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EventHerero people of South West Africa, now Namibia, begin uprising
… leader, allowed missionaries with a small number of German women and children free passage to Okahandja. They reached … without cattle, will be shot. I shall…
Chapter V - South Africa belongs to all who live in it
… I was always learning. The Federation of South African women had been asked to arrange overnight accommodation for … not view this request as any sort of…
EventSandra Smith is the last woman to be executed in South Africa
… nearly 3 000 hangings between 1959 and 1989, only 14 were women. Of the 14, most were executed for crimes not politically motivated. Many women were executed…
EventKitchener succeeds Roberts as Commander-in-Chief
… confine the movement of the Boer commandos. Thirdly, Boer women and children and some Black South Africans were placed … strategies of the war as…
The values of David Goldblatt by Zachary Rosen,13 June 2017
… collectively carry the charge of haunting moments in history that seem both far away and very near at the same … Goldblatt even documented the recent removal…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Forward to Socialism/Socialist Futures (Panel 1). Convenor: Janet Cherry
… Lolonga Lincoln Tali, PhD candidate, Department of History and Political Studies, Nelson Mandela University Gary … Research Associate and Honorary Professor,…
EventDisbanding of Communist Party is announced
… Sources: Muller, C.F.J. (ed)(1981). Five Hundred years: a history of South Africa; 3rd rev. ed., Pretoria: Academica, … (eds.)(1973). From Protest to…
ArticleThe Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) 1995
… comprised of seventeen commissioners: nine men and eight women and divided into three committees (Human Rights …
ArticlePedi & Anglo-Pedi Wars 1876-1879
… in the form of thatch grass, clay and cattle, while using women as political patronage in the giving of a bride ( … prehistory to the year 2000, Unpublished…
Abbreviations - Missionary settlement in southern Africa
… Committee of the United Free Church of Scotland WMMSW : Women’s Auxiliary of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary …
ArticleAfrica and the Atlantic slave trade - sixteenth to nineteenth centuries
… 17 Where African farmers were settled Traditional Xhoza women smoking their pipes Image source The Xhosa tribes came …
ArticleThe Founding of the SANNC
… exclusivity along the lines of colour were also a norm and women were not initially permitted to be members. …
45. Mass meeting at the Empire Theatre, Johannesburg, 1906
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … thousand Indians attended. An invitation was sent to the…
ArchiveIn honour of Com. I B Tabatas birthday on 10
… by Jane Gool on I B Tabata's birthday. Presents his life history and the history of the Unity Movement. …
Regarding the white male gaze in South African photography by Daniel Gallan, 14 Jun 2017
… poverty, I felt like I was describing the effects of the colonial apartheid legacy,” he says. “Now I try to place … we have as white South Africans. I want…
ArticleFrontline States
… African economic complex and that the harsh fact of history and geography cannot be obliterated, for obvious …
List of Speakers: The Politics of Armed Struggle in Southern Africa conference
… Archive, University of the Witwatersrand Moloi, Tshepo History Workshop, University of the Witwatersrand Mthembi, …
STRIKES AND INDUSTRIAL ACTIONS
… contain the forward movement of the African working class, history has demonstrated the futility of their tactics. Since … a stable and permanent labour…
EventBeatles unbanned
… [1] Endnotes [1] The Beatles, http://www.southafrica.to/history/history1948.htm (8 April 2017). ↵ … The Beatles, https://www.southafrica.to/history…
EventSouth African historian Charles van Onselen is born.
… has mastered the art of incorporating different aspects of history, whether it is the social, economic, legal or … has truly impacted the manner in which…
The Choice of Termination Act is Enacted by the Parliament of South Africa
… application process. According to one report , only 40% of women who applied for state-sanctioned abortions successfully … under Apartheid contributed to the…
EventAs part of a defiance campaign against the apartheid Government, SA is hit by a nationwide wave of protests
… no police interference. Yet, a march by a coalition of women activists, 'Women Against Repression' was banned even before it started … Campaigns in South…
PlaceBo-Kaap Museum
… Museum. This is the best place to discover the real history of the area and to get a glimpse into the life of a … was established in 1978, as a satellite of…
ArchiveChapter 5 Last resort: armed resistance by Denis Goldberg
… use of force by the police. For example, African women in 1953 marched in protest against the pass laws being … a week. At a trade union hall in Athlone we…
Chapter 2 - The Soweto Uprising of June 1976: A Turning Points Event
… A people can take only so much and no more. The history of your own people which I referred to earlier has … I wish to God that I am wrong and that I have…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 2 - The Soweto Uprising of June 1976: A Turning Points Event by Phil Bonner
… A people can take only so much and no more. The history of your own people which I referred to earlier has … I wish to God that I am wrong and that I have…
Closing address by President Neslon Mandela at the 49th National conferenceof the ANC Bloemfontein, 22 December 1994
… Comrades, the ANC has held many national conferences in its history. One of these was the 1949 Conference, which was held … there are close to fifteen. And…
PlaceCrossroads Township
… wives, as perceived by the authorities (who had prohibited women to visit men in the hostel). Police raids were prevalent here; demanding passes or permits…
ArchiveAddress on the Occasion of the 107th Anniversary of the ANC by Cyril Ramaphosa, Ohlange Institute, Ethkwini, 8 January 2019
… enabled millions of children to study by electric light. Women have been relieved of the burden of collecting water … we have made huge strides in improving…
Call for papers - “Ukutshona kukaMendi”/ "Ukuzika kukaMendi": The Mendi Centenary Conference
… related to the conference theme. What role does the rich history of our country play in understanding where we are … and where does the story of the Mendi…