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BiographyJohannes Henricus Brand
… become independent in 1854. Brand was confronted by three main issues during his presidency: Firstly, the conflict …
ArticleNational Union of South African Students (NUSAS)
… This in turn drew fierce anger from politicians. In the 1960s there were direct confrontation between government and … but withdraw its membership due to…
PlaceImbali Township, Pietermaritzburg
… Township was established in 1958 and built in the mid-1960s to settle the City workers and employment seekers away … located 15km West of the City. The FJ…
ArticleInanda Seminary and its Influence on Education in South Africa by Claire Wilt
… and is very selective in their acceptance process. In the 1960s and 1970s Inanda Seminary received 1500 applicants, and … of importance on religion. This…
EventThe SA Constitutional Court abolishes the death penalty
… L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to …
EventBeyers Naudé is served with his second banning order
… L.E. (eds) (1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to …
EventNumber of banned persons in South Africa totals 936
… L.E. (eds) (1999) Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to …
ArticleThe role of gender in Ndebele architecture
… cattle byres at KwaMsiza all but disappeared during the 1960s, and today only the Msiza one survives, albeit in a … the very farmers who defeated them over a…
The Heritage Museum at Villa Zain by Joline Young
… from their homes by the Apartheid Government in the 1960s. Mrs Davidson, whose emotional return to her family … in a number of newspaper reports at the time,…
ArticleSouth African Indian Congress (SAIC)
… the authorities. .... It is to be borne in mind that the main object for which we are striving to raise the status of … membership were broken by state…
ArticleCall for submissions: The Politics of Armed Struggle in Southern Africa Conference
… swept across the African continent, in the early 1960s African liberation movements in countries that were … strategy of the liberation movements from the…
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 …
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…
ArticlePan-Africanism
… with renewed force in the United States in the late 1960s and ’70s as one of the manifestations of the Black … Ron Karenga, the creator of Kwanzaa. With its…
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… as early as the 1930s Afrikaans women were regarded as the main bearers of their culture. They were also the … fact that an ANC member, a Mrs Bhola, was also…
Federation of Amateur Theatrical Societies of South Africa (FATSSA)
… committee to decentralize the Federation and in the 1960s it was disbanded. …
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 …
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…
Soweto forty years on: The Black student rebellion of 1976 by Professor Noor Nieftagodien
… of black students onto the stage of history. Until the 1960s, the number of Africans in schools remained relatively … they caught many by surprise…
ArticleSophiatown in Literature
… stiffening of Apartheid in the late 1950s and early in the 1960s. In some cases it is their experiences reflected in …
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…
PlaceEzakheni Township of Ladysmith
… by the South African Development Trust (SADT) in the early 1960s, after some resistance from the local Farmers … Ezakheni, Steadville and Colenso/ Nkanyezi…
PlaceLinden, Johannesburg
… independent cafes and restaurants. Linden’s distinctive main street, 4th Avenue, is a mix of old and new independent … the Arthur Bales haberdashery, which…
ArticlePoqo
… Poqo's strategy intentionally involved killings. Their main targets were Langa and Paarl policemen and their alleged … fell apart. The PAC in exile (1976…
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 …