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ArticleNational Youth Uprising
… stoppages of lessons, (always called strikes in the South African newspapers), and the first riots in African schools occurred in 1920. In February, students…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1980 - 1989
… USSR with Moses Mabhida , General Secretary of the South African Communist Party (SACP) to attend the 26th Congress of … Union (CPSU). March 29, Dr Dadoo…
ArticleThabo Mbeki (1942 - ) Timeline
… Taylor Street Secondary School. 1935 Govan Mbeki joins the African National Congress (ANC) 1938 Govan Mbeki receives a … Unity Movement (NEUM) 1956 Thabo…
BiographyRaymond Ackerman
… the company had stores and interests in five southern African states, and had twice declined opportunities to buy …
Chapter 9 - People’s Education and People’s Power: Mobilisation and Collective Action
… by which to admit students, 'academic merit' in the South African context, is not an objective criterion either. The … and the denial of residential…
KwaMsiza - A Ndebele village: References/Bibliography
… Vol 3, pp 19-30. DE LANGE, MM . 1973. Aspects of South African Beadwork, particularly of the Transkei Tribes . … Committee, Transvaal Chapter of the…
ArticleSignificance of the Congress of the People and the Freedom Charter
… the Defiance Campaign, the formation of the South African Coloured People’s Organisation, the South African Congress of Democrats, the Federation of South…
Archive"Racism, Apartheid and a New World Order": Speech in Acceptance of the Third World Prize on Behalf of Nelson and Winnie Mandela by O. R. Tambo, Kuala Lampur, Malaysia, 5 May 1986
… those theoretical constructions into the South African society we know today, cannot, at the same time, be … as terrorists. Likewise, we must renounce…
Biography of Lionel Ngakane by Rod Reyna
… Ngakane, Artist in Exile, Film and Cinema, apartheid, Pan African Filmmakers Association (FEPACI), Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou ……
ArticleUnion, Segregation, apartheid and Democracy: From Union to non racial democracy
… of SA The first election that created the modern South African state, held in accordance with the provisions of the … began with the first election of 1910,…
ArticleA History of Abantu-Batho Newspaper 1912-1931
… Newspapers or publications by African people played a critical role in giving them an … and early twentieth century spearheaded by the emerging African elite…
Armed struggle & the advancement of the student and labour movements, 1967-1976
… politics to the National Party (NP) government. The African National Congress’s aim was to train cadres in newly independent African states and friendly…
Federation of Unions of South Africa (FEDUSA)
… the second largest federation after the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU). The establishment of FEDUSA came about when the Federation of South…
International Boycott of Apartheid Sport by Mary Corrigall
… official organisations in South Africa. Just as the South African white sports bodies are responsible for enforcing … of sport and selection of participants…
ArticleUnited Nations and Apartheid Timeline 1946-1994
… Africa, led by Dr. A.B. Xuma, President-General of the African National Congress, arrived in New York to follow the … of Defiance against Unjust Laws" was…
Rafique Mayet
… at the Daily Dispatch in East London and later at the New African in Durban and as a member of the Afrapix collective. … meetings and conferences. In 1998 he…
Labour and Mining Revolution 1886-1940s
… over Boer-controlled colonies and what was left of the African traditionally ruled African (Black) territories in Southern Africa. The capitalist and…
Legislation, Dissent, and Violence in Sophiatown under Apartheid
… instituted to displace Africans from Sophiatown, a largely African township of Johannesburg, which had become a threat … regime for reasons including its…
ArticleThe death of Samora Machel
… Tupolev TU 134A. The plane was returning from a Summit of African leaders held in Zambia . It went down in the Lebombo … Mpumalanga). The crash site was an…
ArticleAfrikaans community, 1883-1899
… at their beginning and by the outbreak of the South African War of 1899–1902 at their end, at the heart of those … food and manufactured goods. The earlier…
ArticleThe Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM)
… further entrenched its stranglehold over the Black (African, Indian and Coloured) population with an ever … 134 deploring the policies and actions of the…
Biography of Lefifi Tladi by Paul Linck
… [iv] . Lefifi Tladi’s style is described as modernist and African. Tladi uses a plethora of disciplines for his … children of South Africa to grow up…
ArticleThe Nelson Mandela Presidency - 1994 to 1999
… In 1991, Nelson Mandela was elected the president of the African National Congress (ANC), and his friend and … power. The negotiations were tense. Violence…
ArticleNew identities and the construction of heritage
… some of the things that were used to construct a new South African identity, and a new heritage for a democratic nation … in international sport during the…
Chapter 2 - Historical Background
… into the Union of South Africa. During this war, many African people associated themselves with the British in the … vagaries of race continue to beset…
ArticleBiography of Mongane Wally Serote by Matthew Williams
… Abstract The paper reviews the life of South African poet Mongane Wally Serote during apartheid South … the suffering and anger of the oppressed black South…
Alexia Webster
… Alexia is a South African photographer born in Johannesburg and currently based … next five years travelling through South Africa and the African continent…
Biography of Miriam Makeba by Narcy Negrete
… Abstract Miriam Makeba was a South African singer, daughter, mother, and an antiapartheid … one can deny she played an even bigger part in the South African…
ArticleSefako Mapogo Makgatho Timeline 1861-1961
… preferred destination for migrants. 1899 - 1902 The South African War between the Afrikaaner Republics of the Transvaal … 09 Pedi chiefdoms, seeking to take…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in exile
… Introduction Following British victory in the South African War , the Union of South Africa was forged in 1910 … Lesotho), SAHO is currently developing…