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ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1930-1939
… the policy of domination and economic strangulation of the Bantu race and inaugurated by Europeans with the consummation … Indian Congress (SAIC), the Native…
ArticlePondoland revolt - 1950 - 1961
… the Apartheid state, the land reclamation programme, the Bantu Authorities system and spontaneous revolts against … and early 1960s. The Pondo people…
BiographySamuel Makama Martin Masabalala
Samuel Makama Martin Masabalala was born in 6th December 1877, in Uniondale in the Cape and was educated in Grahamstown and Port Elizabeth. He worked for some…
BiographyIsaac Williams Wauchope
The esteemed teacher and journalist, Samuel E.K. Mqhayi described Isaac Williams Wauchope: “Rev Isaac Wauchope was truly handsome in appearance, a broad-faced…
ArticlePrehistory of the Durban area
… family, which in turn is part of the larger Eastern Bantu group of languages. In the remote past, all Bantu languages originated in the Nigeria/Cameroon area…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 4: Turning points in modern South African History since 1948
… student uprisings were against the introduction of the Bantu Education Act and 1990 provided a significant turning … government that resulted in the…
ArticleThe Transkei
… Struggles against the Bantu Authorities Act were fought in the Transkei , where the … time, however, the Pondos had successfully smashed the Bantu…
BiographyNthato Harrison Motlana
… school where he got an education "light years ahead of Bantu Education". He was used to "getting six of the best" …
Gen. Tafari Banti (Teferi Benti), Ethiopia’s chief of state, is killed in gun battle that breaks out around Addis Ababa headqua
BiographyDulcie Evonne September
… principal terrains of struggle, due to the imposition of Bantu Education , as it stood to debase higher education and …
Article16 June 1976 - Soweto Uprising
… government that resulted in the introduction of the Bantu Education Act in 1953. The rise of the Black … at home giving impetus to the struggle against…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1910-1919
… the fight against the 1913 Land Act, the formation of the Bantu Women’s League and the formation and growth of working … 300 women and 100 men in Ebenezer…
BiographyMweli Skota
Mweli Skota was born in Kimberley in the 1880s and attended school there. He worked at various times as a clerk, journalist, court interpreter, and independent…
BiographyPaulus Howell Mopeli
Paulus Howell Mopeli (alias Mopelinyana), originally from Witzieshoek Native Reserve, Harrismith District, Orange Free State (now Free State Province)…
ArticlePixley ka Isaka Seme Timeline 1881-1951
… to form the South African Native National Congress(SANNC). Bantu/Batho (people) a newspaper that serves a mouthpiece for …
ArticleGrade 12 - Civil Resistance in South Africa 1970s to 1980
… to weaken. It could no longer keep black people in their Bantu homelands or remove them from the white cities. The Bantu Homeland, sometimes referred to as…
ArticleDr Alfred Bitini Xuma Timeline 1893-1998
… June-3 July: Xuma address a Conference of the European and Bantu Christian Student Associations at the University … is published. May: Xuma makes an address…
ArticleThe Homelands
… to become citizens of their independent Bantustans. The Bantu Homelands Citizenship Act of 1970 was passed, which … were not completely independent. Other…
ArticleFootball in South Africa Timeline 1862-2012
… (and again in 1903 and 1906). 1898 The Orange Free State Bantu Football Club tours England, becoming the first South … they only play against white sides…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1920-1929
… Carter, 1989: 311) 11 June, Meshach Pelem president of the Bantu Union gives his testimony before the Select Committee … is born in Sekhukhuniland. September…
ArticleFreedom Charter timeline 1948-1961
… president of the Transvaal branch of the ANC 1951 The Bantu Authorities Act is passed June, Pixley Seme , a … authorities power to declare a state of…
BiographyGraeme Williams
Williams completed his Bachelor of Science majoring in Geology and Statistics at the University of Cape Town. For him photography was a pass time activity…
ArticleWhen, why and where the first African farmers settled in Southern Africa
… The African farmers who moved to southern Africa were Bantu-speakers. They are the ancestors of many South African … of animals. They introduced crop…
BiographyKing Sarhili kaHintsa
King Sarhili was the last King to rule over Xhosaland before it was fragmented by the consequences of the ‘Cattle Killing Movement’ of 1856-7. The movement was…
Iron Age Kingdoms of Southern Africa
… Iron Age technology was transmitted across Africa by Bantu-speaking people who migrated to the south from North … the groups they met, which is why many…
National Council of African Women (NCAW)
… social conditions for Africans. It apparently absorbed the Bantu Women's League (BWL) and Charlotte Maxeke , who had …
'The People Accept the Challenge of the Nationalists' Statement issued by the National Executive of the A.N.C., April 6, 1963
… of our struggle in this period are the pass laws and Bantu Authorities. The notorious Urban Areas Act Amendment … of their birth. The Amendment Bill, the…
List of Laws on Land Dispossession and Segregation
… Johannesburg to Meadowlands and other areas. Promotion of Bantu Self-Government Act (No: 46) 1959 The Promotion of Bantu Self-Government Act, passed in 1959,…
ArticleInanda Seminary and its Influence on Education in South Africa by Claire Wilt
… Women, Missionary School, Daniel Lindley, Lucy Lindley, Bantu Education Act, Gender Equality Indanda Seminary and its … 11 years spoke of how strong the…
The Black Homeland Citizenship Act of 1970
… a different ethnic group. According to the Promotion of Bantu Self-Government Act No. 46 of 1959 , Black people were … to be replaced with citizenship of…