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ArticleThe History of Separate Development in South Africa
… The Promotion of Bantu Self-Government Act of 1959 created 10 Bantu homelands/Bantustans. Separating black South …
ArticleEuropean trading systems in the Middle Ages - fourteenth to sixteenth centuries
… (5) Which two diseases caused many Khoikhoi to die? (2) 10. What was the meaning of ‘trek gees’ which the Trek Boers …
PlaceVlakplaas, Pretoria
… – with the ghosts of the past never far away." Thursday 10 July 2014 …
Women in the apartheid society by Fatima Meer
… registered and unregistered, was 1,500,000, representing 15 per cent of the economically active population. However, … 1970 and 1977; economists estimate…
ArchiveCHAPTER 2 - You only win once by Howard Barrell
… members undergoing training in Odessa in the Soviet Union. 10 In 1965, he says, the ANC had between 800 and 1,000 people … a severe reduction in its size at…
Artist groups and educational facilities (1960-1980)
Due to the apartheid racial classification systems, many black artists were not allowed to further their education and attend formal learning facilities such…
ArticleUnion, Segregation, apartheid and Democracy: From Union to non racial democracy
… in the political process. Results of the 1910 elections 15 September 1910 General Louis Botha's South African Party …
Nelspruit the Segregated city
… than 16000 people in paid employment in 1978. Of these, 15% were hired by the administration. Kangwane, called the …
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU)
… affiliation on the Witwatersrand remained stagnant at 15 000 between 1956 and 1961. The Rand committee was affected …
ArticleThe History of May Day in South Africa
The struggle for a shorter workday, a demand of major political significance for the working class dates back to the 1800s. On 7 October 1884, the Federation…
ArchiveAppendix 8 Sam will never see his favoured son free of the traitor’s brand by Denis Goldberg
… in Pretoria Central prison where he has already been for 15 years and where he is scheduled to remain for the rest of … found guilty of trying to overthrow…
PlaceVredenhof Organic Farm, Somerset West
… weeding and harvesting by hand and we employ about 15 people to cultivate about 5 hectares. We have a careful … that we grow. We have our own borehole that…
PlaceLimpopo Province
… around the province. The value added tax is charged at 15%. Visitors may claim VAT refunds at major border posts and …
PlaceMiddleburg, Eastern Cape
… period which terminated in 1910 between 12 000 and 15 000 British soldiers that were stationed at Grootfontein. …
ArchiveSecret Histories | South African Photographer David Goldblatt Reveals the Effects of Apartheid on His Native Land by Miss Rosen, 29 September 2016
… the harrowing reality of the everyday. DAVID GOLDBLATT, 3:15 a.m. Going to work: The Wolwekraal – Marabastad bus is …
A short history of the oldest graves in Plettenberg Bay by Patricia Storrar (The Heritage Portal), 12 September 2016
In the following article Patricia Storrar provides a brief history of the Harker graves in Plettenberg Bay. The piece was published in the 1977 edition of…
PlaceDarlington Dam- Lake Mentz
P.W.F. Weyers, a former 'Hawker' (an informal seller of goods). He had lost Cattle in an attack by the Boers during the Anglo-Boer War, was said to have…
PlaceStatue of President Paul Kruger, Pretoria
Situated in front of the Rustenburg Town Hall, the work depicts Kruger during the last days of his exile. It was made by a French sculptor; Archard. A figure…
PlacePondoland
… including a customs house and a magistrate's court. On 15 September 1884 the sliver of land known as the Territory …
Document 79 - “What is the Communist Party? Lesson 4: What will be Done in the Bantu Republic?”, Umsebenzi, 17 March 1934
… on and grinning. At one station where the train stopped 15 minutes, and where the mob was specially menacing, I got …
Down with Afrikaans - Oakes, D. (ed)(1988). Illustrated history of South Africa – The real story, Reader’s Digest story: Cape Town.
… questions arising out of this decision to report by 15 September 1990. Both sides once more committed themselves …
Document 1 - Keir Hardie, “Stoned in South Africa”, 1907
… on and grinning. At one station where the train stopped 15 minutes, and where the mob was specially menacing, I got …
Images That Preserve History, and Make It : ‘Rise and Fall of Apartheid’ at Center of Photography by Holland Cotter (The New York Times), 20 September 2012
… until the contextual meaning of the image is revealed. A 1993 shot, by the celebrated artist David Goldblatt, of a …
The Johannesburg Biennale by Bisi Silva (Artnet), 1998
… the Chinese artist Wenda Gu. Called United Nations Project 1993-2000, the work hung on the wall like a 30-foot-tall …
PlaceCape Saint Francis, Lighthouse in the Eastern Cape
… wick burner and produced a light beam with an intensity of 15 000 candles. In May 1906 the flash rate was accelerated to …
PlaceKumalosville, Kwa Zulu Natal
Kumalosville, near Ladysmith, in Natal, was one of the first "blackspots" to go. The Liberal Party booklet has this to say. "In January, 1908, a Mr Daniel…
EventZuid-Afrikaansche Republiek decides that December 16 will be a public holiday called Dingaan's Day
… the Ncome River in KwaZulu Natal. On that day an estimated 10 000-20 000 Zulu warriors led by Dingane's generals Dambuza …
EventWinnie Madikizela-Mandela's bodyguards arrested in connection with the death of Stompie Seipei
… of this, he had spent a year in detention at the age of 10, reportedly the country's youngest detainee. …
PlaceMjejane Game Reserve
Only 4 hours drive from Gauteng and less than 60 minutes from Nelspruit’s Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport. Positioned on the Kruger National Park's…