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To Change the World ! Is Reason Enough ?, London, August, 1995
… He became the secretary of the Cinematograph Workers Union, a post he held for some 20 or more years. He was in … trade unionist. He cooperated with the boss…
PlaceSimon's Town Museum
… They assisted with the building of the East Dockyard (1901-1910) and later found employment with the Simon’s Town …
ArticleKey sites
… market but was unsuccessful. Consequently, on 1 August 1910 the Durban Corporation opened the Indian market at the … is a unique blend of Islamic decorations…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1980s
… was also called for by the Chemical Workers Industrial union. 1980 Cape school boycotts begin. The De Lange … of Azania. In April, the African United…
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…
Document 16 - Letter from Clements Kadalie to E. R. Roux, 10 October 1928
… Roux, 10 October 1928 INDUSTRIAL and COMMERCIAL Workers Union of Africa (I.C.U.) NATIONAL COUNCIL … Farmers' Organisation. Bear in mind, not a "Good…
ArticleCape Town Timeline 1300-1997
… Cathedral completed 1904 Population at Cape 171 000 1910 Formation of the Union of South Africa; Cape Town's population approaches 200 … the second…
Interview with Africa Report by Oliver Tambo, 01 March 1981, New York
… position. Official contact between the ANC and the Soviet Union goes back as far as 1927, when a delegation of the ANC, … led by its President, Josiah Gumede…
75. 1960: We are at a turning-point in the history of our country
… of South Africa. At the same time the role of the Union as the administrating authority for the mandated … successor of the League of Nations and that…
Keeping a cool head amid flying bullets: A tribute to Juda Ngwenya by Joseph Oesi (City Press), 26 October 2016
… the people after the inauguration ceremony in front of Union Building, Pretoria in this May 10 1994 file photo. … the people after the inauguration ceremony…
Zola Skweyiya, former Social Development Minister, to work at ANC Headquarters, 7 May 2009
… of the Office now that most comrades will be moving to the Union Buildings" said Gwede Mantashe, ANC Secretary General. …
Speech at the Funeral of M.P. Naicker, London by O. R. Tambo, 8 May 1977
… in the annals of our history... 1 M.P. Naicker, a trade union leader and journalist active in the liberation …
EventWW2 veteran Job Masego dies
… for service with the Native Military Corps of the Union Defence Force. While still working at the factory, he …
Artist Bill Ainslie is born
… other centres of art instruction, like the Federated Union of Black Arts (FUBA) in 1976; the Thupelo Art Project …
EventMass protest against the circumstances of Neil Aggett’s death
… from the mostly nonwhite African Food and Canning Workers Union, where the young physician had worked. A spokesman for … ,[Accessed on: 28 January 2014] …
EventLuthuli Combat Detachment crosses the Zambezi
… Sizwe (MK) operatives, and the Zimbabwean African People’s Union (ZAPU) guerrillas, crossed the Zambezi River from the …
EventMike Gatting’s rebel cricket tour is curtailed
… Sports Council (NSC) and the white South African Cricket Union (SACU) on the rebel cricket tour by Mike Gatting's …
EventLaw and Order Minister, Adriaan Vlok implicates De Klerk at TRC
… House; the bombing of the South African Congress of Trade Union headquarters; and attacks on cinemas which showed the …
EventM.T. Steyn is sworn in as president of the Orange Free State
… Republic) to merge the two republics to form a federal union. The inauguration ceremony, conducted by the Rev. H.T. …
PlaceEnon
… War! In 1909 control of the town was ceded back to the Union of South Africa. The governance of Enon currently falls …
EventPaul Kruger is elected president
… Theophilus Shepstone, despite Boer protests, hoisted the Union Jack on Church Square in Pretoria and annexed the …
EventA strong delegation of the ANC NEC members arrives at Caculam, Angola
… counterinsurgency operations against the forces of the Union for Total Independence of Angola (Unita) in the civil …
EventThe Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) is founded
… 1956, FEDSAW organised a march by 20,000 women to the Union Buildings in Pretoria to protest against pass laws. …
EventCyril Ramaphosa is born
… Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa's former political and trade union activist was born in Johannesburg. He was one of the …
PlaceShell House, Johannesburg
… takeover of the South African Government, has been sold to Union Investment Company Hosken Consolidated Investments …
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 …
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the Joint Session of the Parliament of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia, 30 October 2007
… as enunciated in the Constitutive Act of the African Union and its development programme, the New Partnership for … the Organisation of African Unity (OAU)…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki at the European Parliament, Strasbourg: 17 November 2004
… Unity. Similarly, under the leadership of the African Union, and whatever the current difficulties, the conflict in … to be born. This is the new Africa…
From retirement to parliament
… Charter from the Standpoint of Africans within the Union of South Africa' and 'Bill of Rights,' adopted by the … way of directing the attention of our…
ArticleTimeline — Land Dispossession and Restitution in South Africa - 1995-2013
… National Development Plan. 13 June, The National Union of Metalworkers (NUMSA) and Food and Allied Workers' Union (FAWU) launch a “Campaign for Agrarian…