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Article1970s: Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
Teachers and learners should note that there are many links on this site which deal with the depth and breadth of the Black Consciousness Movement in South…
BiographyMhlabunzima Joseph Maphumulo
Mhlabunzima Maphumulo was born on 6th September,1949 Maqongqo distric of Kwazulu-Natal . At the age of 24, Maphumulo inherited the role of Chief of the…
BiographyMathews Phosa
Nakedi Mathews Phosa was born on 1 September 1952 in Mbombela Township, Nelspruit, Eastern Transvaal (now Mpumalanga Province). He grew up with his grandfather…
BiographyMoyisile Douglas Tyutyu
Moyisile Douglas Tyutyu was born in 1935* in KwaZakhele, Port Elizabeth, Transkei (now Eastern Cape Province). His interest in politics was sparked from a…
EventChief of the Zondi, Bambata is killed
… to Natal to continue his campaign of resistance. In April 1906 he ambushed a police force near Greytown and killed four …
PlaceMcGregor, Western Cape
… dedicated service in Robertson. Two years later, in April 1906, the relieved authorities followed suit and gazetted an …
Soweto and mounting pressure on the apartheid state, 1970s
The Day Our Kids Lost Faith. 1976. © Bailey's African History Archives During the 1970s, and particularly in the late 1970s after the Soweto uprising of 1976,…
Grade 4 term 2 Timeline: Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
1918 Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela is born at Mvezo in the Transkei 1939 He enrols at the University College of Fort Hare. 1940 He is expelled…
PlaceTranskei
An early history of the Transkei area Originally the Transkei included the territories of Idutywa Reserve, Fingoland (Mfenguland) and Galekaland …
ArticleThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle
Relations between Russia and South Africa In the late-19th century, Russia was engaged in rivalry with the British Empire, especially in Asia, and sought to…
50. The campaign resumed in 1913
… grown worse than it was during the Republic-regime. In 1906 it culminated in the Bill of that year, which not only … my countrymen solemnly decided in the…
31. Cape traders protest against the Hawkers’ Licences Act
… edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai Act 35 of 1906, which dealt with hawkers' licences, operated in the … persons and not to others. Section 3 of…
PlaceSlangkop Lighthouse, Kommetjie- Cape Town
… was established as the result of a commission appointed in 1906 by the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, His …
PlaceElgin
Originally called Koffee Kraal, the village of Elgin is a lush land circled with mountains, in the Overberg region. This broad upland valley, lies about 70km…
PlaceRoodepoort, Johannesburg
… in Berlandina Street. The Municipal Offices were built in 1906, for the use of the Roodepoort-Maraisburg Municipality …
Author uncovers Gandhi’s links with early ANC leaders by Anelisa Kubheka (Daily News), 02 March 2012, Durban
… wrote about John Langalibalele Dube in his journal in 1906 praising him on his manifesto that he had written. “He …
PlacePort Shepstone, South Coast of KZN
… 1895. The present cast iron Lighthouse was erected during 1906 and today you can still explore this unique Lighthouse. …
The Ideology of the Black Consciousness Movement
The emergence of the Black Consciousness movement that swept across the country in the 1970s can best be explained in the context of the events from 1960…
ArticleThe Politics Behind Water
South Africa battles water scarcity as it is one of the thirty driest regions in the world. On average the country receives 500 mm rainfall in a year. [1] As…
PlaceChad
Chad is the fifth largest country in Africa[i]. Chad is estimated to be one of the areas for where the human species originated[ii]. The area which is now…
PlacePiketberg
… new markets and opportunities for Piquetberg and in 1906 the town was handed over from the church to the …
BiographyTimothy Peter Jenkin
Timothy Peter Jenkin was born in 1948, in Cape Town and educated at Rondebosch Boys' Prep and Boys' High School,[1][2] matriculating at the age of 17.[3] …
PAC office bearers
PAC Presidents from 1959 - present President Period Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe 1959 - 1962 Zephania…
PlaceKommetjie, Cape Town
Kommetjie was established in 1902 when a consortium of Cape Town businessmen purchased the farm Kommetjie from its owner, J Albertyn, and developed it as a…
Remembering Sol Plaatje as South Africa’s original public educator (The Conversation), 05 October 2016
… a number of newspapers such as Koranta ea Becoana (1901-1906). These newspapers published articles in English and …
Hundred years of resistance, E.S. Reddy, 29 January 2012
… become a non-violent revolutionary and a mass leader in 1906 when he realised the futility of mere petitions and …
BiographyDr. Neil Hudson Aggett
Neil Hudson Aggett was born in Nanyuki, Kenya on 6th October 1953, the first-born child of Aubrey and Joy Aggett. He began his schooling in Kenya, and when his…
BiographyCassim Mohammed Bassa
Mohammed Cassim Bassa the estate agent and community leader was born on 11 August 1925 in India. He was the eighth of nine children of Mohammed Bassa, a…
BiographyNontsizi (Cizama, Imbongikazi yakwaCizama) Mgqwetho
Virtually nothing is known about the life of the first and only major female poet to write in Xhosa, apart from what is revealed in her writings, almost all of…
BiographySheila Lapinsky (nee Barsel)
Sheila Lapinsky (nee Barsel) was born in 1944* in Johannesburg, Transvaal Province (now Gauteng) to a middle-class Orthodox Jewish family. Her aunt and uncle…