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ArticleTeachers League of South Africa (TLSA) conference in 1925
… a prominent member of the APO who played a key role as the main organiser of the TLSA’s founding Conference under the … the league began withdrawing from the…
Notes on the Life of Ernest Cole 1940–1990 by Gunilla Knape
… in the harshest and most threatening of situations.The main focus of Cole’s photography was his commitment to humanity. From the late 1950s until 1966 he…
2002 Introduction By Jordi Martorell
… From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Lessons of the 1950s addresses all the main questions of revolutionary strategy and tactics and …
EventPresident Vorster challenges Dr Rhoodie
… L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to …
ArticleGangsterism in Sophiatown
… them to be undisciplined and weak. In Johannesburg in the 1950s, crime was a day-to-day reality, and Sophiatown was the … they considered to be their own…
EventThe National President of the Black People's Convention, Kenneth Hlaku Rachidi, declares that riots have lead to a new era of political consciousness
… L.E. (eds) (1999) Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to …
EventSWAPO attacks SAP
… L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to …
EventDe Kock is convicted of six killings
… J. A. et al (1999). Southern African Political History: A Chronology of Key Political Events from Independence to …
EventTrevor Manuel unveils GEAR
… L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to …
EventKitchener’s opinion on Concentration Camps
… and children in White concentration camps Click here for a chronology on Black concentration camps. …
BiographyChris Hani
… of the ANC's leaders in the Treason Trial (1956) as his main motivation to begin participating in the struggle for …
BiographyThabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki
… house, one Mr Lavisa. Mbeki excelled at school. The mid-1950s were the years in which the nationalist government … states had gained their independence from…
BiographyMotlotlehi – His Majesty King Constantine Bereng Seeiso Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho
… established the Matsieng Development Trust, a body whose main purpose was to encourage and promote rural development … L.E. eds (1999) Southern African…
BiographyHarry Garuba
Harry Garuba was born in Akure, southwestern Nigeria, in 1958. [1] At the young age of seventeen he was accepted to study English at the University of Ibadan…
BiographyDr Somalingum (Leslie) Ponnusamy
… also continued his service to the community and the main highlight was the Ponnusamy family’s commitment to the …
PlaceAlgiers, Capital of Algeria
… were black (98%) and Tswana-speaking (93%). Ganyesa is the main town of the Barolong boo Mariba community, a faction of … as a native reserve, with an area…
EventScores of people are killed in Boipatong, Vaal
… country and disrupt the negotiations. References: UNHCR, ‘Chronology for Europeans in South Africa’, [online], …
EventUN Security Council urges SA government to end Rivonia Trial
… in international action Click here, to read SAHO's Chronology on United Nations and Apartheid. …
EventThe National President of the Black People’s Convention, Kenneth Hlaku Rachidi, declares that riots have lead to a new era of political consciousness
… L.E. (eds) (1999) Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to …
ArticleSouth African Coloured People Organisation (SACPO)
… that Coloured politics took another direction in the 1950s. Before the introduction of Apartheid, there were … movements. Its activities were concentrated on…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK)
… the rights of Black people in South Africa. However, the 1950s and the early 1960s, showed the intension by the South … leading to the decision to take up…
ArticleWomen’s Role in the Negotiations by Nicole Dellaportas
… problems, known as CODESA. Gender equality was one of the main arguments among these multi-party conferences. With the … president of both the ANCWL and FSAW…
EventThe Federation of South African trade unions
… L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to …
Event523 people die in the Black concentration camps of the Second Anglo Boer War
… 1. Pieter G. Cloete (2000). The Anglo-Boer War: A chronology. ABC Press, Cape Town, p.331. Benneyworth, …
EventSouth Africa signs SADC treaty
… L.E. (eds) (1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to …
BiographyMakhanda Nxele
… War-priest or war-doctor Second to chief in times of war Main adviser to chief Doctors the army for protection … to rebel. [76] Makhanda lived 1.5km away…
ArticlePopular struggles in the early years of Apartheid, 1948-1960
… to new measures passed by the apartheid government in the 1950s. One of the factors that loomed large in the general … a year earlier. The May Day protest…
BiographyCecyl Esau
… for the UDF in the greater part of the Cape Province. His main tasks were to initiate contact in various towns for the …
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… then in 1956 or today. Issues that concerned women in the 1950s can be described as 'bread and butter' matters, such as … as early as the 1930s Afrikaans…
EventUmkhonto We Sizwe, military wing of the ANC, claims responsibility for power station blast
… L.E. (eds) (1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to …