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ArticleInsurrections Ensemble
… cliché of “fusion”? Are Indian forms compatible with their African Counterparts? Can song and the spoken word in a … which began in 2010 as a conversation…
STRIKES AND INDUSTRIAL ACTIONS
… pp. 315-17. Despite continuous attempts by the South African ruling class to suppress and contain the forward movement of the African working class, history…
ArticleFatima Meer Timeline 1928-2010
… common membership. The League took up issues on behalf of African women who were billeted with passes and suffered … leaving the magisterial area of Durban…
ArticleMafika Pascal Gwala Annual Lecture
… Mafika Pascal Gwala Annual lecture was initiated by South African History Online in 2015 and is run in partnership with … and Social Sciences (NIHSS). Gwala…
Article1956 Women Marchers
… of the Albertina and Walter Sisulu Foundation and South African History Online to gather the names and stories of the … who marched under the banner of the…
ArticleMafika Gwala Third Annual Lecture, 5 October 2017
… Mafika Pascal Gwala Annual lecture was initiated by South African History Online in 2015 and is run in partnership with … and Social Sciences (NIHSS). Gwala…
ArticleSophiatown Timeline
… 1860s-1880s This period marks a turning point in South African history when the discovery of diamonds at Kimberly … of the 1923 Act are not widely applied…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… 23 April 1994 BETWEEN THE FREEDOM FRONT, THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS AND THE SOUTH AFRICAN-GOVERNMENT/ NATIONAL PARTY TAKING NOTE of the … NOTE of the…
ArticleSouth West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO): An Organisational Timeline
… 1952 The African National Congress’ (ANC) Defiance Campaign against the South African Apartheid Regime , which in the following years … at the United Nations…
Article1949 Anti Indian Pogrom in Durban
… 1949 an Indian store-keeper in central Durban assaulted an African youth. This incident resulted in a wave of violence, … Durban to Pietermaritzburg. On 6…
ArticleThe Union of South Africa 1910
… of gold at the Rand was the chief cause of the South African War. This is not completely true, as British … of the Treaty of Vereeniging. The result of the…
ArticleHermanus Loots aka James Stuart Timeline
… in East London, Eastern Cape. 1961 Is recruited into the African National Congress (ANC) military wing Umkhonto we … , Chris Hani and Thabo Mbeki who meet…
ArticleCensus in South Africa
… The forthcoming 2011 Census is part of the 2010 round of African censuses aimed at generating data about the … era is uneven and unreliable especially with…
ArticleCommemoration, remembering and memorialising June 16 Soweto uprising
… which went on to play on Broadway. Sarafina , a South African musical produced by Mbongeni Ngema depicted students … and heroines who followed the tradition…
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 … Prize for Literature , making him…
ArticleJohn Langalibalele Dube Timeline 1940-1950
… in Brooklyn, in New York. August, Booker T Washington, an African-American leader, receives a letter from Dube … is opened at Ohlange during an annual…
ArticleThe effects of WW2 in Africa
… settlers and colonial companies like the British South African Company for farming and mining. This was also largely … in areas-like agriculture and the…
Documents, speeches, Awards, and articles relating to Albert John Luthuli
… in South Africa . Not only did Luthuli become the first African to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, but it was also … even harsher measures of oppression…
ArticleFrontline States
… Africa was regionally supported by a group of southern African states called the Frontline States. These were … Whilst Botswana accepts that we are part of…
The Black Homeland Citizenship Act of 1970
… During Apartheid, starting from the late 1950s the South African Government attempted to divide South Africa into a … instrumental to this effect and…
Biography of Johnny ‘Mbizo’ Dyani by Brandon Norman
… regime through the medium of music and assisted the African National Congress (ANC) by performing at events in … Words Johnny Dyani, jazz, music, double bass…
ArticleJune 16 Soweto Youth Uprising timeline: 1976-1986
… the townships. Within four months of the Soweto revolt 160 African communities all over the country were involved in … of students left the country and went…
ArticleDrum Magazine
… that were taking place among the new urban Black South African – African, Indian and Coloured – communities. The magazine … next month. The magazine,…
ArticleThe Women’s struggle Timeline 1905-2006
… a Kimberley schoolteacher, becomes the first South African Black woman to receive a Bachelor's degree. While on a choir trip to the United States (US)…
Growing social unrest: Community mobilisation, strikes and student protests in the Western Cape in the 1980s
… late 1970s was the formation of the Federation of South African Trade Unions (FOSATU) in 1979. FOSATU was the first South African trade union federation that…
ArticleFootball in South Africa
… and boxing by Blacks. Between the 1880s and 1910s, African, Indian, and Coloured football associations and … inter-war years signaled the dawn of a new era…
ArticleFreedom Charter timeline 1948-1961
… legislation such as the Pass laws 3 October, 12 African leaders issue A Call for African Unity 1949 December, New leadership elected to African National…
ArticleThe National Council of Trade Unions (NACTU)
… Africa (FEDUSA), NACTU and the Confederation of South African Workers’ Unions (CONSAWU)), into one federation called the South African Confederation of Trade…
The Freedom struggle: Political mobilisation in Port Elizabeth
… which put the Eastern Cape at the forefront of pioneering African political organisations. The first was the emergence a class of black African farmers who…
ArticleBantu education and the racist compartmentalizing of education
… the Eiselen Commission with the task of considering African education provision. The Commission recommended … government’s Bantu Education Act, 90% of black…