TRAYO) Union of Black Journalists (UBJ) Western Cape Youth …
Chapter I - Twenty thousand strong we marched
… were massed together in the huge stone amphitheatre of the Union Buildings in Pretoria, the administrative seat of the Union government, high on a hill. The…
Archive2010 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 11 February 2010
… we will mark the centenary of the establishment of the Union of South Africa, which was established in 1910. This created a unitary state. Significantly, the…
PlaceScottish War Memorial, Johannesburg
… spoke to his friend Chappie Chapman, a MOTH and manager of Union Castle Lines, to transport the sculpture to South … H.R.H. Prince Arthur of Connaught,…
EventSA wins top awards from the International Rugby Board
… international governing and law making body for the Rugby Union. …
ArchiveInterview with Julius Nyerere
… on the revitalization of the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU), the country's ruling party. In May 1963 the …
EventThe UN Security Council to lay down rules which would allow UN forces to enter Congo
… forces in his country. He threatened to ask the Soviet Union for help should the Belgian troops refuse to obey the …
EventGamal Abdel Nasser is formally nominated to become the first president of the new United Arab Republic
… in the United Arab Republic- a symbol of pan-Arabism (the union only lasted until 1961). Nasser was the second …
EventChief Cyprian Zulu warns his people not to participate in the Defiance Campaign
… specified unjust and racially discriminatory laws of the Union Government, unless these laws were repealed before …
EventUDF is launched
… Town on 20 August 1983. Its inception was inspired by the union of anti-apartheid organizations in opposing the …
EventGeneral Motors fails to leave RSA quietly
… South Africa. The National Automobile and Allied Workers' Union demanded that their 3000 workers be paid a one-month …
EventEpainette Mbeki receives the Order of the Baobab
… due to ill health. During the same ceremony at the Union Buildings, twenty-six people received National Orders. …
EventPresident George W Bush announces his HIV/AIDS Plan
… and two Caribbean countries during his State of the Union address at a congress session in the USA. The president … on: 20 December 2013]| CNN, ' Bush's…
EventAdriaan Vlok applies for amnesty
… (TRC) for amnesty for his role in the bombing of a trade union headquarters in Johannesburg in 1987. He became the …
EventProfessor Bob Hepple is born
… Workers’ Unity, and helped the black Metal Workers’ Union and other small unions survive the near-illegal …
EventSpecial Committee on Apartheid publishes its first Interim Report
… more. South Africa is our own for the first time since Union, and may God grant that it will always remain our own.” …
EventThe trial of Fred Carneson, a listed communist begins at the Supreme Court in Cape Town
… in London. Eventually, he was employed at the National Union of Teachers in London. The Carnesons returned to South …
EventA plan limiting admission of black students in white universities is withdrawn
… It preceded the University Act passed in 1916 by the Union of South Africa government. The 1916 legislation …
EventFirst Women Anti-Pass Campaign starts
… first recorded incidence of protest by women against the Union government. About 700 women marched to the Bloemfontein …