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Liberation
… is a crucial precondition for the legitimacy of the new democratic order. The issue of land has always featured … impression that there was no land need or…
The Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… Africa through postcards Heritage Tours Old and New places in South Africa Contribute Tell us your … 3 September. September 4, General J…
ArticleHeritage and identity of Provinces
… People from all over the world came to Johannesburg, the new mining town, to find gold. The Boers did not want the … 1854 the Boers (as the Voortrekkers who…
ArticleImperialism and socialism in the context of Africa
… content, we have modified it slightly to fit the new curriculum but we will be further updating the content in … Revolutions in America and France ushered in…
ArticleChanging Perceptions of Nelson Mandela
… Man, Legend and Symbol of Resistance , Alan Cowell for the New York Times in 1985 demonstrates how Mandela was viewed … Congress (ANC), together with the…
ANC statement on the Heritage Day, 24 September 2014
… do so with high regard of the developments that ushered a new democracy which has been the foundation of the new identity we have embraced much to the…
EventHugh Masekela, South African musician, is born
… Guildhall School, then the Manhattan School of Music. In New York he befriended Harry Belafonte, who helped him to settle in the United States as a student…
ArticleRand Rebellion 1922
… called themselves the 'Federation of Labour.' Strikes The New Year marked a strike on the collieries of the Transvaal. … proportion of African labour, lower…
ArticleWomen’s Rights and Representation
… protected by the full range of rights guaranteed in the new Constitution - the rights to life, dignity, privacy and … a remedy of reading appropriate words…
ArticleWomens Rights
… protected by the full range of rights guaranteed in the new Constitution - the rights to life, dignity, privacy and … a remedy of reading appropriate words…
Article1960-1966: The genesis of the armed struggle
… crush internal resistance in the space of a few years. The new policy of ' Grand Apartheid ,' as a massive social … the 1913 Land Act. Between 1960 and 1985,…
ArchiveMusic against apartheid II
… Grey and black poster. Notice of a concert by the New York Southern African Solidarity Coalition. Concert at Hunter College, New York, America. Artwork of a…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement Timeline 1903-2009
… students at Fort Hare boycott the appointment of their new principal, JM de Wet. The ’ringleaders were identified … (Nayo), an umbrella body for regional…
ArticleThe South African general elections: 1994
… South African people. On 26 April 1994, South Africa’s new flag was raised. South Africa’s new Constitution and … South Africa’s population was free at last…
ArticleSouth African Youth Congress (SAYCO)
… close cooperation with COSAS and AZASO , and by 1983, 20 new youth organizations were launched. By the end of 1986, … of the ANC. In the Eastern Cape,…
Pledging to Debate History: Values and education
… peaceful transition from an unjust and brutal system to a new democracy. Values do have a role to play and have … should make sure that our government does…
ArticleColonial history of Nelspruit
… and arrived at Nelspruit on 20 June 1892. Around the new station a small settlement took shape, its first … from colonial township into the segregated order…
Conflict among civic organisations
… 40 organisations from the DBAC in 1983 who renamed their new organisation the Cape Action League. Civic organisation … at Devonvale Country club in…
ArticlePondoland revolt - 1950 - 1961
… The Pondo people revolted against the Bantu Authorities’ new system as described in the Bantu Authorities Act of 1951, … for allotting individuals land. Many…
EventANC wins the second democratic election
… by 266 seats. The Democratic Party, which became the new official opposition, won 38 seats, followed by the … Party with 34 and the former official…
ArchiveSCANC Newsletter No 3
… Newsletter produced by SCANC (Students Committee Against New Constitution) urging support for a co-ordinated campaign by students to sign a petition…
Introduction
… or European feeling. This was the sentiment of the new leadership that took over Natal Indian Congress, the … and the South African Indian Congress after…
EventUniversity of Pretoria's 100th anniversary
… On 10 February 1908 a new department of the Transvaal University College (TUC), … regained its status as a bilingual university when a new language policy…
ArchiveThe awakening of a people
… the oppressed, by evolving the All-African Convention with new ideas in light of approaching the struggle for liberation. The book analyses new concepts and…
Domestic work
… of the leaders to come to terms with one another on a new dispensation. No-one can escape this simple truth. On its … of negotiation the highest priority…
EventUnited Party disbands
… faction after members had left the party to join other new political parties and the ruling National Party (NP). Subsequently, the main group decided to form…
PlaceCampanile, Port Elizabeth
… gets programmed to play. Some of the bells have received new inscriptions in Afrikaans and isiXhosa and rededicated to … amongst others the deceased crew of…
ArticleGandhi and the burning of passes
… He wasted no time in mounting a campaign to oppose the new law. Gandhi contacted Leung Quinn, the leader of the …
Conclusion: A Land Dispossession History 1600s-1990s
… compensation. Those who tried to take advantage of the new conditions were ruthlessly crushed, forcibly dispossessed …
ArticleIndia, Mughal Empire, 16-19th Century
… India. Here is an account of a decisive battle: "Babur had new light field guns and muskets, and combined them with more …