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Community histories of Rustenburg
… North West Province) and Botswana areas in 1830. A group of about 12 Eastern Cape farmers living next to the East Riet River area in the vicinity of the…
Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Act 110 of 1983
… Before P W Botha came to power in 1978, the government of John Vorster had begun a process for constitutional … by Erica Theron was appointed to improve the…
ArticleUniversity of Pretoria 2015-2016 Student Protests Timeline
… The University of Pretoria (UP) opened in 1908 as a new department of the … Black students. The number of people of colour (POC) being admitted to UP then…
BiographyBongani Mnguni
… dedicated his life to exposing the brutality of the apartheid system. Mnguni was born in Soweto on the 18th of November in 1953. He attended and…
BiographyKing Cetshwayo
… King Cetshwayo’s place of birth was his father’s (Mpande) kraal of Mlambongwenya, … the procedure of this inquiry would involve dissecting his body. As a…
ArticleChanging Perceptions of Nelson Mandela
… a figure who has undergone many transformations in the eye of the South African public as well as in the global imagination. He has played the role of…
ArticleA History of the Bulhoek Massacre
… from the Wesleyan Methodist Church and joined the Church of God and Saints of Christ, a small church based in the United States of … Mgijima a visit on 8…
BiographyArchbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu
… who was educated at a Mission school, was the headmaster of a high school in Klerksdorp, a small town in the Western … Cape , where he was one of six…
ArticleFederation of South African Trade Unions (FOSATU)
… The Federation of South African Trade Unions (FOSATU) was the first South … could coordinate Black trade union movements. It came into being after the South…
Nozizwe Charlotte Madlala-Routledge
… at the Centre for Adult Education (CAE) at the University of Natal (now University of KwaZulu-Natal). While at CSDS, she produced a manual on … the Co…
BiographyWinnie Motlalepule Kgware
… was born in Thaba Nchu in the Free State on the 27th of October in 1917. A teacher by profession, and resident at the University of the North (Turfloop). In…
BiographyVictoria Nonyamezelo Mxenge
… in November 1981, it fell on her to identify his mutilated body at a government mortuary the morning after his murder. She vehemently refuted the claim of…
BiographyMmapula Mmakgoba “Helen” Sebidi
… in 1943. She developed a life-long love for the designs of traditional arts and craft as a young girl, thanks to her … Sebidi was from a humble family, and…
BiographySuliman “Babla” Saloojee
… Saloojee was born on 5 February 1931 in the small town of Belfast in the then eastern Transvaal, now Mpumalanga. … with the police. This enabled him to trace…
Address of the President of the Republic of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, at the Inaugural session of the Twelth Conference of Heads of State or Government of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries
… Address of the President of the Republic of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, at the Inaugural session of the Twelth Conference of Heads of State or Government…
ArticleThe Group Areas Act of 1950
… The National Party was elected in 1948 on the policy of Apartheid ('separateness'). This 'separateness' put South … immovable property (property which cannot…
ArticleColonial history of Nelspruit
… Nelspruit lies in the Lowveld, in the valley of the Crocodile River just below the great eastern escarpment of the Transvaal. Long before it acquired a…
BiographyPaul Mokabe
… Mokabe was one of the students who stood up against the introduction of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in African schools in … Mokabe’s apartment…
ArticleThe Durban strikes and the resurgence of the trade union movement in 1973
… When Black workers in Durban embarked on a wave of strikes in January 1973, the government and employers were … made and these suffered similar fates, the…
BiographyKing Mzilikazi
… He was born ca. 1790 near Mkuze, Zululand (now part of South Africa). The son of Matshobana whom many had … he grew to manhood he observed the less powerful…
ArticleA History of Official Government HIV/AIDS Policy in South Africa
… The HIV/AIDS Crisis Emerges: Reponses of the Apartheid Government In 1982, the first case of AIDS … In early 1991, a national conference was held and a new…
ArticleA timeline of Zuma-Gupta issues from Nenegate to the firing of Pravin Gordhan
… (the company owned by the Gupta family) sign a memorandum of understanding with the Samajwadi Party government headed … 2008 September 2008 President Thabo…
ArticleThe Natives Land Act of 1913
… Introduction The history of White colonial land dispossession did not begin with the … an ‘aboriginal native’, but he ambitiously saw the Act being extended…
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… Women at the start of the 20th century It is only over the last three or four … one; it included child rearing and seeing to the well-being, feeding and care…
ArticleHistory of Women in Prisons during Apartheid
… This article was written by Justin Lawler and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project During the times of apartheid,…
ArticleThe South African Society of Artists and its exhibitors, 1902-1950
… and exhibition celebrate the founding, over 100 years ago, of the oldest surviving body for practising artists and the "advancement of art" in South Africa…
ArticleLenin’s implementation of Leninism in Russia and the changes made
… Communist state in Russia, we have already touched on many of the curriculum's remaining questions, but we will now … the middle class. He realised that…
ArticleThe History of LGBT legislation
… A government that implemented and quantified its mission of separateness with a radical fervor did not target … treatment. This study will examine the…
ArticleBattle of Cuito Cuanavale 1988
… Introduction The battle of Cuito Cuanavale and the Cuban intervention in Angola is one of the turning points in Southern African History. It led to … have…
Article1960's Diaries of Nelson Mandela on his trip through Africa
… “The time comes in the life of a nation when there remain only two choices –submit or … incriminating writings. It formed part of the state’s body of…