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ArchiveTribute to Ottilie Schimming Abrahams (2 Sept 1937-1 July 2018) – some notes and memories by Heike Becker
… In the late 1950s Ottilie Schimming Abrahams was among the first … various political cum educational organisations in the 1950s, such as the South West…
ArticleChief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli timeline 1800 - 1967
… Historical Context to Chief Luthuli Chronology While Chief Luthuli himself preferred another … at the Cape, large meetings are held in the country's main…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 3: Turning points in South African History, 1960, 1976 and 1990
… in 1948 and non-violent resistance to apartheid in the 1950s. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights after World … has been proved by scientific evidence…
Growth of African Nationalism and Defiance
… laid down the foundation for the ANC’s campaigns in the 1950s. At the same time, rapid migration into urban areas … the passing of various racially…
BiographyRobert Gabriel Mugabe
… Mugabe became involved in nationalist politics in the late 1950s. In Ghana, Mugabe took himself as a Marxist and …
ArticleKingdoms of southern Africa: Great Zimbabwe
… and 20 000 people. Most of them lived far away from the main stone buildings, with only 200 to 300 royals and advisers living inside the main city, which was…
The National Arts Festival
… Gaol on Somerset Street. Upon its inception, there were 64 main events on the programme, ranging from theatre … craftwork and craft artists. The NAF is…
ArticleArt South Africa Today exhibitions
… Art in Africa Today. Other national exhibitions in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s had included the works of one or two … at least visually ambiguous ‘Swing’ as the…
Nelspruit the Segregated city
… segregated lines. A mini population boom began in the 1950s and 60s, and the White population increased from 2186 … status in 1978, saw its leadership…
ArticleHarriet Bolton and the Garment Workers Industrial Union
… By the 1950s, Harriet Bolton began to help with organising work in …
BiographyAdam Small
Professor Adam Small was born on 21 December 1936 in Wellington, Cape Province (now Western Cape) to a mother of Muslim Indian heritage and a slave descendant…
References and links: Local History
… ShowMe, (2014), “A Journey through Pretoria’s Main Attractions” from ShowMe, 12 December [online], … //showme.co.za/pretoria/tourism/a-journey-through…
BiographyDr. Mantombazana ‘Manto’ Tshabalala-Msimang
… drug Virodene on HIV-positive soldiers in Tanzania. The main active ingredient of the drug was a lethal industrial …
Increasing repression and the turn to the armed struggle
… legislations were passed by the NP led government in the 1950s as it sought to deal with dissent and entrench … The Langa Massacre The anti pass campaigns of…
ArticleThe influence of apartheid
… from their Sotho/Tswana neighbours, which, during the 1950s were manifesting themselves in numerous tribal … provided for the racial segregation of the…
ArticleBlack Consciousness: Cultural Expression and Representation
… literary expression had been popularized throughout the 1950s and earlier 1960s. The end of the fifties brought about … entertaining stories published in…
ArticleNatal Indian Congress (NIC)
… leadership in 1945. Due to more militant protests, by the 1950s and 1960s several of the NIC?s leaders were in jail. … in 1961. Due to these more militant…
ArchiveThe Final Prize - Contents and Preface
… the Treason, “Fischer”, Rivonia and ARM trials (in the 1950s and 60s), extending into each decade of the century … campaigns in the two founding decades of…
Chapter 2 - Industrialisation and the Revitalisation of Black Politics in the 1940s
… 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 …
Article1973 Durban Strikes
… - the first time since the political “stay at home” of the 1950s – and to exercise the power of factory based mass …
Polokwane an Overview
… and the homelands in the region. The uprisings of the late 1950s and mid-1980s in Sekhukhuneland had a marked effect on …
ArticleFootball in South Africa
… people with little else to cheer about. Moroka Swallows (1950s) After the Second World War and the rise of apartheid, … into close contact with formal…
ArticleAnti-South African Indian Council (SAIC) Campaign
… and it became the biggest Indian political rally since the 1950s. This was followed by mass leafleting, press statements … trade unions and sports…
ArticleWomen and the struggle against Apartheid
… such process was on 23 September 1913 (see our Women's Chronology) when women in the Free State, organized by …
Legislation, Dissent, and Violence in Sophiatown under Apartheid
… urban settlement in South Africa during the 1940s and 1950s. The Western Areas was also the centre of political … 1934, from 12 000 to 24 000, and again to…
ArticleJohannesburg the Segregated city
… Streets had already entrenched themselves as the town’s main shopping areas, stretching from the centre to the more … peripheral segment was the site of a…
ArchiveBiography of Florence Matomela by Maximiliano Rubio
… in the organization of the prominent demonstrations of the 1950s, such as the Defiance Campaign , the creation of the … an outcry from the population…
ArticleSouth Africa and the United Nations, 1946-1990
… an effective and peaceful means of pressure. However, the main trading partners of South Africa continually voted … the policy, mandatory sanctions were…
Control: 1910 - 1948
… the basis for an alliance between the labour party whose main support base was the English speaking White miners and … national struggles such as the anti…
BiographyJulius Sello Malema
… at the age of nine, where, according to Malema, their main task was to remove National Party posters placed outside …