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Afrikaner Newspapers and the newspaper industry from 1830
… between conservative northerners and a more liberal southern faction, of mergers and takeovers, eventually … to grow his company into a major book publisher…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Contextual Overview
… and politics of exclusion in the early 20th century South Africa, and elsewhere in the African context and also in the … nationalism and the state of South…
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 1 (1923-2001)
… past. This is especially important in 2022 where South Africa has had the most hours of load shedding on record and … environmental crisis. Early…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 2: The Nuclear Age and the Cold War
… and Commonwealth forces (Australia, Canada, India, South Africa, and New Zealand) had been opposing the Axis in North Africa since Italy’s dictator Benito…
Pretoria the Segregated city
… the beginning of the rise of apartheid. Although South Africa was already a very segregated country, apartheid laws … the segregation of the Black…
ArticleNon-European Unity Movement (NEUM)
… decline shortly thereafter. Inactive, if not dead in South Africa during the 1960s and beyond, both sections seem to … more than thirty pages in this issue…
ArticleTransition to Armed Struggle by Norman Levy
… in 1961 with Mandela’s visits to various parts of South Africa to prepare for an All-African Conference, which Chief … on a new non-racial democratic…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1960-1969
… and even gone overseas, but all had remained in South Africa. Dr Monty Naicker and J.N. Singh disguised themselves … the growing demands of the unfranchised…
ArticleAfrikaans: the Language of Black and Coloured Dissent
… official languages, together with English, during South Africa’s Apartheid era, often occupies a politicised space as … regard. [5] The majority of Afrikaans…
ArticleThe Early Cape Slave Trade
… across a Portuguese slaving vessel of the coast of West Africa. The Portuguese ship was old and cumbersome and the … and the Amersfoort , both came from the…
Mission Stations - M
… Missionary Society; he had been several years in South Africa, and was now building himself a house. They offered to … subsequent buildings. Like most other…
Polokwane the Segregated city
… to support the English and invade German South West Africa was deeply resented by the more anti-English … side, arguing that the move had been contrary to…
ArticleCape Schools Join the Revolt
… with events in Soweto. July was vacation time in South Africa, and schools reassembled just before August. On 6 … in the secondary schools in the urban…
ArticleEastern Cape Wars of Dispossession 1779-1878
… by Boer farmers by 1798, many Xhosa clans remained in the southern Zuurveld area, some even penetrating into … of the first towns to be established by…
ArticleAfrapix Chronology 1981-1991
… You Have Struck a Rock: Women and Resistance in South Africa , to mark the first August 9th Women’s Day … Group exhibition. • Omar Badsha participated in…
Doing Oral History
… on the North Coast of KwaZulu-Natal a province of South Africa ( 29°27”²S, 31°14”²E ) it is famous for being the … Hullet. India sponsored indentured…
ArticleTimeline of the Group Areas Act and Selected Related Pieces Legislation
… rights, but due to vehement public opposition within South Africa, as well as from the Indian government, the Bill was … granted by annually renewable…
ArticleNatal Workers’ Theatre in the 1980s
… labour that kept the city’s wages the lowest in South Africa. In 1926 a Wage Board investigation expressed concern … Board investigation in 1934, conducted…
ArticleList of people banned under Apartheid
… 1973 31/3/1978 Cape TownFormer NUSAS leader who fled South Africa while under a banning order. Brother of also banned … in Lesotho of the Inter-Territorial…
ArticleThe Grey Street Mosque, 1880-1930
… also increase our understanding of Islam in Colonial South Africa. While South Africa’s Muslims are largely viewed as monolith, not only … was Durban’s first…
ArticleA Charge of Treason by Norman Levy
… were also some on the list that did not exist in South Africa, including the “Cominform” and “Comintern” which never had offices in South Africa. The…
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 3: An ancient African society: Egypt
… The White Nile travels from Tanzania, through Uganda into Southern Sudan. The Blue Nile flows through Ethiopia and … followed by arid desert. The Nile is the…