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Speech on the Occasion of Installation as the Chancellor of the University of Fort Hare and on being Awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws by O. R. Tambo, 19 October 1991
… On that occasion, the Chairman of the Council hoisted a Union flag, based on the tricolour, and at its centre bearing … British colonies of the Cape and…
Document 89 “People’s Front and the Cry for Unity in South Africa”, The Spark, 2, 4, April 1936
… the Prime Minister stated that without their reminder the Union of South Africa had already voluntarily subscribed to … against fascism and war, and (iii)…
Chapter 17. Afrikaner Nationalism and the Workers - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… anti-British nor fascist. Its attitude to the trade union and labour movement was not hostile and, at certain … German South-West Africa, which was…
Oliver Tambo, 1 October 1987 - Reproduced in Oliver Tambo and the Struggle against Apartheid, edited by E. S. Reddy
… since Britain transferred power to the white minority in 1910, but a country with a special system of internal …
Oliver Tambo, October 1987
… since Britain transferred power to the white minority in 1910, but a country with a special system of internal …
Address by Nelson Mandela to the National Consultative Conference, 14 December 1990
… born Black, this government and its predecessors since Union, based on the will of a minority, have no moral claim … and gave their compact palpable form in…
The Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA): CODESA 1
… The End of the Cold War and Disintegration of the Soviet Union Peace Accord Early announcements of talks Mandela’s … The End of the Cold War and…
Introduction
… the British Indian Association, the Natal Indian Patriotic Union, and the Transvaal Indian Political Association were …
PlaceEmoyeni, Parktown, Johannesburg
… subsequently became the first Minister of Finance in the Union Parliament. It was considered to be one of the most …
EventGen. J.B.M. Hertzog is forced to resign as premier after his motion of neutrality in World War II is defeated in parliament
… election led to Smuts forming a government and leading the Union of South Africa into the war. After the split, Hertzog …
EventSir Christoffel Joseph Brand succeeds his brother, P.A. Brand, as editor of De Zuid
… as the Advertentieblad (Advertisement newspaper). After Union, the paper became the organ of the South African Party. …
EventSmuts becomes Prime Minister
… Smuts started his first term as prime minister of the Union of South Africa after the death of General Louis …
EventAlan Paton is born
… Beloved Country, the National Party came to power in the Union of South Africa and instituted apartheid. The …
EventMlungisi Sisulu dies.
… two young South African exiles studying in the Soviet Union. At the age of five, Lungi came to South Africa and …
EventThe first rugby match that is played in SA
… Club. As the popularity of the sport grew, the Rugby Union Board was formed. After SA was banned from …
EventGambian Government overthrown in military coup
… as Gambia refused to accept a monetary and economic union with Senegal in 1989. A military council headed by four …
EventTryphina Mboxela Jokweni is honoured by the ANC
… African National Congress (ANC) and was part of the 1956 Union Buildings March which saw 20 000 women march to …
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Protest and Resistence
… in the form of theIndustrial and Commercial Workers Union (the ICU). There we see that the activities of the ICU … this period. On the Rand, there had been a…
Document 7 - ‘White South Africa.’ Two Voices.” The International, 27 January 1922
… issued by Mr. Hendrikz as Secretary of the Mine Workers' Union quoted an article from "Ons Vaderland" by one General … he indignantly repudiates the…
”South Africa - Time of Challenge” - Report to the Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party, October 1973
… sport. Of special significance is the recent Geneva trade union conference representing 186 million workers. The … time in many years all the main…
ArchiveCuito Cuanavale, Angola 25th Anniversary of a Historic African Battle by Ronnie Kasrils (Monthly Review), Africa, Angola
… in Namibia, and ZAPU (Zimbabwe African People’s Union) as well as its offshoot ZANU (Zimbabwe African National Union), in Zimbabwe, all followed similar…
Say It out Loud - The 1909 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 13th April 1909
… than during the past three months. The movement towards a Union of British South Africa, which we all regard as … Parliament, have been steadily maintained,…
Pamphlet by Professor Z. K. Matthews, published in November 1946
… of that political representation of Africans in the Union, the Act provided for the establishment of a Council … of our constitutional machinery for the…
ArchiveAziz Pahad: Rest in peace by David Kenvyn
… in the Anti-Apartheid Movement and the National Union of Students. He was, without a shadow of a doubt, one …
PlaceWoutersen Vault, Wessels Road, Green Point.
… brother of Sir John Wessels, former Chief Justice of the Union. The architecture of this is very interesting and there …
EventUN report accuses Katangan President and Congo President of conspiracy to murder Patrice Lumumba
… Lumumba was known to have been keen on inviting the Soviet Union into Congo and establishing diplomatic ties with …
EventSimon Petros Matseke, prominent in African social and political life, dies in Pretoria
… that led to the founding of the African Mineworkers' Union (AMWU) in 1941, which was also instrumental in the …
EventWiehahn Commission Report tabled in parliament
… politics of the country, the report was welcomed in trade union and business circles. However, Black trade unions were …
EventEnforcement of military conscription for all white males in SA
… The Union Defence Force was created in 1912 and served as the …
EventIvory Coast’s new prime minister, Daniel Kablan Duncan, takes office
… independence, he had formed the first agricultural trade union for African farmers. He established a strong …