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Chapter 1. The South African Trade Union Movement- Historical Background - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… Johannesburg. People who stayed in South Africa during the war remember with deep appreciation the hospitality they … the incensed workers seized rifles and…
PlaceKeetmanshoop
In 1908, Gottlieb Redecker was the official builder of the German Colonial Government’s Works Department, drew up plans for a new Post Office building in…
ArticleState of Emergency - 1985
… state. This is particularly important as the waning Cold War had effectively separated the world into different … support of America and Britain was…
ArticleChanging Perceptions of Nelson Mandela
… bated breath as South Africa seemed on the verge of civil war. Lwando Xaso, a lawyer who was a child during the 1980s … of being the singular voice that…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1940-1949
… and the ANC meet and pass a resolution regarding World War II. They sympathise with the British Commonwealth and … give full recognition to the Africans…
ArticleHistory of the ‘Indian Opinion’ newspaper
… was launched at a time when just after the South African War all blacks felt disappointed with British rule and were … political, social and economic status…
ArchiveDiana Mitchell obituary by Julia Gallagher (The Guardian), 08 February 2016
… was Diana Mitchell.” It was in the late 70s, as civil war and diplomatic pressure finally began to erode the RF’s … in 1937, and Diana was fostered during…
ArticleThe South African general elections: 1994
… between the ANC and IFP, manifested as a low intensity war over the previous two decades. Right-wing elements …
ArticleBatavian Republic 1803-1806
… assisted with agricultural development. Because of the war in Europe, there was a growing demand for agricultural …
ArticleNobel Prizes and South African Laureates
… to rise up against a social system whose very essence is war, violence, racism, oppression, repression and the …
ArticleSouth African Youth Congress (SAYCO)
… and active members, however in the wake of the Six Day War in Alex township in 1986, its membership swelled to …
Nelson Mandela Timeline 1910-1919
… vessel the SS Darro, in thick fog. Yet, after the World War I, none of the Black South African troops receive the …
ArticlePeter Henry Abrahams timeline 1919 - 1985
… of the group’s monthly bulletin. In September , World War II breaks out and Abrahams manages to bribe himself on …
Apartheid - A Crime Against Humanity: The Unfolding of Total Strategy 1948-1989
… ideological, cultural, etc. We are today involved in war whether we like it or not. It is therefore essential that …
Another Victory for Trade Unionism: The 1918 Cape Town Musicians’ Strike
… with many thousands of deaths and the end of the Great War which had claimed several thousands more lives, followed … and political functions of the…
Chapter 4 - Another Victory for Trade Unionism: The 1918 Cape Town Musicians’ Strike
… with many thousands of deaths and the end of the Great War which had claimed several thousands more lives, followed … and political functions of the…
Mobilise Our Black Power - Statement to the People of South Africa on the Tenth Anniversary of Umkhonto we Sizwe by O. R. Tambo, 16 December 1971
… the bowels of the earth; we call upon the labourers in the Boer farms and on farm jails; we call upon the workers in the …
ArticleDurban Timeline 1497-1990
… on Erskine Terrace, where many of the casualties from the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 were admitted. First building bye-law passed … Infantry entrains from Durban…
PlaceNdabeni
… horses to the Cape during the course of the South African War. Unfortunately their fodder was not properly screened for …
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Support from persons and Organisation - 1947
… against colour. The attitude of unreason will mean a third war which sane people should avoid. Political cooperation …
Resolution of the Executive Committee of the AAC, February 15, 1936 46
… educating +organising the native workers they are on the war path all right. + so are we so that's all right. With …
EventW. E. B. Du Bois (95), writer, scholar, intellectual, Pan
… and his leftist opinions more outspoken. After World War II his views on U.S. - Soviet Relations and arms control …
EventRioting and destruction in Cato Manor and Durban continues
… landlords living in Britain. During the Second World War, increased work opportunities and the relaxation of …
EventThe fall of the fortress town of Tobruk
… Tobruk was a major blow to the Allied forces during World War Two, as the town contained substantial material, supplies …
EventSheikh Yusuf, regarded as the founder of the Islamic faith in the Cape, dies at Zandvliet (Macassar)
… and supported Sultan Ajung of Bantam, Gowa, in his war against the Dutch. Twice Sheikh Yusuf escaped from Dutch …
EventRaymond Dart completes work on Taung skull
… by Louis Leakey, working in East Africa after World War II, firmly established the African genesis of early …
EventSouthern Rhodesia rejects joining the Union of South Africa
… postponed as a result of the outbreak of the First World War. After the elections in April 1920, there was strong push …
EventSouth African cricket player Aubrey Faulkner, great all-rounder in the early 20th century, is born
… of Ian Peebles and E.T KIllick. During the First World War he served with distinction with the R.F.A. in Salonika, …
General Act of the Berlin Conference on West Africa, 26 February 1885
… placed under the free trade system, shall be involved in a war, then the High Signatory Parties to the present Act, and … other belligerent or belligerents,…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress on the 25th Anniversary of the formation of Umkhonto We Sizwe, 16 December 1986
… came to be properly understood in terms of People`s War. The Four Pillars of Our Struggle The special … participation of the masses we cannot develop People…