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EventUN passes resolutions on South Africa
… involving South Africa was also made. Click here to read a chronology on the UN and Apartheid Source: Fraser, R …
ArticleHistory of ‘New Age’ Newspaper
… African struggle against apartheid, especially in the 1940s. As a result of this newspaper's close ties to the ANC, …
Second World War and its impact, 1939-1948
… black people and segregation. Resistance and campaigns The 1940s in South Africa were characterised by political and … also came from the Women's section of…
ArticlePan-Africanism
… Cullen, Langston Hughes, and Claude McKay. By the late 1940s the African American intellectual leadership of the … of many Pan-Africanist advocates, as in…
EventThe National President of the Black People's Convention, Kenneth Hlaku Rachidi, declares that riots have lead to a new era of political consciousness
… L.E. (eds) (1999) Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to …
EventPresident Vorster challenges Dr Rhoodie
… L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to …
ArticleTswana
… similar dialects, beliefs and society structures and the main distinctions between the three groups were only … In fact, most archaeologists presume the…
BiographyChris Hani
… of the ANC's leaders in the Treason Trial (1956) as his main motivation to begin participating in the struggle for …
EventSWAPO attacks SAP
… L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to …
EventDe Kock is convicted of six killings
… J. A. et al (1999). Southern African Political History: A Chronology of Key Political Events from Independence to …
EventTrevor Manuel unveils GEAR
… L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to …
EventKitchener’s opinion on Concentration Camps
… and children in White concentration camps Click here for a chronology on Black concentration camps. …
ArticleUrban Removals - the Destruction of Sophiatown
… during the 1930s, increasing significantly in the 1940s. Patterns of migration had also changed by the end of the 1930s and in the early 1940s. Families, as…
ArticleSophiatown in Literature
… has. The experiences of Sophiatown's community in the 1940s and 1950s have been captured for posterity by Can …
From Segregation to Apartheid
… in the first four decades of the 20th century were, by the 1940s, increasingly under threat however, as African … began to change. The labour shortages of…
The Freedom struggle: Political mobilisation in Port Elizabeth
… existing factories to diversify their output. By the late 1940s there was a spurt of industrial growth with the … White and Coloured labour, but later,…
EventScores of people are killed in Boipatong, Vaal
… country and disrupt the negotiations. References: UNHCR, ‘Chronology for Europeans in South Africa’, [online], …
EventUN Security Council urges SA government to end Rivonia Trial
… in international action Click here, to read SAHO's Chronology on United Nations and Apartheid. …
EventThe National President of the Black People’s Convention, Kenneth Hlaku Rachidi, declares that riots have lead to a new era of political consciousness
… L.E. (eds) (1999) Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to …
BiographyMotlotlehi – His Majesty King Constantine Bereng Seeiso Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho
… established the Matsieng Development Trust, a body whose main purpose was to encourage and promote rural development … L.E. eds (1999) Southern African…
BiographyHarry Garuba
Harry Garuba was born in Akure, southwestern Nigeria, in 1958. [1] At the young age of seventeen he was accepted to study English at the University of Ibadan…
BiographyDr Somalingum (Leslie) Ponnusamy
… also continued his service to the community and the main highlight was the Ponnusamy family’s commitment to the …
ArticleSouth African Indian Congress (SAIC)
… the authorities. .... It is to be borne in mind that the main object for which we are striving to raise the status of … control. A change in leadership…
ArchiveThe Final Prize - Contents and Preface
… they avowedly supported Hitler. Their influence from the 1940s to the 1990s was as salient a part of the context of … strike was the seminal event of the…
BiographyMakhanda Nxele
… War-priest or war-doctor Second to chief in times of war Main adviser to chief Doctors the army for protection … to rebel. [76] Makhanda lived 1.5km away…
EventThe Federation of South African trade unions
… L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to …
Event523 people die in the Black concentration camps of the Second Anglo Boer War
… 1. Pieter G. Cloete (2000). The Anglo-Boer War: A chronology. ABC Press, Cape Town, p.331. Benneyworth, …
EventSouth Africa signs SADC treaty
… L.E. (eds) (1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to …
ArticleTransvaal Indian Congress (TIC)
… African Indian Congress (SAIC) . However, in the 1930s -1940s the TIC experienced more radical leadership when Dr. … which it helped form along with the NIC…
EventUmkhonto We Sizwe, military wing of the ANC, claims responsibility for power station blast
… L.E. (eds) (1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to …