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BiographyEla Gandhi
… Africa was the fact that South Africa was the home of the Afrikaner. If this was destroyed they had nowhere to go and …
David Pratt
… and his British heritage. He was strongly opposed to Afrikaner Nationalism and was convinced that apartheid was ‘a …
BiographyReggie Vandeyar
… were swimming at the river near Crown Mines when some Afrikaner boys stole their clothes and burnt them. They had …
ArticleDefeat of the Liberation struggle
… March 1984, South Africa and Mozambique signed the Nkomati Accord , whereby Mozambique would not allow South African … pressure. South Africa flagrantly…
BiographyRobert Anthony Basil Waterwitch
Robert ‘Robbie’ Anthony Basil Waterwitch was born on 15 July 1969 and grew up in Athlone, a suburb of Cape Town located on the Cape Flats. Remembered as a…
BiographyMzwakhe Mbuli
… to celebrate the second anniversary of the National Peace Accord on 2 September 1993. Following this, Mbuli delivered …
ArticleUnion, Segregation, apartheid and Democracy: From Union to non racial democracy
… years. In the dispensation that merged the two independent Afrikaner Republics of the Orange Free State and the … established. In this compromise arrangement…
A history of Volkskas and the Absa Banking group
… in South Africa, and one of the three biggest Afrikaner monopolies. It was established to harness Afrikaner economic power at a time when the economy was ……
BiographyAbdullah Abdurahman
… South African Coloured Union formed in 1913, the United Afrikaner League founded in 1919 and the African National …
ArticleExample of a local history: Pretoria
… along the Apies River to establish the capital of all the Afrikaner communities in South Africa. He called the new town … major dams close to Pretoria. The…
The Broederbond by Norman Levy
… yard. They brought to life the sense of confusion within Afrikaner families who perceived them as the black sheep of … notion of nationhood rather than the…
ArticleSouth African Constitutional Development Timeline 1902 - 1997
… to South Africa from exile. 2-4 May, The Groote Schuur Accord: the National Party (NP) and the African National … on a new constitution. 1991 12 February, D…
BiographyJacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma
… Chief Representative of the ANC, the year the Nkomati Accord was signed between Mozambique and South Africa. After this accord was signed, Zuma was…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Glossary
… . [3] Volskatpitalisme - It is the nationalist term for Afrikaner capital. [4] Broederbond - This was a South … - The Reddingdaadbond was an organisation…
BiographyMotlotlehi – His Majesty King Constantine Bereng Seeiso Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho
His Majesty, King Constantine Bereng Seeiso Moshoeshoe II was born on 2 May 1938, in the Village of Salang in the Mountain District of Mokhotlong in the…
BiographyRajes Pillay
… on ANC refugees following the signing of the Nkomati Accord between South Africa and Mozambique. The ANC advised …
BiographyHorst Gerhard Hermann Kleinschmidt
… led by Dominee Beyers Naude , the dissident White Afrikaner leader. Appointed at the same time was Steve Biko …
ArticleAfrikaans: the Language of Black and Coloured Dissent
… space as the ‘ colonial ’ language of the White Afrikaner oppressor. Indeed, Afrikaans has a violent and racist history of oppression during the eras of…
BiographyNthato Harrison Motlana
… and where blacks had progressed into management. The Afrikaner owned Sanlam, one of South Africa's most powerful …
Ramifications of South Africa’s Dop System by Alexandra Larkin
… dop system, including the unhealthy relationship between Afrikaner farmers and Coloured labourers, we can better … Colonial expansion contributed to the…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Foreign Relations during Apartheid, 1948
… the laager mentality was not actually the mentality of the Afrikaner. One of the first moves by Vorster to alleviate … In 1984 South Africa and Mozambique…
EventSouth Africa and Mozambique sign a non-aggression pact
… Prime Minister PW Botha of South Africa signed the Nkomati Accord, a non-aggression, and good-neighbourliness pact, on … entered into a non-aggression pact…
BiographyLeigh Davids
Leigh Davids was born on 25 March 1979 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. She was a transgender woman, and a prominent activist, who focused on the…
Lindiwe Charity Nyembezi Mthembu
Lindiwe Charity Nyembezi Mthembu was born on 28 February 1969 in KwaMashu, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). She was the fifth daughter born to Sonnyboy Nkwana and…
BiographyOprah Winfrey
Daughter of Vernon Winfrey by Vernita Lee (May 2, 1935 - November 22, 2018), a former maid. She was raised as the daughter of Vernon Winfrey, a coal miner,…
ArticleKKNK – Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees
… festival, in principal disassociated from the former Afrikaner Nationalist governance. Film director Jans … think again before using that term so loosely. It…
ArticleThe Empty Land Myth
… form of the same myth was built around the British and Afrikaner understandings of the Mfecane. The Mfecane, … half of the nineteenth century. Both the…
BiographyJacob “Dancing Shoes” Morake
Jacob Morake was born on 8 December 1955, and grew up in Central Western Jabavu in Soweto near Johannesburg. He was 10 years old when, one bitterly cold night,…
BiographyPetrus Nzima Nyawose
In the 1970s, Petrus Nyawose worked as a bouncer at The Paradise, a popular nightclub in Durban. Nyawose spent most of his working hours at the offices of the…
BiographyMakhosi “Tholi” Nyoka
Makhosi “Tholi” Nyoka was born on 3 April 1957 and grew up in KwaMashu, a township north of Durban, where she attended Umzuvele Secondary School. Nyoka was…