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Prehistory: Pre colonial farmers in Gauteng
… institution that established marriage ties, status and political power. This short discussion of settlement … leaders. ‘Big men’ lived in big settlements…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1930-1939
… Madras, India. 5 November, Ronald (Ronnie) Kasrils , political activist, Minister of Intelligence and Member of … close friends, though in later years they…
ArticleThe Pietermaritzburg Treason Trial, 1984
… underground for five days in order to complete some political business, and then, accompanied by Paul David, took … Pietermartizburg, and were released in…
ArticleThe ANC’s MK Special Ops Unit Material - Yunus Carrim Collection - 6 November 2025
… out high-impact, high-visibility attacks against strategic economic and military targets. The aim was to undermine the …
ArchiveAll That Glitters - In the city by Emilia Potenza
… centres. - Dr Xuma, an ANC leader, reporting to the Native Economic The Great Depression The 1920s had been a period of … the collapse of the American Stock…
Chapter 15. The African Worker-A Policeman and Pair Of Handcuffs Always Waiting - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… have no basis at all in fact and that industrial and economic development follows its own course and laws. There … to advance. Of course, trade union action…
The Centenary Celebration of the February Revolution 8-12 March 2017
… poor. But it was the former who were most organised as a political force, since they worked together in large numbers … soviets (or workers committees) which…
ArticleBlack Consciousness and student revolt in the Cape
… After the government crackdown on political organizations in the early 1960s, new organizations emerged to fill the political vacuum. A movement based on the…
ArticleTransvaal Indian Youth Congress (TIYC)
… Volunteers for the Freedom Charter Campaign Source: SADTU Political Education Blog The Defiance Campaign was the first … banning orders, and went …
EventGeneral Law Amendment Act No 37 is approved
… for the purposes of interrogation, anyone suspected of a political crime. They could be legally held in solitary … geographic area, severely hampering the…
EventThe apartheid government establishes a Department for Coloured Affairs’ (CAD)
… and Indian population, waged a long battle to have their political rights recognized. By the 1980s, a Tricameral … with all other South Africans were granted…
EventAfrican Mineworkers’ strike starts
… which began during the strike, when trade union and political offices and homes of officials were raided … of the strike, however, was the impact it had on…
EventThe “Ossewabrandwag” is founded
… during the war. After WWII the OB gradually faded from the political scene, as the majority members realised that the … of achieving the republican ideal…
EventDr. Connie Mulder is acquitted and discharged on charges of contempt
… however, Mulder was involved in scandal that brought his political career to an end. It was revealed that Mulder, … of this charge by the Supreme Court in…
EventDate is set for constitutional talks
… from twenty groups (SA government, 'homeland' governments, political parties, political organisations and non-governmental organisations) …
EventThe second Anglo-Boer war, also known as the South African war, breaks out
… the Second Anglo-Boer War. These include the conflicting political ideologies of imperialism and republicanism, the … discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand,…
EventHilda Bernstein passes away
… Africa reacted with shock at the passing away of veteran political activist, artist and writer Hilda Bernstein. She … banning orders on several occasions for…
ArticleFanakalo: the language of mining culture
… argued by Cole. [30] Indeed, the Indian languages had no economic value for interactions with the English and the … associated with ‘its denial to employees…
The Rise of Women’s Trade Unionism in South Africa by Peter LaNasa
… demand for these workers was high due to the conditions of economic expansion, and soon the garment industry was full of … freedom from these unnecessary…
Freedom movement in South Africa: Its International impact by E.S Reddy
… has received more honours all over the world than any political prisoner. He stands more than ever as a symbol of … the founder of FRELIMO of Mozambique,…
III - Black Consciousness
… up to 1960. The mid 1960s were a period during which the political aspirations of the people of South Africa appeared … of the whole scheme of Bantu…
Chapter 3: The Role of the Police and the Government in Vigilante Activities
… itself caught in the middle of vigilante activities and political violence in KwaZulu-Natal. 54 The lifting of the … as if the Government gave vigilante…
Black Reaction to Apartheid, 1948-1973 - Address to the Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association by O. R. Tambo, Syracuse, New York, United States of America, 1973
… resistance. When that was defeated, it took the form of political opposition. But the black reaction was a reaction … struggle for equal opportunities and…
Press Conference in Lusaka: Oliver Tambo, 25 June 1985
… in the various organisational formations, in different political units, to fight on their own fronts; but also to … and to do so in unity with everybody else…
Press Conference by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 25 June 1985
… in the various organisational formations, in different political units, to fight on their own fronts; but also to … and to do so in unity with everybody else…
PlaceCape Town, Western Province
… trade . It was Home to perhaps the World’s most famous political prisoner— Nelson Mandela —who was held on the tiny … Buildings and pedestrian Malls…
The Life and Politics of Steve Biko by Yunus Momoniat, November 2014
… others guided the movement of student discontent into a political force unprecedented in the history of South Africa. … Consciousness Movement, and this…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on being awarded an honorary doctorate University of Zululand, 30 May 1998
… all levels of society throughout the world. South Africa's political leadership has helped break down that way of … of some of the most tragic and…
Colonial conquest and resistance, Pre 1900
… among them a colonial conquest, land dispossession, economic impoverishment, and exclusion from citizenship of …
ArchiveZuma rape case judge stands down (BBC News),13 February 2006
… many of Mr Zuma's supporters say he is the victim of a political conspiracy and have accused the judicial system of … he was championed by trade unionists…