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ArchiveStaffrider Vol.8 No.3 and No.4 1989
… Mr. Scariot Mpimpi, Mi Hlatshwayo and the Clairwood Trade Union and Cultural Centre; Isolate the Enemy, Victor …
PlaceThaba Tshwane or Voortrekkerhoogte
… ("Voortrekker Heights") in 1939 by the government of the Union of South Africa , following the beginning of the …
PlaceComoros
… colours originated from the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in the UK in 1908. For International Women’s …
“No Room for Racialism at Natal University”: Statement, June 1956
… people of Natal is that there is enough racialism in the Union already and there is no room for it at a multi-racial …
EventAssassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand
… rule. This lasted until the early 1990s when the union broke apart in a protracted civil war. …
EventProceedings against SA start in the International Court of Justice
… 1920. Under the rules of the mandate the government of the Union of South Africa was invested with administrative and …
EventUN peace-keeping troops deployed to the Republic of Congo
… death, and calls for his resignation came from the Soviet Union, who Lumumba had sought military assistance from during …
EventViolence erupts during Defiance Campaign
… by bands of volunteers in all the main centres of the Union. The initial stage of the campaign was noted for its …
EventNatal Indian Organisation delegation meets Premier Smuts
… between a small section of "big Indian money in the Union and General Smuts" (quoted in a speech by Naicker …
EventSteve Biko, a pioneer of the Black Consciousness Movement, is born
… formed as a break-away student movement of the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS). In 1974 nine South …
EventFidel Castro, president of Cuba from 1976 to 2008, is born
… with Cuba's economic and military reliance on the Soviet Union. The United States imposed a full embargo on Cuba and …
EventAnti apartheid activist Dr. Richard Turner is assassinated
… murder came in the wake of renewed attacks on the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS). NUSAS was a …
EventFormer Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere dies
… led by Samora Machel and the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU). In 1961, Nyerere joined other African leaders …
EventWorld War I begins
… rule. This lasted until the early 1990s when the union broke apart in a protracted civil war. …
EventJack Penn, sculptor and one of the world’s best plastic surgeon is born
… WWII, he served in the 7th Field Ambulance, as part of the Union Defence Force. He went to London to help with war …
PlaceOliewenhuis Art Museum
… Hill, served as residence for the Governor General of the Union of South Africa from 1942. In 1947, King George VI, …
PlaceConstitutional Court of South Africa, Johannesburg
… against Women. Other milestones include the African Union’s declaration of 2010–2020 as the: ' African Women’s … highest court. Other milestones include the…
EventSuppression of Communism Act, No. 44 of 1950 approved in Parliament
… political, industrial, social or economic change in the Union by the promotion of disturbances or disorder, by …
Conservative Revolutionaries - Anti-Apartheid Activism at the University of Cape Town 1963-1973 by Robert Erbmann, Oxford University, 2005
… effect on society. 15 The Student Background The National Union of South African Students was founded in 1924, … began with the UCT student movement and the…
Man-made women: Gender, class and the ideology of the volksmoeder by Elsabe Brink
… he cited the demonstration of Afrikaner women at the Union Buildings in 1915, when a delegation marched to … Vroue Federasie (SAVF) and the Garment Workers'…
Propaganda and the Pursuit of Hegemonic Goals – The Myanmar and Zimbabwe Experience by Thabo Mbeki, 29 February 2016
… for overthrowing communism and democratising the Soviet Union… “In fact, Reagan took Wilsonianism to its ultimate … undermin(ing) the Soviet system”. In the…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Themes to Think About
… Party government placed further restrictions on the trade union movement in the early 1950s that this possibility was … was improved only after the militant…
Communist Party of South Africa, What is the Native Independent Republic? (1934)
… the African National Congress , the Industrial Commercial Union, not only do not put forward such a slogan but even … which is only 25% of the entire…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1980-1989
… Maputo, on 30 January 1981. 22 February, The Soviet Union supports Mozambique after the South African raid on … (UN) in cooperation with the Organisation of…
ArticleWomen’s resistance in the 1960s - Sharpeville and its aftermath
… measures Indian women activists staged a march to the Union Buildings in Pretoria in October 1963. Zainab Asvat , … and Pretoria. Unlike the previous marches…
Interview with Harry Gwala conducted by Tony Karonat, January 1989, Dambuza Pietermaritzburg
… against war. TK• Dr Dadoo... HG: Yes, but then the Soviet Union was then engaged in the war, and the United Front, … more or less. So when we started the…
Gender and deviance in South African industrial schools and reformatories for girls, 1911-1934 by Linda Chisholm
… was part of national system of reformatories built after Union in 1910 and organized by colour, age and sex. By 1933 there were … of South Africa's criminal…
ArticleChief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli timeline 1800 - 1967
… the young Albert Luthuli leave Rhodesia and return to the Union of South Africa. Albert joins the household of his … people and their allies in the struggle…
ArticleAfrican Resistance Movement (ARM)
… suspicion of the SACP and its relations with the Soviet Union. Importantly, a further common theme within the party … the country. In mid-1962 Adrian…
ArticlePopular struggles in the early years of Apartheid, 1948-1960
… a protest against the Coloured Affairs Department and the Union’s 50th anniversary celebrations in addition to … of Ciskei coupled with a strong presence of…