Forced Removals in South Africa

Miriam Makeba: Activist on Two FrontsAbstract:Miriam Makeba is a Gramy award-winning singer. She is from Johannesburg and dedicated her life to...

Forced removals refer to the moving of people from their homes against their will. This may not always involve physical threat or force, but...

In the 1950s the government's increasingly repressive policies began to pose a direct threat to all people of colour, and there was a surge of mass...

Adopted at the Founding Conference of the Federation of South African WomenJohannesburg, 17 April 1954.

The 1956 Women’s March in Pretoria, South Africa constitutes an especially noteworthy moment in women’s history.

Women at the start of the 20th centuryIt is only over the last three or four decades that women's role in the history of South Africa has, belatedly,...