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Student Politics in the Era of Democracy
… the door rather than being fully open is a revolving one, since too many drop out and don't graduate. The doors … forces, the question of politics and…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… hope of favours was useless. It was resolved to contest one or more constituencies in the general election. Trade … women's branches, brought tears to the…
ArticleResponse to the June 16 Soweto Youth Uprising by organisations in exile
… African border. A hand grenade was detonated by one of the guerrillas, injuring two policemen, and allowing … of the political organisations operating in…
ArticleThe History of Separate Development in South Africa
… Every black South African was designated as a citizen of one of the Bantustans, a system that supposedly gave them … removed them from the nation’s political…
ArticleBlack People’s Convention (BPC)
… aspects of resistance to and struggle against apartheid – one of these being the Black Community Programmes (BCP). … President of BPC by Hlaku Rachidi. A…
Judaism
… five books are read in the synagogue over the period of one and the scrolls of the law are carried around the … the festival (see symbols). Jewish symbols…
France in 1789
… to this model, political revolutions are not caused by one event only. Various factors, evolving over time, can … of the estate. It was difficult for a…
ArticleExample of a local history: Pretoria
… have lived in Pretoria have built in the city Pretoria is one of the capital cities of South Africa and is situated in … According to oral tradition or…
ArticleThe Tricameral Parliament, 1983-1984
… parliamentary representation for Coloureds and Indians in one of three separate chambers, a supposed reform and … Popularising the UDF's first major campaign…
Article1913 Satyagraha Campaign Resumes
… a key element of the Satyagraha Campaign of 1913 - 1914. One of the most prominent female protesters was Gandhi's … they wanted to re-cross to the Transvaal…
ArticleSlave Resistance
… persuading slaves and Khoi servants to join them. Only in one instance did the march encounter resistance. In fact, … slaves ran away from their masters…
ArchiveHugh Lewin, 1939–2019, RIP by Jennifer Malec, 17 January 2019
… the active struggle against the apartheid regime but this one is a fearless exploration into the deepest ground – the … and closest friend; and the lifetime…
Article1946 Indian Passive Resistance Timeline
… areas and condemned the pernicious barrack system as ‘one of the greatest evils the local authority has to cope … Special Committee for Housing recommended…
ArchiveWhy The EFF Is A Fascist Political Party by Gareth van Onselen, 26 March 2018
… asked, "Why does Malema's race threat go unpunished?" One way or the other, Malema's hyper-racial rhetoric in 2018, … for a black child to determine the…
The diary of Maria Tholo - August 11 - 15 by Carol Hermer
… things to show at a parents' meeting. All of a sudden one of the mothers burst in. She's a sister at the clinic in … kept on repeating, 'Schools. Teargas…
ArchiveExtracts of 3 Interviews from the 1956 Women’s Anti-Pass March
… (Q: Indicates interviewer's question) Interview One: Dorothy Masenya (DM) (Interviewed in English) Q: What … that was the big idea o a bona [you see] if…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at the unveiling of the tombstone of Helen Joseph Avalon Cemetery, Johannesburg, 30 March 1996
… house arrest and exile. Others they decided to eliminate. One is forced to wonder how our country would have been today … role during the writing of the…
!U’S STORY - Photographs 16 - 19
… of a mother, father and children. A man can have more than one wife if he wants to. Three or four families, that is … in what we call a band. Everybody…
PlaceSignal Hill
… food for long periods, so the provisioning of vessels was one of the major Commercial functions at Cape Town, in those … by the puff of smoke rather than the…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Buitenkant Street, Cape Town
… death, a local newspaper, the Cape Times said her to be; one of the "Aristocratic Dutch" and reported on January 9, … The tiles in the arches, symbolize the…
PlaceZambia
… Kaunda as the country’s first president, and proclaimed one-party rule. Their independence came four years after the … In the list of UNESCO World Heritage…
ArchiveRudd Concession by King Lobengula of Matabeleland (1888)
… agree, to pay to me, my heirs and successors, the sum of one hundred pounds sterling, British currency, on the first … lunar month; and further, to deliver…
EventSACTU launches a national potato boycott.
… trials of cases of beatings in the late 1940s, including one case in which a worker had been beaten to death in 1944. … launched a country wide potato…
EventWinnie Nomzamo Madikizela-Mandela is sentenced to six years
… of four youths suspected of being police informers. One of the youths, 14-year old Stompie Seipei died from the … club who acted as bodyguards and enforcers…
EventTrevor Manuel, Minister in The Presidency: National Planning Commission, is born
… at the encouragement of his father. In 1983, he became one of the founding members of the United Democratic Front … and held that position until 2009. He was…
Invitation: BikoHausen - Steve Bantu Biko and Karlheinz Stockhausen in Johannesburg, 1971
… student and black consciousness leader, Stockhausen - one of the foremost avant-garde composers of the 20th Century. No-one can ever know what exactly…
Jail
… care who it might be. I left my sons at home; it may be one of my sons . . . Well now, this person who was giving … Porridge and bread and coffee. A mug of…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 1: The Industrial Revolution in Britain and Southern Africa from 1860
… were so closely interrelated that increased activity in one spurred an increase in activity in another. Further, this interdependence of conditions creates a…
ArticleThe turbulent 1950s - Women as defiant activists
… men had been required to carry were replaced by a single one - the reference book - which gave details of the holder's … and their anti-pass campaign, as…
ArticleDr Alfred Bitini Xuma Timeline 1893-1998
… Xuma starts working as a teacher at two primary schools; one in a settlement known as Newala and the other in Ntibani … in Alabama, specialising in…