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ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Timeline 1961-1990
… two women and two children) and one South African refugee were killed. Over 30 people are injured. 26 May, Slow …
Biography of Lindiwe Mabuza by Kayla Johansen
… Originally composed of members recruited from military camps in Angola who were already writing and singing …
ArticleRustenburg Timeline 1850-2001
… Kimberly and Mafeking come under siege. The concentration camps, many in the Rustenburg area, saw 26 370 White women …
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1940-1949
… dead, more than 500 injured and thousands in makeshift refugee camps. The Africans, whose toll was 87 killed and 550 …
First Matabele War
In 1890 Cecil John Rhodes became premier of South Africa with the support of the Afrikaner Bond. Rhodes' grand imperial vision for a British Africa included…
ArticlePaper abstracts and biographies of speakers
… styles were developed and practiced within military camps, then adopted throughout “liberated zones”. In … nine months teaching political education courses…
ArticleEnd Conscription Campaign (ECC)
… two years, followed by a series of annual "citizen force" camps that could be as lengthy as three months. Legislation …
ArticleThe Union of South Africa 1910
… African War, both in combat and within the internment camps, the tension between the ‘bittereinders’ and the …
ArticleCuba and the struggle for democracy in South Africa
The revolution in Cuba, culminating in Fidel Castro’s seizure of power on 1 January 1959, was from the beginning based on a non-racial ethos, and revolutionary…
ArticleInanda Seminary and its Influence on Education in South Africa by Claire Wilt
This article was written by Claire Wilt and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership projectAbstractInanda Seminary, a private all…
Grade 12 - Topic 4 - The end of the Cold War and a new global world order 1989 to present
… It eliminated the division of Africa into two ideological camps and eliminated a source of external support that was … following questions: 1. What were the…
Rustenburg the Segregated city
Rustenburg the Segregated city Towards Union The Afrikaner character of the town persisted after Union in 1910, and there was little to attract other…
Grade 12 - Topic 2 - Independent Africa
… invade Congo to protect Tutsis and destroy Hutu militia camps. Mobutu's government opposes the incursion, prompting …
ArticlePort Elizabeth Timeline 1799-1986
1799 2 March, British government lands troops in Algoa Bay. Construction begins on the building of Fort Frederick. 1803 Founding of Bethelsdorp. 1804 …
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement Timeline 1903-2009
1903 William Edward Durghardt Du Bois publishes The Souls of Black Folk rejecting the notion that Black people need western values be to accepted as citizens…
Johannesburg Timeline 1800-1991
… Grahamstown. Today it is the only survivor of the mining camps’s early newspapers. 1888 The Johannesburg Lighting …
ArticleGreat Trek 1835-1846
The Great Trek was a movement of Dutch-speaking colonists up into the interior of southern Africa in search of land where they could establish their own…
Re-emergence of resistance, 1980-89
By the early 1980s, the Congress movement was becoming established as the most effective force in the fight against apartheid throughout the country. With the…
Biography of Heinz Klug by Ashley Rogers
ABSTRACT Heinz Klug is a white man born in South Africa who vehemently fought apartheid from both within South Africa and outside in exile. Klug believed that…
ArticleUnited Democratic Front timeline 1983-1990
1983 On 23 January, Allan Boesak makes a call for the formation of a ‘united front’ at an anti-SAIC Committee (TASC) conference in Johannesburg. Boesak…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1980s
… A further group of seventeen ANC members leave Mawelawela refugee camp, near Mbabane, fearing a South African attack. … two women and two children) and one…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1800s
1799-1802 Khoi-San rise up in an unsuccessful but protracted rebellion in the eastern districts of the Cape in what becomes known as the Third War of…
ArticleThe Union of South Africa: Movement towards Republic
… African War, both in combat and within the internment camps, the tension between the ‘bittereinders’ and the …
ArticleNamibian Timeline
… German protectorate. 1890s Witbooi begins attacking German camps and convoys. New German governor Leutwein attacks … Cornelius Fredericks and Manasse …
ArticlePan Africanist Congress timeline 1959-2011
… to send a contingent of guerrillas from Libyan training camps via Athens where they were to board an Air Zimbabwe …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1960s
… objectives. 26 August, A.K. Ganyile, a Pondo leader and refugee in Basutoland is kidnapped with two companions by six … of 18-24 to register for selective…
ArticleThe History of Education: 1658 to present
… bomb near Gaborone, Botswana, where he was living as a refugee. The assassination was the work of the South African …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1960-1969
… on bail, and placed under house arrest. 26 July, A new refugee centre in Francistown, built to replace the old …
Indian Community in Lenasia
From the very beginning, settlement in Lenasia was a contentious issue, driven with debates about race, class, collaboration with and resistance to apartheid…
South African Youth Revolutionary Council (SAYRCO)
The student protest that broke out on 16 June 1976 was organised and directed by the Soweto Students Representative Council (SSRC). Recent accounts of the…