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“Let Me Live - Letter to a European”: June 1946
… have contributed to the prosperity and development of the Union. As you are aware, they were asked to migrate from … beneficial not only to us, but at the…
Document 20 - Letter from S. P. Bunting to the Secretary, Communist Party of South Africa, 22 September 1930
… Thibedi has a certain following among the old Trade Union members, and as you will see the Party is somewhat in … way the party is showing its hostility to…
Document 68 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa, Johannesburg, to the Cape Town branch, 26 February 1937
… morning by 100% of our members, who drew out half the non-union men with them leaving ten scabs behind. We sought on … limp along, thanks to the treachery of…
BiographyOliver Tambo
… with the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), now African Union [AU]) and the Tanzanian government for land to set up a …
ArticleThe history of Migrant Labour in South Africa
… between the end of the Anglo-Boer war and the Act of Union, white miners in the Witwatersrand were able to …
PlaceSimon's Town Museum
… They assisted with the building of the East Dockyard (1901-1910) and later found employment with the Simon’s Town …
PlaceJubilee Art Centre
… Durban: Community Art Project in Cape Town: the Federated Union of Black Arts and the Open School in Johannesburg. Have …
Amulets & Dreams by Omar Badsha and Guy Tillim
… exhibition opened in Durban at the launch of the African Union by the OAU Secretary General Amara Essay (2002). Edited …
PlaceLanglaagte Deep Residential Village, Johannesburg
… miners mainly from Cornwall, who were also active in the union labour movement. In 1909 Langlaagte Deep was taken over …
PlaceTogo
… Togoland became an autonomous republic within the French Union. Togo gained independence in 1960. The economy rests …
EventDutch Foreign Minister Luns is asked by the Johannesburg
… what they call "irresponsible" utterances against the Union's apartheid laws and first to see that Holland "casts …
EventKwame Nkrumah is released from jail
… formation of the Organisation of African Unity(now African Union -AU) in 1963. Nkrumah was deposed in a military coup in …
ArticleThe International Criminal Court: Origins, Jurisdiction and the ‘African Bias’
… United States, the United Kingdom, France and the Soviet Union). The Agreement included a charter for the … men. This has been further aggravated by the…
ArticleLife Timeline of Jacob Zuma
… leadership and military training course in the Soviet Union. 1985 Zuma is re-elected to the NEC of the ANC at the … as President of the Republic of South…
ArticleDebating Stellenbosch University’s Language Policy
… Unknown, “Afrikaans becomes the official language of the Union of South Africa”, South African History Online, … tory.org.za/dated-event/afrikaans-becomes…
ArticleThabo Mbeki (1942 - ) Timeline
… of Social science. 1970 Thabo Mbeki is sent to Soviet Union for political training. Walter Sisulu and Abertina … Africa and addresses the nation. 2009 March,…
ArticleUniversity Christian Movement (UCM)
… student organisation in the country. With the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) undergoing a … the ‘organisation and functioning of the…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - The Financial Strangulation of Native Education
… Province which has always been - the most liberal in the Union towards Native education because almost the whole of … Africa. This tradition is so constant…
EventJohn Langalibalele Dube is born
… Association, which was known as the Natal African Teachers Union (NATU) for professional Black teachers. Dube played a …
Event80 Women arrested for anti-pass protest
… that the pass laws were subject to the authority of the Union government and not in the power of local government …
EventFormer African Springbok captain, Welile Nkohla dies
… to Mark Alexander, President of the South African Rugby Union, Nkohla was a legend of black rugby in the Eastern …
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.3 No.2 Jan-Mar 1959
… David Marais. Rhodesian Liberals on Dilemma: The Road to Union, Frank Boston. Keep Britain White, H.A. Naidoo. Brown …
EventNigeria becomes the first Anglophone independent state in Africa to become an associate member of EEC
… step in Europe's movement toward economic and political union. In the same year Nigeria experienced a major crisis. A …
EventSouth African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) is formed
… Hall, Johannesburg. SACTU was the leading non-racial trade union co-coordinating body, and ally of the African National …
EventCriminal Law Amendment Act No 8 commences
… for any organized resistance against the laws of the Union. In addition, the Act stated that anyone accompanying a …
EventLondon hosts an international conference on the protection of the African elephant and rhinoceros
… agreed to the terms of this convention, including the Union of South Africa, Belgium, the United Kingdom of Great …
EventThe first OK Bazaars opens on the corner of Eloff and President Street in Johannesburg
… as it was willing to negotiate with the Shopworkers' Union in the 1940s, and OK Bazaars employees were seen to be …
EventBanning orders served on NUSAS leaders
… The National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) a White, student …
EventMinister of Defence, P.W. Botha, reports to the Senate on the Arms Industry and defines the main aims of South Africa’s defence policy.
… uprising by Black South Africans, supported by the Soviet Union and the reluctance of Western Governments to supply …
EventPolice break up demonstrations against South African rebel Cricket Tour
… by the Managing Director of the South African Cricket Union Dr Ali Bacher but was opposed by the the ANC and the …