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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…
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…
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…
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…
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)…
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…
2007 ANC National Policy Conference: Report of the Commission on Legislatures and Governance, 30 June 2007, Gallagher Estate
… Civil Magistrates Courts. 43. Community courts, small claims courts must be promoted and expanded. 44. There must …
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…
Chapter 5 -The Character, Role and Significance of SASO
… organisation. Gerhart locates SASO within the "school of African nationalist thought in South Africa" which … bourgeoisie as a whole in the reordering of the…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1990-1999
… the lifting of a 30-year ban on the ANC, the Pan African Congress (PAC), the South African Communist Party (SACP) and other anti-apartheid … February, Nelson…
ArchiveCHAPTER 4 - A turn to masses by Howard Barrell
… the military asymmetry between itself and the South African state. In other words, by the end of the strategic … insurrection in its 1962 programme, ‘The…
ArchiveCHAPTER TWO: Class, Consiousness and Organisation inthe Political Development of Indian South Africans, 1860 - 1979 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
ArchiveEleanor Kasrils: From Detainment to National Liberation by Nathan Greenhaw
… After the South African general election in 1948, the National Party , an … the government. Under apartheid legislation, the South African government greatly…
ArchiveCHAPTER FIVE: The Politics Of Collaboration: The Campaign for Participation In The Tricameral Parliament by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
THE POLITICS OF COLLABORATION: THE CAMPAIGN FOR PARTICIPATION IN THE TRICAMERAL PARLIAMENT
… elections and elections for the government-created South African Indian Council (SAIC) in November 1981 had seen a … House of Delegates (the James Commission…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1930-1939
… The Government of India sends a telegram to the South African Government in protest against the proposed Transvaal … Bill. 5-6 October, An emergency…
ArticleHeritage day, Braai Day or Shaka Day: Whose Heritage is it Anyway?
… Background Heritage Day is one of the newly created South African public holidays. It is a day in which all are … the proposed Public Holidays Bill before…
ArticleThe impact of the War on Agriculture and Land
… disrupted during the war years. The value of South African agricultural exports increased by 62 percent. … growing trend towards large-scale capitalisation…
'Presidential Address' by the Rev. J. A. Calata, ANC (Cape), July 1948
… annual session of the Provincial conference of the African National Congress (Cape). I know what personal … a good attendance of branches as I know how…
ArticleDespite the 1994 political victory against apartheid, its economic legacy persists by Haydn Cornish-Jenkins
… focuses on the disadvantaged economic situation of the African racial group, comparing them to the White racial … I argue that apartheid was intertwined with…
Biography of Eli Weinberg by Karen Folz
… Abstract : Many South African Jews such as Eli Weinberg were heavily involved in … lived in South Africa, even considering himself South African despite his…
A Society for the “Advancement of Art”
… ... [and has] ... now become a recognised part of South African life. Let us hope that this young sapling may grow to become a great tree, the roof-tree of a…
Indian South Africans timeline 1990-1999
… but granted indemnity from prosecution. When the South African Communist Party (SACP) was relaunched as a legal body … was also a member of the interim…
ArticleThe 1st Johannesburg Biennale
… imposed prohibitions and the coming-out of the South African art scene to an international audience. The nervous … To this extent 63 national pavilions, and…
ArticleRobert Mangaliso Sobukwe Timeline 1924 - 1978
… hospital suffering from tuberculosis. 1944 2 April, The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL), the youth wing of the African National Congress is…
ArticleGrade 12 - Civil Resistance in South Africa 1970s to 1980
… which operated both in South Africa, and in other African countries these included the African National Congress (ANC). Hector Peterson carried by … the…
ArticleThe 2nd Johannesburg Biennale
… Asia and several countries aside from South Africa on the African continent. Marc Latamie, Castor & Pollux, (1995), … Kingelez and Isaac Julien, whilst in…
ArticleCongress of the People and the Freedom Charter
… of the anti-apartheid forces of the 1950s composed of the African National Congress, the South African Indian Congress , the South African Coloured People’s…
Indian South Africans timeline 1980-1989
… was sent to India to replace Mosie Moolla , as the African National Congress (ANC) representative, for six … embassies calling on them to take action against…
ArticleThe Order of Ikhamanga
… This Order is to be awarded to South African citizens who have excelled in the fields of arts, … by men and women who carry the colourful South African aloft…