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ArticleThe formation of the SANNC/ANC
Bloemfontein is the birth place of the SANNC, which became the ANC in 1923, one of the largest organizations in later years to struggle for…
The Mountain Committee
A vast popular movement of resistance arose amongst the people in March 1960, and although meetings were illegal, they were held just the…
ArticleThe Transkei
Struggles against the Bantu Authorities Act were fought in the Transkei, where the resistance of the peasants culminated in the Pondo…
ArticleOrigins of the Battle of Blood River 1838
The Great Trek and the advent of the Mfecane The origins of the battle are a matter of considerable debate. The background to this event…
What was the nature of resistance to apartheid during these decades, and how was this resistance part of wider resistance in the world to human rights abuses? (under construction)
How did apartheid entrench ideas of race? (under construction)
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To what extent was apartheid in South Africa part of neo-colonialism in the post World War 2 world (1948-1960)? (under construction)
ArticleImpact of World War II: how the nature of political quest for independence in Africa changed after 1945
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Impact of pseudo-scientific racism and Social Darwinism on the 19th and 20th Centuries
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Challenges to capitalism; Russian Revolution and the establishment of the Communist state
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Ideas of race in the late 19th and 20th centuries
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ArticleBattle of Cuito Cuanavale 1988
Introduction The battle of Cuito Cuanavale and the Cuban intervention in Angola is one of the turning points in Southern African History…
Systems of democracy: the American Revolution (under construction)
Contact, conflict and dispossession: frontiers in America in the nineteenth century (under construction)
Contact, conflict and dispossession on the Cape eastern or northern frontiers in the nineteenth century
The situation in the Eastern Cape in the early late 18th and early 19th century (approximately1780 - 1850) was as follows: There were…