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ArticleRuth Robb and her involvement with Black Sash
… After years of hard work and dedication, the Black Sash elected her as honorary life Vice President, in March of … accept intelligent contradiction from much…
Speech delivered on the condolence motion in honour of the late Ebrahim "Cas" Saloojee in the national assembly – 5 February 2009
… Cassim Saloojee initially served as the Publicity Secretary of the Transvaal Indian Congress, and went on to …
ArticleTimeline of the Marikana Massacre 2012 - 2013
… killed and scores were injured. 17 August, NUM General Secretary Frans Baleni says union shop-stewards report that …
Chapter 13. General Strike, 1932
… fighting rather than surrender. A strike committee was elected, composed almost exclusively of women workers. As the … Malan Government removed me from my…
PlaceOatlands, Simonstown
… the whole whitewashed. On 22 December 1787, the Colonial Secretary , Mr A. Barnard, gave orders that Mr Trail was to … On receipt of this disturbing list…
Chapter 3 - The Cigarette-Makers Strikes and the First Workers Co-operative Society in South Africa, Cape Town 1906 - 1907
… in the S.A. Trade Union Movement, as its members elected their officers quarterly. The financial situation of … defeat the Union were fruitless and sent a…
Oration by the ANC Gauteng Chairperson Paul Mashatile at the funeral service of the late Ephraim Motlalepula Nkoe, 11 May 2013, Walter Sisulu Square of Dedication, Kliptown, Soweto
… Thank You Programme Director, Provincial Secretary Comrade David Makhura Lelapa laha Nkoe Mme le bana … view of the collective. It was for these reasons that…
EventGrace Naledi Mandisa Pandor, SA minister of education since 2004, is born in Durban
… South Africa's first democratic election in 1994, she was elected to Parliament and rose through the ranks, becoming …
ArticleCOVID-19 Timeline 2019-2020
… billion emergency spending fund 7 March- Iran’s recently elected MP Fatemeh Rahbar dies from the coronavirus, as the … be conducted around 30,000 tests a day…
EventP.W. Botha becomes Prime Minister
… by Prime Minister B.J. Vorster, the National Party caucus elected Pieter Willem Botha, the Minister of Defence and …
EventYoweri Kaguta Moseveni becomes president of Uganda
… He ruled the country for a decade without having been elected to power. …
EventBantu Women’s League protests against pass laws
… in 1918 as a branch of the ANC. Charlotte Maxeke was elected as its first president. That same year Maxeke led a …
EventSouth Africa celebrates the first National Women’s Day
… by unjust laws. After the petition was handed over to the secretary of the prime minister, the women sang a freedom …
EventJohn Traicos makes his International Cricket Test debut for South Africa
… family in 1997 for political reasons and is now a company secretary in Australia. …
EventNoble South Africans win Nobel Peace Prize
… noted bishop of the Anglican Church and former general secretary of the South African Council of Churches, received …
EventWriter J.M. Coetzee is awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize for Literature
… 2003 Nobel laureate for Literature. According to permanent secretary of the Swedish Nobel Academy, Horace Endgahl, it …
EventMlungisi Sisulu dies.
… be jailed at the same time.In 2006 he was appointed First Secretary of the South African Embassy in Khartoum, Sudan. In …
EventLord Charles Somerset arrives in the Cape as Governor
… of money even compared with the annual salary of the town secretary of Bathurst, a small town in the Eastern Cape, then …
EventSir Patrick Duncan, Governor-General of the Union of South Africa, is born
… In South Africa, Duncan was appointed as colonial secretary for the Transvaal. He held several other positions …
Chapter 25. A Reichstag Fire Trial Replete With A Van Der Lubbe
… to play a leading role. In due course, van der Walt was elected to the central executive committee, and later became … and urging the workers to oust me and…
Bibliographical note and further reading
… House (G.H.), Prime Minister's Office (P.M.O.), Colonial Secretary's Office (C.S.O.), and the Secretary of State for the Colonies (C.O.); in the Transvaal ……
PlaceMangaung Metropolitan Municipality, Free State
Mangaung is a Sesotho name meaning "Place of Cheetahs". Legend has it that when the first settlers arrived, they were stunned by the vast plains, that were…
Edwin Mofutsanyana the oldest Communist in Africa: Flyer for briefing by Edwin Mofutsanyana. August, 1991
… that the Constituent Assembly should further: (a) Be elected by all the people of South Africa, defined as all … Africa as at 1910. (b) Be composed of 50% of…
Forming the Federation
… then you were automatically a member of the Federation. We elected a committee for the Federation and Ida Mtwana was elected as our first president. She was…
ArchiveInterview with Lybon Tiyani Mabasa
… led to the formation of AZAPO in April 1978. Mabasa was elected its treasurer. Detained soon after, he was banned for …
EventThe Black People’s Convention (BPC) holds its first National Congress
… universities. At the December Congress, Winnie Kgware was elected as the BPC's first president. The main theme of the …
EventGhana demands independence from Britain
… Togoland. After a long period of colonial rule, the newly elected Assembly of Ghana, passed a motion directing the …
EventVanessa Brereton, former human rights lawyer, admits that she was an Apartheid spy
… Congress (ANC) was unbanned in 1990, she was unanimously elected as the treasurer for the Port Elizabeth branch. Her …
EventHaitian leader General Raoul Cedras resigns in favour of exiled President Jean
… adopted and the charismatic Jean-Bertrand Aristid had been elected as president. The following year, however, he was …
EventNelson Rolihlahla Mandela passed away
… in 1990, Mandela received the Nobel Peace Prize, and was elected President in 1994 in South Africa’s first free, …