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EventSACP is legally re-launched
… Chris Dhlamini and the general secretary of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) Moses …
Event7 People are killed during a SATS strike
… Transport Services (SATS) workers, on their way to a union meeting, were accosted by several hundreds of …
EventAn international measure is adopted in Antwerp to block rebel groups from trading conflict diamonds
… civil wars. These rebel groups include the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) and the …
EventFormation of the South African Native National Congress
… of racial exclusion and discrimination under the new Union of South Africa. SANNC aspired to unite Africans in the …
EventMorgan Tsvangirai becomes Prime Minister of Zimbabwe
… and the cabinet, with the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) and the Movement for …
PlaceNamibia
… viewed as the colonial territory of a friendly power. The Union Government, however, had military necessity and economic reasons to incorporate the territory…
Africans’Claims in South Africa,
… way of directing the attention of our Government in the Union of South Africa, the European population of our country … the non-Europeans. We know that the…
Chapter 2 - Industrialisation and the Revitalisation of Black Politics in the 1940s
… resistance. Both the Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union (ICU) and the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) … organised mass protests, pass burning…
ArticleWomen’s Revolts in Natal: 1959
… following 1959 made tremendous advances in the trade union field; the campaigns encouraged the SACTU to devote … meaning of militancy and organisation ad we…
ArticleStrong and Unnoticed: The Women of the UDF by Reid Arnold
… anti-apartheid groups and the country's largest trade union federation from any political activity and served 17 … protesting:‘ The women, most of them…
ArticleDefiance Campaign timeline 1948-1952
… W. Lace Visiting Professor of World Christianity at the Union Theological Seminary, thus missing the entire Defiance … announced for 20 March 1951. The Food…
Document 58 - Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, “The Opening Address at the Africanist Inaugural Convention”, 4 April 1959 [….]
… hostile blocks represented by the U.S.A. and the Soviet Union respectively. These two blocks are engaged in terrible … There is again a scramble for Africa,…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 2 - Industrialisation and the Revitalisation of Black Politics in the1940s by Mohamed Adhikari
… resistance. Both the Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union (ICU) and the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) … organised mass protests, pass burning…
African Claims in South Africa by Dr Xuma, ANC Conference, 1943
… 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…
ArchiveThe Women’s Jail at the Old Fort and its Impact by Claire Ennis
… would be jailed at the Fort with white prisoners. [4] In 1910, the Women’s Jail was built to hold women of all races, … herself remarked on this…
PlaceMaputo National Park
… in the French Capital at the weekend. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has described … in the French Capital at the weekend. The…
EventCI and SACC offices are raided
… was established to investigate the CI, the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) and the South African …
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 …
ArchiveCHAPTER 5 - Armed Propaganda and Non-Colaborattion, Rationalising weakness, August 1979 - December 1980 by Howard Barell
… state-related institutions strengthened. The ANC's Trade Union Confusion, 1979-1980 This drift also affected relations with the emergent trade union movement…
ArticleFreedom Day: 27 April
… 16th anniversary of Freedom Day celebrations held at the Union Buildings in Pretoria prior to the FIFA 2010 World Cup …
PlaceGuinea-Bissau
… pending. In April 2020, ECOWAS, followed by the European Union, recognized the election of Umaro Sissoco Embalo as …
EventP.W. Botha launches CONSAS at the Carlton Conference to eliminate “Marxist threat”
… he understood to be under the influence of the Soviet Union) in order to ensure that the region remained open to …
PlaceSchanskop Fort, Pretoria
… Gen Roberts. In 1922, Fort Schanskop was returned to the Union Government, and used for Signaling and Reconnaissance …
EventTanzania gains independence
… around this time, including the Tanganyika Africa National Union (TANU), headed by Julius Nyerere, now the former …
EventCastro decides to send troops to Angola to fight South Africa
… National Congress (ANC), the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) and the South West African People's Organization …
EventRobert Kennedy, American politician, speaks at the University of Cape Town about the racial inequality of apartheid
… UCT at the invitation of liberal student movement National Union of South African Students(NUSAS). In his speech he …
EventThe Angolan government announces a unilateral ceasefire
… After the death of Jonas Savimbi, leader of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), the …
Document 59 - Letter from Ruth First to The Secretary, South African Institute of Race Relations’, 17 August 1944
… moved at a special congress of the Transvaal Agricultural Union in Pretoria on August 17. The main points contained in …
ArchiveThe Snape Building Political Demonstration at the University of Cape Town in 1966 by Andrew M. Colman
… Snape, a British-born Professor of Civil Engineering from 1910, initially at the South African College, the forerunner … used in the demonstration were…
The Role of Women in the Struggle against Apartheid, 15 July 1980
… to liberation movements, in many ways it was the trade union movements that became the spawning ground for women … rose to positions of importance in South…