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BiographyDr Alfred Bitini Xuma
… helped get his speech published. Deneys Reitz, a prominent Afrikaner politician, acknowledged that Xuma’s address had … African Bureau for Racial Affairs …
State policies and social protest, 1924-1939
… white' problem. Urbanisation thus received another boost. Afrikaner women, like their African, Indian and Coloured … to note that as a result of the…
ArchiveIntroduction to Dossier on Diplomatic Offensive
… government's diplomatic offensive, namely the Nkomati Accord and the withdrawal of the army from Angola. …
ArticleCaste - meaning, profession, religion
Achari, Achary, Archary - Sometimes the last name of a person. Caste of the craftsman -architects, goldsmiths. Also associated with Brahmin class. www.boards…
ArchiveLegal analysis of Nkomati Agreement
… Paper by Kader Asmal on the Nkomati Accord. Analysis of the agreement from an international legal …
ArticleThe Roots of Apartheid in the Construction of Buchuberg Dam
… played an essential part in uplifting poor whites to an Afrikaner nation fifty years later that promoted Afrikaner nationalism . [6] These schemes also…
Community histories of Rustenburg
… played a very important role in the development of Afrikaner churches and religion in the 19th and 20th centuries. Afrikaner religious activities in…
Constructing the Union of South Africa; negotiations & contestations, 1902-10
… as the volkstaal (people's language) and as a symbol of Afrikaner nationhood. Several nationalist organisations … could support and defend itself. It was…
ArchiveRepression Monitoring Group Final Report: Report Presented at the Black Sash National Conference 1992
… political violence in Natal, traditional weapons, Peace Accord, criminal convictions for violence. …
Delegations and dialogue between ANC and internal non government groups
… immanent. The representation of the ANC by government and Afrikaner and other media since its banning in 1960 had … Afrikaners together into an ineluctable…
ArticleDutch Reformed Church (DRC)
… church has been very much bound with the politics of the Afrikaner community of South Africa. The church supported the …
ArticleThabo Mbeki (1942 - ) Timeline
… York. Thabo Mbeki has dinner for the first time with an Afrikaner Woman, Christine De Lange. The South African … conference in Dakar, Senegal with a group of…
Freedom Charter sold out the dispossessed by Motsoko Pheko (The Sowetan), 2 Feb 2012
… at Codesa with the apartheid National Party were not in accord with the fundamental objectives of the 1912 ANC. In … founders of the ANC. This time the…
Polokwane the Segregated city
… City A decade of Turbulence, 1976-86 Ructions within Afrikaner Politics Forced removals in the apartheid era … City, A decade of Turbulence: 1976-86,…
Four important figures in the South African Film Industry
… political thriller) and other films that challenged the Afrikaner establishment at a time when dissent was very …
Women’s Enfranchisement Association of the Union (WEAU)
… with bored but stubborn indifference. By the 1920s, with Afrikaner women workers beginning to enter the labour market …
ArticleSefako Mapogo Makgatho Timeline 1861-1961
… The British Colonial administration, having defeated the Afrikaner republics in the war, set out on a programme of … was achieved by General Hertzog, leader…
150th Anniversary; Anxieties of Commemoration - Towards a National Dialogue by Omar Badsha and Jon Soske
… in Natal and 'Passengers' (migrants who came of their own accord) throughout the country, exploring the many … within and outside the ANC (besides, of course…
Man-made women: Gender, class and the ideology of the volksmoeder by Elsabe Brink
… This chapter argues that the role allocated to women in Afrikaner society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth … or 'mother of the nation'.' In he…
BiographyJames Steven Mzilikazi Khumalo
A colossal figure amongst South African choral music composers and directors, Professor James Steven* Mzilikazi Khumalo was born on 20 June 1932 on the…
EventNamibia’s constitution is ratified
… The independence of Namibia can be directly traced to an accord agreed upon by Cuba, Angola and South Africa. The …
EventConstant Viljoen announces his resignation from AVF
… The former leader of the Afrikaner Volksunie (AV) and Freedom Front (FF), General … Constant Viljoen, announced his resignation from the Afrikaner National…
EventThe South African War: The lifting of the siege of Mafeking
… instructed General Piet Cronje to lead approximately 5000 Afrikaner soldiers (numbers vary) to Mafikeng. For almost seven months fighting ensued; with the…
EventPresidents of Mozambique and South Africa meet
… affirm the two countries' pledge to abide by the Nkomati Accord, which was signed in 1984 by these two countries. P.W. …
EventGreat Trek Centenary Celebrations commence
… a common identity. This was expressed in the form of Afrikaner nationalism which had reached its peak in 1938 with … solemn ceremonies where wreaths were…
EventZulu King Zwelithini threatens to establish a separate Zulu state
… with the ANC. The FA was considered to be an alliance of Afrikaner , right wing formations that included political … ANC President Nelson Mandela's statement…
EventAngolan government signs peace treaty with UNITA
… activities throughout the country. Despite this peace accord and several mediation processes by the UN, fighting …
BiographyOliver Tambo
… personal issues. Following the signing of the Nkomati Accord between South Africa and Mozambique in 1984, cadres in …
EventDie Burger publishes the term 'Apartheid' for the first time
… On 26 March 1942, an article was published by an Afrikaner political correspondent of the Nationalist … the term become commonly used in defence of Afrikaner…
ArticleANC Origins and Background
… and the Orange Free State had become independent Boer/Afrikaner republics in 1852 and 1854 respectively. The war …