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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 …
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…
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, …
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…
EventPresident Vorster challenges Dr Rhoodie
… L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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…
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…
ArticleSophiatown in Literature
… has. The experiences of Sophiatown's community in the 1940s and 1950s have been captured for posterity by Can …
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 …
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 …
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…
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 …
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…
BiographyCecyl Esau
… for the UDF in the greater part of the Cape Province. His main tasks were to initiate contact in various towns for the …
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…