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In summary: Factors resulting in the crisis
… The emergence of South Africa's democracy in the 1990s The crisis of apartheid in the 1980s Factors contributing to … In summary: Factors resulting in the…
ArticleBirth of the African Mine Workers’ Union
… The 1946 mine workers' strike was led by the African Mine Workers Union, whose president was J.B.Marks, he was also a leader in the South African Communist…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 1 The Ming Dynasty
… by a series of dynasties until 1911 and from 1368 to 1644, the Ming Dynasty ruled over China. This was the last native Chinese dynasty. [2] The word ‘Ming’…
ArticleThe Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) 1995
… After the end of apartheid, as well as the release of political prisoners in the early 90s and the country’s transition from repressive … The Truth and…
ArticleThe Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
… The landscape of Black political activity in the 1960s was different that of the previous decade. The apartheid government had banished … The Black…
Document 64 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa to the International Secretariat of the International Communist League (B-L), 1 July 1936
… One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 64 - Letter from the Workers' Party of South Africa to the International … The Workers Party consists of two small…
Activity: The first farmers in Southern Africa
… Activity: Learning about the farmers Archaeologists found a lot of information from … used for tools Dung-lined pits used to store grain Look at the map…
ArticleHuman Rights and the South African Constitution
… South Africa's Constitution (1996) enshrines the supremacy of the Constitution and the rule of law. Everyone in South Africa, including the … Human Rights…
Document 75 - A. Mon (M. N. Averbach), “The Historical basis for the Programme of the Fourth International Organisation of South Africa”, Workers’ 1944
… history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew The programme of the Fourth International Organisation of … industrial capital. From 1652 to 1805 the Dutch…
Report of the Coolie Commission of 1872
… On 13 February 1871, the Red Riding Hood sailed from Durban with the first group of repatriated ex-indentured workers for … passengers on board. Within three…
ArticleGrade 10 - Topic 1: The world around 1600
… Topic 1: The world around 1600 What was the world like around 1600? Europe is considered as one of the world’s major super powers which played a significant …
ArchiveSASPU : Republic Day 1981 : The day the flag was burnt
… poster. Photo of students burning flag. SRC niversity of Cape Town. … SASPU : Republic Day 1981 : The day the flag was burnt …
BiographyRichard Feetham
… 1874, Penrhos Monmouthshire, England. His father was the Reverend William Feetham, Vicar of Penrhos, Raglan, England and his mother, Mary, the eldest…
EventAfrikaans is used for the first time in an international document with the signing of the Convention of Mozambique in Pretoria
… Afrikaans is one of the eleven official languages spoken in South Africa. It is a … the Dutch, language spoken by settlers who arrived in the Cape in the…
Student Politics in the Era of Democracy
… During the 1990-1994 period of political liberalisation and negotiations leading to the first democratic elections the South African Students Organisation …
Submissions by the McGill University students 2014
… and Labrador. She is a Labrador Inuk and a beneficiary of the Nunatsiavut landclaim. She completed her Bachelor of Arts … active in British Parliamentary…
BiographyRichard Goldstone
… Goldstone was born on 26 October 1938 and studied law at the University of the Witwatersrand where he obtained a BA LLB degree with … in 1994, and Honorary…
”The Global Information Infrastructure - What is at stake for The Developing World?” address to the Infodev Symposium, 9 November 1999
… from Johannesburg. Let me take this opportunity to thank the President of the World Bank Jim Wolfensohn and the World Bank for … of Communications has set…
The Black Homeland Citizenship Act of 1970
… During Apartheid, starting from the late 1950s the South African Government attempted to divide South Africa … of separate states, called homelands, for…
BiographyBantu Holomisa
… Holomisa was born on 25 July 1955 at Mqanduli, Transkei , the son of the late Chief Bazindlovu Holomisa who had been a member of … a mediating role in…
V - The Funeral
… From the book: No.46 - Steve Biko by Hilda Bernstein, 1978, South Africa Thirteen Western nations sent diplomats to the funeral on 25 September. Police…
BiographyVesta Smith
… years with her four sisters. Her mother was a seamstress. The family’s stay in Vrededorp did not last long as the government’s policy of forced removals soon…
EventThe Slagtersnek rebels are tried in the Uithenhage landdros court
… Frederik Bezuidenhout owned a farm east of the Cape Colony. After reports surfaced that he was allegedly … to a nearby cave where he was later discovered and…
Statement by Mfanafuthi Makatini in the Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly, 27 November 1981
… On behalf of the African National Congress, its National Executive … of the OAU in the liberation struggles of Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, Sao Tome and…
Democracy - The only solution by Nelson Mandela, President of the ANC 1 July 1992
… Please take note that this article was written prior to the answer that we have received yesterday afternoon from President De Klerk in response to the ANC's…
BiographyJacqueline (Jackie) Arenstein
… As a young person, Arenstein joined the left wing Book Club in Durban where, among other authors, Marx and Lenin were read and discussed. At the age of 21,…
ArticleThe caring nature of Nontsikelelo Albertina Sisulu
… for her sickly mother (who had been greatly weakened by the Spanish flu of 1918). It was further fuelled by her … became a nun, her early years of caring for…
BiographyDr. Jacob Mfaniselwa Nhlapo
… Primary Teachers’ Certificate at Bensonvale Institution in the Eastern Cape. Staying in the region, at the renowned Lovedale Institute near Alice, he …
BiographyHenry Gordon ‘Squire’ Makgothi
… 1947. He then went on to Fort Hare College in the Eastern Cape, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts … 1951.He later briefly studied law. In 1944, he…
BiographyMotsoko Pheko
… 13 November 1933 to a wealthy rural family in Lesotho. In the late 1930s, after the sudden death of their parents, Pheko and his brother came … Fund. He…