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ArticleGrade 12 - Topic 3 - Civil Society protests 1950s to 1990s
… 2015] What forms of civil society protest emerged from the 1960s to 1990? Background and focus The Second World War had … protests ”Women’s liberation and…
ArticleCommunity histories in Port Elizabeth
… and traditions are very similar to the Xhosa nations - the main difference is that the latter abolished circumcision. In … of Salisbury Park, Fairview and…
ArticlePolitical executions in South Africa by the apartheid government 1961 - 1989
… legislation, and sheer brute force. The period from the 1960s to the 1980s was punctuated by the enactment of … Pretoria Central Prison. Two decades in…
EventSA signs treaty with Great Britain on the supply of military equipment to South Africa
… Most historians consider the first half of the 1960s as a period in which the Nationalist Party (NP) … Africa to want to maintain good relations with the UK…
Hunter-Gatherers in Southern Africa
… outside influences until about thirty years ago. In the 1960s, the Department of Nature Conservation began to take …
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 …
PlaceMali
… Niger River flows through its interior, functioning as the main trading and transport artery in the country. Sections of … migration from the depressed rural…
Pedi
… system than a means of household subsistence. In the early 1960s, about 48% of the male population was absent at any given time. From the 1930s to the 1960s,…
Article50 Facts on Africa
… leading figures at the University of Dar Es Salaam in the 1960s and 70s. He is known for numerous political essays and … for use in the data collection of…
ArticleMusic and culture as forms of resistance
… the country, mainly during the late 1950s and early in the 1960s, resurfacing as exiles. They include Mirriam Makeba, … the authorities took control of the…
ArticleBlack People’s Convention (BPC)
… conduct of the struggle for liberation in the 1950s and 1960s were discarded and replaced by an approach that … departure from the non-racial struggle of the…
ArticleFederation of South African Women by Skylar Jayes
… was unable to recover after going underground in the 1960s, their mission set the stage for other women’s … organisations of the time, FEDSAW went…
ArticleEOAN Group
… great heights, however the legislature intensified in the 1960s and began to take its toll on the group. They were …
ArticleHIV/Aids Origins
… Therefore the virus began to exist in the USA from the 1960s/1970s. HIV was found in tissue samples from a Norwegian …
A brief history on South African prisons and prisoners
… due to petty and severe apartheid laws. Between the 1960s and the unbanning of the liberation organisations and … early 1900s, but after ‘Pretoria Central’…
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Chapter 4 - Some Reflections on Early African and South African History by Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi
… Secondly, it looks at the new historiography from the 1960s to the present, particularly the use of archaeological … of change” swept through the African…
BiographyJulius Sello Malema
… at the age of nine, where, according to Malema, their main task was to remove National Party posters placed outside …
ArticleSouth African Student Organisation (SASO)
… student body that represented student interests. In the 1960s White members became sympathetic to the Black students … whites could play a role in the…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Youth League (ANCYL)
… , led by Steve Biko, emerged towards the end of the 1960s, taking the lead in continued resistance to apartheid. … with Mbeki as leader in Britain. The ANC…
The Ideology of the Black Consciousness Movement
… imprisonment and detentions without trial. By the late 1960s, the government had jailed, banned or exiled the …
ArticleThe development of Music in South Africa timeline 1600-2004
… more than 100,000 copies. 1940s From the late 1940s to the 1960s, a form of music called isikhwela jo was popular, … the African jazz scene throughout the…
ArticleObituary: Sheila Weinberg
… ANC and SACP. She was one of the early detainees in the 1960s, held when she was 19. Sheila endured her fair share of …
ArticleBantu education and the racist compartmentalizing of education
… Expenditure on Bantu Education increased from the late 1960s, once the apartheid Nationalist government saw the need …
ArticleBlack Community Programmes (BCP)
… In the late 1960s and early 1970s, after the banning of the ANC and PAC, … and restricted to King William’s Town, BCP became Biko’s main outlet for political…
PlaceRooigrond
… the state’s intention to expropriate Machaviestad. In the 1960s and the 70s, the government began to forcibly … Town, which contrasts with its fascinating…
ArchiveCHAPTER 4 - A turn to masses by Howard Barrell
… of strategy. ANC operational strategy between the early 1960s and 1978 centred on the development of a popular armed … such a political base, the review…
BiographyFrank Alexander Landman
… ‘fine body of men’ of the ‘MK contingent’ he had met. His main political task was a ‘study and analysis of the Coloured …
BiographyMzwakhe Mbuli
… representative of the sentiment towards Mbuli as the main orchestrator. After Mbuli was detained in January 1988, …
BiographyGovindasamy Krishnasamy Thambi Naidoo
… negotiate with him and sign an agreement acceding to the main demands of the Satyagraha. Together with others, he then …
BiographyDr James Sebe Moroka
… a speech at Freedom Square in Johannesburg. But the main campaign began on 26 June 1952, and reached its peak …