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BiographyMakhosi “Tholi” Nyoka
… Organisation. On 18 May 1982, facing constant harassment from the police, Nyoka fled into exile with the help of Chief … fellow officers fired countless…
The diary of Maria Tholo - Augusts 25 - September 3 by Carol Hermer
… From the book: The Diary of Maria Tholo by Carol Hermer … so all the papers are full of riot news especially from Bonteheuwel. We had a notice asking all…
ArticleKingdoms of southern Africa: Great Zimbabwe
… Where is Great Zimbabwe? The Great Zimbabwe ruins date from the Iron Age and lie between the Limpopo and Zambezi … map ). What does its name mean? The name …
The Mountain Committee
… carry on their struggle, inspired neighbouring tribesmen from other districts in East Pondoland who carried back the … ears and that their new-found unity…
Chapter 7 - SANSCO:The Ideology and Politics of Non-Racialism, the Freedom Charter and National Liberation
… established by SASO. Thereafter, I track its shift away from BC and its re-orientation towards the Congress movement, … commemoration services in remembrance…
Chapter 6 - No more suppers for my comrades
… From the book: Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 … were students at school in Lesotho. Some were visitors from South Africa. Others, recently arrived…
Term 1:THE HUNTER GATHERERS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA
… today. Yet! There are! All over the world in every country from Brazil to Australia you will still find people living as … 11 000 years in Southern Africa…
ArticleGrade 4 - Term 1: Local History
… has a rich diverse heritage, many people have learned from stories told to them by their proud elders and community … as well as shared customs, traditions…
ArticleBirth of the African Mine Workers’ Union
… white British workers who had begun to form trade unions from 1880 onwards. During the first thirty years of their … union and national movement in South…
ArticleHow do we find out about the history of a local area?
… the next. It is also an important way to pass heritage on from parents to children. Some people feel that oral history … the same. It is possible that as the…
ArticleTimeline of the Bulhoek Massacre
… small game. In his vision, he receives several revelations from an angel, one of which requires him and his people to … to their Old Testament beliefs. 1912…
The Hunter-Gatherers of Southern Africa: Summary
… QUICK INFO GUIDE: Southern Africa hunter gatherers learnt from oral history/storytelling and archaeological research. … and rocks. TOOLS: Stone Age…
Political deaths in police custody 1984 - 1989
… 29 March Mvulane, Bheki (18) Katlehong Brain injuries from alleged police violence while awaiting trial. 5 May … Mzwandile (20) Karoo Youth Congress…
ArticleGrade 7 - Term 3: Colonisation of the Cape in the 17th and 18th centuries
… The word ‘San’ means ‘people different from ourselves’. The San, who were hunter-gatherers, were the … They hunted using arrows coated in poisons obtained…
ArticleThe Strikes and Popular and Political Support
… and their demand for a living wage received much support from the general public. The GWIU and the GFWBF was able to garner support from a network of…
ArchiveCHAPTER SIX: The Politics Of Non-Collaboration: The Campaign To Boycott The Tricameral Elections by Kumi Naidoo
… This chapter comes from the book …
Contact, conflict and dispossession on the Cape eastern or northern frontiers in the nineteenth century
… hundreds of years. The Trekboers, who moved into the area from the Cape. The British settlers, who arrived from Britain in 1820. Each group needed land for…
ArticleThe History of Separate Development in South Africa
… Act prohibited Africans, except those in the Cape Colony, from buying or renting any land except in the restricted … Act of 1923 was passed to separate the…
ArticleThe impact of Lenin and Stalin’s policies on the rights of the Russian people
… about losing the support of the peasants who benefited from the NEP and wanted to unite them with the working class. … national economic plan in 1927. The…
ArticlePrehistory of the Pretoria area
… inhabited this area about 300 to 400 years ago. The period from 1820 to 1832, known as the Mfecane or Difeqane, was … movement of several Nguni groups across…
ArticleSlave Resistance
… mixed group of people such as a slave tailor named Louis from Mauritius, two Irishmen, James Hooper and Michael Kelly; … slave and two Khoi men. This group…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Strategic Debates, the ANC - SACP alliance and the Soviet Union. Convenor: Tshepo Moloi.
… affected by the ban on ‘communism’. But in addition, from the 1920s, the impact of the ideas disseminated by the … its own newspapers, which enjoyed…
BiographyVincent Mbamama Hlamandana
… Mbamama Hlamandana, Magade Madapu and William Tyabashe, from Tsolo District [Eastern Province, now Eastern Cape], … by Professor S. Badat, Rhodes University,…
BiographyPumzile Mayapi
… to Angola. Here he underwent a basic commander course from December 1981 to the end of 1982. Thereafter the ANC …
Robert Mokxotho Matji
… to attend gatherings for two years, and ordered to resign from the ANC. He escaped arrest for treason in 1956 by … Gerhart G.M and Karis T. (ed)(1977). From…
List of Laws on Land Dispossession and Segregation
… the British and the Afrikaner republics were dislodged from the land. African, Coloured and Indian and other Asiatic we segregated and banned from owning…
ArticleIndustrial and Commercial Union Timeline 1919-1989
… Union (ICU), invites Selby Msimang, the congress leader from Bloemfontein, who had been involved in a wages campaign … is called off, as the strikers do no…
ArticleHistory of Slavery and early colonisation in SA timeline 1602-1841
… fleet on their way to East and/or on their return trips from Batavia (i.e. present day Java as part of Indonesia). … of these, Abraham, was a stowaway who,…
ArticleDebating Stellenbosch University’s Language Policy
… of Dutch came into contact with slaves, who originated from various countries, such as Indonesia, India and Angola, … and Portuguese Creole [10] Afrikaans…
The Politics of non-Collaboration: The Campaign to Boycott the Tricameral Elections
… This chapter seeks to examine the anti-election activities from the period from April 1984 until the elections were held on 28 August … Improvement Project,…