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Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Chapter 2 - Imperialism and the Union in South Africa by Timothy Keegan
… the system of labour migration, of drawing young African men (and, on a smaller scale, women) out of their … labour needed for the mines, the railways and…
ArticleNelspruit Timeline 1815-1996
… is officially opened on 27 June 1895. November, the Hall family open the doors of their new hotel, mainly to … eventually named after him. 1899 11 October,…
PlaceIsandlwana Battlefield Site, Nqutu
… some of the poorest and most underdeveloped, Rural Areas of KwaZulu-Natal. (The most notable being the Msinga … 454 people. Of the population, 93% are Rural…
BiographyNcumisa Chwayita Kondlo
… Azanian Students Organisation (AZASO) and later the South African National Students Congress (SANSCO) where she served … Students Movement in the 1980s…
ArticleThe formation of the SANNC/ANC
… Black delegates from the four provinces attended the South African Native National Convention (SANNC) in Waaihoek, … to propose ways of objecting to the…
ArticleGrade 7 - Term 2: The Transatlantic slave trade
… slave trade A map depicting the three most well-known West African Kingdoms. Image source The peoples of West Africa had … governing hundreds of thousands of…
Article50 Facts on Africa
… this continent that people may not readily know. Ten Great African Thinkers In the modern-day world the view people are … 1993 to 2000 Bellepeau was a junior…
ArticleTimeline — Land Dispossession and Restitution in South Africa - 1995-2013
… land claim. 1996 February, The Green Paper on the South African Land Policy is published. Subsequently, about 30 … state land and begin building shacks in…
ArchiveInterview with Amabutho members
… known as "comrades" or "young lions." Mainly active in urban areas, especially in the eastern Cape, most were unemployed …
Speech by Oliver Tambo on behalf of the Liberation Movements, at the twenty-third session of the assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organisation of African Unity, Addis Ababa, 27 July 1987
… of Heads of State and Government of the Organisation of African Unity, Addis Ababa, 27 July 1987 …
ArticleApartheid crumbles, Women in the turmoil of the 1980s
… the United Democratic Front (UDF) and Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) were restricted. In 1984, PW … 1976 uprisings and their aftermath,…
ArticleAfrica, Portugal
… trans-Saharan trade routes between Songhay and the North African traders provided Europe with gold coins used to trade … the Americas. The Portuguese…
EventGeneral J.C. Smuts (80), former prime minister of SA, dies
… war, inspired by the Native Representative Council, the African National Congress (ANC), the Transvaal Indian Council … WW II in August 1946, to investigate…
BiographyLewis Nkosi
… Ilanga lase Natal in Durban. In 1956, he joined other African writers on the staff of Drum magazine , which was … (1965), Nkosi describes the Drum staff as …
BiographySondeza Lugogo Mngomezulu
Sondeza Lugogo Mngomezulu, from the Ingwavuma district, Natal [now KwaZulu-Natal], was said to be one of the ringleaders of the unrest that broke out in this…
ArticleHow Unique was Slavery at the Cape?
… traditions, religious beliefs and relatively stable family units.” [i] This was however not possible in the … India, Sri Lanka, Madagascar, Indonesia and the…
BiographyNjabulo Simakahle Ndebele
… University, where he was the first recipient of the South African Bursary to study at Churchill College at Cambridge. … in 1983. He served as President of…
Indian South Africans timeline 1940-1949
… Committee will provide an opportunity to discuss Indian housing problems and the need for proper amenities in the predominantly Indian-occupied areas, as…
EventAnti-Pass petition sent to President Steyn
… controlling the mobility of the Black population in White urban areas. Bloemfontein was becoming a fast-growing economy and … Nombonisa Gasa, Women in South…
Address by President Jacob Zuma, at the James Sebe Moroka Lecture, Northwest Province, 22 August 2012
… Leadership of the Tripartite Alliance; The Moroka Family; Esteemed guests; Dumelang! We have gathered this … the life and times of the seventh President…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 85th Anniversary of the ANC- 8 January 1997
… on the other; between women and men; between rural and urban areas - all of these inequalities, magnified a … clinics are being built and upgraded. Even on…
PlaceLenasia, Soweto
… Nationalist Government, but the drastic shortage of Housing for Indians in Areas close to the Johannesburg City Centre meant that some, … always included…
BiographyNkosazana Clarice Dlamini-Zuma
… During the 1970s Dlamini-Zuma became active in underground African National Congress (ANC) activities while serving as the Deputy President of the South…
Document 20 - Advance to national democracy: guidelines on strategy and tactics of the ANC
… conference; Noting: 1. The current structure of the South African Labour market • The structural deficiencies of the South African Labour Market as a direct…
BiographyDaniel William Alexander
… in Port Elizabeth, the son of a West Indian father and an African mother. Ordained as an Anglican minister, he later became leader of the separatist African…
BiographyGana Makabeni
… the party's central committee, becoming one of its first African members; in 1932, however, he was expelled from the … P. Bunting . Makabeni was one of the…
BiographyJames Barry Munnik Hertzog
… OFS President M.T. Steyn. Later, when the South African War broke out in October 1899, Hetzog's life changed … M. T. Steyn went to London in 1909 as…
ArticleNamibian Timeline
… a padrão at Angra PequeÁ±a (LÁ¼deritz). He sees some African people near the Fish River with large herds of … !Garib River with Klaas Afrikaner, leader of…
Event80 Women arrested for anti-pass protest
… of the Black population particularly centring on White urban areas, were being implemented all over South Africa. … Let them Build More Gaols,’” in Gasa (ed…
BiographyThomas Patrick Murray
… he attained journeyman status. In 1938 he joined the South African Boilermakers', Iron and Steel Workers', Shipbuilders' … the pulp and paper industry, and…