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National Union of Distributive Workers (NUDW)

  • Corporate body
  • 20th century

The National Union of Distributive Workers (NUDW) was a trade union representing workers involved in retail and goods transport in South Africa.

National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA)

  • Corporate body
  • 1987-

NUMSA was founded in 1987 as one of the largest affiliate of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), and remains the biggest metal workers trade union. It was expelled from COSATU in 2014 and is now one of the biggest affiliate in the South African Federation of Trade Unions which was formed in 2017.

National Union of South African Students (NUSAS)

  • Corporate body
  • 1924 - 1990s

NUSAS was founded  in 1924 by members of the Student Representative Councils (SRC) of South African Universities. The union was made up mostly of students from nine white English-language as well as Afrikaans South African universities, and later opened up to all students. Its aim was to advance the common interests of students and its mottos included non-racialism and non-sexism.

In 1945 the first black campus was admitted to NUSAS leading to a walkout by the Afrikaans Campuses. The State clampdown in the early sixties left NUSAS as one of the few organisations who were mobilising opposition against apartheid.

Beyers Naude was the honorary president of NUSAS and Helen Joseph was fondly known as the 'Grandmother of NUSAS'. NUSAS was not only concerned as an organisation with representing students in the political arena. It also concentrated on issues which affected students on a daily basis

NUSAS operated on a national level drawing students of diverse backgrounds and concerns together. By 1990 the Students' Representative Councils on all the 'liberal' campuses were affiliated to NUSAS. NUSAS was also represented through a Local Committee at Stellenbosch University and it had made contact with progressive organisations at the Universities of Pretoria, Port Elizabeth and RAU.

NUSAS was replaced by a non-racial student's organisation, The South African National Students Congress (SANSCO) in the early nineties

Native Economic Commission

  • Corporate body

The Commission was appointed in 1930 and headed by Dr. John Edward Holloway. The Terms of Reference of the Commission included an inquiry into "The economic and social conditions of Natives especially in the larger towns of the Union", which in essence was its main concern.

The Commission gathered its evidence mainly through submissions from all sectors of society and through public hearings throughout the Union of South Africa. The areas of inquiry were defined by a list of subjects, which were published in the Government Gazette and included amongst others: 'Tribal and Detribalised Natives', 'Land', 'Landless Native Population', 'Native Migrations', 'Native Agriculture', 'Rural and Urban Native Areas', 'Native Labour', 'Education of Natives', 'Native Taxation'.

Non-Racial Sports History Project

  • Corporate body
  • 2015-

The Non-Racial Sports History Project was formed in June 2015. Its primary mandate is to record the histories of non-racial sport from the ground up clubs and their administrators and players, provincial and then national ,paying special attention to the role played by women. While our main focus is on the histories of non-racial sport before the unity talks and the advent of democracy in 1994, we are also interested in recording the stories of community sports in all areas but more especially where there was a tradition of non-racial sport before 1994.

We see the project as contributing to the revival of the ethos that characterized the non-racial movement. To this end, some of the main objectives of the project are:

  1. Revive the concept of community sport (which represents the majority of our population ) compared to professional sport.
  2. Actively to promote and support the formation of community based sporting bodies.
  3. Safeguard and secure the future of amateur sport.
  4. Where there is an interest, to assist in the revival of sporting codes that are currently dormant.
  5. Where possible to assist those who were active in non-racial sport and who have fallen on hard times.
  6. To acknowledge the role played by sportspeople for the struggle for non-racial sport
  7. Finally, to revive the spirit of voluntarism and non-racialism.

Ossewa Brandwag

  • Corporate body

The Ossewa Brandwag was a movement started in South Africa by Colonel J.C. Laas about 1938. It was semi-military in its organisation and the more active group was represented by the Stormjaers. It appealed to Afrikaner sentiment, being strongly in favour of severing the tie with the British Empire and forming a Republic.

Their aim was to make Afrikaans the only official language and to have a benevolent dictatorship, rather on the lines of Nazi Germany. Not only were they anti-imperial but also anti-communist (for fear it would lead to the end of separated societies according to race) and yet at the same time anti-capitalist. During World War II the O.B. was declared illegal and as they did not offer any clear policy the movement gradually disintegrated and the Nationalists won over their members.

Peace Corps

  • Corporate body

Peace the Peace was an organisation established in 1993, initially under the auspices of Wits Vaal Peace Secretariat.

Using trained peace workers from troubled areas, the Corps aimed in promoting peace in these areas by monitoring; marches and public events and encouraging a culture of peace.

Young unemployed people were mainly trained as monitors and paid a small salary, Ephemeral records (L, M, N, 0) may he destroyed alter the year 2001

Presbyterian Church of Southern Africa

  • Corporate body
  • 19th century to 1999

The Presbyterian Church of Southern Africa (PCSA) became part of a union between with the Reformed Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa (RPCSA) to the now Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa (UPCSA), which was formed and constituted in 1999.

Robert Sobukwe Trust

  • Corporate body
  • 21st century

The Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe Trust is a non-profit organization, based in Graaff-Reinet, established to preserve and profile the legacy of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe. Since 2009 the Trust has worked to establish a museum and learning centre in Sobukwe's birthplace, uMasizakhe, Graaff-Reinet.

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