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PlaceThaba Tshwane or Voortrekkerhoogte
… Voortrekker Monument , at a time of growing Afrikaner Nationalism. The oldest building in the complex is the South African Garrison Institute, what is now…
The Reunited National Party is founded by Malan and Hertzog
… in the merger of the National Party (NP) and the South African Party (SAP), to form the United Party (UP) in 1934. … community who perceived Smuts as an…
BiographyWolfie Kodesh
… and 1995, Kodesh worked on collecting stories of South African political activists which are housed at the Robben … ON THE DEATH OF COMRADE WOLFIE KODESH…
BiographyRichard Owen Dudley
… Coloured voters in the Western Cape to vote for the African National Congress (ANC). In 1998, due to an illness, … Educator and Political Dissenter (1924…
Chapter eight - Conclusion
… all the most important question concerning the South African revolution were posed. The theory and practice of the … white workers. Increased…
EventBarend Strydom kills 8 People in Pretoria
… people. At the end of the 1980s the ideals of Afrikaner nationalism were severely threatened by the crumbling … 1992. He was released as a part of the…
ArticleThe Early History of Rugby in South Africa
… Africans followed suit. In 1889 the Whites-only South African Rugby Board was founded. Eight years later the South African Coloured Rugby Football Board was…
The people armed, 1984-1990
… a demonstration. Photograph by Shadrack Nkomo © Bailey's African History Archive. Numerous factors characterised the … For instance, the car bomb explosion…
Article1960 - 1994: Armed Struggle and Popular Resistance
… For instance, the car bomb explosion in front of the South African Air Force Headquarters and the South African Defence Force (SADF) Military Intelligence ……
BiographyHelen Newton Thompson
Helen Newton Thompson, an anti-apartheid political activist and founding member of the Black Sash, has for the most part of history, been a fleeting footnote…
BiographyGcinisizwe Sylvester Khwezi Kondile
… best friend Pikoli fled the country, and later joined the African National Congress (ANC) in exile in Lesotho [5] . …
Address on Behalf of the Graduating Class at Fort Hare College, delivered at the “Completers’ Social,” by M. R. Sobukwe, October 21, 1949
… Dent to the position of Principal of the S.A.N.C. [South African Native College]. He was succeeding a man who was … intention of the trustees of this College…
Robert Sobukwe Speech at the University of Fort Hare as President of the Students’ Representative Council, 21 October 1949
… Dent to the position of Principal of the S.A.N.C. [South African Native Collegel. He was succeeding a man who was … intention of the trustees of this College…
EventHistory of December 16
… arsenal of the White Afrikaner drive to build Afrikaner Nationalism when in 1952 it became the ‘Day of the … Covenant’. Since the 1920s, the day was also…
BiographyNontsikelelo June-Rose Cothoza
… involved in student activism as the presence of the South African Defence Force (SADF) intensified in the townships and … to South Africa from exile in…
BiographyAdelaine Florence Hain
… a leading role with her son, Peter in stopping white South African sports tours with militant protests. Adelaine Hain … to feed their baby son, all the way…
ArticleGreat Trek 1835-1846
… most important element in the folk memory of Afrikaner Nationalism. However, far from being the peaceful and … theory' is unreliable - the devastation and…
Afrikaner
… group was formed which identified itself completely with African soil. As early as 1707, Hendrik Biebouw (Bibault) … traditionally celebrated annually even…
PlaceSA Army College, Roberts Heights, Pretoria
… as a recreation centre for soldiers and when the South African Military School, predecessor of the Army College, was … to commemorate The Great Trek in a…
ArticleA history of the South African Constitution 1910-1996
… into the Union of South Africa. During this war, many African people associated themselves with the British in the … The Afrikaners were mistaken, however,…
BiographySimon Nkoli
… joined his first resistance group; the Congress of South African Students or COSAS. He soon became the secretary for … would become one of the longest…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 3: Turning points in South African History, 1960, 1976 and 1990
… Turning points in modern South African History since 1948& In 1948 South Africa held a … lesson will be on some of the key turning points in South African…
ArchiveA Place In The City - The Rand On The Eve Of Apartheid by Luli Callinicos
… Most black South Africans had a different response. African National Congress President, Dr Xuma, spoke for many … elaboration, a natural and logical growth…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Introduction
… From the book: Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism commissioned by The Department of Education … rural change were key processes that…
Chapter 10 - Sharpeville and its aftermath
… of workers' power in the decade. In Cape Town African workers launched, in the face of massive police … honestly and relentlessly pursued in the spirit of…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - New Workers, New Unions
… their strict racial policies are indicated in. Afrikaner Nationalism in the Unions. See also ‘Civilised Labour’ and … Engineering Union Amalgamated Society…
ArticleThe History of LGBT legislation
… towards homosexuality and history of homosexuality within African society Most denominations of Christianity rejected … Christianity has played a role in…
Ramifications of South Africa’s Dop System by Alexandra Larkin
… industrial skills provided a ‘ seedback for future radical nationalism that would later escalate into a larger issue during the South African War’ , which…
ArticleAnti-Pass Campaign
… first, that many people had taken its message of nationalism to heart and, second, that many more were ready … and the early Youth League before them,…
ArticleDefiance Campaign timeline 1948-1952
… strike. December , A new leadership nurtured in the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) comes into power in the African National Congress (ANC) …