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ArticleFrontline States
… The collapse of apartheid and the advent of democracy in South Africa was … were formed in 1970 to co-ordinate their responses to apartheid and formulate a…
Masango Caleb job Mayekiso
Masango Caleb Job Mayekiso was born 1913 in Idutywa Transkei. He was a factory worker in Port Elizabeth.He was a genuine working-class leader.In 1940's…
EventThe Rembrandt Tobacco Corporation was founded in South Africa
… and obtained interests in 27 countries. According to his biography, Anton Rupert's business career spanned over sixty years. He started his global empire in…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1970-1979
… that it would be resuming arms sales to South Africa’s apartheid government. 1971 Thabo Mbeki is deployed to Lusaka, … Biko speaks at the Abe Bailey…
ArchiveGeorge Peake by David Hemson
… He had the buff honest manner of a worker used to hard work and large toughened hands which could wrap themselves … leader against the regime, George…
ArticleHow did the Nazis construct an Aryan identity?
… with 'racial purity' and used the word 'Aryan' to describe his idea of a 'pure German race' or Herrenvolk. The 'Aryan … could be seen as a learning…
Prehistory of the Rustenburg area
… that arose out of this group. Led by Malope and later his son Masilo between 1440AD and 1560AD, the BaKwena split … Kruger and the Voortrekkers. He sent men…
“Caught in the toils of our own selfishness”: Paton’s exploration of causes of, and responses to, societal failings in Cry, The Beloved Country by Eleanor Evans
… primarily concerned with presenting a critique of pre-apartheid South Africa and the way in which it discriminates … the ways in which Paton uses Cry as a…
Raymond Tucker: Attorney interview with Rupert Taylor 26 January 2000, 32 St John Road, Houghton, Johannesburg
… interviews that I’ve done is the role of a range of anti-apartheid organizations, that is a very wide range of NGO’s … into politics or into public…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 3 Glossary
… leaders in eugenics and “euthanasia”: Lessons for today." American journal of public health 108, no. 1 (2018): 53-57. … succession raised by the German…
ArticleNatal Indian Congress (NIC)
… in 1971 that the NIC was revived with a focus on civic work. The organisation was prominent in the establishment of … Africa as a fledgling lawyer in May…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1950s
… Congress (ANC) national Executive Committee (NEC) after his differences with the ANC Youth League. 26 March, The … calls for a broad anti-nationalist front…
ArticleUnited Women’s Congress (UWCO)
… The congress resolved to concentrate on grassroots work involving problems of the people in oppressed … they aimed to unite all women in the fight against…
BiographyL.B. Mokele
… letter that he would be named or listed if continued with his Communist activities. …
Denis Farrell
… of Soweto voters pipped that of Nelson Mandela casting his vote, earning him a Pulitzer Prize nomination. …
ArticleA decade by decade events account of the women’s struggle in South Africa
… Black professional nurse in South Africa. She resumes work at the Lovedale Hospital and serves the hospital for … National Congress (ANC), uses the votes of…
EventWWII: SA troops to fight in Europe
… approval to send troops to Europe, contrary to his promise in 1939 that SA troops would only fight in … Division served as part of the British Eighth Army…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the official opening of the Bram Fischer library at the legal resources centre Johannesburg, 27 September 1996
… for which Bram Fischer gave so much, we can pay tribute to his dedication to both law and justice, without any sense of … and was itself a part of the…
PlaceBotshabelo
… Alexander Merensky and Heinrich Grützner started work in the north eastern part of the South African Republic … and in Sekhukhuneland. Merensky sought refuge…
ArticleThe Natives Land Act of 1913
… the Whites. The Act was drafted by Cecil John Rhodes and his secretary Milton and it was geared towards dealing with … land. Any increase would subsequently…
BiographyNtsoane Jackson
… and sentenced to 8 years imprisonment and banned on his release. …
ArticleThe South African Society of Artists and its exhibitors, 1902-1950
… Artisans in stone, pottery, carving, illumination, metal work, design, or any branch of arts and crafts, can rely upon … of each member is that he must…
PlaceThe Durban Centre for Photography
… while at the BAT centre was hosting the famous African-American photographer, Gordon Parks, who held a workshop for … teach and mentor future photographers…
ArticleGertrude Fester Biography by Nehal Patel
… born on 4 July 1952, in the fourth year of South Africa’s apartheid state. By this time, policies, such as the Group … Therefore, segregation would protect…
Document 58 - Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, “The Opening Address at the Africanist Inaugural Convention”, 4 April 1959 [….]
… with dramatic suddenness, the chains that have bound his mind, solving problems which for ages it has been … when thousands of our people roam the streets in…
ArticleThe History of LGBT legislation
… these are words that were used to explain South Africa’s Apartheid regime, which officially lasted from 1948-1994 … Mine marriages were usually terminated at…
ArticleConclusion: Black Consciousness Movement
… a level of consciousness about the plight of Blacks in apartheid South Africa that could not be ignored. Contrary to … political activism increased. The role…
A Chronological look (1943 to 1986) at the Life and Times of Mr George Ponnen
… GANGEN-GEORGE PONNEN - SPEAKS OF HIS LIFE AND INVOLVEMENT IN THE TRADE UNION, POLITICAL AND NATIONAL LIBERATION MOVEMENTS IN HIS COUNTRY, SOUTH AFRICA. I was…
ArticleRight to Organise Timeline 1500-1994
… facing a labour shortage due to Khoi reluctance to work for them, they turned to importation of slaves from … chiefs, are encouraged to travel to the Eastern…
BiographyAbel Ntwana
… people, was keen to banish Abel Ntwana, claiming that his presence at Manzimale Location, Xhalanga District, …