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BiographyVivian Fitzsimons
… exhibits, in a new Marine Hall, built in 1930. But his main interest was in snakes, which had started in Natal and …
Apartheid - A Crime Against Humanity: The Unfolding of Total Strategy 1948-1989
… following this introduction, the reader will find a chronology of major events, which occurred during this …
ArticleDefiance Campaign 1952
… democratic resistance to the apartheid state in the 1950s. On 6 April 1952 while white South Africans celebrated … Town as well as some rural areas. Dr. J.S…
ArticleWomen and The Food and Canning Workers’ Union
… division of labour in the industry was striking. By the 1950s, Coloured women constituted over 30 per cent of the … of the FCWU’s creation of “union schools”…
ArticleAzanian People’s Organization (AZAPO)
… saw the capitalist system rather than apartheid as the main oppressing force in South Africa and believed that class … L.E. (eds), (1999). Southern African…
Women at the start of the 20th century
… then in 1956 or today. Issues that concerned women in the 1950s can be described as 'bread and butter' matters, such as … who did not belong to any political…
EventSASOL plant under attack
… L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to …
EventThe apartheid government reportedly pays compensation for death of Steve Biko
… L.E. (eds) (1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to …
ArchiveChapter 11 - SACTU in the Congress Alliance
… From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 11 - SACTU in … workers had mobilised only to be disappointed. Through the 1950s, the…
PlaceKhami Ruins, Zimbabwe
Khami Ruins National Monument and World Heritage Site, is located to the west of the Khami River, 22 km from the City of Bulawayo. The property, located on a…
BiographyStephen Joel Chifunyise
… independence. Theatre in Zimbabwe since 1980 has, in the main, been a response to these policies of reconciliation, …
BiographyDorothy Adams
Dorothy Adams was born in 1928 in Wellington, 72 kilometres north-east of Cape Town. Wellington had been declared on the farm of Champagne in 1840, and it grew…
ArticleSouth African Coloured Peoples Organisation (SACPO)
… that Coloured politics took another direction in the 1950s. Before the introduction of Apartheid, there were … movements. Its activities were concentrated on…
BiographyMatthew Goniwe
… in Cradock as part of the ANC’s Defiance Campaign of the 1950s. In 1960 Jacques left to join the ANC in Maseru. He was …
David Goldblatt: Structures of Dominion & Democracy (Artthrob), 31 March 2015, Durban, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa
… at KZNSA contains images dating back as far as 1963. The chronology of this exhibition begins on the Day of the …
BiographyWangari Maathai
… in co-chairing its Jubilee 2000 Africa Campaign. [xvi] The main purpose of the Campaign necessitates the cancellation of …
BiographyGuy Tillim
… Territories, RAY Photography Triennial, Frankfurt Rhein-Main, Germany Ex Africa, Banco do Brasil Cultural Center, São …
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 2 - Industrialisation and the Revitalisation of Black Politics in the1940s by Mohamed Adhikari
… of the 1930s from the populism and mass politics of the 1950s. The first document is a description of the ANC's 1937 … demonstrated by Bunche's commentary …
ArticleGrade 11 - What were the consequences when pseudo-scientific ideas of Race became integral to government policies and legislation in the 19th and 20th centuries?
… Racism These ideas about race were pided into two main theories, scientific racism and social Darwinism. … for human rights. Race in USA A billboard in the…
PlaceLinden, Johannesburg
… from the area’s particularly fertile soils. In the 1950s the area became a popular suburb with affluent … independent cafes and restaurants. Linden’s…
BiographyStephen Bantu Biko
… Christian student bodies where Basil Moore was to be the main speaker, but Moore was not allowed to speak, and Steve was asked to be the main speaker. The…
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BiographyB J Vorster [John Vorster]
… John D’Oliveira: ‘Look, we knew that Fischer was our main target (in the CPSA), that if you wanted to break … that he initiated what he called his Outwards…
Abdullah Ibrahim and the Politics of Jazz in South Africa
… musicians against the apartheid regime, from the early 1950s until the 1990s, focusing on the work of one artist … that was no luxury, since “it was not…
ArticleCurries Fountain events timeline
… the naming of the stadium 'Curries Fountain'. 1920s-1950s Curries was used as a general sporting facility for …
ArticleWestern Cape Civic Association (WCCA)
… veterans who leading members of the ANC campaigns in the 1950s and MK activities in the 1960s. Some of the leading …
ArticleUnited Women’s Organisation (UWO)
… organisation had been active in the ANC Women’s League in 1950s. For instance, Dorothy Zihlangu, Mildred Lesia and Dora …
ArticleAlbertina Sisulu and the organisations she was connected to
… especial before Walter was imprisoned, it was not her main connection to political activism and there were other … league, she also played an integral role…
Jonas Malheiro Savimbi
… Roberto, and Agostinho Neto, as leaders of the three main political movements in Angola, went to Portugal in …
PlaceUnion Buildings and Raadsaal, Church Square, Pretoria
… by the British coat of arms, but reinstated in the 1950s. The building was finally completed in December 1891, … are of plastered brick, painted to imitate…
BiographyKasturba Gandhi
… of children was an accepted and common practice. Two main reasons justified child marriages at the time. First, … in the book. For him, Ruskin's message…