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ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1980s
… 1980 is declared the Year of the Charter, marking the 25th anniversary of the … a Cabinet meeting, both P.W. Botha and Dr. Treurnicht issue statements…
ArticleAbram Fischer Timeline 1908-1975
… Fischer, Brams grandfather, who was State Secretary of the Free State Republic and the only Prime Minister of the Orange River Colony in 1907, … a meeting of…
ArticleThe Crackdown on the Black Consciousness Movement in 1973
… The period after the Sharpeville Massacre and the banning of the African … federation, the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS), and formed their…
ArticleNUSAS Wages Commission Timeline 1971-1973
… A resolution is passed at a student body meeting for the establishment of a student Wages Commission. David Hemson … Nupen together with political scientist…
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
… The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) was launched on 1 December 1985, at the height of the struggle against apartheid. As a … them. They also…
ArticleCosatu timeline
… Congress of South African Trade Unions ) COSATU affiliate The Food and Allied Workers' Union (FAWU) entered their third … week of striking for a wage of…
ArticleThe International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF)
… The International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF) was established … Its mission was to work towards a peaceful solution to the problem of apartheid through…
ArticleAfrican Resistance Movement (ARM)
… Origins One of the defining moments in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa was the … of the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS)…
The African Resistance Movement (ARM): An Organisational History
… Origins One of the defining moments in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa was the … of the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS)…
ArticleList of people banned under Apartheid
… Wynberg UCT graduate who had worked as a correspondent for the South African News Agency. The banning order set him under house arrest, where he was … 44 of…
ArticleSouth Africa in the 1970s
… During the early 1960s, civil society was disempowered and social movements were repressed. Although the capacity for social movements to impose change…
ArticleThe Empire of Mali (1230-1600)
… The Empire of Mali was one of the largest empires in West African History, and at its height, it spanned from the Atlantic Coast to central parts of the…
ArticleHIV/Aids in South Africa timeline 1940s-2009
… 1940s The oldest Human Immunodeficiency Virus-2 (HIV-2) jumps from … Washington-based study in May 2003. Some sources say that the jump of the disease from…
ArticleMandela and the South African Communist Party
… Mandela and MK The late 1950s saw the first hints of an armed struggle occurring in certain … by the a small meeting of SACP members suggest that the issue…
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
… The content of this article was taken from the book A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression … funds are the National Union of South African…
ArticleChanges in modern forms of communication
… The Postal system The act of sending letters from one person to another developed soon after the invention of writing, however, the creation of a formal…
ArticleCape Town Timeline 1300-1997
… of a Khoisan lady. Source: unknown 1300-1599 c.1300-c.1500 The Khoisan are established as the dominant power in the southern and south-western Cape … at the…