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EventFormer Minister of Defence and others are charged with murder
… J. A. et al (1999). Southern African Political History: A Chronology of Key Political Events from Independence to …
EventAnglo-Boer War 2: The British evacuate Rustenburg to occupy Commando Nek and Silkaatsnek
… References: Cloete, P.G. (2000) The Anglo-Boer War: a chronology. Pretoria: Lapa. Copley, I.B. "The Battle of …
History of Muslims in South Africa: Introduction by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… Mahida This book, History of Muslims in South Africa: A Chronology, probably the first of its kind to be published, …
PlaceUniversity of Cape Town
… number of Black Students remained relatively low until the 1980s and 90s, when the Institution, reading and welcoming … and Planned Process of Internal…
ArticleOvercoming Adversity from All Angles: The Struggle of the Domestic Worker during Apartheid by Bennett Gwynn
… a union and fighting for their worker’s rights. One of the main combatants of the domestic workers efforts were the laws … the domestic workers unionisation…
BiographyPixley ka Isaka Seme
… its function. In the context of the time, chiefs were the main source of potential funding. This critical factor is …
BiographyJohannes Henricus Brand
… become independent in 1854. Brand was confronted by three main issues during his presidency: Firstly, the conflict …
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 4 Essay Questions and Answers
… South Africa. It was initially believed that Shaka was the main cause of the Mfecane. [2] This has since been debated by … Pondoland.” In African societies,…
ArticleNdebele
… by the noun which dominates the sentence. There are three main groups of Ndebele people: The Southern Transvaal Ndebele … who pressed for KwaNdebele…
ArticleYouth and the National Liberation Struggle
… following the Soweto uprising in the later 1970s and 1980s were carried out mainly by members of the June 16 … the imagination of South African youth…
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 …
ArticleTransport and General Workers Union (TGWU)
… Advisory and Coordinating Council (TUACC) in 1974. By the 1980s its membership exceeded 20 000 in the transport sector. …
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 …
List of ANC and MK members killed in combat
… UMkhonto we Sizwe, MK Feature. Unknown | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s MK Real Name MK Name Date Cause of death Place …
Natal Performing Arts Council (NAPAC)
… the Loft Company and the Musicals department. In the late 1980s reductions in state funding and pressure from political …
ArticleAfrican Peoples Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA)
… was to recur in the resistance movement in the 1970s and 1980s. By the end of the 1960s, when the Morogoro … only later assuming distinct identities. …
The historical significance of COSATU’s Workers’ Charter Campaign
… Introduction During the late 1970s and early 1980s the issue of drawing up a Workers’ Charter became a … in South Africa and explores why the call in the…
ArticleFootball in South Africa
… Cracks in the edifice of apartheid emerged in the mid-1980s. Leading soccer officials Kaizer Motaung (founder in … backed the sport boycott movement…
PlaceVolksrust, Mpumalanga
… 1904, is the Commercial center of a District of which the main products are maize, wool, sorghum, sunflower seed, beef … was known as Dukuza (which means -…
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…
The Freedom struggle in Rustenburg
… fast-growing mining industry in Rustenburg. By the early 1980s, NUM established branches in the town and in the … the beginnings of the negotiations process…
ArticleBoipatong massacre - 17 June 1992
… shacks as families increased numerically in the 1970s and 1980s before others moved out to establish homes in the … Slovo Informal Settlement came from…
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…
ArticleAfrapix
… popular uprising against white minority rule in the 1980s. Initially, the Inter-Church Media Project (IMP) … the unfolding political drama that was South…
Chapter 4 - The Township Uprising, September-November 1984
… factories and rural areas. The insurrection of the 1980s was fundamentally different from previous struggles … the growth rates of many industrialised…